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A Coup Happened And No One Cared

Aloha kākou. There was a coup that happened, and no one cared. Pedo-Hitler Biden was forced to step down from his reelection and Karmela Harris was installed in place as the Marxist democrat’s presidential choice. Since then, Biden hasn’t been seen since. It’s as if the old Soviets have become the democrat party. When a leader fell out of favor with the politburo, then that person suddenly…

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2023/24 PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY

Rangers 2-1 Hamburger SV 22nd July 2023 Ibrox Stadium

Scorers: Fashion Jr, Tavernier (pen)

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Healing The Nation...this didn't give me hope, But it Did.

So, in a panel that included: David Jolly: a former GOP lobbyist and representative (Florida) who left the GOP in 2018, and has stayed a Libertarian-Conservative commentator since. Steve Israel: a former Democratic representative (New York) and former chair of the DCCC, currently serving as chair for the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell, and a lobbyist. Jamie Raskin:…

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I like Raskin, and I like what he says about protecting human rights all over the globe. There is no contradiction in holding both Israel and Donald Trump accountable for their actions. Israel for genocide and apartheid, and Donald Trump for insurrection at the very least.

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Justices should have the same bar as Congress.

Clarence Thomas taking $4 MILLION in bribes is a travesty. The non-recusals of cases involving the corrupt pay-offs/vacations are a travesty. The Federalist Society grooming the worst judges is a travesty.

The Right Wing creates the swamp, then fills the swamp with dirty money, then they talk about bullshit like deep state corruption.

Nope. It's your guys taking bribes.

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I need a Democrat to tell what things I’m allowed to say about Jamie Raskin

I need a Democrat to tell what things I’m allowed to say about Jamie Raskin? I just remember how some reacted when Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer? Am I allowed to say anything similar? Just something to think about.

Mr. Raskin even though we would disagree on a lot and you have hurt our state and country severely we will be praying for you and your family. I hope God gives your doctors with more wisdom then you.

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“After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, which is a serious but curable form of cancer," Raskin, D Md., said in a statement, adding that he'll undergo "a course of chemo-immunotherapy on an outpatient basis."

“I expect to be able to work through this period but have been cautioned by my doctors to reduce unnecessary exposure to avoid COVID 19, the flu and other viruses," Raskin said. "Prognosis for most people in my situation is excellent after four months of treatment."

On Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — an outspoken critic of Democrats in general and the Jan. 6 committee in particular — offered her best wishes to Raskin.

"We disagree often, but I’ll be praying for Jamie Raskin. Cancer is a terrible disease. I watched my father die from it, and it broke my heart. It’s good Rep Raskin has hope and his form of cancer is curable with the treatment he will be starting," she tweeted.

Raskin, a former constitutional law professor who represents Maryland's 8th Congressional District in the Washington suburbs, was an impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. He was elected to a fourth term in November, winning 80% of the vote.

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📝 Rangers have announced the signing of Belgian Under-21 International, Nicolas Raskin from Standard de Liège on a long term contract.

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Trump Vows ‘Televised Military Tribunals’ to Jail Deep State Traitors

President Donald Trump has revealed that he plans to hold “televised military tribunals” to jail high-powered Democrats and deep state traitors.

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Jamie Raskin say "congress will STOP Trump from taking office even if he’s chosen by the voters." The plan is ready, Democrats acting as usual. They should stop calling them Dems, and start calling, fascist!

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Let’s start with Oregon – what does this mean for unhoused people in Grants Pass?

It means that Grants Pass can enforce its 24/7 citywide ban on public homelessness. The question was whether cities should be able to jail or fine someone who has no other alternative but to live in public space – the unhoused folks who are considered “involuntarily homeless”. The city was already allowed to arrest people who had declined offers of shelter. Now, Grants Pass will likely be fining people who have no shelter options.

When you fine someone who can’t pay, the fine can eventually turn into a misdemeanor. Studies have shown that it doesn’t help an already poor person to be driven into debt. Fining someone makes them less likely to emerge from homelessness, including by ruining their credit score and making them unable to afford basic needs like food.

