@Susan_Larson_TN #fucking #hell #that #is #a #lot #of #hashtags. #I #think #you #missed #a #few #though.

#MichelleObama: Yes, We Have #AffirmativeAction for the #Wealthy

There are #unearned #advantages available only to the #few—but #Republicans won’t talk about that.

— Protecting it is the very basis of their existence. It is called #WhiteSupremacy

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/michelle-obama-affirmative-action-rich-generational-wealth-democratic-convention-speech/

@phf @Mer__edith

Attempts to control the #internet, sold for "#safety", are always about taking away the measure of #power that a #decentralized, #independent #communications channel ("the internet") gave to the Little People, and to return it back to the #few, the #wealthy, the #powerful, the #connected.

What bothers me so much about it is that it isn't just the #brutal, #authoritarian, and #autocratic #regimes that propose it.

#UK. #USA. #Canada. #Australia. #France. #Italy.

On and on.

In bringing the case, #Smith appears to be continuing to take a #careful #approach, charging dozens of counts but #deferring to Trump’s legal team in other ways that are unusual, compared with how the Justice Department treats most federal criminal defendants facing similar charges. 
Prosecutors, for example, didn’t seek to have Trump detained during his arraignment last week and requested #few #restrictions on his release, allowing him to #travel and keep his #passport. By then, of course, Trump was a declared candidate, and the front-runner, for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination.