Jolyon Maugham urging more more more puberty blockers.

https://twitter.com/stueymaco/status/1667567398432514049

Updating to add – the replies to Maugham’s tweet are almost all in dissent. That’s encouraging.… Read the rest

Trump’s incredulity:

In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Mr Trump said he had been summoned to appear on Tuesday afternoon at a federal court in Miami, Florida, where the charges against him will be read.

“I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States,” Mr Trump wrote.

That’s another symptom of his profound stupidity. He thought he could get away with anything because of his sacred status. Of course, he wouldn’t have said the same thing about Obama.

Prosecutors had also presented evidence in court in Washington DC, but a decision to file the indictment in southern Florida instead may offer some consolation for the Trump team.

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Golly, I wasn’t expecting that while cruising for Trump news – the four children lost in the Amazon have all been found alive.

[Colombian] President Gustavo Petro said finding the group was a “magical day”, adding: “They were alone, they themselves achieved an example of total survival which will remain in history.”

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group. Mr Petro shared a photograph of several members of the military and Indigenous community caring for the siblings, who had been missing for 40 days. One of the rescuers held a bottle up to the mouth of the smallest child, while another fed one of the other children from a mug with a spoon.

NBC News

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This has to stop. It’s journalistic malpractice that is a massive danger to women.

https://twitter.com/wundt_vil/status/1667305603616628737

A more accurate headline and less of a threat to women. It’s not women who are running around threatening to kill people, and news media have to stop saying it is.

The man who threatened Kellie-Jay Keen:

https://twitter.com/wundt_vil/status/1667436308711497728… Read the rest

https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1667228760603602945

Wow. Just wow. https://t.co/qrYWz9JSZn pic.twitter.com/HstQTjdOlV

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 9, 2023

UNSEALED INDICTMENT: The indictment starts with the stunning revelation Trump showed classified information to people not entitled to view it (and he was not entitled to possess it) pic.twitter.com/ySW67GdhGl

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 9, 2023

Trump's contempt for United States national security, captured in a single photograph: pic.twitter.com/j9GY2ttwFC

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 9, 2023

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from Norm Eisen

Paragraph 7 is the bottom of the slippery slope that he embarked upon by beginning his administration with constitutional violations of the Emoluments Clause. For six years since he’s been plummeting into worse illegality like this. (3/x) pic.twitter.com/Dp2ZysCr9d

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) June 9, 2023

OMG, paragraph 22, this is a classic speaking indictment that also makes the case for Trump’s bad intent. It enumerates his knowledge of the importance of protecting classified information! (7/x) pic.twitter.com/2VDNXoSFLP

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) June 9, 2023

The most horrifying of these is the picture on p. 14 from December 2021 in which a box fell & highly classified documents poured onto the floor of

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Good god. What’s coming out is…I’ve run out of words for it.

Screechy Monkey told us to see Robert Costa’s thread on the subject, so I see it, and holy shit.

(Thread) learning some new things this morning about WHY this all happened and the motivation, especially for the audio from 2021 discussing classified material. In short, it comes down to one person: *Milley.* Trump loathed his coverage in press, in books, per multiple sources…

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 9, 2023

Trump’s anger about Milley led him to be cavalier about what he said about Milley and their interactions & policy decisions, and it frustrates some aides who notices how he would veer into dicey/near classified material in convos.

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One interesting detail in the Trump indictment –

On two occasions in 2021, Trump showed classified documents to others, according to the indictment. One instance, which The Washington Post has previously reported on, was a July 2021 meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., when Trump showed a writer, publisher and two members of his staff what he described as a “plan of attack” that Trump claimed was prepared for him by the Defense Department and a senior military official. None of the individuals present at the meeting, which was audio-recorded, had a security clearance.

Ah. He kept the stuff as souvenirs…he wanted to relive the glory days, when important people prepared plans of attack for him – … Read the rest