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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 6h

Many marchers thought fight was over; I think that’s why there were many older ppl. If Trump‘s armed goons try to prevent them from voting, who’ll stand down?
Aging hippie boomers who don’t give a shit, know their 2A rights & are mad as hell - I wouldn’t bet against them. 3/

ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 6h

Or Stonewall in the 1970s & 80s or women for a long damn time. They had all fought this fight before, mainly nonviolently & w/o benefit of knowing millions of Americans had just marched & hopefully had their backs this time. 2/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 6h

He wants to do that; the question is will we let him? They are scary but there are a lot more of us than them. Yes, they’re armed w/weapons of war but that is a major escalation against one‘s fellow citizens. I keep thinking about the people who stood up against violence in the Civil Rights Era 1/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 22h

He knows he can’t build the case on Fox; it has to start on WSJ until critical mass. That bday card article was a huge leap in the Congressional push on this. And I’m sure he knows what else there is & how damaging it is. I’m no Murdoch fan, but if he pushes Trump into discovery, he might save us. 3

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 22h

Tax cuts, but I actually think Murdoch may be one of the gazillionaires who sees Trump has power he doesn’t understand or use responsibly and we may be on the brink of unimaginable collapse of the global financial system. He‘s no weirdo Thiel - he knows at such times gazillionaires aren‘t safe. 2/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 22h

WSJ isn‘t backing down on Epstein. Trump hadn’t yet filed his motion in response to their motion to dismiss, but their case seems stronger. I think Trump thinks he’s playing chicken w/Murdoch & he will bend the knee like everyone else. I could be wrong, but I’m thinking not. Yes, he’s gotten his 1/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 23h

Alejandro Brito! He has quite the storied past with the Trumps (for some reason, they really like insurance lawyers to handle things way out of their league; see Halloran, Lindsey). Here was an amusing thread on him about a month ago:
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Sep 19

Alejandro Brito, responsible for the now thrown out Trump NYT lawsuit, also filed the WSJ lawsuit over the Epstein letter with some questionable interpretations of the WSJ article, and also did this:

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Jul 19

Alejandro Brito, the attorney in the Trump WSJ lawsuit previously sent legal letters to the NYT and to CNN calling their reporting "unpatriotic."

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 23h

I wish there was such a thing as a judge from another district getting to do a honorary tag team because Judge Beryl Howell has won gold stars in heaven for her work in this case, and getting to hear her question Todd Blanche would be something to behold.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 23h

How many ppl do we think complained about lack of ballroom all these many years? Those poor ladies, walking across wet grass? (Gimme a break dude, we know about artificial flooring & tents, somehow the WH event planning office didn’t?) I think two people complained & their initials are DT & MT. 3/

ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 23h

of taxpayers‘ money through his decision to award himself compensation for his supposed grievances is to the $220M this ballroom was supposed to cost. Same with all the “donations“ to his library. I think we’ll find him with his grubby hands out there too. 2/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 23h

Are they though? We’ve been told about these supposed donations & about Trump supposedly chipping in himself (did anyone actually believe that one?) Did anyone get an actual would-hold-up-in-an-audit accounting of these supposed donations? I’m really struck by how close Trump $230 million‘s grift 1/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

I wish someone had power & standing to sue over this.

ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

He had very publicly said that he would NOT touch the East Wing. Apparently whoever is involved in this had decided demo’ing the whole East Wing would be better but not sure that was public as Treasury employees in bldg right next to demo were forbidden from taking pics. Only 1 reason you do that.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

Heck, everyone who’s been indicted in Fed Ct & had their cases dismissed should sue at the newly established Trump going rate! I mean, usually defendants are grateful about the not-going-to-jail thing, but that’s small ball thinking, right, Sen. Fetterman? SCOTUS, any regrets you want to share? No?

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

They’d have be able to throw Trump in there too since he personally & publicly directed that DOJ go after them out of easily proven personal animus despite weakness of prosecutable case. That can go to SCOTUS & they can talk amongst themselves about that whole official act thing again. 2/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

If James Comey and/or Letitia James’ cases get dismissed, I think they should use this newly introduced Trump Precedent and sue DOJ for $230 million since apparently that’s the going rate for the damage one experienced when one is indicted then has one’s case dismissed. 1/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

Even if Dems can’t do anything to stop it, I’m glad Raskin is on this and is holding Repubs feet to the fire as much as he can. Out of all the corrupt things Trump has done - and it’s quite the list - this about bowled me over.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

So that’s where Sheldon Whitehouse’s question to Bondi last week came from. As many pointed out at the time, she was rude to Whitehouse, made unfounded allegations herself, but never denied that the photos existed.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

We might get the Epstein files after all - from a very unlikely source. Epstein himself, talking about Trump in discovery in this case. Trump might have to decide which files are worse for him: the ones Johnson is fighting so hard to protect, WSJ defamation discovery, discovery in this case…

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

I had to look that one up. And I’m sure Trump’s lawyers were frantically doing the same. And it is perfect for MAGATs. Literary and alliterative too. The kind of thing you learn at those high-falutin’ universities MAGA hates so much. Which, I imagine, was part of the point. Wolff had fun with this.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, hell yeah. Melania, Michael Wolff is the one person your husband has only half-heartedly sued, or not at all. Ever wonder why? Discovery, hon. Discovery from you, your husband, and he’s got those hours & hours of Epstein interviews. And who knows what else he has.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

I hope they did tell him something, just to help him process situation after they drew guns on him & cuffed him. But yes, I assume someone ran his plates, didn’t look carefully enough & that wrong plate number came back to someone wanted for something serious enough for escalated stop.

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe some of these cops will learn something by how close their mistake came to potentially taking a life; maybe they won’t. I’m
glad that at least this didn’t end in tragedy. And I hope this man who was treated inhumanely is able to sue the pants off these guys if he can. 4/4

ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

innocents have not. It looked like there may have been a bystander filming too. NO ONE should need these things to be on video to protect their lives, but decades of violence against POC might’ve looked a lot different if such capability had existed much earlier. 3/

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ginya1.bsky.social @ginya1.bsky.social · 1d

one officer who noticed the mistake, told the others, and the one who’d started being so awful gave the closest thing to an apology cops give. Without body cams, this could’ve gone down much differently. I hope if there is any action this man can take he does. But he went home alive when so many 2/

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