Kind Of A Big Deal

Roe to Go? Heck of a leak.

 

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[henry]

explains the big rise in attacks on Justice Thomas.

[Neo]

A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16743.pdf?utm_source=pocket_mylist

[henry]

Perhaps the leak is meant to direct attention from this:

Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland
37m

BREAKING: Sussmann court granted order to unseal document related to Fusion GPS. Unsealed documents not up yet, and heading to Detroit for an appeallate argument soon so might not be able to post when they are, so keep you eyes open.

[henry]

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
3m

Make no mistake, the Democrats want to destroy the SCOTUS. Destroying the trust inside the court is only step 1.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/05/03/the-destruction-of-the-supreme-court-n559094

[Thomas Collins]

It's most likely an unhinged clerk, not a staffer, henry.

[MissMarple2]

Roberts has directed the marshal to open an investigation immediately, and had issued a statement.

Kamala is supposed to address the big Emily’s List gathering tonight. Quite a coincidence.

[henry]

CNBC @CNBC
6m

Supreme Court says leaked abortion draft is authentic; Roberts orders investigation into leak

[MissMarple2]

Also, Biden has released a statement attacking the decision, not the leak, and it sort of sounds like a threat.

[Neo]

The Clinton Campaign is about to lose its privilege fight.
And - FEC reports on Clinton/DNC violation of election laws
https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-clinton-campaign-is-about-to?s=w

[Thomas Collins]

Even if the law clerk is fired by SCOTUS, henry, he/she/zir/it/ is likely to be hailed in many legal circles as a hero/heroine/zirin/itin, and will get a nice offer from a wokeist law firm. A perfect fit at Perkins Coie!

[henry]

TC, I'll go with "zit" for now. ;)

[Thomas Collins]

I don't know, henry. I'm neither a biologist nor a dermatologist! :-))

[Thomas Collins]

Re MM2's 11:33 AM post: If I had to bet, I would say that the clerk had "encouragement", and even perhaps the promise of a nice job, from sources outside SCOTUS. I suspect the clerk is as unhinged as the new Ministry of Truth czarina, but did not do this on zit's own (with a nod to henry's great pronoun for the woke).

[sbwaters]

For the culprit to be hired by Perkins-Coie, Perkins-Coie would still have to exist post-Durham.

[Narciso]

thats why they relocated under the dragons tail, it's striking the worst examples of political media and legal malpractice were all about protecting roe,

from the bork hearings to thomas, to the 2 minute hate against the huntress, and then the kavanaugh
inquisition, all of this presided by biden, hillary and obama,

[Narciso]

ok then

https://mobile.twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1521309277624971264?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Narciso]

rocket surgeons at work

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=398962

[clarice]

I think the leaker is a zealot--typical of Yale's there oughta be a law school--and I think the suspicion on Amit Jain is not unwarranted.

[Narciso]

that seems likely, the lefts two attempts to ex post facto leak confidence, well they never found who was woodwards source for the brethren, and edward lazarus empty chambers,

[Narciso]

when he gets something right by accident,

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pope-admits-putins-invasion-likely-motivated-barking-nato-gates-russia

[Thomas Collins]

OK, now that the name is out, my $$$$ is on Amit Jain. But I claim (or disclose, for you cynics) no inside knowledge.

[clarice]

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak?fbclid=IwAR04daZCkH3vzpubUlfC031K17U40h9XmNyE9kbaybIfcEI1r0s_7luhR7k

[Narciso]

someone like this, should be disbarred, they haven't any understanding of ethics, will they, squirrel,

[Narciso]

of course the leaker ended up on the watergate taskforce,

[Pinandpuller]

Jain’s Command or Kobayashi Maru?

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The Democrats desperately need a battle cry for the midterms. This is it.

The leaker needs to prosecuted to the fulestl extent of the law. So do the organizations who published it first.

[Rocco]

It sure is about time Narc! Zelensky had a chance for peace before Russia invaded and chose war instead. Why didn't he accept German chancellor Scholz's peace initiative just days before the invasion? NATO had already told him Ukraine would never be admitted so why didn't he agree to a neutral Ukraine? IMO, we, the US wanted war and that's why NATO told him in private, no membership but they'd publicly claim membership was possible.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Regarding everyone blaming NATO for provoking Putin; bullshit.

Georgia, Moldova, Abkhazia, Belarus, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Crimea etc, etc.

