Following the #Jan6 attack, there was a wave of #civil cases & #criminal prosecutions that splintered the [domestic terrorist] orgs & sent many members to prison before sweeping #clemency from #Trump. Among them were group leaders named alongside >30 others in the city’s suit, including #ProudBoys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio & #OathKeepers founder Stewart Rhodes, both of whom juries #convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy for their part in trying to block the peaceful transition of power.
#civil : pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state
- French: Civil
- German: zivil
- Italian: civile
- Portuguese: civil
- Spanish: civil
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.. #communication #ham #civil #civic #civics #calm #slowdown #breathe #human #heartbeat #humanheartbeat #metrics #empire #terraform #colonize #monopolize #moon #mars #earth #theearth #hearth #heart #terra #gaia #gaza #home #death #taxes #tax #til #tor #ssl #ssh #http #hiking #haiku #https #economy #openeconomy #openmarket #money #soundmoney #cash #thewaroncash #fiat #money #fiatmoney #funnymoney #books #cookedbooks #darkbooks #darkpools #complexfinancialinstruments #iou #promise #truth ..
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.onlineOn a #Mission From #God: Examining the #Movement to Redirect Billions of #Taxpayer #Dollars to #Private #Religious #Schools
Universal #vouchers, once promoted as a #civil rights initiative to help #poor #kids in #underfunded #schools, are now a nationwide #moneygrab.
Funds mostly benefit #parents who can already afford #tuition and #kids already in #private #schools, diverting resources from those who need them most.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-ohio-church-state-tax-dollars-private-religious
San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20--The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration
#SanFrancisco #Calif #Japanese #Civil #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #California #DorotheaLange #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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They appear to wear formal attire such as suits and hats typical of men from that period, with some wearing ties or glasses which is indicative of middle-class individuals during the era. One person stands out in this line holding a child on their shoulders while others seem waiting patiently for their turn at registration. The setting seems urbanized given what appears to be buildings behind them.
The photograph suggests a historical context likely taken within San Francisco, California around April 1942 as mentioned in caption information provided which also references the War Relocation Authority centers established during World War II that housed evacuees of Japanese ancestry throughout their duration. The expressions on these individuals' faces vary from somber to engaged with one another or lost in thought.
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They appear to wear formal attire such as suits and hats typical of men from that period, with some wearing ties or glasses which is indicative of middle-class individuals during the era. One person stands out in this line holding a child on their shoulders while others seem waiting patiently for their turn at registration. The setting seems urbanized given what appears to be buildings behind them.
The photograph suggests a historical context likely taken within San Francisco, California around April 1942 as mentioned in caption information provided which also references the War Relocation Authority centers established during World War II that housed evacuees of Japanese ancestry throughout their duration. The expressions on these individuals' faces vary from somber to engaged with one another or lost in thought.
This image is part of a collection by photographer Dorothea Lange, known for her work capturing the social issues and human emotions around wartime events during World War II, particularly relating to internment camps across America. This specific photograph highlights not just an administrative procedure but als [...]")
Evidence #5: ‘Fear and intimidation’: how #peaceful anti #pipeline #protesters were hit with #criminal and #civil charges
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/mountain-valley-pipeline-protest
#Civil War #Trump #Christiannationalists
Two events one on the Mall in DC on Oct 12 and one at a warehouse-sized gun shop and shooting range in PA showcased Trump's again rising ability to summon forth his street soldiers.
The DC event was the "A Million Women" prayer event attacking abortion and the right of transgender folks to exist. Some pointed out that they missed their turnout goals big-time, filling only one panel of the Mall while their extra screens and speakers sat in empty panels. This is still thousands of Christian nationalists calling for genocide and for roundups over abortion though. Presumably all of these folks will be at least voting for trump and some of them fighting for him too. Lots of the fundamentalists on the Mass were videoed raising their arms in what sure looked like mass Nazi saluting.
An even more menacing event took place at Kahr Arms / TommyGun Warehouse in Greeley, PA
www(dot)rodofironfreedomfestival.org
At this event, Rod of Iron pastor Sean Moon received what again sure looked like Nazi salutes from a crowded warehouse. Attendees included former US General Flynn, who called for military tribunals and even executions of officials who have stood against Trump. Ivan Railkin (who wants to be Trump's "Minister of Retribution") was videoed shooting a .308 rifle with an apparent suppressor, then talking about shooting the "deep state" in the heart.
This sort of talk and training has nothing to do with an electoral campaign and everything to do with a military one in the context of anything from a coup attempt to a civil war.
Speaking of civil war and secession, four days ago Frida Ghitis on threads (not linked from here as they are owned by Meta) predicted W Va would refuse to recognize the election results if Trump loses. I have received the same report from other sources.
We should assume Trump will be able to muster at least as many street soldiers this time around as in 2020, even with all those Proud Boys in prison.
On top of all else, at his Friday event in Aurora, Colorado, Trump brazenly invoked the laws used for internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII as legal grounds for mass roundups and mass deportations of migrants.
There is nothing peaceful about any of this shit folks, and the election is still 24 days away.
“He instigated the longest #GovernmentShutdown ever. His sympathetic comments toward the #ProudBoys expanded the #influence of #domestic #RightWing #extremist groups.
“In the years since he left office, #Trump was #convicted on #felony charges of falsifying business records, was found #liable in #civil court for #SexualAbuse & faces 2, possibly 3, other #criminal cases.
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#Judges set to hear #arguments in #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s appeal of his #civil #fraud #verdict
Trump is asking the #appealscourt to #reverse #Judge #ArthurEngoron’s #ruling in February that he #lied about his #wealth on #paperwork given to #banks, #insurers and others to make #deals and secure #loans. The #verdict cut to the core of Trump’s #wealthy, #businessman #persona.
