The pardon power of the President of the United States is the most narrowly tailored plenary power in the history of plenary powers. Its limits are inherent in the meaning of the word 'pardon.' No such thing as a 'preemptive pardon.' Don't cite Nixon/Ford. Facts are not same.

Nixon had a pending 'Articles of Impeachment' that would have turned into criminal indictments had he left office without a pardon for them. In that sense, they were not preemptive, as matters of impeachment hadn't yet been introduced in the House formally & were still ripe.

Donald's impeachment happened. No pending charges or any articles of impeachment with offenses that would turn into criminal indictments once he leaves office. So he can't pardon himself, not b/c self-pardon's moral & ethical heresy, but b/c he has nothing to pardon himself over.

About the pardons he has granted to people who were convicted of crimes related to the Mueller report: this pardon does NOT preclude a future DOJ from picking up the Mueller Report & prosecuting on other violations of federal criminal law that weren't previously prosecuted.

Depending on statutes of limitations of specific violated statutes, a future DOJ can & most likely will go after the same pardoned people for a whole different set of criminal offenses outlined in the Mueller Report. This includes un-indicted coconspirator AKA Individual One.

Joe Biden is opening up a Special Enrollment Period for the ACA marketplaces. Here's a🧵on why this a BFD! 1/

2/ Trump took many steps to sabotage the ACA and its marketplaces. He severely restricted the Open Enrollment period to just 6 weeks and then cut the outreach and advertising budget by 90%. Awareness of dates, deadlines, and options is already low, so this was a big problem.

3/ Last Spring, everyone - including the insurance companies - was urging Trump to open a Special Enrollment Period because otherwise, uninsured people who simply wanted insurance in the middle of the pandemic or people who didn't have employer coverage before couldn't sign up.

4/ But Trump refused, despite reports that HHS/CMS officials favored a SEP. So if you were say a bartender and didn't have coverage through work before the pandemic and lost your job because of it, you wouldn't be able to sign up until November of 2021.

5/ Biden is now taking this important step that could get MILLIONS of people covered. Because Trump didn't do advertising or much outreach, there is $1 BILLION that is sitting unused in accounts that could be put to work in order to get people covered.

After the province's ambulance dispatch consolidation plan took place last month, mayors of Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Wood Buffalo are sharing concerns. #ableg

This morning, during a council meeting, Calgary's 911 director said they experienced issues on the first day of the switch in the city that prevented someone from receiving timely medical assistance.

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer says they have all been seeing issues since the switch. She is calling for a third-party inquiry to investigate these problems.

Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman says they're not too surprised about technical failures, but they are particularly concerned that AHS has not been very up front about what happened. There have also been several mix-ups in his community. Lack of accountability from the province.

Spearman says this is clearly not about money or patient care, so he asks the province why are they doing this? "Lives are at risk, and we need to pause this transition now." He also calls for an investigation.

Good morning Zimbabwe. Thank you again to all the people messaging me to be part of the anti-corruption movement. My desire is to build teams of people for different focus areas to apply pressure on the system.

1. Judiciary- work to identify and expose compromised justices, state interference of court cases. Persecution of opposition figures and journalists. Fight for s59 of the constitution as a key part of the fight against corruption.

2. ZACC- work closely with ZACC to communicate status of current investigations. Identify weaknesses and strengths.

3. Auditor General- work with the AG to better understand how tax dollars are being spent. Scrutinize government operations.

4. National budget- forensic accountants to review current and previous budgets. Identify things that don't make sense.

Happening now: Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula will release the 2020 Festive Season Preliminary Road Statistics in Limpopo. #FestiveRoadStats

#FestiveRoadStats |Mbalula is joined by Limpopo Transport and Community Safety MEC Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya and RTMC CEO Makhosini Msibi.

#FestiveRoadStats |Mbalula: The preliminary figures we are releasing today are a dipstick on the progress we are making towards achieving our 20% target to reduce fatalities this festive season.

#FestiveRoadStats |Mbalula: The peak travel period is upon us and we expect traffic volumes to spike between today and Thursday, followed by another spike on 31 December. The final peak is expected on the 3rd and the 10th of January 2021.

#FestiveRoadStats |Mbalula says the roads have been busy, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. An average of 2 439 vehicles per hour were recorded on the N1 from Gauteng to Limpopo between 18-19 Dec; while the N3 from JHB to DBN recorded an average of 1 547 vehicles per hour.

Every AMERICAN should want FREE & FAIR elections and NO TRAITORS inside our government.

For 4 YEARS the traitors have been exposed and there's been NO JUSTICE yet leaders call for PEACE as Nation descends into the hands of the ENEMY who are openly talking about HUNTING AMERICANS

Until the conservative elite have paid for their costly mistakes such as Iraq, lack of proper health care, jobs and wages, the reasons for the rise of Trump will continue to be misunderstood! https://t.co/WbdB2L7fhO via @nypost

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was reportedly a Trump supporter sick of the failures of the US’s ruling establishment of past presidents who barely addressed the many problems that affected the daily lives of ordinary American citizens whether they were black or white.

It’s ironic that this officer is now being hailed a hero by the very elite who failed him and countless other fellow Americans. It is also ironic that the common grievances shared by poor black & white US citizens that should have been directed at those in charge became polarised

Instead of being united in solidarity against the corruption on Capital Hill they became the tools of fascists like Donald Trump and white middle class ruling elites whose interests in maintaining wealth, power and the status quo at the political centre have spanned generations.

The lesson here is to beware of false narratives being written by the likes of Trumps, Bush’s, Clintons and the Bidens of this American dream that its citizens have and will prosper much better under their leadership. That is perhaps why it is just that, a very American dream!

Now that @erinotoole has completed the defenestration of @DerekSloanCPC, it's time for him to come clean on his relations with Canada's NRA-style gun lobbies.
Is he still with them, as he proclaimed loudly during his leadership campaign?👇🏻

Here's Mr. O'Toole meeting with one of those groups, the Canadian Coalition for "Firearm Rights", less than a year ago:
1. He maintains he's the only person in the leadership race who's spoken against the Liberals' Bill

2. He says he'll repeal the Firearms Act and replace it with something drafted by gun owners, gun manufacturers, police and 'members of the public' (appointed by @CPC_HQ no doubt).
3. He promises to 'educate' Canadians who have no contact
with what he calls 'gun culture'...

...(an NRA term?).
4. He claims suburban voters are 'prone to Liberal lies and deception'.
5. He characterizes himself as a 'proud Blue Conservative' who's not in the 'mushy middle'.

Remember, the CCFR organization is the one that publicly endorses permits for 'concealed carry' of firearms to be widely available across Canada, claiming in its Policy 15-10 that concealed carry is 'a significant benefit to society' and...

@chittukuruvi4 @PVNNarayanan And the benchmarks set by the Modi Government in 2014 and the impetus in the continuity besides adding new goals to bring further #EaseIfLiving, and establishing an environment of participation with competition and equal opportunities for all has unnerved the Cong led Opposition.

@PVNNarayanan The pace and size of development and progress what India could not dream of before 2014 under such a prolonged Congress rule of decades and decades, became visible with efforts fructifying in 2014 to 2019 period. Add to it undoing of historical aberrations and blunders septic.

@PVNNarayanan Are not these reasons enough for d discredited & desperate @INCIndia & its appendages to shepherd d herd in organising protests to camouflage its own failures ? What else can one expect from stooges of a Dynasty, than 2create impediments, humps & obstacles through misinformation.

@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Continuity of Modi Government in 2019 and booting out Congress permanently from the Centre also ensured closing of doors and windows for corruption by Congress & its crutches Communists. And more we see the reason of frustration in d disgruntled lot engaging in immoral protests.

@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Memories short, no Congressman of self pride and with interests of the party “ideals and ideology” close to his heart talking about change of leadership and holding of elections for election of Party President ! All that has got buried in the dust of #FarmersProtest manicured !

Boomers have permanently crippled /pol/.
It's threads on the RV are all taken over by boomer Q posting and babies first conspiracy posts.

If you look at it as a whole, there is no longer an actual effort to connect anything at all from any real information. Instead it's all semantics and the bible.

The only thing gathered on the whole incident is that it is a conspiracy by AT&T and some other big companies that "run phones and voting machines" to create a false flag upon a Q patriot who was exposing the 5G lies of the Chinese conspirators to save America.

You know what I said literally yesterday about having more spirit than you but not intelligence yea I was half wrong.

Cool!

Today saw the launch conference for the Peace and Justice Project, founded by former Labour leader Jeremy #Corbyn. As the veteran British #socialist recently told Jacobin, the project aims to bring together movements around the world confronting the key questions of our time,

from the social fallout of the #COVID-19 pandemic to imperialist #war and #ecological disaster.

The conference was addressed by author Noam Chomsky, anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, and climate activist Scarlett Westbrook. In #Corbyn’s own address, produced below,

the socialist leader argued against defeatism, insisting that, faced with today’s crises, social movements are already in a stronger position than they were at the time of the 2008 crisis.

Highlighting the power of demands like the Green New Deal, #Corbyn called for steps

to break the corporate stranglehold on mass media — and mount a frontal challenge to the neoliberal dogmas that are today wreaking such havoc across the globe.
I want to start with a huge thank you to everybody taking part today.

People have tuned in from all across the UK, communities big and small, and from countries all over the world. Our coming together across borders, backgrounds, and experiences has never been more important. That’s what we want to do with this project:

Arizona GOP censures Cindy McCain, Sen. Jeff Flake, and Gov. Doug Ducey

https://t.co/7p4O2KqMFp