Putin is an expansionist who wants to reconstitute the USSR. He is a cold blooded killer.

[Pinandpuller]

“Reminder: It’s gender essentialist and transphobic to to describe abortion “rights” as a woman’s issue.”—Maithreyi Paramar

Thank God, we haven’t lost Bruce Kardashian.

[Narciso]

well abkhasia was back in the yeltsin years, so was the first chapter of chechnya,

ot, fuad al habri, the fellow where the anthrax may have come from rip

[Melinda]

Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
Lots of tweets saying I made up a story about migrants throwing their phones into the Channel yesterday.

Well here is the exclusive footage…

Why would legitimate refugees with nothing to hide throw their mobile phones into the sea?

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1521502874139774976

[Pinandpuller]

Maybe when people find out that ‘Roe’ is caviar they will want to embargo it.

[Jack Lillywhite]

He is a known partisan wench throw - Amit Jain.

https://theancestory.com/who-is-amit-jain/

[Jack Lillywhite]

…wrench thrower….

[Jack Lillywhite]

BTW, clerk’s forSotomayer.

[Dave (in MA)]

Looks like some insurrections are OK.

[Narciso]

making friends all over,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/former-saudi-spy-chief-gives-strongest-public-rebuke-of-biden-to-date-saying-us-let-country-down-by-failing-to-react-to-terror-attacks/ar-AAWRWZV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ec20b36a45f6489480775421e5cf7459

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Regarding everyone blaming NATO for provoking Putin; bullshit.

Georgia, Moldova, Abkhazia, Belarus, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Crimea etc, etc.

Putin is an expansionist who wants to reconstitute the USSR. He is a cold blooded killer.--

Georgia - we engineered a color revolution which enflamed already existing ethnic tensions and threatened Russia's sphere of influence, including the Black Sea. Putin predictably invaded after this provocation.

Moldova - an ethnic conflict occurred involving ethnic Russians seeking autonomy. Russia intervened and stopped the fighting. Before Putin was in power.

Abkhazia - same thing only it was part of Georgia and was also before Putin.

Belarus - we tried to stage a color revolution and failed.

South Ossetia - see Georgia.

Chechnya - It's been part of Russia for 200 years.

Crimea - it's been part of Russia for over 200 years and was only part of Ukraine because Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in the 50s. It was only after the coup we supported in 2014 threatened Russia's use of Crimea that Putin invaded.

When I say "we" I mean the by far dominant member of NATO, the country that first promised Russia Ukraine would never be part of NATO and then promised Ukraine it would be.

What is curiously missing from that list for a guy trying to reconstitute the Soviet Empire is any country of Eastern Europe and/or the Warsaw Pact.
Also missing is Kazhakstan where not coincidentally just a month or two before Russia invaded Ukraine we helped stage an attempted coup.
Putin and Russia have made clear for decades that Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Kazhakstan are red lines for their national security purposes they will not tolerate inference in.
We have systematically interfered in every single one of them.
When the people who claim Putin is solely to blame and we are not, can muster anyone telling us why NATO expansion to Russia's borders is a great idea and not a dangerous provocation, with even 1/10th the experience and bona fides of Kissinger, Kennen and Mearsheimer telling us it is not, I might listen. But when it's Biden, Blinken and Nodd and a bunch of idiot warmongering neo cons and neo libs who have kept us in a perpetual state of war that has severely weakened us both internally and externally over the last 20 years it wouldn't matter if no significant person opposed their plans. That crew is always wrong and always dishonest about what they're doing and why they're doing it.

The Z Man gets the state of affairs precisely right, IMO.

[Pinandpuller]

People try to say that America is a game of 4D chess, but it’s not.

It’s been a game of Chinese checkers since Wong Kim Ark.

[Rocco]

I don't see it that way Matt. Why would NATO tell Zelensky privately they wouldn't be allowed NATO membership but tell the world they would, if not to bait Russia into war? Zelensky was elected because he promised peace in the Donbas, then he allowed his nazi thugs to attack the Russian speaking people in the east for 8 years. That's the way I see it!

For 15 years, Russia has been warning the world, NATO expansion is their redline

For anyone interested, watch Zelensky admit NATO denied Ukraine membership privately and then admit they also told him that publicly, "we'll leave the door open" Hook, line and sinker...bait!

