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There is a precedent to ignore SCOTUS

Summary:
Uncle Thomas adrift in his idiotic delusions after Scalia can no longer tell him what do do is revealed in his full horror by Ginni. ~ anon

@discarddungeon Thread
https://twitter.com/discarddungeon/status/1540369557642268672

Some historical context:

In 1857, the Supreme Court heard a case called Dred Scott v. Sandford, and their ruling stated that black people were not and could not ever be considered citizens of the United States, and that additionally they had no human rights at all.
In the same ruling the Court, dominated by a partisan majority hailing from slave-holding Southern states, also declared that Congress had no right to ban slavery.

So how did the next President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, respond to this?

For one thing, in 1863 President Lincoln and his allies in Congress expanded the judiciary, adding more Supreme Court Justices to try to counteract its partisan state. The exact same thing that many people have been begging the Democrats to do now. But that’s not all.

Lincoln and Congress also just… completely ignored the ruling.

They stopped giving a shit and disregarded everything the Supreme Court had to say on the subject of slavery and started passing laws to ban it anyway, despite this being in direct violation of Dred Scott.

And of course we can’t forget the famous Emancipation Proclamation, perhaps the one thing President Lincoln is most known for, the 1862 Executive Order demanding that all slaves in Southern states be freed immediately.

In the end, the Supreme Court was forced to admit that their power had been broken since nobody was enforcing it. And for decades afterward, the Court was far less powerful than they had been before and than they are today.

The lesson is clear: the era of emancipation and Reconstruction, arguably the greatest period of democratic expansion in the history of the United States, was only able to come about because the President and Congress openly defied and crushed the power of the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden and the Democrats who hold all three houses of Congress have the ability to do the same today. And while I have no confidence that they will, it remains the right thing to do regardless.

Power must belong to the people, not the judiciary.

Excuse me: two houses of Congress. Some part of my brain got screwy here and conflated the White House as a third chamber. And of course this happens on a thread that’s already started spreading.

Before yet more people try to “school” me with it, I did not forget about the Civil War. I was keeping this thread narrowly-focused because I’m not trying to give an exhaustive history of Abraham Lincoln, just to point out that there’s precedent for ignoring SCOTUS.

https://twitter.com/discarddungeon/status/1540369557642268672

Class Action Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation 5:12-MD-02314-EJD

thanks to  Jonathan A. Weiss Esq

In Re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD

NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION

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If you are a person who, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, inclusive, were a Facebook User in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button, you may be eligible for a payment from a Class Action Settlement.
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A federal court authorized this Notice. You are not being sued.  This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.

  • A Settlement  has been reached between Defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc. (“Meta” or “Defendant”) and Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
  • You are included in this Settlement as a Settlement Class Member if, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011 inclusive, you were a Facebook User in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button.
  • The lawsuit is known as In Re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD (N.D. California).  Defendant denies that it violated any law but has agreed to the Settlement to avoid the costs and risks associated with continuing this case.
  • Your rights are affected whether you act or don’t act. Please read this Notice carefully.

 

SUMMARY OF YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT DEADLINE
SUBMIT A CLAIM The only way to receive a payment from this Settlement is by submitting a timely and properly completed Claim Form that obtains approval from the Settlement Administrator.  The Claim Form must be submitted no later than September 22, 2022.  You can submit your Claim Form online at www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com or download the claim from the Settlement Website and mail it to the Settlement Administrator. If your claim is approved by the Settlement Administrator, you will give up the right to sue the Defendant in a separate lawsuit about the legal claims this Settlement resolves. September 22, 2022
OPT OUT OF THE SETTLEMENT You can choose to opt out of the Settlement and receive no payment. This option allows you to sue, continue to sue, or be part of another lawsuit against the Defendant related to the legal claims resolved by this Settlement. September 12, 2022
OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT AND/OR ATTEND A HEARING If you do not exclude yourself from the Settlement, you may object to it by writing to the Court about why you don’t like the Settlement. If you object, you may also file a claim for a payment. You may object to the Settlement and ask the Court for permission to speak at the Final Approval Hearing about your objection. September 12, 2022
DO NOTHING Unless you exclude yourself, you are automatically part of the Settlement. If you do nothing, you will not get a payment from this Settlement and you will give up the right to sue, continue to sue, or be part of another lawsuit against the Defendant related to the legal claims resolved by this Settlement. No Deadline

 

  • These rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained in this Notice.
  • The Court in charge of this case still has to decide whether to approve the Settlement.

