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gonna live tweet this.

Mark Meadows explains at the beginning that Cleta is not attorney of record but she's been involved.

 Trump (who lied abt his inauguration size) says he knows he won bc of rally size.
Trump starts by describing that current margin is what "everyone agrees on."
Trump repeatedly claims that people went to vote but weren't allowed to bc a ballot already cast.

Maybe ... they had already voted? I think he just narced out a bunch of people trying to double vote.
Trump accuses "Ruby Freeman" of being a vote hustler.
"No Republican poll watcher, No Democrat ones."

He doesn't actually understand that poll watchers are optional.
Trump now describing the suitcases of votes as if he's seen them.

Also describing slo-mo tape showing 18,000 votes all for Biden.
Trump complaining abt drop boxes that were picked up. He had no such complaint abt CA GOPers doing this.
Trump said "we held the Senate and we won the House."
He doesn't realize this, but he's explaining that he underperformed the rest of the ballot.
Trump keeps chanting that number, 11,779, as if he's had nightmares about it every night.
Trump can't decide whether they're burning or shredding ballots.

He's sure just the Dominion machines are being altered, tho.
Trump claims many of the numbers of his imaginary friends' votes will be certified.
TRump: We have other states that I believe will be flipping to us shortly.

Then starts talking about Detroit.

cc: @dananessel
@dananessel Trump claiming a "tremendous number of dead people" in MI voted.
Now Trump complaining that people cast a provisional ballot.
"Far more is certified than we need," Trump says to the dude whose job is to certify the vote.
Some Trump dude now asking for a "Compromise to find a path forward that's less litigious."

Because after losing 60 times, they're beginning to cop on.
GA officials now laying out how many times they've explained away Trump's numbers.
The "some dude" was Mark Meadows.

Which Trump IDs for me which is awesome.
Trump: we only lost the state by that number, 11,000 votes. 11,779.

We don't have to go through each [issue]. What's the difference between winning by 2 votes and winning by 2 million votes?
Trump: I could tell you by our rallies. I could tell you by the rally I'm having Monday night. No way.
Trump again claims they've got certified votes, to the guy whose job is to certify the votes.

"We have won this election in Georgia."
"All exact numbers done by accounting firms, law firms, etcetera."

BR: The challenge you have is that the data is wrong.
Cleta: What we said was, if you read our petition, it says we took names and birth years, certain information, we have asked from your office for records only you have.
Cleta: We don't have the records that you have. One of the things we have been suggesting for weeks now is for you to make available the records that would make ...

Trump interrupts. "In one state we have a tremendous number of dead people. I'm sure we do in GA too."
Trump: Brad, We have a new tape that we're going to release.

[Brad to self: So do I]
BR: You're talking about State Farm video. Giuliani or whoever spliced and diced that video.
Trump complaining again that there were no "Democrat" poll watchers.

Said the video was reviewed by "police and other professional people."
Trump beginning to slur.

BR: Mr. President, we did an audit of that and proved conclusively they were not scanned three times.
Basically Trump is frantically describing a video Rudy doctored to show him, and Raffersperger is patiently trying to explain that he's watching disinformation.

BR: WE'll send you the link from [the TV station]
Trump: Nobody can make a case for that [that is, reality], you'd have to be a child, just a chid.

Ryan German: We had our officers, GBI, as well as FBI agents.

Trump: Dishonesty or incompetence.
BR going through people moving out of GA then moved back.

Trump: How many people do that? They missed it? [laughs]

Trump of course was arguably ineligible to vote in FL.
Cleta again complaining that GA not sharing info.

Trump: Cleta, a lot of it we don't need. They should share it. We don't need it .
Trump asking if they removed parts of Dominion machines.

RG: No. I'm sure.
BR: THe problem with social media is people can say anything.

Trump: Nah, it's Trump media.
Trump now complaining that GA reviewed the county of question. Now saying that "Stacey" (Abrams) is as dishonest as they come.
Listening to this call you can understand how Trump gave so many people COVID bc he's spitting everywhere as he gets more excited.
Trump now asking for GA to let his campaign do signature verification themselves.
Trump: Fulton County is so corrupt and so is she.

They're laughing at you Brad, behind your back. You made it almost impossible for Republicans to win. I don't care how long it takes me. This is never giving, we have some incredible talent. THey need more time for big numbers
Trump: It's [alleged shredding of ballots] more illegal for you than it is for them. You can't let that happen.
TrumpL I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, bc we won the state. Flipping the state is a great testament to our country.
Here's the transcript. https://t.co/noygKjXnTH
Weird reverb at this point in the call, which Trump notes.
Trump: Do you have provisional ballots, Brad?

BR: THey're provided by state law.

Trump: Most are made out to Trump. When they came in they were told, I'm sorry, you've already voted.
Trump now complaining that a batch of military ballots came in that were 100% Biden. Even though Trump won military vote by a lot.

As GA tries to figure out WTF, Cleta interrupts.

Trump: I'm not asking you Cleta, honestly.
BR now explaining that overseas voters vote for Democrats.