For 15 years, Russia has been warning the world, NATO expansion is their redline

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-20-22/h_7c08d64201fdd9d3a141e63e606a62e4

[Davod]

"NATO had already told him Ukraine would never be admitted so why didn't he agree to a neutral Ukraine?" WTF.

Next, you will be asking Ukraine to divest itself of nuclear and heavy weapons.

[Rocco]

That's right Davod, Zelensky chose the NATO ruse "to keep the door open" for an outcome he knew was never going to happen.

As far as nukes in Ukraine, that's what Russia fears from NATO expansion.

He could have chosen peace! And we should have guaranteed Ukraine's security if he did go the neutrality route.

[Davod]

One of the people I follow on Facebook, an American who is in Poland just posted this:

"Constitution Day here in Poland.

"3 May Constitution Day (also 3rd May National Holiday; Polish: Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja) is a Polish national and public holiday that takes place on 3 May. The holiday celebrates the declaration of the Constitution of 3 May 1791.

Festivities date back to the Duchy of Warsaw early in the 19th century, but it became an official holiday only in 1919 in the Second Polish Republic. Delisted during the times of the Polish People's Republic, it was reestablished after the fall of communism in modern Poland."

[clarice]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/two-truisms-about-the-us-russia-ukraine-and-china_4440599.html

[Rocco]

BOOM! Elon Musk Outs Media Matters as Source of Threats to Twitter Advertisers

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/boom-elon-musk-outs-media-matters-source-threats-twitter-advertisers/

Maybe there's hope after all? Nite all.

[Neo]

Ketanji Brown Jackson Up All Night Reading Biology Textbooks Trying To Figure Out What Everybody Means By 'Women's' Right To Abortion
https://babylonbee.com/news/ketanji-brown-jackson-up-all-night-reading-biology-textbooks-trying-to-figure-out-what-everybody-means-by-womens-right-to-abortion

[Davod]

Posted by Captain Hate on JOM2.

Margaret Sanger,

https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/originals/338276/338276_15qfpyrqkgjb637.jpeg

[Davod]

Included in an article about "The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics"

"...The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz..."

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796

[Davod]

I am watching Sharp on Youtube. He's been challenged to duel and one of his advisors says "...Make sure you keep the sun in your eyes...

[Davod]

I see the media is talking about the referendum road for stealing Donbas from Ukraine.

[clarice]

ROFL!!!https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-women-birthing-bodies-abortion?fbclid=IwAR1CHA66JYwip-RLygSqts-NS3tYyoqkhYXZVyLRQvwnMdzqpj85qjhqluY

[Pinandpuller]

Guns are atheistdamned healthcare and outlawing them will KILL WOMEN

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I see the media is talking about the referendum road for stealing Donbas from Ukraine.--

That's essentially the promise that Ukraine made in writing in the Minsk II agreement. Had they abided by it, rather than bombarding the Donbas, they almost certainly wouldn't have Russians in their country breaking things.

[Melinda]

Donbas( & Luhansk) already had a referendum to leave and it wasn't honored by Ukraine the last time, after 2014.

That's pretty much why we're here.

Besides the NATO creepage. And labs.

[Melinda]

Jinx.

[Davod]

Time to think about winter in the Southern Hemisphere

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/279183876_10225083799976942_2557559038608865606_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=WrSj8kna1TcAX-1tIoh&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AT_2AjNc558kQMV8OQgE0Yq3nk_OP_hLhBBr4G4jW5Qs8A&oe=627798A8

[Pinandpuller]

Senatrix Warren, I bet you at least 69% of Americans don’t want their country flooded day after day with illegal aliens, but here we are.

[Pinandpuller]

I’m sure some of you Boomers know that ‘incontinence’ original definition was ‘sexual promiscuity’.

I guess one might logically follow the other.

Look, it’s WELL past dinner time, OK?

[Neo]

It occurred to me yesterday that the effect of the premature release of the abortion decision will most likely drive out the “moderates”, especially from the Democrat ranks of candidates.
Of course, this will make the Democrats look even more radical than otherwise. It will be much harder to not look crazy.

[clarice]

A more studied review of "2000 mules":https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/2022/05/03/the-2000-mules-from-outer-space/

[henry]

@CNBC

Private payrolls increased 247,000 in April, well below estimate, ADP says

[Narciso]

yaacov puts too much trust in the pennsylvania gope to actually get to the truth,

[Melinda]

Gas.