 

WHAT THIS NOTICE CONTAINS
BASIC INFORMATION
WHO IS IN THE SETTLEMENT
THE SETTLEMENT BENEFITS
HOW TO GET A PAYMENT—MAKING A CLAIM
THE LAWYERS REPRESENTING YOU
EXCLUDING YOURSELF FROM THE SETTLEMENT
COMMENTING ON OR OBJECTING TO THE SETTLEMENT
THE COURT’S FINAL APPROVAL HEARING
IF I DO NOTHING
GETTING MORE INFORMATION
BASIC INFORMATION

1. Why was this Notice issued?

A federal court authorized this Notice because you have a right to know about the proposed Settlement of this class action lawsuit and about all of your options before the Court decides whether to grant final approval of the Settlement. This Notice explains the lawsuit, your legal rights, what benefits are available, and who can receive them.

The Honorable Edward J. Davila of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California is overseeing this class action. The case is known as In Re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD (N.D. Cal.). The people that filed this lawsuit are called the “Plaintiffs” and the company they sued, Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.), is called the “Defendant.”

2. What is this lawsuit about?

This lawsuit alleges that the Defendant improperly obtained and collected data from Facebook Users in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, inclusive. The Defendant expressly denies any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever.

3. What is a class action?

In a class action, one or more individuals sue on behalf of other people with similar claims. Together, the people included in the class action are called a class or class members. One court resolves the lawsuit for all class members, except for those who exclude themselves from a settlement.  In this Settlement, the Settlement Class Representatives are Perrin Davis, Cynthia Quinn, Brian Lentz, Matthew Vickery, Ryan Ung, Chi Cheng, and Alice Rosen.

4. Why is there a Settlement?

The Court did not decide in favor of Plaintiffs or Defendant. Defendant further denies all claims and that it violated any law.  Plaintiffs and Defendant agreed to a Settlement to avoid the costs and risks of a trial, and the Settlement Class Members can receive payments from the Settlement. The Settlement Class Representatives and their attorneys think the Settlement is best for all Settlement Class Members.

WHO IS IN THE SETTLEMENT?

5. Who is in the Settlement?

The Settlement Class includes all persons who, between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, inclusive (the “Settlement Class Period”), were Facebook Users in the United States that visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button.

6. Are there exceptions to being included?

Yes. The Settlement Class does not include: (a) Meta and any and all of its predecessors, successors, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and attorneys, and any and all of the parents’, subsidiaries’, and affiliates’ present and former predecessors, successors, assigns, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and attorneys; (b) any judicial officer presiding over the Actions, or any member of his or her immediate family or of his or her judicial staff; (c) any Excluded Settlement Class Member; (d) the Settlement Administrator and any and all of its predecessors, successors, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and attorneys, and any and all of the parents’, subsidiaries’, and affiliates’ present and former predecessors, successors, assigns, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and attorneys; and (e) Lead Class Counsel and any and all of their predecessors, successors, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and attorneys.

If you are not sure whether you are included in the Settlement Class, you can ask for free help by emailing the Settlement Administrator at in**@FB**************************.com or calling the Settlement Administrator at 1-844-665-0905.  You may also view the Settlement Agreement at  www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com.

THE SETTLEMENT BENEFITS

7. What does the Settlement provide?

If the Settlement is approved by the Court, Defendant will establish a Settlement Fund of ninety million dollars ($90,000,000.00) to pay all valid claims submitted by the Settlement Class Members, as well as notice and administration expenses, attorneys’ fees and expenses, and service awards for the Settlement Class Representatives.

