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The DOJ has shown Trump politically motivated leniency

June 13, 2023 From elsewhere

Eric Levitz writes: An ABC News–Ipsos poll released Sunday found that 47 percent of Americans believe the charges against Trump are “politically motivated” while only 37 percent believe they are not. In reality, however, the notion that the DOJ is selectively prosecuting Trump for political reasons is not merely wrong but the very opposite of the truth: As a matter of fact, the federal government has been affording Trump extraordinary leniency, likely as a product of political considerations. To appreciate this, it is…

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Koch network: ‘The only way Biden wins is if we nominate Trump again’

June 13, 2023 From elsewhere

CNBC reports: The political network financed largely by billionaire Charles Koch is launching a wave of digital ads targeting former President Donald Trump. The ads argue that if Trump becomes the Republican nominee next year, it will lead to President Joe Biden winning reelection. Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC that received millions of dollars during the 2022 election cycle from the Charles Koch-chaired Koch Industries and the Koch-backed Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, gave CNBC a first look…

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Xi prepares China for ‘extreme’ scenarios, including conflict with the West

June 13, 2023 From elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal reports: As Beijing and Washington move gingerly toward restoring high-level exchanges, Xi Jinping is stepping up his effort to gird China for conflict. Since late last month, the Chinese leader has twice urged the nation to prepare for what he described as extreme scenarios or conditions—trotting out a phraseology implying the possibilities of escalating tensions as the competition between the U.S. and China intensifies. At a top-level meeting focused on national security on May 30, the…

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Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt

June 13, 2023 From elsewhere

Geoffrey Lean writes: Plastic production has soared some 30-fold since it came into widespread use in the 1960s. We now churn out about 430m tonnes a year, easily outweighing the combined mass of all 8 billion people alive. Left unabated, it continues to accelerate: plastic consumption is due to nearly double by 2050. Now there is a chance that this huge growth will stop, even go into reverse. This month in Paris, the world’s governments agreed to draft a new treaty to control plastics….

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‘If you want to die in jail, keep talking’ – two national security law experts discuss the special treatment for Trump and offer him some advice

June 12, 2023 From elsewhere

Former President Donald Trump on his airplane on June 10, 2023, two days after his federal indictment. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images By Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago and Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago Lawyer Thomas A. Durkin has spent much of his career working in national security law, representing clients in a variety of national security and domestic terrorism matters. Joseph Ferguson was a national security prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District…

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Judge Aileen Cannon’s previous rulings about Trump demand her recusal

June 12, 2023 From elsewhere

Norman L. Eisen, Richard W. Painter, and Fred Wertheimer write: Soon after the news broke that Donald Trump will become the first former president to face federal criminal charges—37 counts that include willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act, conspiracy to obstruct justice, concealing documents, and false statements—it was also revealed that Judge Aileen Cannon is scheduled to oversee the case. In our view as experts with more than a century of collective experience in judicial and other ethics questions, that…

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Putin’s pals dream up fresh plot to help Trump beat Biden

June 12, 2023 From elsewhere

Julia Davis reports: In Moscow, the possibility that former President Donald Trump might end up in prison or even seek asylum in Russia has long been a topic of discussion on the Kremlin-controlled state television. A federal indictment that was unsealed on Friday revealed that Trump is facing 37 felony counts, because of a trove of classified documents he retained, including America’s military plans and nuclear secrets. Troubled by the magnitude of the criminal jeopardy their favored candidate is facing,…

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Data brokers sell vast quantities of Americans’ personal information to U.S. spy agencies, DNI report finds

June 12, 2023 From elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal reports: The vast amount of Americans’ personal data available for sale has provided a rich stream of intelligence for the U.S. government but created significant threats to privacy, according to a newly released report by the U.S.’s top spy agency. Commercially available information, or CAI, has grown in such scale that it has begun to replicate the results of intrusive surveillance techniques once used on a more targeted and limited basis, the report found. “In a…

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How Russia went from ally to adversary

June 12, 2023 From elsewhere

Keith Gessen writes: In early December of 1989, a few weeks after the Berlin Wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev attended his first summit with President George H. W. Bush. They met off the coast of Malta, aboard the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky. Gorbachev was very much looking forward to the summit, as he looked forward to all his summits; things at home were spiralling out of control, but his international standing was undimmed. He was in the process of ending…

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Former AG Bill Barr on Fox News: The idea that Trump is a ‘victim’ in the documents case is ‘ridiculous’

June 11, 2023 From elsewhere

The Hill reports: Former Attorney General Bill Barr called arguments being made by Republicans attempting to compare former President Trump’s handling of classified documents to previous presidents “big lies.” Barr was asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream to respond to comparisons of Trump leaving the White House with classified documents to former Presidents Clinton and Obama, and President Biden when he was vice president. Barr said that the difference is that other presidents worked with the National…

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Trump’s allies and supporters threaten violence

June 11, 2023 From elsewhere

The New York Times reports: The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has unleashed a wave of calls by his supporters for violence and an uprising to defend him, disturbing observers and raising concerns of a dangerous atmosphere ahead of his court appearance in Miami on Tuesday. In social media posts and public remarks, close allies of Mr. Trump — including a member of Congress — have portrayed the indictment as an act of war, called for retribution…

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Trump charged under Espionage Act – which covers a lot more crimes than just spying

June 11, 2023 From elsewhere

Former President Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in early June 2023, as an investigation continued that led to his indictment on federal charges. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images By Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago and Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago Former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a federal grand jury in Miami includes 31 counts of violating a part of the Espionage Act of 1917. The Espionage Act has historically been employed most often by law-and-order conservatives….

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Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

June 11, 2023 From elsewhere

Patrons at the Eldorado, a popular LGBTQ cabaret in Berlin during the Weimar years. Herbert Hoffmann/ullstein bild via Getty Images By Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington In the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case. It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether transgender people were victims of the Holocaust. Though there is no longer much debate about whether gay men and lesbians were persecuted, there’s been very little scholarship…

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How the U.S. Patriot missile became a hero of Ukraine war

June 11, 2023 From elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal reports: Around 3:30 a.m. one recent morning, more than a dozen Russian missiles flashed on the radar screens of the Ukrainian air-defense crew defending this capital city. The missiles were coursing toward Kyiv, some as fast as six times the speed of sound and many heading directly for the crew’s missile battery. The Ukrainians didn’t panic, their commander said in an interview. They didn’t have time. But they did have a U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missile system,…

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