Robin Rodgers Johnson

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

“What happened that day (J6) damaged an important American custom that helps support the rule of law and the Constitution. That day broke our previously unbroken tradition of peacefully transferring power”

“That previously unbroken tradition is broken now, and it’s going to take time and effort to fix it.”

“It’s kind of hard to put into words how important that peaceful transfer of power is.”

“Our country was founded as an experiment in self-government by the people. But it cannot endure if the way we elect our leaders is threatened by force and violence.”

- US District Judge Timothy Kelly (during Enrique Tarrio’s sentencing)

Judge Kelly is a Trump appointee.

America is bigger than a cult. Bigger than our differences in politics, religion or race.

America is a grand idea.

As long as there are more willing to preserve this grand idea than those willing to usurp it, America will endure.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll has just WON her second defamation case against Donald Trump. The judge ruled that Donald Trump is liable for his defamatory statements about E. Jean & rules, now it’s just a matter of how much Trump will pay in damages. A great day for justice.

[Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads and Bluesky) @JillWineBanks]

Finally.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

This is the strongest of the suits filed to compel sec’s of state to apply the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause to Trump. The 6 plaintiffs clearly have standing under Colorado law and ironclad legal and factual research backs up their complaint:
https://t.co/oD3nfzDyFU

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️MUZZLING—CDC’s social media has been surreptitiously deleting/omitting key info that #LongCovid can last for “YEARS”. @CDCgov’s own Long #COVID website clearly says LC can last for years. But “years” is conveniently deleted in CDC’s tweets. Shameful.
https://t.co/nsvK6zE3qP

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Playing this in the office today. On a loop.

[Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv @BandyXLee1]

4 indictments, 91 charges, 2 impeachments, 1 act of sedition, and threatening civil war. 26 women alleging sexual assault. 1.13 million Americans dead from Covid. And he is the front runner of the Republican Party. This is why I call it a collective psychosis.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Trump has lied about his height, weight, wealth, education, sex life, ancestry, sports ability, businesses, charitable donations and his hair but MAGA is sure he’s telling the truth about the 2020 election.

[Palmer Report @PalmerReport]

Feels like Judge Aileen Cannon is maybe trying to get herself removed from the Trump case. She just improperly disclosed grand jury details that won’t hurt Jack Smith’s case but will make it easy for him to have the 11th circuit reassign the case to another judge.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

BREAKING: Trump will be tried as an adult!

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

COVID is still transmitting at an alarming rate, but the pandemic is over. 1 in 10 people are being diagnosed with Long COVID, but the pandemic is over. In order to meet the president of the U.S. you have to get tested, but the pandemic is over. Remind me what “over” means again?

[Dr. Alice 💕 @calirunnerdoc]

Have blood vessels? 🩸

You’re at risk for having significant health issues from C-19.

We’re in a surge. Its a great time to put your mask back on! 😷

[Kyle R. McNease, Defective Altruist @KyleMcnease]

🚨SARS-CoV-2 Uses CD4 to Infect T Helper Lymphocytes

Do normies understand the possible implications of this or do you just have to say “Yo! This looks like airborne AIDS!”
https://t.co/aQuUa8Xzki

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

"[The main symptoms of the new Omicron strain EG.5.1] are a sore throat, a runny nose, a blocked nose, sneezing, a cough without phlegm, a headache, a cough with phlegm, a hoarse voice, muscle aches and pains and an altered sense of smell..
However, shortness of breath, a loss of smell and a fever are no longer the main symptoms."

Fever is no longer the main symptom..

https://t.co/GDY712OpIi

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Just a perfect sentence in the Government’s reply to Trump’s request for more time:

“Rather than spend time complying with the Court’s order, the defendant drafted a filing as to why he did not have time to review and consider the 5-page proposed protective order.”

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you’ says Trump on Truth Social.

Bitch, Please.

Lock his ass up for attempting to intimidate the jurors & DOJ. Judge told him not to talk sh*t. Seems only fair he be treated like everyone else.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Donald Trump's lawyer says he wants the January 6 trial to be televised. Excellent. Let's do this and show the world what American justice looks like.

https://t.co/7Lo1Pcm2Mc