Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

@leftardresister @KrisKingPhoto @dianeconnect @Wertz4Wertz @BlackKnight10k No, shameless imbeciles like you purposely spreading propaganda and lies to promote hate and discord, to add oil to fire, for profit and amusement, thinking themselves so so smart and nobody can see the games they’re playing, that’s bs.
Don’t you have a date with your hand? ✋

[Katie Phang @KatiePhang]

Very on-brand for the GOP…

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Read.

Voter: "What was the cause of the United States Civil War?"

Nikki Haley: "Don't come with an easy question, right? I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was gonna run — the freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?"

Voter: "I'm not running for president."

Haley: "I mean, I think it always comes down to the role of government. We need to have capitalism, we need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way."

Voter: "In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you can answer that question without mentioning the word 'slavery.'"

Haley: "What do you want me to say about slavery? Next question."

[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

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[Lisa Rubin @lawofruby]

NEW: Jack Smith and team just filed a motion to exclude various kinds of evidence & arguments at Trump’s election interference trial, including the oft-recited claim that the case is itself a form of election interference or vindictive and selective prosecution. 1/

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

This is a big win for Fani Willis.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Claiming that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of the country" is the literal language of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Trump and his allies are openly embracing fascism, and it's time for the media to stop being scared to use that word.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Classic Trump: say something crazy outrageous, neo-Nazi-like and it gets headlines, creates outrage.

So wait a little. Then say it again, no one notices, no coverage, and it gets normalized and mainstreamed.

Let’s be clear: migrants ‘poisoning the blood’ is Hitler rhetoric.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

This is a victory for Ukraine. A victory for all of Europe. A victory that motivates, inspires, and strengthens.

[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

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[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

HAPPENING NOW: Court is back in session in the civil lawsuit by Ruby Freeman/Shaye Moss against Rudy Giuliani.

We should find ouf shortly whether Giuliani will be taking the stand.

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

News

A New York appellate court deals Trump his second defeat in one day in his gag order fights.

Now, Trump is DENIED leave to appeal to the state's highest court. @TheMessenger https://t.co/6kQj0ESZRv

[Darren Samuelsohn @dsamuelsohn]

JUST IN: SCOTUS formally notifies DC Circuit Court of Appeals of its Monday decision to docket the Trump 'immunity' case

https://t.co/6EFZ3pSoGe

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

1/All year, we've revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas secretly took $100Ks in undisclosed gifts from conservative billionaires.

Defenders have said: Nothing to see here! The judiciary's ethics complaints body investigated and cleared him!

That's not true.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Hunter Biden: "Here I am, Mr. Chairman, taking up your offer when you said, 'we can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings, whichever they choose.' I am here to testify at a public hearing, today, to answer any of the Committee's legitimate questions. Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of? I am here."

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Another loss in court for Donald Trump.

2nd Circuit appeals court rejects his claim of "presidential immunity" in the civil defamation case of E. Jean Carroll

[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

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[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

1/ "I WILL NOT BE TESTIFYING ON MONDAY," Donald Trump says in an all-caps statement posted on his social-media platform, Truth Social.

He'd been slated to retake the stand in his fraud trial against the New York attorney general.

I have a lot of thoughts on this development.

[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

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[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

HAPPENING NOW: Rudy Giuliani is back in federal court (on time today) for the second day of his defamation damages trial. We’re likely to see testimony today from Ruby Freeman and/or Shaye Moss as well as their expert who will advocate for a multimillion award.

[Marcus 🗽💙🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @phoenixsong2]

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[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

HAPPENING NOW: The trial of Ruby Freeman v. Rudy Giuliani is underway.

It begins with the plaintiffs airing for jurors a long string of graphic threats and racist voice mails Freeman and Moss received.

[Craig Mauger @CraigDMauger]

Here's the Dec. 12, 2020, text message exchange between Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer helping the Trump campaign, and Mike Roman, a Trump campaign operative:

Read our story here --> https://t.co/v4alcV0Ftr

[Alex Kaplan @AlKapDC]

NEW from me:

Far-right online figures are spreading a baseless conspiracy theory claiming e-commerce platform Etsy is hosting a child trafficking market, calling it "the new Wayfair." QAnon accounts have played a major role spreading the claim.
https://t.co/VDMs5dUqDK

[Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY]

Susan Collins slammed the Texas court decision denying a woman an abortion, calling it "awful" and "inconceivable." She added, "I have half a mind to shake my finger at those judges, or purse my lips in disapproval. Or maybe I just have half a mind"