1. When I open up Twitter for the day and post the news, the first several accounts on my Tweetdeck are folks whom I've covered reporting on Ukrainian and Syrian wars. Some for as long as seven years.
2. I fear that's likely what Musk and his foreign partners are tying to end.
My dad was a front line war correspondent. I enjoy reporting facts to try to defeat propaganda. I will continue. Comparing how I can sit in comfort and get more war data in a day that he
3. could get in months at the front, I'm thinking of just monetizing my blog. Try to get it amplified beyond Twitter. I don't trust Elon. Telegram is not safe IMO. It's somebody's spyware. That's what Twitter is becoming.
I've signed up for Tribel, Mastadon and CounterSocial
4. where I reported myself for squatting on my own account handle because I'd forgotten it was mine. I'm off to a great start on my adventure without Twitter but I was a scout and be prepared is still my motto.
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1. On the CNN special counsel story, first, CNN is not a trusted source. It's become a right-wing FoxNews wannabe. Second, DOJ regs don't require a Special Counsel when the party being prosecuted is not a member of the same party as POTUS. Reg catch-all is how Barr weaseled to
2. put now disgraced John Durham in the role. I can't imagine Garland turning it over to a special counsel because he and the Deputy trust their own judgment better than any other prosecutor. We're all being played by CNN right before an election. The reality is, if there is
3. any truth to DOJ discussing this now that the story is was dopped they would be more likely to charge him than wait for him to announce. We don't know when Patel was immunized and we don't know if he has been in the grand jury.
1. Since 2014 & continuing today, I have believed that Putin and his crime syndicate's objectives in Ukraine are focused on beach front and the Navy: Crimea, Azov, Odesa and Mykolaiv ship yard. So every time I see a report that the Russians are leaving Kherson I remain skeptical.
2. Right before the reported attack on Sevastopol I saw evidence that Russia was forming an amphibious group likely to try to use the grain corridor to attack Odesa. It included two Rapuchas and at least one Alligator. Until Russia is out of Ukrainian territory no withdrawal
3. should be considered permanent but simply strategic redeployments. Lastly, in past several weeks, Russia has greatly increased the military presence in Sevastopol. I have taken that to mean they are setting it as the line of last defense and all other areas are subject to
1. @elonmusk's fails to find ways to increase revenues because he looks only at the selfish reasons for people to engage and expect that the verified folks will pay Twitter to remain in a hierarchy. I'm no crypto fan and as a long time Ponzi litigator remain convinced it has
2. all the elements of one. But he could use it to create a way for people to donate to others. To vetted charities or to people who need help with a small transactional fee paid to Twitter. The size of the base is so great that when scaled could result in a large income stream.
3. But it won't happen because he lacks empathy and cannot see altruism as force more powerful than the insatiable quest for power and greed. Also, he sees Crypto as a way to defraud the Govt and therefore his plans will always be defeated by the Govt that will remain his master.
1. We need to wall Russia up. Allow only a small number of vetted diplomats to travel to the free world. No more Oligarchs in Miami. Ban them and their spawn for life. Limit our contacts with Putin cult to things like non-proliferation and disease control. No social or cultural
2. connection with a country that openly espouses genocide as official policy. Wall them up. Stop all transit between Konigsberg (aka Kaliningrad) and Belarus. Remove the roads and rail lines. And put a large wall around the stolen enclave.
3. If the Russians are willing to live as Putin's slaves, we should have no part in them in our society. Make countries that allow Russians to freely enter, be limited on their own movements to the West. #BuidTheWall.
1. Where does it say in the Constitution that federal judges and/or SCOTUS justices have to be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate to be removed? If you say Art II impeachment clause then why did Art III Sec 1 say they serve during "good Behaviour"
2. not under the "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" standard of Art II Sec 4? And to get to impeachment you have to conclude that they are Art II "civil Officers of the United States" when IMO that's a person appointed and serving at the pleasure of POTUS who delegates his/her
3. power to them. So if the framers were so smart, how could they have messed that up so badly? My guess is that we decided that having a new slate of federal judges come in with each administration would be disastrous. So we made their appointments life-time based on the
1. @Jose_Pagliery Hi. I read your article on the filing of the FPOTUS law suit in SDFL. I know a lot about CM/ECF and saw the scam the day it was filed. I think it was filed over the counter in Fort Pierce and the docket evidences it.
2. Also, I have the SDFL internal manual and Fort Pierce and Key West are "voluntary" on the wheel. This case was not only a set up on the day it was filed, the set up started on November 12, 2020 when, after after #45 lost, McConnell went to work confirming #45's private judge.
3. Feel free to DM me and I'll show you what I have.