Coup in the USA?

[Cristiano]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

From the body of the NYT article

More than two dozen defendants are accused of the most severe crimes so far — assaulting an officer or conspiring with others in the attack on the Capitol. These cases include a Marine Corps veteran who brought a hockey stick to the protest and is accused of using it to beat a police officer with it on the Capitol steps, as well as a Connecticut man seen on video pinning a bleeding officer to a door with a riot shield.

Such cases are certain to increase, as investigators put pressure on people already in custody, and as they determine who killed Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, and who placed pipe bombs at nearby buildings.

Since Jan. 31, federal prosecutors have revealed charges against about a half dozen more people, who were not included in the Times analysis. Justice Department officials have said they expect the number of people charged to increase geometrically in the days and weeks to come.

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

A very emotional plea from Rep. Tlaib. You may not want to watch.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

A very emotional plea from Rep. Tlaib. You may not want to watch.

There should be no room for anyone to be able to BE in our government with hate speech and rhetoric.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

I knew it.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I knew it.

A lot of us do.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

However, since she certainly doesn't look as if she presents a flight risk -- she owns a successful local business -- and the prosecution didn't, I think, ask for her passport to be surrendered as a condition of bail, then is there any particular reason not to grant the request?

I've known a court here to grant a British citizen permission to leave the country when he was on bail for murder (for which he was later convicted).

Obviously I understand the huge disparity between how these defendants are being treated and how most others fare, incarcerated for years while awaiting trial for trivial offences because they can't afford the cash bail system, but is the decision to grant her permission to take her vacation abroad in itself unreasonable?

I want this sort of treatment for all defendants, not just the privileged few -- the problem isn't that the US courts treat the rich too well, but that they don't treat all defendants as well as they treat the ones who are rich and well-connected.

ETA


His "deeply unpopular take" is, with some statutory exceptions, is pretty much the default legal position in the UK -- there is a legal right to unconditional bail, unless there's good reason not to grant it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Oh heck yeah

This is not to say that the "buy local, buy natural/organic" fad or philosophy or however you want to call it is fundamentally bad or tainted. But if you're on the producer side of the "cottage food industry", as opposed to the consumer side, you should've already known about this connection. Back when I kept bees I knew several definitely conservative beeks who were like militantly into the "organic/natural" stuff.

‘Bullhorn Lady’ Mom in PA Arrested Over Capitol Riot

The mother of eight who had been spotted by sleuths in videos of the riot appearing to direct assailants was apprehended Thursday night, authorities say.

www.thedailybeast.com

“I have no military background.... I’m a mom with eight kids,” she said. “That’s it. I work. And I garden. And raise chickens. And sell cheese at a farmers’ market.... Listen, if somebody doesn’t help and direct people, then do more people die? That’s all I’m going to say about that. I can’t say anymore. I need to talk to an attorney.”

Powell apparently became radicalized during the past year or so: When she wasn’t manning a table at local farmers’ markets, Powell used Facebook to post about topics such as yoga and organic food. However, she recently began expressing increasingly extreme political views that included various conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and unfounded doubts about the validity of the 2020 presidential election.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yup yup, very unsurprising.

The reason nuttier conservatives are deeply into natural food is because major agribusiness is Big Corporations and nuttier conservatives view the Big Corporations as being run by Them, i.e., the New World Order, i.e. "the Jews". So all these major corporations that mass produce food would obviously be engaged in who knows what kind of schemes to intentionally hurt the common people or serve some other satanic agenda. Alex Jones once tore apart like a kids' Hi-C juice box on his show so that he could show off the plastic waterproof lining film on the inside of the box, which he then claimed leached a chemical into the juice that was designed to make children gay.

So you might ask yourself why, at least so far, these very anti-corporate people have aligned themselves with the Republican Party which is nakedly pro-corporate. Like how can they support these two seemingly opposite values?

Some of it is immunity to cognitive dissonance; but mainly it's because the GOP frames its pro-corporate politics as pro-"small business", and that makes all the difference. "Small businesses" aren't like the Them-owned big corporations; they're owned by Real Americans Just Trying To Make A Living, like Farmers and Ranchers and other stereotypical American independent hard-working manly-mans. They promote pro-business legislation based on the benefits most likely to be seen by small businesses, and political opposition is always spun or highlighted in terms of how not supporting the legislation or whatnot would "hurt small business" or interfere with them in some way. Regulation wars are especially fought this way; the main purpose of regulations IS to keep big corporations' happy accidents from killing consumers, but the GOP spins things like labeling requirements as attacks placing undue burdens on small family-farm and home producers.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

That is interesting since big ag has its hands all over organic as well as getting regulations eased and/or expanded to include definitely not-organic ingredients and methods of animal husbandry to their benefit. I remember hearing about this a lot during the Bush administration as they worked hand in hand with them.

Two articles:

Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized? (Published 2012)

Large corporations now dominate in organic foods, and some people think this has led to a watering down of the industry.

www.nytimes.com

Uh Oh! Big Loopholes in Organic Regulations

Yep, expect a few surprises here. What does it really mean to be certified organic? Who are the BIGGEST producers of organic foods? What are the 3 levels of organic? Are "organic" farms tested by the USDA? How is increasing demand for organic causing more lenient enforcement? Are there stiff...

janeshealthykitchen.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Now this looks very interesting

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Facebook posts are full of insider information from January 6

Lindell has posted multiple images and videos from January 6 that depict his actions in the lead-up to the Capitol insurrection and potentially implicate others

www.mediamatters.org

 

[Essence Lumin]

 

[Essence Lumin]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A reminder they haven’t given up.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link because not accessible from some countries

Traces, among other things, the way various militias had increasingly adopted armed invasions of state legislatures as a tactic during the previous year.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Wheezy McBabyfingers

I am so stealing that!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The ‘QAnon Shaman’ Is Starving—and Having Some Regrets

Jacob Chansley’s lawyer told The Daily Beast that his client has lost 20 pounds and apparently had a change of heart.

www.thedailybeast.com

I have no sympathy for him. He's certainly old enough to know that actions have consequences, though I have a feeling his mother may have shielded him from learning that lesson for most of his life.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

He seeks only to eat "traditional food that has been made by God

There are so many ways this can be interpreted, and most of them would not be in this shaman's favor. At its most basic, he would have to either concede that God made everything that ends up in non-organic food, or concede that God did not make everything that exists, which would imply the existence of another supreme being making things. I'm not sure his little brain could handle that kind of theistic conundrum.