Polls: Society & Politics

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hearing-judge-witnesses_n_646c6d9de4b056fd46dc1f96
Judge To Personally Remind Donald Trump Against Attacking Witnesses

The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal case is holding a hybrid hearing Tuesday to make doubly sure the former president is aware of new rules barring him from using evidence to attack witnesses.
Trump won’t have to show up to court for the afternoon hearing at a Manhattan courthouse, avoiding the mammoth security and logistical challenges that accompanied his arraignment last month.

Instead, the Republican will be connected by video conference, with his face beamed onto courtroom TV monitors. His lawyers and prosecutors must still appear in person.
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to the extra step of personally instructing Trump on the restrictions after listing them May 8 in what’s known as a protective order.

Trump is allowed to speak publicly about the case, but he risks being held in contempt if he uses evidence turned over by prosecutors in the pretrial discovery process to target witnesses or others involved in the case.
Trump pleaded not guilty on April 4 to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments his company made to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Prosecutors say those payments were intended to reimburse and compensate Cohen for orchestrating hush money payments during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters. Trump denies having had extramarital flings and says the prosecution is politically motivated.
Merchan’s protective order bars Trump and his lawyers from disseminating evidence to third parties or posting it to social media, and it requires that certain, sensitive material shared by prosecutors be kept only by Trump’s lawyers, not Trump himself.

“When we make everyone equal, those at the top feel oppressed.”

Another version of this phrase was written like this:

”When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

Do you think it's important and beneficial to have professional associations based upon race, sex, religion, or other attributes?

Examples:

National Society of Black Physicists:

https://nsbp.org/

Here's one for Chinese Physicists

https://ocpaweb.org/home

National Association of Women Judges

https://www.nawj.org/

Men get way more perks. Easier entry into everything. I don't get what men complain about.

A lot of ladies are scared to talk to men even in today's society, even after our 20,30 years' of struggle towards social equality

What advantages do women really get? Being a woman is life on hard mode. We have to work and hustle for everything. A lot of men get handed things easier.

https://news.yahoo.com/laura-ingraham-no-clue-why-152355395.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
Laura Ingraham Has ‘No Clue’ Why Vets Group Made Up Story Fox Ran Wild With

Offering up a “little update” on Friday night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham admitted that the story of homeless vets being displaced by migrants was a hoax, adding that she had “no clue” why a group would make up a story her network stoked days of outrage over.

A week after the New York Post reported the sensational tale of 20 “struggling homeless veterans” getting booted from upstate New York hotels to make room for asylum-seeking migrants, the story fell apart. In reality, Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of a veterans’ advocacy organization, had concocted the tall tale and apparently even recruited men from a homeless shelter to pose as the displaced vets for the media.

Of course, by the time the fraud was exposed, right-wing media had run wild with the story. Fox News led the way, airing dozens of on-air segments raging about Democrats placing the needs of “illegals” over the well-being of “people who served our country and need a little boost.” Ingraham, known for her anti-immigrant rhetoric, helped lead the charge.

“We know what the intention was,” Ingraham fumed on Tuesday night. “Second-class citizens are veterans. Primary, most celebrated citizens who get all of the benefits [are] non-citizens, fraudulent asylees into the United States.”

However, on Friday, it was time to eat a bit of crow after the GOP lawmaker who initially backed Toney-Finch’s claims reversed course and denounced her, claiming he was “devastated and disheartened” to discover she fabricated the whole thing. The New York State attorney general is now looking into whether any laws were broken by Toney-Finch and additional questions swirl around other claims she’s made about her military service.

I’m glad to see Biden throwing an elbow. For a while he was all cuddly with Repubs.

I would have said Repubs, but Trump still has 40% in the bag. This may be how he wins 2024.

Let’s all admit it, sometime in the last few years we loved the FBI and then hated it.

We do have it in my country. And the rates vary based on the income 🥲