An explainer: Why is Trump being tried in the Supreme Court? open.substack.com/pub/joycevance…

My initial reaction is that this is dumb because Joe Biden doesn't need presidential immunity, he hasn't committed any crimes. But more properly read, this is a threat. Trump is saying he will come after Biden if he's elected. He'll be a dictator in more than just day one.

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva 'The Destroyer' is one of the biggest ever discovered - B. shiva is among the largest sauropods ever recorded, with an estimated mass of around 67 tonnes livescience.com/animals/dinosa… via Live Science / Bill Chapman #palaeontology #evolution #SciChat

Trump’s team is already arguing in a NY appellate court that the jury selection was too fast. They want a halt to the trial and a venue change. Argues that completing selection in three days in “one of the most consequential criminal cases” is “untenable.” bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

The battle over the Anthropocene. The “Epic Row” Over a New Epoch newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

Must read (always) by Dr. Mary Anne Franks on regressive devastating Idaho law forbidding pregnant women and girls from getting emergency care msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/ida… Devastating. Thank you Cyber Civil Rights Initiative President for her moral clarity.

The Republicans have no ability to understand cause and effect or predict a future outcome. The GOP are dense and dumb as rocks and severely underestimate women. #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #FRESH

Two years ago, I reviewed a book for Salon advocating world government.

It was written by Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential nominee.

Every time I re-read it, I'm reminded that the GOP used to produce compassionate, thoughtful leaders.

salon.com/2022/03/27/whe…

Brilliant, beautiful celebration of PYNCHON's now- classic GRAVITY's RAINBOW by superb editor/essayist GERALD HOWARD.Always will be proud Gerry did much of the edit work on IN DEFENSE OF LOVE, my new book, before retirement.
thefreelibrary.com/Pynchon+from+A…

Recent research on animal minds — including those of insects, crustaceans, octopuses, reptiles and fish — suggests that consciousness “can exist in a [neural] architecture that looks completely alien” to ours. Dan Falk reports: quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…

Trump lost a $464M case because he fraudulently overvalued his properties -- from 200% to 3300%

Then for the bond, he found an insurer that is illegally taking on a risk far higher than they're allowed to under NY law -- by 1260%

Trump literally found the Trump of insurance

BREAKING: Just left the courtroom of Judge Chutkan, where she has handed down her longest Jan. 6 sentence to date — 66 months — to Scott Miller, a former Maryland Proud Boy who harbored extreme and violent views about Jews and minorities (but promised the court he had disavowed).

I just love the reaction! ❤️

NEWS

New York AG asks for the judge in Trump's civil fraud case to REJECT the Knight surety and declare the bond to be 'without effect.'

It doesn't meet the 'requirements of trustworthiness and competence,' the AG says.

🫒Top 10 countries production of olives:

🇪🇸 Spain: 3,940,070 tonnes
🇹🇷 Türkiye: 2,976,000
🇮🇹 Italy: 2,160,400
🇲🇦 Morocco: 1,968,110
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 1,200,000
🇪🇬 Egypt: 1,137,075
🇸🇾 Syria: 990,948
🇩🇿 Algeria: 822,973
🇵🇹 Portugal: 791,660
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 388,200

FAO, 2022

Iran 🇮🇷 vs Israel 🇮🇱

Total Population:
Iran 🇮🇷: 87.6M
Israel 🇮🇱: 9.04M

Available Manpower:
Iran 🇮🇷: 49.05M
Israel 🇮🇱: 3.80M

Fit-for-Service:
Iran 🇮🇷: 41.17M
Israel 🇮🇱: 3.16M

Military Personnel:

Active Personnel:
Iran 🇮🇷: 610K
Israel 🇮🇱: 170K

Reserve Personnel:
Iran 🇮🇷: 350K

No place like this home – a lovely, livable communal refuge & new life for formerly homeless young adults in LA; take a tour w/ Betty Márquez Rosales edsource.org/2024/no-place-…

We’re seeing the results of the decades-long shift to a business of higher ed, rather than a culture of higher ed.

Businesses don’t care a free speech, academic freedom, or student & faculty support. They care about increased attendance demand, large endowments, & “the brand”.

Alesha Joey Blue