As non-financial consideration for the Settlement, if approved by the Court, Defendant will delete to the extent not already deleted from all of Defendant’s potentially relevant systems all cookie data (i) that Facebook received or collected from, about, or associated with Facebook Users in the United States who visited non-Facebook websites that displayed the Facebook Like button between April 22, 2010 and September 26, 2011, and (ii) that may be used to identify a specific Facebook User from Facebook cookies.

8. How much will my payment be?

The total amount distributed to the Settlement Class Members shall be the Settlement Fund and any interest earned thereon, less the Administrative Costs, any amount awarded by the Court for any Fee and Expense Award to Settlement Class Counsel, and any Service Awards.  This amount to be distributed to the Settlement Class Members is the Net Settlement Fund.

If you submit an Approved Claim and have not submitted a valid and timely request for exclusion from the Settlement Class, you will receive an equal share of the Net Settlement Fund.  All payments to Settlement Class Members who have not sought to exclude themselves and who have submitted valid and timely claims will be in equal amounts.  No such Settlement Class Member will receive a greater, or lesser, payment than any other Settlement Class Member.

9. What claims am I releasing if I stay in the Settlement Class?

Unless you exclude yourself from the Settlement, you cannot sue, continue to sue, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant about any of the legal claims this Settlement resolves. The “Released Claims” section in the Settlement Agreement describes the legal claims that you give up (“release”) if you remain in the Settlement Class. The Settlement Agreement can be found at FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com

HOW TO GET A PAYMENT—MAKING A CLAIM 
10. How do I submit a claim and get a cash payment?

Claim Forms may be submitted online at www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com or printed from the website and mailed to the Settlement Administrator at: Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, c/o Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

You may also contact the Settlement Administrator to request a Claim Form by telephone 1-844-665-0905, by email in**@FB**************************.com, or by U.S. mail at Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, c/o Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

11. What is the deadline for submitting a claim?

If you submit a claim by U.S. mail, the completed and signed Claim Form must be postmarked by September 22, 2022. If submitting a Claim Form online, you must do so by 11:59 p.m. PST on September 22, 2022.

12. When will I get my payment?

The Court has scheduled a Final Fairness Hearing for the Settlement of this case on October 27, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. PST to consider: (1) whether to approve the Settlement; (2) any objections;  (3) the requests for awards to the Settlement Class Representatives; and (4) the request for an award of attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses to Settlement Class Counsel for their work in this litigation. If the Court approves the Settlement, there may be appeals. It is always uncertain whether appeals will be filed and, if so, how long it will take to resolve them. Settlement payments will be distributed as soon as possible, if and when the Court grants Final Approval of the Settlement and after any appeals are resolved.

The briefs and declarations in support of the Final Approval of the Settlement and the requests described above will be posted on the Settlement Website, www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com, after they are filed.  You may ask to appear at the hearing but you do not have to appear.  The date and time of the Final Approval Hearing is also subject to modification by the Court.  Please review the Settlement Website for any updated information regarding the final hearing.

THE LAWYERS REPRESENTING YOU

13. Do I have a lawyer in the case?

Yes. The Court has appointed the law firms of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC, Grygiel Law LLC, and Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC to represent the Settlement Class as Lead Class Counsel. You will not be charged for their services.

14. Should I get my own lawyer?

You do not need to hire your own lawyer because Lead Class Counsel works for you. If you want to be represented by your own lawyer, you may hire one at your own expense.

15. How will the lawyers be paid?

Lead Class Counsel will ask the Court for an award of attorneys’ fees not to exceed 29% of the Settlement Fund, and expenses not to exceed $600,000. They will also ask the Court to approve a service award for each of the Settlement Class Representatives not to exceed $5,000 each. The Court may award less than these amounts. If approved, these fees, costs and awards will be paid from the Settlement Fund.

EXCLUDING YOURSELF FROM THE SETTLEMENT

16. How do I opt out of the Settlement?

If you do not want to receive any benefits from the Settlement, and you want to keep your right, if any, to separately sue the Defendant  about the legal issues in this case, you must take steps to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class. This is called “opting out” of the Settlement Class. The deadline for requesting exclusion from the Settlement is September 12, 2022.

To exclude yourself from the Settlement, you must submit a completed and signed Opt-Out Form online at www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com or by U.S. mail at the below address.  Alternatively, you can submit a written request for exclusion that includes: (1) your name; (2) your current address; (3) a clear and explicit statement that you wish to be excluded from the Settlement – In Re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD (N.D. Cal.); and (4) your signature. Your request for exclusion must be submitted online at FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com or via U.S. mail at the address below:

Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation
ATTN: Exclusion Request
PO Box 58220
Philadelphia, PA 19102

If you exclude yourself, you are stating to the Court that you do not want to be part of the Settlement. You will not be eligible to receive a payment if you exclude yourself.

If submitted electronically, the Opt-Out Form or any written request to opt-out must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. PST on or before September 12, 2022.

If submitted by U.S. mail, the Opt-Out Form or any written request to opt-out must be postmarked no later than September 12, 2022.

COMMENTING ON OR OBJECTING TO THE SETTLEMENT

17. How do I tell the Court if I do not like the Settlement?

If you are a Settlement Class Member, you can object to the Settlement if you do not like it or a portion of it. You can give reasons why you think the Court should not approve it. The Court will consider your views.

Your Objection must include: (i) the case name and number: In Re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD (N.D. Cal.); (ii) the Objector’s full name, address, telephone number, email address; Facebook account URL (if reasonably available); the email address and telephone number associated with the Settlement Class Member’s Facebook account; and his or her signature; (iii) the full name, address, telephone number, and email address of the Objector’s counsel (if the Objector is represented by counsel); and (iv) the grounds for the Objection, including any legal and factual support and any evidence in support of the Objection.

Any comments or Objections from Settlement Class Members regarding the proposed Settlement Agreement must be submitted in writing to the Court either by mailing them to the Class Action Clerk, United States District Court for the Northern District of California; or by filing them in person at any location of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and they must be filed or postmarked on or before September 12, 2022.

Class Action Clerk
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
280 South 1st Street
San Jose, California 95113

You or your attorney may speak at the Final Approval Hearing about your objection. To do so, you must include a statement in your objection indicating that you or your attorney intend to appear at the Final Approval Hearing.

18. What is the difference between objecting and excluding?

Objecting is telling the Court that you do not like something about the Settlement. You can object to the Settlement only if you do not exclude yourself from the Settlement. Excluding yourself from the Settlement is opting out and stating to the Court that you do not want to be part of the Settlement. If you opt out of the Settlement, you cannot object to it because it no longer affects you.

THE COURT’S FINAL APPROVAL HEARING

19. When is the Court’s Final Approval Hearing?

The Court has scheduled a Final Approval Hearing at 9:00 a.m. PST on October 27, 2022.  If the hearing proceeds in person, it will be held at the San Jose Courthouse, Courtroom 4—5th Floor, 280 South 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95113.  If the Court holds the hearing by video conference, it may be accessed here:

https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1604896302?pwd=b0ZTckVxODFCMm1rcjRvSGFMMjVRUT09

Webinar ID: 160 489 6302
Password: 544953

At the Final Approval Hearing, the Court will consider whether the Settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate. The Court will also consider whether to approve Lead Class Counsel’s request for an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses, as well as the Settlement Class Representatives’ service awards. If there are objections, the Court will consider them. Judge Davila will listen to people who have asked to speak at the hearing (see Question 17 above). After the hearing, the Court will decide whether to approve the Settlement.

The date or time of the Final Approval Hearing may change. Please check the Settlement Website, www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com, for any updates, and to find out whether the Final Approval Hearing will be held in person or by video conference.

20. Do I have to come to the Final Approval Hearing?

No. Lead Class Counsel will answer any questions the Court may have. You may attend at your own expense if you wish. If you submit an objection, you do not have to come to the Final Approval Hearing to talk about it. If you submit your written objection on time, the Court will consider it. You may also pay your own lawyer to attend, but such attendance  is not necessary for the Court to consider an objection that was filed on time.
IF I DO NOTHING

21. What happens if I do nothing at all?

If you are a Settlement Class Member and you do nothing, you will give up the rights explained in Question 9, including your right to start a lawsuit, continue a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant and the Released Parties about the legal issues resolved by this Settlement. In addition, you will not receive a payment from this Settlement.