Beyond fines, the city of Grants Pass is going to eventually jail more people. This is punishing people who have done nothing more than exist in public space. This case was about whether you can punish people for the unavoidable consequences of being human. The supreme court said yes.

How do you expect the decision will impact other jurisdictions across the west?

This is quite possibly the most consequential decision in history up until this point relating to homeless rights. It’s hard to overstate how important it is.

I think more cities will attempt 24/7 citywide bans on homelessness. I think it will encourage cities to shift away from investments in evidence-based approaches like adequately investing in affordable housing, permanent supportive housing and diversion and shift toward more law-and-order, enforcement-led efforts to essentially jail and banish already marginalized people from public view.

Grants Pass argued it wasn’t criminalizing the status of homelessness, but criminalizing the act of camping in public. The supreme court majority in its ruling on Friday concurred, and said that criminalizing an act does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Presumably cities could in the future go even further than Grants Pass has, as long as they frame their laws as prohibiting public camping, instead of prohibiting homelessness, although I don’t think that issue has been fully resolved by today’s decision.

Donald Trump and others have used increasingly dark rhetoric, threatening to force people into “tent cities”. Will the ruling embolden those kinds of efforts?

I think we could see the forced displacement of unhoused folks into what I would call internment camps out in the middle of nowhere – a mass migration of unhoused people from one place where their existence is banned to other places where the laws don’t ban their existence. Many cities already have authorized camps in far-out locations that are completely invisible to the general public. I learned about one that was bordered by a dump, a recycling center and railroad tracks – the quintessentially least desirable place.

The idea of rounding up unhoused folks and forcing them into camps or out of the jurisdiction entirely is obviously very concerning. And it should be of grave concern, because once something is invisible, you don’t know what’s happening to the already really vulnerable people living there. Trump has publicly contemplated using his federal authority to move people into the middle of the desert where they won’t bother anyone by existing. It’s a very dystopian vision of internment camps and the likely abuses and neglect that would come from that. It’s terrifying.

Prior to this ruling, cities already had quite a lot of latitude to restrict camping, correct?

Yes, cities could already sweep encampments as much as they like. In many cities, they’ve been sweeping tents at record rates. They could also already enforce anti-camping laws if there was something that could be shown to be an urgent public health or safety issue with respect to a particular encampment – for example, if an encampment was blocking a whole sidewalk. Cities could sweep without even giving notice in those circumstances. Under the previous standard, cities weren’t even required to provide adequate shelter. It just said if the city lacks shelter, it can’t jail or fine someone, which to me should be so straightforward, and yet somehow here we are.

How do you expect legal advocates for unhoused people will respond to this ruling?

The dehumanizing message of today’s decision is going to galvanize civil rights attorneys. It has to. Anytime somebody’s basic right to exist is threatened, civil rights activists have to regroup. And cities should not approach this too cavalierly. There will be legal consequences for cities that pursue 24/7 citywide bans on homelessness. All this decision does is remove the protections for unhoused folks under the eighth amendment of the US constitution. States across the country have analogs to the eighth amendment in their state constitutions. States can and often do interpret their state constitutional provisions to be more protective than the federal constitution. The eighth amendment at its core is really about how much we value the humanity of vulnerable people. So it’s crippling from a human standpoint to have that protection removed. But there are other avenues that homeless rights advocates and human rights lawyers can still pursue. They can make arguments under other federal constitutional provisions. There are still due process arguments under the 14th amendment. You can still argue there is selective prosecution. There are arguments that could be made under the fourth amendment [which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures]. There’s the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], and most chronically homeless people would likely qualify as someone with a disability who has protections from state-sanctioned abuse.

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Jaime Raskin 🎯🔥💯

Republicans do not care about principles. Foreign governments paid Trump millions. Democrats have the receipts and 100+ page report.

Republicans don't care.

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