Light.

Azovstal steel plant evacuees never arrived in Zaporizhzhia, Mariupol mayor says

The mayor said the civilians came from 'other cities'

By Lawrence Richard | Fox News

The civilians who arrived in Zaporizhzhia Tuesday were not the ones who were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol days earlier, according to its mayor.

The buses allegedly carrying Ukrainian civilians from the Azovstal steel plant were not actually from Mariupol but from "other cities," Mayor Vadym Boichenko said during a briefing at Media Center Ukraine.

"The previous evacuation, which took place yesterday, which was presented by a number of media outlets as information that those were the residents of Mariupol who left, is not true. These people who were evacuated had nothing to do with the residents of Mariupol, they are from other cities," Boichenko said.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/azovstal- ... upol-mayor

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That was much more a review of the people who made 2000 Mules than the actual movie.
The actual conclusions about the movie itself were not overly persuasive and some of his terminology makes me question Applebaum's own motives. It has been RINOs who have been pushing the election fraud narrative? He must have a different definition of RINO than me because all the RINOs I know have been hushing the subject up.
Phillips may be a bum but even bums are right at times. Just saying he exaggerated this or that or didn't know the proper terms about this or that or that no one was prosecuted after the fact is not nearly as dispositive as he seems to think.
Nobody is yet in prison for the shenanigans that occurred against Trump yet either and it is unlikely anyone important ever will be. Some people have even exaggerated what happened for their own personal gain. Did it therefore not happen?

[Narciso]

starz is still dragging the rime of martha mitchell with a bloated distended sean penn, as john mitchell, and julia roberts,

that was a poorly executed surveilance op, not properly sanitized like fusion and crowdstrike,

[Narciso]

even two months out, it holds up

https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-nato-the-eu-and-a-cfd?s=r

[Melinda]

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
Dr. Naomi Wolf: The basis for Pfizer to declare the COVID vaccine ‘safe and effective’ for pregnant woman was a study with 44 rats in France. Every doctor making that call either worked for Pfizer or held stock in companies profiting from the vaccine.
pic.twitter.com/VGpkc7zTNB

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1521859954025672708

[Narciso]

the nicaraguan resistance would have killed to get a 33 billion dollar windfall,

[MissMarple2]

Brian Kemp is going to Texas to get money from the Bush organization. Bush is also considering going to Georgia to campaign with Kemp.

Source: Boris Ryvkin from the Trump Organization on Bannon’s show.

This does not seem to be a smart move to me. I don’t think Kempwill pick up any votes with this strategy.

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

How much of that $33 billion is going to the Big Guy?

[Narciso]

I'd say 20%,* 10 was just the teaser,

*that was the return gruber anticipated for the nakasone job,

[Narciso]

oh really:

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-source-inside-the-federal-government-reveals-suspected-and-known/

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

I actually understood that reference.

But then, one of my grandmothers was a McClain.

😄

[Narciso]

we're spending almost? as much as when we had 150,000 troops in iraq, it's hard not to be cynical,

[Narciso]

looking from a wider lense, this is an exercise in punishing wrong think, you can't even debate certain issues, as spelled out there are multiple drafts, assent in part, dissent in part, until the final document is put forward, it's not official,

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/04/opec-oil-production-joe-biden-white-house-ukraine-russia/

OPEC rebuffs US again on ramping up oil production. Another diplomatic fail.

[Rocco]

Originally from RT I believe.

Dutch Party Asks Zelensky to Account for $850 Mln Personal Wealth-April 27, 2022

Ilya Kiva, a Ukrainian opposition lawmaker who was stripped of his mandate last month, alleges that “hundreds of millions of dollars” are being wired to accounts controlled by the president’s office, where they are being plundered, not just by Zelensky and his staff, but by “Western politicians who get kickbacks for their [countries’] assistance”. Kiva has suggested that Zelensky’s earnings have recently jumped to about “$100 million a month”.

https://www.europereloaded.com/dutch-party-asks-zelensky-to-account-for-850-mln-personal-wealth/

[Narciso]

apparently the cia director, went over there to try to chat up the prince, what is arabic for 'talk to the hand'

[clarice]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/04/manchin-and-sinema-on-fillibuster-if-roe-gets-overturned-n2606700

[Narciso]

what part of no, did you miss, now run along miss or sunny,

[clarice]