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump #lawyers to ask #appealscourt to toss $489 million #civilfraud #ruling
Not only did the #Ejudge #conclude Trump violated #civil #statutes, but also "that #defendants had engaged in #criminal, #illegal #conduct."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fraud-appeals-court-489-million/
If you’re sending your packages via FedEx, beware. The State of Indiana could be seizing them without any warrant or probable cause.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice, police have been seizing FedEx packages containing cash, and then taking the cash under #civil #asset #forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is a process by which police can take anything suspected of being involved in a crime without a warrant or conviction, and then keep the loot for themselves.
In this case, it’s happening at the nation’s second-largest FedEx hub, located at the Indianapolis International Airport.
Police dogs sniff packages and flag those expected to contain cash.
Officers then remove the tape, rummage through the package and take the cash for themselves if they find any.
Ostensibly, the police can do so because they perceive the cash is connected with a crime, even if no actual crime is identified
Whelp, looks like we've entered the "find out" phase for at least one University administrator who thought it was a good idea to unleash murderpigs on students and faculty protesting a genocide; Columbia's Minouche Shafik has abruptly resigned:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-president-resigns
Columbia President Resigns After Violent Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Student Protests
"Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said in response to Shafik's resignation that "after months of chanting 'Minouche Shafik you can't hide,' she finally got the memo."
"To be clear," the group added, "any future president who does not pay heed to the Columbia student body's overwhelming demand for divestment will end up exactly as President Shafik did."
The Columbia chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace wrote on social media that students "will never forget the sheer violence unleashed upon us by Minouche Shafik, and we will not be placated by her removal as the university's repression of the pro-Palestinian student movement continues."
As I warned at the time, history is not going to be kind towards the legacy of administration muppets at U.S. schools that unleashed carceral violence on students for protesting a genocide that has only grown in scope and repugnance since. While the larger American establishment, including mainstream media in the Pig Empire, have consistently sought to demonize student protestors and ignore the impact they've had in turning public opinion against a US-backed genocide, by Israel, against Palestinians in Gaza, eventually the bill comes due - as the now former President of Columbia University just found out.
Although the article here doesn't mention it, the fascist right in America as embodied by the GOP is also claiming this as a victory and linking Shafik's resignation to their sham "campus antisemitism" hearings, but nobody with a brain is likely to buy that nonsense. Muppets like Elise Stefanik may have concerned trolled the President of Harvard into resigning, but Columbia backed Minouche Shafik precisely because she was willing to unleash police violence on peaceful student protestors to protect the U.S. establishment's pro-genocide consensus; which of course, she then stuck around long enough to do. It was the shocking public images of that carceral violence against students on the right side of history that turned public sentiment against folks like Shafik; and she won't be the last school official to face accountability for her objectively fascist repression, against her own students and faculty, in support of a genocide.
The reality here is that just as in the case of state and school repression against the anti-Vietnam protests on campuses across America, public opinion turns slowly towards justice, but it does indeed turn. And university administrators who don't want to end up in the dustbin of history just like Shafik will, would be wise to remember that before they decide to sick violent reactionary murderpigs on peaceful protesters in the future. You can suspend students, break up campus protests, and smear faculty (including numerous Jewish teachers) as pro-Hamas, but you cannot stop reality from being real and eventually all that fucking around, will surely lead to "finding out."
#CampusProtests #Police #Genocide #Gaza #Civil Rights
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online#Civil #Religion as a #Gateway to #ChristianNationalism (#Fascism)
The inclusion of “under #God” in the #PledgeofAllegiance was a #sectarian #move whose #exclusionary #effects are increasingly evident in today’s #Fascist #landscape.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://barnraisingmedia.com/civil-religion-christian-nationalism-robert-bellah/
8 yrs later, all of those characteristics remain true, but #Trump is now also a twice #impeached fmr president; a #court-adjudicated #SexualAbuser who, acc/to the trial, in the common parlance #raped a woman; would-be #autocrat who tried to overturn an #election he lost; &…a #convicted #felon.
And yet, there was not even the whisper of open dissent this wk, w/speakers & delegates both instead attacking the police, prosecutors & judges involved in the #criminal & #civil cases against their ldr.
#SCOTUS grants fmr presidents an expansive amount of protection against #criminal prosecution by ruling that there is “presumption of #immunity” for acts that fall within “the outer perimeter” of a president’s official duties. That’s the same broad standard that protects presidents & fmr presidents against #civil lawsuits. Whether the “outer perimeter” test holds up in #Trump’s case remains to be seen.
Defense & prosecution debate what types of #UnlawfulMeans apply. Defense asks for additions that to make it clear only #crimes should count, while prosecution suggests #civil violations should apply, too.
#Merchan rejects defense’s request to tell jurors that candidates weren’t limited in 2015 & 2016 — before #Trump's election —— from contributing funds to their own campaigns. Prosecution called it misleading & Merchan determined it was unnecessary to explain it to the jury.
#Blanche notes that #MichaelCohen said under oath that he accepted responsibility & then later undermined that outside of court. (Something #Trump constantly does)
A similar tack tripped Cohen up when he was questioned about his federal guilty pleas at Trump’s #civil #fraud trial. He was led into saying he had lied about one of the pleas itself. But earlier in the trial he clarified that he thought he had not been charged,but was not objecting to the underlying facts
#MichaelCohen is still calm, but focused, & turning around #Blanche’s questions wherever possible. He’s not being defiant, as he was during his shaky cross-examination in #Trump's #civil #fraud trial. Some of his answers, perhaps unintentionally, are funny, which could be taking the sting out of some of Blanche’s insinuations. The jurors look amused. One is smiling.