Trump: I get votes overseas too, Ryan, in all fairness. 100% for Biden. That is criminal. Many criminal events here.
Trump: I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them by a lot, and we won the state.
Trump: Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break.

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Oh huh. Trump's defense isn't going to address the impeachment case (and seems to ignore his demands of Mike Pence again).

Michael Van der Veen pretending that 61 losses is normal.

And, again, note that he didn't address Trump's unconstitutional request of Mike Pence.

Van der Veen lies about who asked for recounts in 2016.

And lies about Hillary's claims about Russia.

Trump's video is made in the style of propaganda, taken out of context.

Van der Veen now trying to make much of tweets Trump didn't send until hours too late.
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Updated my table again:

Added one more classified folder plus the laptop for Trump
Changed Pence to possible "trophy"
Added zeros to make docs/year more obvious
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Tuning into the McCabe hearing.

Lindsey Graham is still boasting that CIA unmasked Hillary long before they unmasked Mike Flynn. He's legit complaining that Hillary ran a campaign and the CIA didn't

Whitehouse now explaining to Lindsey Graham that tying an opponent to a foreign country is not a criminal act. "If you look at CI investigation, obvious difference is that there were contacts bt RU intel operatives and campaign operatives."

"I don't think the FBI has any business interfering into that kind of campaign debate, you would be besides yourself with anger if FBI investigated Trump for trying to tie Biden to China."

Now Graham is talking about how Coffee Boy said working with Russia would be treason which 1) means that he thinks Roger Stone committed treason and 2) he demonstrably lied in that interview.

Now Lindsey claiming that the dossier created the impression that Trump was in bed with Russia, and not his open requests for Russian help.
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Since everyone is writing abt Julian Assange today, some posts:

The Growing WikiLeaks Conspiracy [Indictment]

https://t.co/i3dNE6lnl7

This talks about the superseding CFAA charge that Assange boosters are generally silent or worse about.

Three Inconvenient Truths about a Hypothetical Trump Pardon for Julian Assange

https://t.co/FDl2KMJV8x

1) It may not work
2) It would have to pardon other crimes
3) That would include Trump's own corruption

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the "Highest Level of Government" to Free Julian Assange

https://t.co/oNr8YgXbhk

On the pardon discussions with Trump that WikiLeaks doesn't want you to know about.

The Minh Quang Pham Precedent to the Julian Assange Extradition

https://t.co/1i7yErl0sC

The UK extradited a guy whose primary crime (at the time) was doing graphic design for AQAP.

Julian Assange's First Witness, Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein, Professes to Be Unfamiliar with the Public Record on Assange

https://t.co/sl0sasWgeu

WikiLeaks boosters are lying, cynically, abt what changed between 2013 and 2017.
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emptywheel
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@emptywheel
Breaking: Not only does John Solomon continue to include more and more false claims in his propaganda, but after 4 years of "reporting" on FISA he still doesn't know what FBI Director signs to on FISA.


In reality, this is what John Solomon's "SMOKING GUN" says:

Steele was considered reliable (true!), his sources were in a position to report on what they reported on (true!), the reporting corroborated stuff in the report [that, btw, is mostly classified]


This paragraph, for example, includes 3 lies and one exaggeration: First, CIA informed FBI that until 2011, they asked Page questions about the RU intelligence officers trying to recruit him.


That does NOT cover the most alarming thing he did in 2015 or one RU intelligence officer that Page did not tell the CIA about while still an approved contact.

USG had gotten opinions about Steele that weren't entirely favorable (but unsurprising for operations officer), but this is before questions abt source network.
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The crisis in the NHS is overwhelming this week. It has reminded me of conversations I had with my late father on how to manage within the state sector. I think they're worth sharing.

My father worked for the nationalised electricity industry from the late 1940s to late 1980s. He spent much of that time as a fairly senior engineer. He was committed to what he did. He believed electricity supply was a human right. And he sought to delver it.

He left the industry and retired when he realised that privatisation challenged what the believed in. The priority was no longer supply. It was, instead, profit. He had a clear example of the difference this made. It was about emergency management.

In his day the state electricity boards ensured that they had all the capacity they needed to manage emergencies to keep supply going as well as possible, come what may. It meant there was excess capacity. But it wasn't wasted - maintenance and training was done instead.

Privatisation saw that excess as waste, and it went. It was assumed contracts could buy in support when needed. My father believed that was dangerous - because when demand was strongest the most inexperienced people would be put to work on the job.
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In 2009, I studied the history of the FBI/CIA and also the Hitler regime (research for a book). I expected it to be a dull errand, not a horrific realization that the evil methods of operation of US agencies were often indistinguishable in their actions from the N regime. AND...

