Jan. 6 crimes happened. Court cases, video, pages of evidence prove it – Los Angeles Times

Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.

But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.

The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage. Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.

Source: Jan. 6 crimes happened. Court cases, video, pages of evidence prove it – Los Angeles Times

Ahead of pivotal debate, Trump threatens to jail adversaries – Los Angeles Times – (Me: Wannabe bully boy)

Trump’s message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term. There is no evidence of the kind of fraud he continues to insist marred the 2020 election; in fact, dozens of courts, Republican state officials and his own administration have said he lost fairly.

Just days ago, Trump himself acknowledged in a podcast interview that he had indeed “lost by a whisker.”

While Trump’s campaign aides and allies have urged him to keep his focus on Harris and make the election a referendum on issues like inflation and border security, Trump in recent days has veered far off course.

Source: Ahead of pivotal debate, Trump threatens to jail adversaries – Los Angeles Times

Born on The Wrong Side of A Line? | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This is part of what Project Do Better is all about: working toward world-wide cultural change, starting in the USA, so that those of us who are born in one place, but called to a different place (or sometimes pushed there) will one day be able to move freely between places, between cultures, and among peoples, without being rejected as the outsider, or treated as the “other” in one or even both places. Learning languages by learning songs can help, perhaps, in this process, but it is really the building of more empathy, that ability to put yourself into the shoes of the other person, that is needed for this task. Not simple, not easy, but doable. We can Do Better: (and this annotated quote below is in response to a set of comments from another song written by Konstantinos Koufos, but there seems to be a connecting thread running through them:

Source: Born on The Wrong Side of A Line? | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

सच / Truth – Kaushal Kishore

 

मेरा सच तुम्हारे सच से ज्यादा सच्चा है, 

लेकिन तुम्हारा सच मेरे सच से कच्चा है…  

ऐसे बेतुके तर्क हमें वहां खींच ले जाते है,

जहां जाने से भी सच्चे आदमी कतराते हैं…

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

My truth stands taller than yours,  

But yours is lost, without a source…

Absurd debates drive us off course,  

To realms where truth dares not go…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: सच / Truth – Kaushal Kishore