Deno Tas

@deeznotez.bsky.social

Quack Quack Philosopher of the Arts Founder

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

Republicans seem determined to go after Smith anyway, in part because they’re intent to rewrite the recent past and in part because the party doesn’t appear to have anything else it wants to talk about ahead of the midterm elections. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Jack Smith accepts invitation to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee

If GOP senators hope to get the better of the former special counsel, they should start tempering their expectations.

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This framing is inaccurate. Election deniers or insurrectionists providing further aid and comfort to Trump's 2020 steal the election insurrection? When did the insurrection Trump incited end? When did Congress vote to remove his disqualification per the 14th amendment?

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6h ago

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Since we've lost count of the thousands of impeachable offenses that Congress has refused to act upon (because they're actively abdicating their oath to our Constitution wholesale), maybe it would be easier to start counting war crimes committed during this unconstitutional offensive?

156 days & dozens of constitutional crises? Hundreds of impeachable offenses? Maybe that's being too generous? Thousands of impeachable offenses if you count every J6th insurrectionist pardon separately. Hundreds of bribes? Every graft is impeachable. All to keep a criminal out of prison. 

Thousands of impeachable offenses? If every reproachable grafted emolument clause violation were considered an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor, we'd be at hundreds of thousands of impeachable offenses? Am I being hyperbolic or zero accountability has kicked the impeachment can out of existence?
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

[redacted] was never eligible to occupy the federal office of president after his "steal the election" insurrection. Both chambers of Congress must take a 2/3 majority vote to remove [redacted]'s insurrectionist status, until then the [redacted]/Vance ticket will continue being void.

Congrats to @katiephang.bsky.social for putting the pressure on Todd Blanche with her lawsuit, suing him for failing to abide by the Epstein Transparency Act. We need non-stop offense. You keep it in the news. You demand accountability. He will prolly still get the vote but GOP has to defend it.

Just leaving the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, a new exhibit featuring the printed Epstein files to advocate for the estimated 1200 to 1400 victims of Epstein’s trafficking and abuse. They gave me a pencil and highlighter with the exhibit name stamped on them.

a photo of me standing in front of a digital sign saying “welcome to the donald j trump and jeffrey epstein memorial reading room.” behind me are thousands of bound copies of pages of the epstein files. i’m wearing a mask and a light striped shirt and holding a pencil in one hand with a highlighter in another. my face is covered by a mask but otherwise neutral.