2) I found no evidence whatsoever that these abhorrent programs had stopped. Quite the opposite... I kept waiting for the books to get to the part where the programs ended, were properly disclosed/exposed, all went to prison, victims were compensated, and these agencies prevented

3) from ever conducting unethical operations against their own citizens and others ever again... But... no. That part of the books wasn't written. We can only conclude then, that the operations are still ongoing. Even programs that were supposedly forced to end have many signs

4) of simply changing the name of the program/operation and shifting things around to look like something else... nope, just a continuation of the same unlawful evil thing as before. Except, year after year, the tech capabilities rose, and the level of wickedness had to also rise

5) As society became progressive, there wasn't much left that society universally labels a "compromising position": activities rejected as unacceptable, unforgivable, unpardonable & if caught- jailed or fired. Blackmail doesn't work if all human activity is accepted and defended
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My account in @thewire_in of meeting Muskan and Rashid, victims of a series of violent acts by the Bajrang Dal, and by a range of UP government authorities including the police, shelter home and hospital.

Advised by @SartajAlamIndia Muskan was taken to Bijnor, where she got an ultrasound done at a private clinic. The report shows that there are “retained products of conception” (foetal matter left over after a miscarriage or abortion) in her uterus.

The hospital denies causing Muskan to miscarry – but their denial rings false. They declared no miscarriage had occurred – which is now proven to be a lie. Most shockingly, in actions that befit a Mengele, they did not prescribe any antibiotics to Muskan after the miscarriage.

See how calm, confident Muskan is in the face of Bajrang Dal thugs: asked on camera if her father or “guardian” has given her permission to marry Rashid, she replies, “I am an adult, I am 22, I have married him of my own choice five months ago.”

Muskan told me: “I am an adult, know my own mind, was living on my own when I met Rashid. I knew he was Muslim. We loved each other. I converted to Islam of my own accord, & we married. My mother does not know him, she has just parroted whatever the Bajrang Dal men asked her to.”
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Here is the full document. I am going to go through it now.

Yep. This is also a point strongly made in @andrewdoyle_com's new book on Free Speech which I am halfway through and am pretty sure I will be recommending as a primer for the alarming number of people who seem confused about what free speech is & why it is good.


Well, good! Conservatives have not been great at this historically so I must give credit where it is due. I really wish this were a left-wing government taking this progressive stance.

(Areo has a piece forthcoming on why supporting FoS is inherently progressive, btw)


Yes, sadly this is true. I currently have half a dozen cases where people are being penalised for trying to express unorthodox views in the academy.


However, I should also say that one case in which I helped a student prepare for an ethical review when she had already been made aware her views were problematic (she wanted to treat people as individuals) was a resounding success & she passed it. So there is still hope.
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Why is Johnson's speech at the Munich conference hailed in some quarters, even by some journalists that should know better, as "a major policy speech" with "substance"? I went to read it expecting for once to be pleasantly surprised. Alas! Thread

It is full of the usual misplaced optimism not backed by any serious analysis, jingoism & digs at other EU leaders with transparent, nearly servile efforts to regain favour with the new US administration. A few examples:

The speech starts with the trademark rethorical device beloved of the UK right (whether to attack "woke' culture or pro-EU sentiments): A wildly exaggerated overblown simplistic statement that you then go on to "disprove"


So a dig aimed at Macron for saying NATO needs to adapt to changing circumstances and flattery towards America : "As you’ve seen and heard earlier, America is unreservedly back as leader of the free world and that is a fantastic thing."

Then the self- agrandissements : notice all the "I" & "Global Britain"
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Love,that is not real,has no passion. Its fire turns into embers, it doesn’t not smell. The day, the night, the moon&year burn without sun, light, comfort&sleep.
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The praise in this episode goes foremost to Ebru because she portrayed Reyyan so realistically like a woman who truly lost her unborn child. I was in awe and pain watching her along the episode, all her breakdowns and tears were so real.
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I don’t know who wrote ep. 52 but ep. 53 was going strong once more on symbols: roses, stones, fire and trees were incorporated and especially the ReyMir dialogues were written very well. I truly loved every ReyMir scene.
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THE NOTICEABLE SIGNS OBSERVED ON IMPENDING DEATH(मृत्यु के संकेत या चिन्ह)

As per Skanda Puran, Kartikeya had narrated to Muni Agastya about the signs of the coming death. This is as per this ancient scripture.


If one experiences the air coming out of right nostril continuously then it is observed that the person dies within three years. If the breathing is continuous towards upper side from both the nostrils, then the person can die within two three days.

If the breathing is through the mouth instead of the nostrils then the person may live only for two days. The person should take into coignance these signs of the occurance of any sudden death.

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If any person sneezes, passes urine, stool and semen all together he has only a year more to live. If a person sees blue coloured snakes flying in the sky then he has only six more months to live. If a person sees any thing opposite to its real self like colours
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102 Korean men, women, and children arrived in Honolulu aboard the SS Gaelic to work in Hawaii’s sugar plantations. By 1905, Koreans comprised 11% of Hawaii’s plantation workforce—around 7000 people.


This first wave of Korean immigrants arrived amid sharpening imperialist rivalry in the Pacific. Korea had slowly been losing its independence for decades, and by 1903 was just two years away from becoming a protectorate of Japan.

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