“I Dissent”

Husband. Dad. Canes alum. Mets & Jets. 70s hippie. GD & The Bros. Fan of “the U”, USWNT, SD Wave 🌊 & 3x Olympian #13 Alex Morgan. Retired from IBM 👴

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

No, Donald, this was not a case "against the United States of America and all it stands for." It was a case against you. And a jury of your peers found you liable for rape and defamation. You lost. Again.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

A fake election fraud bill is more important than having somewhere to live. Good to know!

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The word "adjudicated" is optional.

It is perfectly accurate to say Donald J. Trump is a rapist, full stop.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!

[Kristine 🌻 @KristineLogie]

These are the murdering assholes @SecMullinDHS is protecting and hiding. 🖕

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll:

"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions."

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states may count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day, even if they arrive afterward.

Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.

[Praise @tufpraise]

“Most transparent administration in history”

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
…
"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

At last! @ejeancarroll just kicked Donald's ass once and for all. What a legend she is!

Time to pay up, Donald.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

What this means is that the jury verdict that determined that @realDonaldTrump had sexually abused my friend E. Jean Carroll by penetrating her vagina with his fingers, and therefore had defamed her by denying that he had done so, will stand as a final and conclusive judgment.

The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact:

DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

[History Calendar @historycalendar]

Mel Brooks, age 100, was born closer to the death of Thomas Jefferson (July 4, 1826) than to the present day.

[Michelle Kosinski @MichLKosinski]

Why the hell are Americans accepting all of this and are not in the streets

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Literally everyone saw this coming.

🚨 Turns out firing respected journalists and blowing up 60 Minutes wasn’t a winning ratings strategy after all. CBS is paying the price.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Guess we’re back to our Sunday ritual so the markets don’t flip out tomorrow morning.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Absolutely 💯💯🎯

[Steve Gelbs @SteveGelbs]

Man, these kids are impressive. They play with absolutely no fear. No moment ever seems too big. In what’s been a difficult season, Ewing and Benge have been enormous bright spots.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Tapper: "I just looked at the State Department's website. They have a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Haiti…That doesn't sound safe to me."

Mullin: "That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home."

Tapper: "It doesn't sound safe."

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This is it in a nutshell - they can’t give ANY evidence. NONE. Trump’s “stolen” & “rigged” elections lies are just that…LIES. I come from the right, and my former colleagues on the right know we have the best & most secure elections in the world. But they can’t say that. Bcuz Trump has convinced the base that fraud is rampant. And my former colleagues are afraid of the base. So they echo Trump. So wrong. And so sad. Fuck Trump. His lying about our elections is like stabbing our democracy in the heart.