GETTING MORE INFORMATION

22. How do I get more information?

This Notice summarizes the proposed Settlement. Complete details are provided in the Settlement Agreement. The Settlement Agreement and other related documents are available at the Settlement Website, www.FBInternetTrackingSettlement.com.

If you have additional questions, you may contact the Settlement Administrator by email, phone, or mail:

Email: in**@FB**************************.com

Toll-Free: 1-844-665-0905

Mail: Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, c/o Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Publicly filed documents can also be obtained by visiting the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or reviewing the Court’s online docket.

NetHappenings: Standards for an Open Metaverse

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings ∞/21M
https://edu-cyberpg.com
https://k12playground.com
https://RichAsHell.com
daily read https://twitter.com/cyberplayground
Hey, Hey, NRA,
How many kids did you kill today?

The Metaverse Standards Forum
Where Leading Standards Organizations and Companies Cooperate to Foster Interoperability Standards for an Open Metaverse
Multiple industry leaders have stated that the potential of the metaverse will be best realized if it is built on a foundation of open standards.
Open to any organization at no cost, the Metaverse Standards Forum provides a venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse, and accelerate their development and deployment through pragmatic, action-based projects.

Private Equity Funds’ Claims of Strong Performance Are Based on a Mirage – Center for Economic and Policy Research
Private Equity Funds’ Claims of Strong Performance Are Based on a Mirage
After a modest decline in Q2 2020, PE fund returns were exceptionally strong, driven mainly by unrealized gains that may not materialize given the market’s reassessment of asset valuations. PitchBook, June 9, 2022
Even as the stock market is in free fall and interest rates are rising, private equity (PE) funds continue to pursue new investors, peddling the myth that private equity returns defy the laws of financial gravity and yield strong returns even in periods of economic turbulence and declining values of publicly-traded companies. How is this amazing sleight of hand accomplished?

Tether to undertake full audit by top 12 firm for transparency over USDT reserves
The Tether (USDT) stablecoin is set to carry out an audit with a top 12 firm in order to provide more transparency on its reserves.
A business called MHA provides attestations of its reserves, and Tether is working on a comprehensive audit – something other stable currencies also lack, according to Tether’s chief technology officer (CTO) Paolo Ardoino in an interview with Euromoney.
In particular, the audit is not with one of the big four auditors owing to concerns over repetitional risk caused by the absence of legislative regulations around stablecoins. “I think its one of the top 12, so not that bad,. The big four are a bit more cautious about providing a full audit when the rules are not clear,” Ardoino said.
Tether short sellers
Short sellers have so far merely proven that the stablecoin can keep a one-to-one peg to the dollar. Tether’s value temporarily dropped below 95 cents on certain cryptocurrency exchanges in May, as the value of a competing stablecoin known as TerraUSD (USDT) and its sister token LUNA plummeted.

Elon Musk’s not-so-secret weapon: An army of Twitter bots
AND IT’S REPORTED THAT HE IS BUYING TWITTER
Whatever the effect on stock prices, Kirsch said, the bot campaign represents a new form of corporate content distribution or, as he calls it, “computerized computational propaganda.” Should firms that use bots have to disclose their use to the SEC or conform with lobbying disclosure rules?
A Twitter bot is a fake account, programmed to scour the social media site for specific posts or news content — Musk’s posts, for example — and respond with relevant, preprogrammed tweets: “Tremendous long term growth prospects” or “Why Tesla stock is rallying today” or “Tesla’s Delivery Miss Was ‘Meaningless.’” The bots can also be programmed to send nasty or threatening messages to company critics. Kirsch and Chowdhury collected and reviewed Tesla-related tweets from 2010, when the company went public, to the end of 2020.
Over that period, Tesla lost an accumulated $5.7 billion, even as its stock soared and Musk became one of the richest humans on the planet; his net worth is estimated at $275 billion. Operational results can’t justify anything close to the company’s $1-trillion market value, based on any kind of traditional stock-pricing metric.

Vitalik Buterin advises to pay attention to ZK-SNARK technology | by uncle Fibonacci
ZK-SNARKs are used to preserve privacy, including some of the non-obvious tricks like how to prevent double-spending. ZK-SNARKs are a powerful cryptographic tool, and an increasingly important part of the applications that people are building both in the blockchain space and beyond. But they are complicated, both in terms of how they work, and in terms of how you can use them.

Educational CyberPlayGround Watch The Jan. 6th Hearings

White Evangelical Terrorists

KKK IS MAINSTREAM NOT FRINGE

VIDEO 
Fox News refused to air this ad. Now, they are refusing to air the hearings entirely. Retweet and get the truth out in every corner of the country.

Watch The Jan. 6th Hearings

JAN 6 INSURRECTION HEARINGS LIVE ON YOUTUBE
Watch the bombshell primetime January 6th hearings live right here with coverage beginning Thursday, June 9 at 7pm ET/4pm PT.

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? Phillip Agre
Philip E. Agre
August 2004

Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, the answers to these questions are also simple:

Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.

Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.

These ideas are not new. Indeed they were common sense until recently. Nowadays, though, most of the people who call themselves “conservatives” have little notion of what conservatism even is. They have been deceived by one of the great public relations campaigns of human history. Only by analyzing this deception will it become possible to revive democracy in the United States.

CHRISTIAN SCOTUS  A REPUBLICAN HOLY WAR

White supremacy is mainstream
not fringe.

email reveals Trump campaign’s involvement in fake electors plot in Georgia.
NRA sold guns w/ let’s go Brandon engraved on them Christian nationalism is the Klan.

Laurence Tribe
Knowing Merrick Garland for decades, I’m particularly encouraged by the way his DOJ is linking the dots in an ever-tightening spiral that can lead to only one prime mover, the clear beneficiary of the entire seditious conspiracy to seize the presidency.

EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND INDEPENDENT SCHOLARSHIP

Gospel According to the Klan, I urged that we had to take seriously the Klan’s brand of white religious nationalism. That we can’t assume the Klan is done because fewer members today pick up the hoods and robes. That declining Klan membership doesn’t mean the order will disappear. That just because the order is not hypervisible that they no longer exist. The Klan’s legacy is more accurately seen in their style of politics. Klan membership might actually be the worst way to think of the Klan’s historical legacy and influence, because the Klan’s ideas, rhetoric, and politics still matter.

Judge Rules Tucker Carlson Is Not a Credible Source of News
The federal judge, Mary Kay Vyskocil, who herself was appointed to the federal bench by Trump nine months ago, dismissed the case, citing Carlson’s First Amendment protections. That is, Vyskocil bought the argument Fox News was pushing that Carlson is, first and foremost, not a provider of “the news” as we know it, or “facts” as we commonly understand them, and his audience knows this.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, (R: Moscow), Complains Because People Will Be Able To Watch The Jan. 6th Hearings

State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county over six weeks, widening the largest known investigation into unauthorized attempts BY ALLIES OF TRUMP to access voting systems.

From Incels To In Cells – The Proud Boys Story “it goes without saying that fox ‘news’ is NOT NEWS at all, but pure propaganda, geared to an audience of ignorant fools.” ~ Richard Dawkins

Enrique did NOT hatch this scheme, he delivered the army. He took orders from the generals.

AR-15 like weapons in this country and the creepy religious language used with them. Christian nationalists who have turned the AR-15 assault-style rifle into a religious artifact A gunmaker put a Bible verse on an ‘Christian’ assault rifle so that no ‘Muslim terrorist’ can use it. For about $1,400, you can now buy Spike’s Tactical’s “Christian” AR-15 —aptly named the Crusader — inscribed with the Psalms 144:1 bible verse, “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” It also is etched with a Knight’s Templar Long Cross

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes Supplier for rifle sights says it has ‘always’ added New Testament references.

@tlecaque I am not over the fact that a gun company made a gun named the Crusader, stamped Psalm 144:1 on it, it’s in such high demand that there’s a 12-18 month waiting period, and we don’t treat it as a call for religious terrorism. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” Because this kind of garbage is what the US has decided is the acceptable level of Christian Nationalism on assault weapons. Guns are NOT appropriate solution for DISGUSTING Christian Nationalism’s views on the nation’s problems.
how we continue to live in the Klan’s America. History of white supremacy and nationalism Gospel According to the Klan and @AntheaButler’s White Evangelical Racism There are a lot of moving parts to this with deep roots and it is THE problem.

David Duke, a former Imperial Wizard of the Klan, supported Trump’s candidacy, and a Klan newspaper endorsed Donald Trump for president.

THE KKK Second War On Terror
In the 1920’s the KKK organized around white supremacy and was a multi-level marketing get-rich scheme. Amway for racism.
Hatred and Profits:
Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan* https://archive.is/UZ6o6

THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN: “CLAN OF THE FIERY CROSS” (1 OF 16)

MORE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF JIM CROW

JUMP JIM CROW & JIMMY CRACK CORN
A great opportunity for teaching, and for getting students (and others) to think and feel deeply about issues of representation. Just because this is the music classroom we don’t talk about history or culture — that’s in the social studies class (and we don’t deal with slavery until US history in 5th grade) or emotions (only the school counselor or psychologist does that!).

The Heritage Foundation was founded with Koch Brothers money.
“I know that men are won over less by the written word than the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great orators . . . and not to writers.” — Adolph Hitler

TEA PARTY ROOTS

Donald Trump’s money originally came from his grandfather Friedrich Trump who ran a whore house and bar in Canada’s subarctic British Columbia. That is the root of the family fortune. Friedrich Trump made a killing in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic’s business model built on food, booze and sex was common. The profit he generated in two years grew into the family fortune that trust fund has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.

Woody Guthrie Wrote Angry Songs About Fred Trump who was Donald Trump’s Father
 For two years, folk icon Woody Guthrie was a tenant in one of the Brooklyn apartment buildings managed by Fred Trump, father of current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Election Voter Education for Americans

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

IT started with this, a plank adopted by the Democratic national convention of 1948: “The Democratic party commits itself to continuing efforts to eradicate all racial, religious, and economic discrimination.” That was enough to bring the devil howling out of his hole, that foot-on-the-neck-of-the-black-man devil of the Jim Crow, hookworm, lynch-prone south – “the solid south” that reliably delivered its votes to the Democratic party every four years. Trump’s Scottish roots.

Scots were influential in founding the Ku Klux Klan, including the traditional Scottish symbol of the burning cross and the KKK’s oath ceremony, which originated from a Highland custom. Many of the “crackers” were Scots-Irish Protestants who had left Ireland in the 18th century.

Maryland May Have To Change Its State Song Because It’s TOO RACIST
Maryland My Maryland is sung at the Preakness Stakes which is televised. Maryland lawmakers who support changing the official state song think the time is right to finally wipe away “Northern scum” and other sensitive pre-Civil War phrases.

According to the state advisory panel the lyrics of the Civil War-era song, which refers to Abraham Lincoln as a “despot” and called on Maryland to join the Confederacy, doesn’t reflect the feelings of the people of Maryland, The Washington Post reports.

In replacing the 150-year-old song, the panel recommended adopting “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the state song. Its author, Francis Scott Key, was from Maryland and it is about a battle that took place in Baltimore.
https://dailycaller.com/2015/12/30/maryland-may-have-to-change-its-state-song-because-its-too-racist/

Black music ROOTS from Scotland?
Salm and Soul is at Glasgow Cathedral
Lining out – or “presenting the line” – had been commonplace throughout Europe in the 16th, 17th and 18th century. At a time of low literacy rates and high costs of prayer books it had become an easy way to teach and distribute the word of God.
The English brought presenting the line to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.