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Last year the NYPD spent $150 Million to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They collectively owed just $104,000 in fares.
Instead of funding cops to shoot people, why not use the money to make public transport free for people who can't afford it?
https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000/
The New York Times is trying to turn its reporters into video personalities, featuring them doing what is plainly commentary about the stories they've written.
If Harris said something as disgusting as Trump's dunking today on Medal of Honor winners, Big Journalism wouldn't stop talking about it for WEEKS.
Trump's vile statement is getting the denunciation it deserves today.
But I guarantee that our political press will decide it's old news by tomorrow, or Monday at the latest.
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via "automated and manual methods" to improve its services and software (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/adobe-responds-to-vocal-uproar-over-new-terms-of-service-language/
http://www.techmeme.com/240606/p36#a240606p36
Today the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered a stay in lower court proceedings in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Trump and others in Fulton County. Find the order on #DocketWatch:Fulton County, updated regularly by Anna Hickey. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials/trump-prosecuted-in-fulton-county/docket-watch-trump-prosecuted-in-fulton-county#GA-appeals
The way the #newyorktimes and #washingtonpost are (not) covering the 80th anniversary of D-Day speaks volumes about missed opportunities and disconnection. Their menu: Political stories (about #Biden visit), and a piece from #NYT on France. Some other outlets saw the chance to explain and consider, in light of today's US-Europe-Russia dynamics, a day and a war that shaped our world. People like #history but often don't know it well, that's why history is an opportunity for #journalism to serve
"Could" is doing a lot of work here, and it is also not accurate.
GOP absolutely plans to threaten access to birth control. They are telling us this now.
Gift link:
Free link to the @nytimes story on the thoughts of 11 undecided voters:
The jurors don't get to have a copy of the jury instructions. (A rule in New York that I can't explain except to joke that the Prosecution Lobby won.)
They can come back and have them read again or ask questions and take notes.
I don't see how trying to figure out the elements of the crime isn't a mass of confusion to the jurors. I find it confusing while I'm reading them.
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Judges have a lot of discretion, so the standards for reversal on appeal are high hurdles for the defendant.
Only in the rarest of cases (not applicable here) would a jury's factual findings be questioned. Juries are the final arbiters of facts.
As always I am making no predictions about outcome. I am observing that if you hear "this is an appealable issue" keep in mind a large gap between "appealable" and "winable."
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@Teri_Kanefield Always worth a read!
This week's blog post: All About Appeals.
https://terikanefield.com/all-about-appeals/
Includes insights into the work of a criminal defense appellate lawyer.
For example, my cycle with cases:
@Teri_Kanefield So is the "crime" the payments to Michael Cohen in 2017, which speaks to your point that the election was over by then? The 2016 payment by Stormy Daniels is not a focus of this case, but the 2017 payments to Cohen are the actions that are alleged to be a felony?
From Jed's article, it seems the payment to Stormy Daniels was for an NDA, and not illegal.
If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.
(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).
Here is what the Washington Post reported.
See screenshots #1 and #2.
Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials
To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.
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Here is the link to my weekend blog post:
https://terikanefield.com/trumps-first-criminal-trial-theories-of-the-case/
I was trying to figure out the prosecution's legal theory of the case.
Anyway, you can see some of the issues I was having with it.
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I’m glad Kristi Noem is getting hate for killing a dog, as she should be, and I want to make sure folks know she’s terrible for lots of other reasons too
-Cutting lunch programs for low income kids
-Making SD hostile to trans people
-Banning abortion
-Racism
And much more. She’s vile.
Mediazona reports that the Russian police have escalated their repressions against the “undesirable” independent media. Prosecutions for reposting, working for, and granting interviews to outlets like Meduza are rising. (Repeat offenses become felonies.) https://zona.media/article/2024/04/26/donotwant?utm_source=web_push&utm_medium=web_push_notification&utm_campaign=web_push
When the goals of a retired party chair and a news network collide... some thoughts on why the hire of Ronna McDaniel was problematic, not the response to it.
https://wardonwords.blogspot.com/2024/04/when-goals-of-retired-party-chair-and.html
There is plenty of evidence that McDaniel was not providing "nuance" or new information on her Meet the Press interview, but instead continuing to promote damaging lies.
To consider ANY opposition to your perspective about the Ronna McDaniel's hire as somehow due to the misinformation-outrage cycle is very limited.
But I was raised by a trial lawyer and know how wedded they can be to their points. Consider reading my post for more on why the hire itself was the problem, not the uproar after.
TIMOTHY SNYDER
APR 19, 2024
The essence of “political warfare,” in the sense defined by the Chinese communist party, is that Beijing uses media, psychology, and law to induce adversaries to do things counter to their own interests.
Political warfare works through you or it does not work.
So if you are not willing to think about yourself, you are not thinking about political warfare.
I had the honor of testifying to Congress on the question of Chinese political warfare this past Wednesday, April 17th.
This testimony was before the Oversight Committee,
which has devoted months of time, money, and attention to an impeachment inquiry
which is based on a mendacious claim by a man in contact with Russian intelligence services.
That congressional impeachment inquiry, based on a Russian fabrication, then became the subject of Chinese propaganda tropes, designed to spread the lie that President Biden took a bribe.
This false notion, generated by Moscow, can only be spread by Beijing because there are Americans in the middle,
American elected officials, who do their part.
A hearing on political warfare in Congress, and especially before this particular committee, requires self-reflection.
The hearing had some moments of interest, many of which are circulating as clips. Feel free to post your favorites in the comments
https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-warfare-and-congress
