JoyBeMe 🙋‍♀️

Corporate lawyer. World traveler. Mom. Resorting to childish personal insults will get you an immediate block.

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

☣️🦠 UPDATE on pneumonic plague outbreak at the BSL-3 lab in Siberia. 🦠☣️

Russian gov't in TOTAL information control mode.

Baikalsk municipal admin warned residents NOT to travel to the area where the lab accident occurred, then deleted the info ~2 hrs later. Local REN TV deleted 5 posts about the accident. Local journalists who reported on the accident yesterday appear not to have not written any updates since.

Pneumonic plague is 100% fatal if not treated with antibiotics within the first 24 hours of symptoms. The biggest question being suppressed: have there been any more deaths from plague?

The US State Dept lists Russia as having an illegal bioweapons program, one of 2 nations (N. Korea is other). Genetic modifications / bioweapons engineering more likely done at Obolensk and Vector (in a BSL-4 lab), but this is impossible to know for certain.

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

An honest and independent chief justice would have halted the construction to keep it from becoming an illegal fait accompli. Tragically, we do not have an honest and independent chief justice.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is terrorism.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Trump’s Gift to the Money Launderers:

Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it.

https://t.co/kFyHD4UMo4

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Guren "Bobby" Zhou, a foreign national who oversaw failed flooring and crypto businesses & had been investigated for money laundering somehow put $100m into the Trump family crypto. Nobody knows where the money is from. ONE HUNDRED MILLION.

NYT:
https://t.co/RFPV1txcm0

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

With Blanche’s confirmation, the Senate has surrendered the rule of law.
https://t.co/PudjgOjaUa

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

“In 2014, Fauci managed and directed the funding for research for an Ebola vaccine. When a Dallas nurse caught the virus while she cared for a dying man, Fauci put onprotective gear and went into the isolation room himself. Eight days later, he walked the nurse out in public and hugged her.”
https://t.co/l9YOCpBXXh

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

🚨🚨💥NEW VACCINE AND AUTISM PAPER OUT 💥🚨🚨

Its one of the BIGGEST EVER

2.5 MILLION KIDS STUDIED

And it's AMERICAN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It shows....NO LINK BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM

Like every other study this size

So MMR doesn't cause autism

We

Already

Knew

It

Didn't

[🇫🇷 LouiseFrance75 🇫🇷 🕎🇮🇱✝️ @LouFrance75]

Boy George : we will dance again

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

We are back. New location. Spread the word. Check out my latest product: https://t.co/CK38GWbj1A

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Maggie Haberman spent an hour with him in the Oval Office in March and came away with a number. Seventy percent of his mind share, by her estimate, goes to the renovations. The ballroom. The arch. He interrupted an unrelated meeting to call Emmanuel Macron and ask what it is like to stand under the actual Arc de Triomphe, whether it has a visitor's desk, whether people jump off it. Someone had asked him what should go on top of his own version. He was deciding between that and a giant gold cast of his own fist from Butler.

Meanwhile nobody around him seems fully certain he understands how depleted American munitions are after this war he started with Iran, a live open question from a reporter who has covered him for a decade.

There is no policy agenda left, by Haberman's own account. No immigration bill in the works, no legislative program, nothing beyond retribution and construction. He is not governing a country right now so much as decorating a legacy he has already decided he deserves.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. https://t.co/7hxuP9yOfi

[JoyBeMe 🙋‍♀️ @zpnmom]

@AlyssaRosenheck @ADL Just ordered your book.

[JoyBeMe 🙋‍♀️ @zpnmom]

@BoyGeorge Thank you.

[Eli Albrecht @Elialbrecht]

When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:

Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."

First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.

On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."

Not one of the 18 is Jewish.

Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.

It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.

Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.

On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.

My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.

We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.

In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.

No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.

To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.

But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.

The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.

If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Republicans have already bailed out farmers with $44.3 billion of our money over the past year because of Trump’s policies and now want to give them $11.1 billion more for a total of $55.4 billion but the vast majority vote Republican because they are against socialism.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

I’ve been saying this for months.

This is criminal. The Trump administration is doing it over and over.

People can go to prison for this.

[New Mexico Department of Justice @NewMexicoDOJ]

Today we sent another letter to @TheJusticeDept and this afternoon, SDNY called to inform us they will NOT cooperate and will not support the only active criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

This is extremely grim news, and confirms that the US is aligning with Putin's "sistema" approach of advancing far-right allies throughout Europe and in the US.

In short: pay your allies; marginalize and persecute your enemies.