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1/n June 8, 1993: Rene Bousquet, who led the police during the Vichy regime and was responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps during World War II, was assassinated in his Paris apartment ImageImage
2/n Bousquet's address in Paris was well known because demonstrators placed a plaque in front of his apartment building to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the killings at Vel d'Hiv, a stadium where 4,000 Jews were held before being deported on July 16th and 17th in 1942.
3/n They were among the nearly 13,000 Jews arrested by Paris police on those two days in the biggest single roundup carried out during the war. Nearly all were to die in German concentration camps.
As secretary general of the Vichy police in the Vichy Interior Ministry between ImageImage
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America’s problem is not Ted Cruz advocating for a phony commission to negate the will of the American voters. It’s not the rot and corruption at the Supreme Court, as exemplified by Thomas & Gorsuch. It’s not even the insurrectionists in Congress or those representatives who …
sought pardons for the
crimes they committed on and around Jan. 6. It’s the chronic unwillingness of the executive branch to flex its co-equal-branch-of-government muscle to check and balance the judicial and legislative branches. As long as we remain Unchecked & Imbalanced,
crime and corruption in Congress and at the high court will flourish. Indeed, accountability for the crime and corruption in Congress and at the Supreme Court is the ONLY fix for what ails America. Because #JusticeMatters
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I don't know about you, but I am ready for more indictments for the MF-er.
There are 4 separate criminal probes involving Trump:

- hush-money paid to Stormy Daniels
-DOJ probe into Trump's efforts to block Biden’s 2020 victory
- Georgia probe into Trump's efforts to block Biden’s victory
- purloined papers stored at Mar-a-Lago
It is absolutely essential that justice is served in all 4 cases so that we, the people, have renewed confidence in our system of justice. The other side revels in criminality-with-impunity as it causes the rest of us to become cynical & check out.
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"Misogyny" is a trigger word for the far right-controlled Republican party. But the ideology is real, and it can lead to people getting killed.

Bryan Kohberger
George Huguely
Elliot Rodger
Andrew Tate
Donald T****

#RespectWomen is a public health and safety issue.
Evidently, my above use of the term misogyny has triggered a few of them.

They're trying to insinuate that Kohberger was a liberal which, even if true, would have nothing to do with the points made in my tweet. We already know several things about him, and his crimes...
Further, when writing the above list of 5 known and/or confirmed misogynists, some of whom have killed at least one woman, I considered a range of factors that put them on that list.

I want to encourage discussion about misogny and the targeting of women by violent offenders.
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Right now, my favorite thing is promoting my friends’ projects - be it a book, a podcast, a substack, legal work, acting, comedy, music - we are all storytellers. Telling your story helps people feel like they’re not alone, and that’s the most important feeling there is!
Check out my friend @Victorshi2020 and his new podcast about Gen Z voters, who helped preserve democracy in the midterms!
Or listen to my friend @MollyJongFast on the #FastPolitics pod. She also writes for @VanityFair! The @nytimes did an amazing above-the-fold piece on her here: nytimes.com/2022/11/06/bus…
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#JusticeMatters #CongressMuktBharat

@INCIndia Speaking in two voices, what a confusion !👇
As Congress outrages about the release of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers, here’s how Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter and the Gandhi siblings sought a pardon opindia.com/2022/11/congre… via @OpIndia_com
I the past all Congress family members spoke in one voice to release victims of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and appealed for release from jail sentence including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

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Most veterans like Ghulam Azad, Kapil Sibal left INC.
INC workers mostly pet supporters of Gandhi family who are struggling for survival in political space are talking differently to make noise only.

@cycom_in @sanjoychakra @BJP4Bengal @lopamud12241057 @Rose99015680
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@DLawrenceOBE @NLawrenceOBE @sal2nd @MrLeeLawrence have sold us out.

Why would @TemiMwale @4FrontProject @UFFCampaign @StaffordScott_ /@MonitoringGroup #leejasper be given so much attention by
@melissasigodo @mikewhoatv @lorrainemking who have really put the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned who are as #GuiltyAsSin as the @metpoliceuk #msmenemyofthepeople @BBC and a senior @CoronersNews #AndrewWalker who allowed #perjury in his no #RuleOfLaw Court room?
What give this woman the God given rights to talk to me as she has by defending the very same establishment @MetTaskforce #bernardhoganhowe #CressidaDick who shot @justice4mark down dead in cold blood and no one says a single word following @riots2011
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As we continue to wait for long-overdue justice to come for Trump, I’m reminded of a phrase I heard a lot when I was prosecuting murder cases in DC: “the streets know.” When we were investigating homicides proactively in the grand jury (meaning, no arrest had yet been made),
I would regularly meet with the victim’s family members to update them on the status of the investigation. Understandably, they often would ask me what’s taking so long - why has there been no no arrest/indictment. When I’d talk about the need for a thorough investigation to …
identify the killer, the family often would say, “but Mr. Kirschner, the streets know.” And they were right. The “streets” often know who the criminal is long before law enforcement knows. Of course, police & prosecutors need to build cases on admissible evidence as opposed to
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"The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard"

The Espionage Act investigation into the former traitor-in-chief brings worse news for him and co each day now.

We are having to WAIT for justice, and even for basic national security.

We? Yes we. I'm a New Zealander and like people in every other country outside the US, I can see that these crimes led to a clear (and possibly imminent) threat to national security everywhere.

No one knows how much damage has already been done. We may never know.
This discussion on the day's events is pretty informative and accessible:



The four panelists are among the best of the best.
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“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022

@GavinNewsom:
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Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.

Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.

Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.

#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.

#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.

#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
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“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow

“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
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“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
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“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”

#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”

#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21

@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
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“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”

Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”

#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson

#January6thHearings:
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It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)

Gun show loopholes still exist.

Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker

“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
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“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
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Regarding the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade: we created this monster by abandoning the rule of law. We let McConnell violate the Constitution by refusing to have the Senate provide advice and consent, or scheduling a vote, on Merrick Garland’s nomination.
McConnell then crammed Amy Coney Barrett down America’s throat by violating his own BS rule rule (no SCOTUS confirmation in a president’s last year). We let Kavanaugh lie his way through his confirmation hearing, blatantly and transparently, and did nothing about it.
Plus the FBI buried 4500 citizen tips about Kavanaugh’s unsuitability to serve on the Supreme Court. We let Clarence Thomas violate bedrock ethical principles by abusing his position to protect his insurrectionist wife, without any repercussions. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.
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“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”

@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD

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@AmericanAir #neverflyAA #justiceForChawla #justiceMatters My father died due to gross negligence of American Airlines and we need answers. On December 17th, 2021, my parents were on an American Airlines direct flight (AA 293) from New Delhi to New York.
Five to six hours before landing at JFK, my father suffered a heart attack. He was a perfectly healthy individual with no history of heart problems, and was not on any medication.
Seeing that my father had all the classic signs of a massive heart attack (shoulder pain, profuse sweating and chest pain), she pleaded for help, and a volunteer passenger (a doctor) and a flight attendant administered first aid. Beyond that, nothing was done.
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“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”

@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22

“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
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A mother just told me her son has been on remand – in prison – for almost a year after being supected of couriering an ounce of a class B drug.
The prosecution submitted a truly ludicrous valuation of this substance to the court – and they've provided no evidence to substantiate this price whatsoever, despite repeated requests from the defence.
Unsurprisingly, the defendant invested their time + money in commissioning an independent drug valuation expert. This specialist agreed that the valuation was astonishing, even saying he'd never seen anything so unbelievable with no supporting evidence.
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PROOF: The Trump Organization was DIRECTLY involved with Trump's Presidential Inauguration Committee's $107 million dollars. Here is the proof from Allen Weisselberg, Alan Garten, Ivanka Trump, Don, Jr., and Rick Gates. @SDNYnews @AGKarlRacine @NewYorkStateAG @MichaelCohen212
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