BREAKING: “I WILL NEVER STOP!” Activist "JoJo from Jerz" reveals how Trump and Melania tried to SILENCE her with legal threats – and the single mother REFUSED to surrender!
Joanne Carducci, the firebrand progressive blogger known to more than a million followers as JoJo from Jerz, has revealed a months-long legal ordeal that she says left her crying every day, terrified of losing her home, and desperately trying to protect her two children.
Her account begins with threatening letters from attorneys representing Donald and Melania Trump, demanding that she retract statements, apologize, and pay money over things she'd posted online. According to Carducci, the demands eventually became entirely about Melania.
According to Carducci, the Trumps' attorney initially demanded that she retract statements she'd made online, including her claim that Trump incited the deadly January 6 insurrection. She was also ordered to issue a full apology, admit that she had knowingly lied, and agree to a financial payment, with just days to respond and the threat of punitive damages hanging over her.
And the price of refusing? Carducci says the lawyers eventually demanded a staggering $1 MILLION from a single mother who had once earned $16 an hour as a school paraprofessional.
“They would take my home,” she wrote in a deeply personal and powerful Substack essay.
Carducci says she kept the ordeal secret from her children, even as she struggled with the possibility that the house she'd worked so hard to provide for them could be taken away.
“She was swinging a fucking wrecking ball at a mosquito, and my children lived in the building,” Carducci wrote of Melania.
But Carducci refused to retract her criticism or issue an apology.
Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin stepped in to help her without charge, providing legal advice and support while she faced demands she says she could never have afforded to fight alone.
Eventually, according to Carducci, the letters stopped. She never apologized, never retracted her statements, and never agreed to the demands.
What finally persuaded her to tell the world was watching Melania Trump promote women's empowerment on television.
“She’s for women’s empowerment, and I’m a fucking natural blonde,” Carducci wrote.
The contrast is striking: a first lady publicly encouraging women to find their voices, while a woman who had used hers says she spent months fearing the consequences of refusing to be silent.
Carducci acknowledges that she's still frightened. She also insists that her work as a satirist, mocking powerful public figures, is an exercise of her right to free expression.
And after months of keeping the ordeal from even her own children, she has a message for the people she says tried to intimidate her:
“Because I am never, EVER going to stop.”
This is the video Fox News refused to air. They are complicit and Trump-enabling Republicans want to erase this from history.
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The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back. He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something.
The animal dove and Enzo followed. At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an “almost human cry” (describes Enzo). A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.
The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant! The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.
Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and communicate with the animal world, he will never be able to know his true role on this Earth.”~
@sarahhepola They were very popular parents when I was at Walnut Hill Elementary and lived on my route to and from school. He of course was a neighborhood celebrity from his newspaper and appearances on local TV, but she really stood out from the other Moms, with that beautiful smile.
Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin demolishes Trump over his idiotic "Triumphal Arch" project, which he now claims will be a “top grade military complex” that hosts snipers and drones.
And the congressman came packing a knockout punch...
“Does Trump understand no one wants his stupid arch? Dressing it up as a military necessity doesn’t help," Raskin wrote on X. America is sick of the military being used as an excuse for Trump’s architectural whims and narcissistic fancies."
Nobody outside of the most gullible MAGA supporters believes that D.C. actually needs some kind of elaborate arch, armed to the teeth, and stocked with ammunition. This is a transparent attempt on Trump's part to gussy up a wasteful vanity project as an urgent national security need. He's been making similar claims about his White House ballroom.
“Congress will never support this idiocy, but if you want to know what’s actually unique about Washington, it’s that it’s the only national capital on planet Earth not represented in its own legislature,” Raskin added. “Why don’t we talk about D.C. statehood instead of this arch-imbecility?”
This is a much better D.C.-related proposal but Republicans adamantly oppose it because they're terrified of Democrats gaining new seats. Even so, the case for statehood is exceptionally strong. Why shouldn't the capital — which has a population of roughly 693,000 people — receive equal representation in the House and Senate? Wyoming has just 588,000 people and it exerts enormous influence on national legislation through its elected officials.
But instead of debating a real issue like statehood, we're going to get stuck discussing Trump's asinine Triumphal Arch. Pop quiz: which triumph exactly is he celebrating? He's been inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris which was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, seen by many historians as the greatest general who ever lived, after his victory at Battle of Austerlitz.
Trump has no such victories. His disastrous Iran War has turned into perhaps the greatest strategic defeat in the history of the U.S. military. Iran is stronger than ever, exerting direct control over the Strait of Hormuz, and American munitions have been all but exhausted. Closer to home, he has been waging an illegal war and blowing up so-called "drug smugglers" which in many cases have turned out to be innocent fisherman.
Despite his delusions to the contrary, Donald Trump is not some conquering caesar bestriding a world that quakes in his shadow. He's a demented old pedophile knee-deep in failure.
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