Thomas Zirkle 黃智猴

My old college buddy Aaron Farrell and I made some music today! A little micro-duo. #mandolin #violin #duo #consonantpolymeter

@RosenzweigP @gtconway3d @neal_katyal I love the subtle shade of "Dear Criminal Defendant Clark," There exist people who will follow whatever leaders are in front of them. It's always surprising to see their actions--almost literally incredible. Lindsay Graham is another that surprised me.

@neal_katyal It is genuinely puzzling why Jeff when crazy. He was, to my knowledge, a "normal" conservative environmental lawyer. For less regulation; representing industry but not weird in the way he is now. It is a case study of how Trump drives normal people absolutely batshit.

Dear Criminal Defendant Clark: I am a Hindu. Are you suggesting I do not belong in this country? You might be better off studying our Founders, the text of our First Amendment, and (albeit for other reasons), the Criminal Code. I sincerely wish you the best, Neal

HAHAHA then Jack says trump’s comparisons to the Washington monument and Tolstoy are fucking stupid 😂 (I’m paraphrasing) 10/

@ruthbenghiat Yeah. That Ronan Farrow fellow doesn't care about anyone but himself. NOT AT ALL like Musk...

I initially had a challenging time referring to Cassidy Hutchinson as some type of hero after her testimony before the January 6th Committee. After seeing how deep this scheme went and the powerful people involved, I'm thankful for her strength and resolve to do what's right.

"Yours in Service"!

A Maui resident, Lisa, on @POTUS: "He was so present with so many... he spoke with hundreds of people, and hugged them, and kissed their cheek, and heard what we all had to say." "There haven’t been that many smiles in one place on this island, and it was profoundly touching."

I'll wager Trump is on a strict diet this week. Who am I kidding, I wouldn't take that bet. He has zero self-control...

@MontyBoa99 @DBChirpy @hugolowell @guardian That's a good idea, but I'd rather bet on an ice cube's chances in Hell.

@hugolowell @guardian If Mr. Trump attempts to hold a Fascist rally ─ sorry, . . . "press conference" ─ at the Fulton County Jail to exploit the gaggle of lollygagging journos, they should walk. Don't let him steal the oxygen from the room or cheat other candidates of their right to equal airtime.

NEW: Trump negotiated his surrender at the Fulton County jail on 2020 election subversion charges to take place during the prime viewing hours for cable news on Thursday, aiming to get maximum television ratings. @guardian scoop theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

@Beleive_USA @OurShallowState Not the same lawyer, but the same situation. She also dumped her lawyer (who was paid by Trump) in favor of someone who immediately advised her differently. She was suddenly making decisions that were best for HER--leading up to the J6 committee hearings.

HERE WE GO - Jack Smith's team has told Judge Cannon that a key witness in the Mar-a-Lago documents case has switched lawyers, and retracted what is now being referred to as "false testimony."

NYT finds Thomas got his RV through the largesse of a wealthy patron and didn’t disclose it. 🎁 nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/…

@SharonJ03626335 @KrystiBrice @BaddCompani I'll bet that Bob Woodward would qualify for that list.

@KrystiBrice @BaddCompani Some of those who told trump he lost the 2020 election; 1: Mike Pence 2: Bill Barr 3: Jeffrey Rosen 4: Richard Donoghue 5: John Rateliffe 6: Chris Krebs 7: Pat Cipollone 8: Mike Shirkey 9: Lee Chatfield 10: Rusty Bowers 11: Brad Raffensperger washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Donald John Trump was told by his lawyers there was no election fraud found, his own hand-picked Judges ruled against him 62+ times, his hand-picked SCOTUS disagreed with him,(except Thomas), White House Lawyers told him Fraud was not found, His hand-picked AG Barr told him none was found then resigned. His staff and aides told him the election was Not 'stollen', Jason Miller testified fraud was not found and He told DFG and so on. DFG can not use the excuse 'It is what I believe in my heart' because it's all crap, since 2016, it's been crap. He can't claim 'I didn't know' because to be honest, he was 'The Big Guy', and He Orchestrated it all for HIS Boss. "Nobody disobeys me, not even a little" Here's the kicker, every suspect, every witness, every co-conspirator, every person who has testified against DFG has ALL been his own people, Republicans,🤷‍♂️

@PalmerReport In her defense, you can't expect her to read it. That thing was like sixty pages.

