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03/01/2023

In 2nd Vote, McCarthy Fails to Win House Speaker Job

GOP revolt seen as 19 Repubs support Jim Jordan; McCarthy vows to force more votes; 3rd expected soon

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Nineteen Republicans consolidated their votes behind Jim Jordan of Ohio, while Mr. McCarthy fell short again. Members will take successive votes until someone secures the majority needed to prevail.

19/12/2022

Musk’s Twitter poll says he should step down from social network’s helm

Twitter CEO has said he would abide by results of the 12-hour poll

FREE ARTICLE

Musk apologized and launched a poll on whether to remain Twitter CEO after a policy outlawing promotion of other social media sites prompted major backlash.

16/12/2022

Prominent journalists who have reported on Twitter and its new CEO, Elon Musk, appear to have been suspended or banned from the platform without explanation

Mastodon's Twitter account also appear to have been suspended

Many at CNN, Washington Post and the New York Times who had written critically of the new owner found their handles suspended

08/12/2022

Former Trump nat-sec advisor Michael Flynn appeared Thurs before a special Atlanta grand jury investigating efforts to overturn GA’s 2020 election results

Flynn’s appearance came after a FL appeals court rejected his motion to quash a summons from prosecutors in Fulton County, GA. Prosecutors say Flynn is a 'necessary and material witness' in the inquiry into alleged election interference

The special grand jury is considering whether Trump, allies violated Georgia law when they allegedly purported GA election fraud and pushed state officials to undertake efforts to change 2020 results. Trump lost GA by

Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to former president Trump, appeared Thursday before a special grand jury in Atlanta.

08/12/2022

Turns out high-profile Republicans like Herschel Walker (GA) and Blake Masters (AZ) lost because Republican-leaning voters turned out for Democrats, even as they voted for Repubs in House and down-ballot races

GIFT ARTICLE

No, the main G.O.P. problem wasn’t prioritizing Election Day voting over early voting.

08/12/2022

Brittney Griner Is Flying Home After Prisoner Swap With Russia

American basketball star Griner, who had been imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, was traded for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout

President Biden says Griner would be back in the US within 24 hours

GIFT ARTICLE

Griner, an American basketball star who had been imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, was traded for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. President Biden said Griner would be back in the United States within 24 hours.

07/12/2022

Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff, bolstering Democratic Senate majority

Warnock led Republican candidate Herschel Walker by ~40,000 votes

Incumbent Democrat fends off challenge from Republican Herschel Walker to gain party’s 51st seat

07/12/2022

PER CURIAM:

"This appeal requires us to consider whether the district ct had jurisdiction to block the [US] from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no"

"We cannot write a rule that allows any subject… to block govt investigations after the ex*****on of the warrant

Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so"

~11th Circuit Ct of Appeals vacates 9/5 Order in Trump v USA, remands for dismissal

This is an excellent read, explaining why even a conservative 3-judge panel (2 of whom are Trump appointees) could not accept the former president's legal arguments

FREE DOWNLOAD:https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202213005.pdf

06/12/2022

Your doubts are well-supported. Other officials & Iran's state news dispute the report, claiming a misunderstanding of the AG's remarks

NTL, NYT, WSJ, BBC, & other reports of what Iran's AG said appear accurate: MP "have been shut down from where they were set up"

The weight is on your side: France24 says "Activists Brush Off Claim Morality Police Abolished" https://f24.my/95gd.T

ForiegnPolicy says AG remarks "met with confusion, skepticism" https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/05/iran-morality-police-protests/

Vague remarks made by Iran’s attorney general have been met with confusion and skepticism.

06/12/2022

"Culture of Fraud and Deception"

Trump’s family real estate business was convicted Tuesday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the company

Conviction on all 17 counts resulted from a long-running scheme in which Trump Org doled out off-the-books luxury perks to executives, incl fancy apartments, Mercedes-Benzes, private school tuition for relatives, none of which they paid taxes on

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/06/nyregion/trump-organization-trial-verdict?unlocked_article_code=D9CoaUhJ5KjIKlm5844JnyKDWOJzkDqqHy4sI_eFuDep9GlAXRbMaYgkIb4bH0gO1-Waft35-n-I_DrMYU49jNTudaBTrYAsMwnfUAFzqQ4_B6VzuvlVYGYKSdx17xYxD1tH72Anky8SmxUYd3aWKcaBOFU7SeyiGp-OS_cgGlOpaa1RquZl7_c7rCaQpoXNJZC9FMhtOldabN85ZRdaBVtVCiaQP8qeRYZ01y-8sMGeMcfb8ZtwD3ADM66Gvtqeo7UIQTJMdV83SvllbNHQA3mEGMdWOVkRFR6oCKYkJgWR96jIvp1thXfs4g1sg56RP8nzFalp8zpQHLRLCFKsgdgNcJlb746n7y1j4MyHD7CXcbs5&smid=share-url

06/12/2022

DOJ special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed local officials in AZ, MI, and WI (3 states central to Trump’s failed plan to stay in power following 2020 election) for any and all communications with Trump, his campaign and a long list of aides and allies

Requests for records arrived in Dane County, WI.; Maricopa County, AZ.; and Wayne County, MI

They are among the 1st known subpoenas issued by Smith,
as named last month by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the Jan. 6 Capitol attack case as well as the criminal probe of Trump’s possible mishandling of classified documents at his Florida home.

