FIFA: is the trophy ready yet
Artist: sure is boss; extremely embarrassed and cringing on behalf of the entire world just like you wanted boss
FIFA: ... what
Artist: ...
FIFA: maybe nobody will notice

Never underestimate the power of a courageous correspondent. Watergate will always be a testament to the power of the press to inform the electorate about corrupt government. A free and INDEPENDENT press is the very bedrock foundation of our liberty.

Probably all in all a good standard to set, given the destructiveness of efforts like the Professor Watchlist to silence academic speech.

/9 It’s made slightly ridiculous by the fact that the school only purported to try to discipline the prof for putting the land-acknowledgement mockery in a syllabus, not prevent him from expressing it elsewhere, which undoubtedly did not satisfy the students who wanted him out.

/5 Put another way: most public employees can be fired for their speech doing their job (like, in Garcetti, complaining about law enforcement dishonesty), but not profs, because of the unique free speech interests applicable to the academic context.

/3 The Pickering analysis goes like this: (1) was the public employee speaking on a subject of public interest? (2) were they speaking as a private individual or “on the job”? (3) does the employer’s interest in a functional workplace outweigh their free speech interest?

/2 Professor Stuart Reges at U Wash mocked the school’s land acknowledgements in a syllabus for his class. Many students were very mad. He sued over discipline threats. This triggered a classic public employee free speech rights analysis.

If Cannon throws another case to Trump, media may finally look into her husband's long relationship with Trump's mobster friend John Rossati.

Pence's board is led by Marc Short, his Chief of Staff on Jan 6. Also on the board is his legal counsel Greg Jacob, who on Jan 6 was emailing the seditionist John Eastman as the Capitol was first breached, and abruptly closed his email with "thanks to your bullshit we are now under siege." 2/2

This IS her line now - that's exactly what Weiss is now saying, that she pulled the segment because it wasn't new enough. Let's not validate that bs either.

Giuffre's 2024 filing, with Trump's name unredacted, was newsworthy - @jayshams.bsky.social found that Trump had been hidden as "Doe 174" in Giuffre's suit. There were articles, and a scandal - less than two years ago. 2/
www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...

The choice of Landry isn't random - Landry was a big helper to Trump in 2020. Trump tried to make him Special Counsel to investigate election fraud (i.e. to alter election results), but was told that he couldn't because of Louisiana law. That's why Landry's "volunteer" language. See 🧵 for more.