Those aren't the words we were looking for palmerreport.com/analysis/those…

@highbrow_nobrow ... And the flip side of that coin is: no Republican can be indicted for anything.

Lindsey Graham warns: "If the special counsel indicts President Trump in Washington, DC for anything related to January 6th, that will be considered a major outrage by Republicans because you could convict any Republican of anything in Washington DC."

Mike Flynn is losing it. Let me address him directly using his own words. Mike: “The constitutional crisis train let the station” when you sat at Putin’s right hand in December 2015 and agreed on a plan to wage “irregular warfare” on United States citizens. “We are now in the throes of a masterfully planned” psychological operation—which you executed leading up to the 2016 election, continued through Pizzagate, QAnon, and various christofascist white nationalist psyops. The “coup” was conducted when you used Kremlin-hacked emails to smear the most qualified candidate to run for president as a Satanic baby-eating pedophile. The “coup” was you paying ex-FBI agent Brian McCauley $28,000 of Turkish money to make up a story about Hillary’s laptop. The “coup” was you and Erik Prince using those lies to convince the FBI director to reopen “her emails” 11 days before the election. The “coup” was your Plan A to use USAID, EO 13848 and the National Guard to overturn the 2020 election fueled by QAnon and Big Lie propaganda. The “coup” was your plan to stage a violent insurrection of the Capitol after Plan A failed to materialize. “We are on the brink of losing our country” to a fascist takeover by a conspiracy between Vladimir Putin, and a menagerie of the most dangerous psychopaths on the planet—specifically and especially you, Mike. You are a trapped and dangerous animal using every psychological tool in your arsenal to terrify your cult into violence. You are using them as a weapon, as human artillery, to save your own treasonous, criminal skin. You are a psychopath with no feelings for humans. You have convinced yourself that you deserve the adulation you manufactured through psyops, when you deserve nothing but Leavenworth. The “thugs” in the equation are the people who used their military experience to psychologically attack innocent human beings to turn them into American ISIS. The “thugs” created suicide bombers by terrifying people about vaccines and masks, shoved them together at rallies—and killed them by feeding them horse dewormer. The “thugs” have been tormenting, stalking and harassing me and my friends for three years. The “thugs” are the ones suing me for tens of millions of dollars to shut me up while they cry about how their First Amendment rights are being taken. The “thug” is the one “training” people to “go after psychopath pedophiles” identified as Democrats who don’t like Sound of Freedom. The “thug” is the one telling people Pizzagate is real because you want more gunmen in pizza parlors. Since you “said it,” let me return the favor. You spread antisemitic, racist, misogynist, white supremacist, theocratic propaganda on a daily basis in order to radicalize people into white nationalist violence. That makes you not just thug but an actual Nazi. You surround yourself with people loyal not to the Constitution but to you, an orange puppet, and Vladimir Putin. You consistently take Putin’s side over the United States and her allies. You are waging devastating psychological war on the American people. All of that makes you a thug, a Nazi, and the worst traitor in American history. #ArrestMikeFlynn

I asked a librarian if she had a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schrödinger’s cat… She said it rang a bell, but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

@midwestern_ope I don't get it.

Nobody: Midwesterners: why would I fly when it’s only a 14 hour drive?

QAnon and Trump have destroyed so many families globally. Here is one example from an anonymous victim on Reddit.

@tribelaw @BaddCompani I'm about a third of the way through. It's much more detailed than the earlier one.

The added charges in the top secret docs case are really dynamite 🧨

@emptywheel The quotes on p. 9 (especially the last one) are devastating. Ironically, he was talking about HRC. Ha!

@nomeaculpa @rgoodlaw It's kind of strange that Trump's name wasn't included in this list.