GIFT ARTICLE

The requests, sent to multiple counties targeted by Trump in his effort to reverse his 2020 loss, are among the first known subpoenas issued by Jack Smith, the newly appointed special counsel in the Jan. 6 probe.

06/12/2022

Anderson Lee Aldrich, accused of killing five, wounding 17 at a Colorado Springs night club last month, is formally charged with 305 counts of murder, hate crimes, and assault

GIFT ARTICLE

Prosecutors presented formal charges against Anderson Lee Aldrich, arrested in connection with the shooting that killed five and injured 17 others at Club Q.

04/12/2022

Iran's AG Announces End of Morality Police

Decision appears to be the 1st major concession to the protest movement ignited by 22YO Mahsa Amini's death while in custody. Judiciary will enforce 'social behavior' rules

Free Article

The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.

02/12/2022

PER CURIAM:

"This appeal requires us to consider whether the district ct had jurisdiction to block the [US] from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no"

"We cannot write a rule that allows any subject… to block govt investigations after the ex*****on of the warrant

Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so"

~11th Circuit Ct of Appeals vacates 9/5 Order in Trump v USA, remands for dismissal

Excellent Read:https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/11th-cir/eb9858de31042399/full.pdf

23/11/2022

US announces another $400mln in aid to Ukraine to help its defense against RU invasion

…Aid to incl more arms, munitions, air defense equipment from DOD stocks

…is authorized under presidential drawdown authority to use Defense material

…is the 3rd $400mln round of US aid to UA this mo

The new round of aid will include more National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, or NASAMS, high-speed anti-radiation missiles, 20 million rounds of small-arms ammunition and more than 200 electrical generators.

23/11/2022

On the final leg of his 3-nation trip, DefSec Lloyd Austin called for the return to rules-based world order to reestablish intl security

Austin noted Russia’s UA invasion underscores the importance of rules between nations

On the final step of his six-day, three-nation foreign trip, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the world must have rules-based order if it wants international security during a time of heightened conflict.

23/11/2022

DOJ wants to question former VP Mike Pence as a witness in connection with the criminal investigation into Trump's efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election

Pence is open to considering request

The U.S Justice Department is seeking to question former Vice President Mike Pence as a witness in connection with its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the mat...

23/11/2022

Top Repub House Representative, Kevin McCarthy, Tues called on DHS Sec Alejandro Mayorkas to step down, warning the House may try to impeach him, next year

McCarthy added he'll hold hearings at the US-MX border to force Dems to see conditions

The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, on Tuesday called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to step down, warning that the House may try to impeach him when Republicans take the majority next year.

23/11/2022

Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates 6-Week Abortion Ban

The court issued a 1-page order Wed staying a lower court’s ruling while it considers an appeal

Fulton Co Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in his 11/15 decision determined the 2019 “heartbeat law” was unconstitutional because prevailing law of Roe v. Wade prohibited abortion bans pre-viability

The SC ruling means abortion is once again restricted after 6 weeks, effective immediately

FREE WaPo Article:

The ban was reinstated one week after it was overturned by a Fulton County judge who ruled it 'unconstitutional.’

23/11/2022

FYI: Trump's packed cleared way Tues for House of Representatives committee to get Trump's tax returns, a costly loss for 45 who claims the House panel's request is politically motivated

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the release of Donald Trump's tax returns to a House of Representatives committee, handing a defeat to the Republican former president who had called the Democratic-led panel's request politically motivated.

21/11/2022

Job Growth 22% Faster Than pre-Pandemic Levels

A closer look at BLS' latest job report (inset) shows:

-Job gains & losses stable across White House Administrations

-Q1 & Q2'20 were Covid closures

-Job Gains since Q2'20 have been 22% faster than the 8-preCovid yrs reported (job losses 1% faster) and

-Rapid recovery job growth would have led to a rapid rise in inflationary pressure

Data Source https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/job-gains-8-4-million-job-losses-6-9-million-during-first-quarter-2022.htm

21/11/2022

Corps ask US to repeal tax code change requiring R&D costs be spread over 5yrs rather than immediate deductions rule in place for 70yrs

Corps asking incl Ford, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing…

New rules create competitive disadvantage for US companies

Nearly 180 finance chiefs warn of “grave harm” from requirement to amortize over time instead of deducting costs immediately