A different (not Jain) suspected leaker--a Breyer clerk:https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/scotus-law-clerk-research-breaking

[Rocco]

Ukraine Says Communications With Trapped Fighters In Azovstal Has Gone Dark

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-says-communications-trapped-azov-fighters-azovstal-has-gone-dark

[clarice]

https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/chief-justice-roberts-rips-schumers-threat-against-gorsuch-kavanaugh/

[clarice]

LOL--A NOT VERY SERIOUS THREAT CONSIDERING THE SOURCEhttps://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/04/joy-behar-floats-sex-strike-this-is-war-on-women-gays-people-of-color/

[Narciso]

thats a horror out of the multiverse of madness,

[jim nj]

I'm out on my balcony where I can get a signal from Cablewifi and using a borrowed log-on sign in.

Three assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-69-summary/

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-3

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521700041601302529.html

I've missed some updates, but the Ukrainians seem to be doing the finesse against force thing still.

I've seen two reports of artillery attacks on Russian HQs. A week old one, or so, at Kherson and a more recent one near Izium. That can mess with the planning of things.

[MissMarple2]

Of course! Probably following Karl Rove’s advice! Ha!

[MissMarple2]

That last was a mistake. I meant to answer a text from a friend who had heard W was backing Kemp.

[Rocco]

who had heard W was backing Kemp.

And so are the democrats.

George W Bush Will Campaign for GA Republican Candidate Brian Kemp, The GOP Club Have Set The Stage

Georgia Democrats will vote for incumbent republican governor Brian Kemp this month because that’s who they want on the ticket in the November general election, facing their candidate, Stacy Abrams. Georgia is the homebase of the AME church network and their political operations. This is part of the reason why Georgia politics is: (a) racially divisive; and (b) fraught with corruption.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/04/george-w-bush-will-campaign-for-ga-republican-candidate-brian-kemp-the-gop-club-have-set-the-stage/

[Rocco]

Anyway...Trump encouraged Musk to buy twitter. Don't know why my post didn't post, From Conservative Treehouse

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The Russians have had a hardon for the West since Peter the Great. Even in 1917 their army was based upon massed untrained muzhik. Not much seems to have changed. In an article on the Russian dead coming home the families themselves used the same excuses being peddled by state media.

They have a tremendous national inferiority complex and many were devastated when the USSR fell apart when it was billed as the best thing in the world.

NATO was formed as a response to the Russian Army in East Germany, who never left. Remember Berlin '47? There were massive bases for Russian divisions, some of which I saw back in the day. Quantity over quality, which is why we had tactical nukes and A-10's.

The Wall and the fortified border were built to keep people from escaping, not because of NATO aggression. I drove through the Fulda Gap fairly regularly back in the late 70's and saw the police states in Poland and Hungary and East Germany.

Now we have the same dictator we had in the late 90's with the full Beria going on not to serve any form of justice but to destroy dissidents. At least the Ukrainians and Belarusians had the option to protest until Russian tanks entered Minsk to quash the democracy movement.

The Russians are well known for their "referendums" as in Poland in '47 and the other East Bloc countries.

So using NATO as a stalking horse while at the same time believing the West would sell them the rope by which to hang them is cognitive dissonance. The whole Russian mindset is cognitively dissonant. Buying into Putin's lies only validates him.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Matt,

True, the initial purpose of NATO was to stymie Soviet expansion but since then the got involved in military ops in Africa, the Balkans, Middle East, and Africa. Quite a departure from it’s original charter.

IOW’s a masked arm of American intervention. Not that most were not worthy.

[Dave (in MA)]

behar-floats-sex-strike

By popular demand.

[Pinandpuller]

I can’t believe Dave Chapelle got attacked by a trans-gun.

Remember, trans-guns are real guns.

Anything that looks like a gun is a gun.

That probably gives Richard Levine and Bruce Kardashian fits.

[Pinandpuller]

“Give us Abortion on demand or we’ll stop having meaningless transactive sex.”

Stop putting the cart before the whores.

[Pinandpuller]

A man, a plan, a hammer, Pedophiles:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jason-vukovich-alaskan-avenger

[henry]

perhaps they have cultural experience with inflation?

Real Time Economics @WSJecon
2m

A group of congressional Democrats wrote to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Thursday and requested the bank select a Latino to fill its vacant leadership position.

[Narciso]

yes, that will solve things,

[MissMarple2]

🙄