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Trump has ‘absolute right’ to testify at hush-money trial, says judge after ex-president falsely claims otherwise – live

Trump has ‘absolute right’ to testify at his trial, says judge

Judge Juan Merchan is now addressing the court about Donald Trump’s false claim the he wasn’t allowed to testify.

The judge says it had come to his attention that “there maybe a misunderstanding” over whether the gag order impacts Trump’s right to testify at trial. Merchan says:

I want to stress Mr Trump that you have an absolute right to testify at trial.

He continues:

That is a constitutional right that will not be denied or abnegated in any way … It is a fundamental right that cannot be infringed upon … the order prohibiting extra-judicial statements does not prevent you from testifying in any way.

Source: Trump has ‘absolute right’ to testify at hush-money trial, says judge after ex-president falsely claims otherwise – live

I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted For a Week. Send Help. – Mother Jones

A photo illustration of Elon Musk surrounded by screenshots of his tweets and laughing/crying emojis. Mother Jones illustration; Michel Euler/AP

…It is hard to appreciate just how thoroughly one of the world’s richest men has been red-pilled until you actually follow along with his media diet. So that’s what I decided to do. Last month, I read everything Musk had to say on X for a week and tracked everyone he interacted with. He tweeted 389 times in five days. He posted the laughing/crying emoji 45 times. But there was a clear signal piercing through the noise. Musk is not a tech visionary with a side interest in politics these days, nor is he just another bored billionaire with a nativist streak; the political activism and the technological ambitions are inseparable. He believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a feedback loop that’s radicalizing him even more…

Over the course of the week, Musk dabbled in a range of small-scale freakouts and smoldering obsessions. He sent 13 tweets about Brazil’s supreme court, as part of a weeks-long battle with the government over efforts to censor disinformation and hate speech. He twice promoted a statistic about the murder rate among Black Americans. He spent one afternoon earnestly amplifying a follower who claimed that “Over 1,000 African migrants have taken over NYC’s City Hall.” (It was an overflow crowd for a hearing on racial disparities in the shelter system.) But one subject came to drown out all the rest. During the week Tesla recalled its CyberTruck for a faulty accelerator pedal, Musk’s most urgent public concern was Katherine Maher.

Musk tweeted about Maher, the CEO of National Public Radio who formerly served as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, nearly 60 times. It began relatively simply, with Musk lamenting the resignation of Uri Berliner, a former NPR staffer who wrote a critical essay about what he considered the media outlet’s leftward drift. Then Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo—the conservative strategist who helped orchestarate the backlash to Critical Race Theory—began dredging up old comments from Maher, in which she talked about correcting for white historical biases at Wikipedia and pushing back against disinformation at NPR. “Katherine Maher is blatantly racist and sexist – one of the worst human beings in America,” Musk tweeted at Rufo. “She’s evil,” he tweeted again, one minute later.

…A lot of his time is just spent saying the same grim things, to the same grim people, over and over. He has the mannerism not of a master of the universe, but of the reply guys clamoring for their attention. Musk tweeted “DefundNPR” at Rufo three times in two days, like a man at a ballpark by himself, trying to start the wave. He will sometimes respond to the same post multiple times, hours apart with a slightly different reaction…

Source: I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted For a Week. Send Help. – Mother Jones

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Muitas mulheres, por viver com seus companheiros por muito tempo, não enxergam que esse homem seja capaz de manipulá- las conforme as suas vontades. Por isso, insisto em dizer que ” posições extremas e contrárias ” são motivos de alerta. Mediante esse pensamento, vou deixar aqui algumas  situações que evidenciam traços de manipulação:

. Agressividade

. Indiferença

. Infidelidade

. Trai ou flerta com outras mulheres na sua frente;

. Desdenha de você

. Some repentinamente.

Isso e muito mais, você encontra no meu livro que foi elaborado em especial à  mulher, que infelizmente, vive com mais frequência a questão do relacionamento abusivo e, sente o quanto o seu psicológico é afetado uma série de fatores atreladas a essa situação.

 

Marii Freire. Abuso

FREIRE, Marii. MULHER Do ostracismo à luta pelos direitos nos dias atuais.1ª ed. Maringá, 2022

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: Editora Viseu

Santarém, Pá 3 de maio de 2024

Source: Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US | Moira Donegan | The Guardian

Women across Florida and the south rushed to find money, transportation, a doctor and an appointment before the law took hold.’ Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

What played out in Florida this past week was part of the anti-choice movement’s new sadistic regime for a post-Roe America: the display of lives being curtailed, of dignity being withdrawn, of health being imperiled. It is a public and deliberately humiliating spectacle for American women: one of freedom being taken away.

The six-week abortion ban that went into effect in Florida on Wednesday is similar to those imposed by other states in the region. (Florida, with its former 15-week ban, had been a place of relatively easy access in the south, and so had become a destination for women from other states; no longer.) Now, all abortions are banned after six weeks’ gestational age, which is two weeks after a missed period. A pre-Dobbs 24-hour waiting period still applies. There is a rape exception that is available only in the first 15 weeks, and only to women who can provide some “proof” of their assault, like a police report. There are exceptions for the life of the mother and for “immediately fatal” fetal abnormalities.

“Immediately fatal” is a phrase the law does not define. “I’ve asked three attorneys: what does immediately fatal mean?” one provider told the Orlando Sentinel. “And one told me one day, one told me one week, and one told me a month. How am I supposed to interpret this?”

But ultimately, even vaguely worded exceptions are a moot point: like all abortion ban exceptions, Florida’s will not be accessible, even to the narrow slice of women who might qualify, because providers will be too afraid to provide even those abortions that are technically legal in a state where performing an abortion that a prosecutor thinks is illegal could earn them a felony conviction. This is already happening in the state: under the previous, 15-week ban, women have almost died after experiencing complications that they have not been able to receive treatment for. Some have been turned away from emergency rooms.

In November, Florida voters will have an opportunity to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution in Amendment 4, which would restore access in the state to Roe-era levels. But victory for the amendment is far from certain, and at any rate, the vote is a long six months away. In the meantime, under the new, stricter ban, things will only get worse.

 

Source: Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US | Moira Donegan | The Guardian

‘There were people screaming in the destroyed houses and nobody was allowed to help them’

Serhii Vitkovskyi did not evacuate from Borodianka (Kyiv Region) because he could not leave his dog — a huge Alabai. Serhii tells how the Russian troops did not allow anyone to rescue people from the destroyed houses, and how his friend was shot dead in the middle of the street.

My name is Serhii Vitkovskyi. I was born in 1958. I live in Borodianka, Kyiv Region. I was an aircraft engineer, now I am retired.

Source: ‘There were people screaming in the destroyed houses and nobody was allowed to help them’