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Jolenealaska

11:47

The Hill is (IMO) a pretty fair news outlet whose editorial staff runs a bit right-wing. They cover Capitol Hill (AKA Congress). I've never before received an email from them linking to another source. They sent me this from The Wall Street Journal:

A History of the Trump Hush-Money Saga

The Wall Street Journal is one of those papers I read once in a while because they are decidedly right-of center but I can usually stomach them, and I should get out of my bubble once in a while. I want to read it right now, but I'm afraid that will get me worked up, and I've got work to do. I'm going to be on pins and needles until I see the indictment.

Oh! You have got to be kidding me!

The link is paywalled.

How freaking rude.

Nzall

12:09

@Jolenealaska I got a paywall bypasser extension

Jolenealaska

Oh yeah? Gimme!

Nzall

@Jolenealaska microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/… I think Google might have it too

If you want a Chrome extension, you'll have to install one manually, github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Jolenealaska

Well thanks! I didn't know such a thing existed.

Nzall

Because most of these work by pretending that they're the Google crawler bot

Jolenealaska

That's slick.

I even appreciate their admonishment to remember to support newspapers. I do.

Nzall

12:15

Trust me, if there was a single sub I could pay to a third party that would automatically pay the related newspaper the equivalent of what they would have gotten from my ad view, I would

Piracy is not a financial problem, it's a service problem

Jolenealaska

Now I've really got to go cuz I've got a paper due in 16 hours, and I have barely begun the research. Thanks for the extension. That made my day. Well, not this day since today's the day that Trump is going to be indicted. But it would make most of my days :)

Forgot one thing. This is the most incredible tornado footage I have ever seen - all cued up. This was taken in my home state of Iowa 3 days ago. It's in a rural area, but it's not far from places I've been.

Intense Close Range Intercept of Violent EF-4 Tornado - Iowa High Risk Tornado Outbreak - 3/31/23

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Nzall

@Jolenealaska Interesting, that almost looks like it was computer generated

Jolenealaska

The thumbnail really does. Crazy. The actual footage is just really up close and personal with very good equipment.

There's pretty obviously an optical illusion that makes it look like the tornado is closer than it actually is, but it is clearly close enough.

This is me not getting my work done. Check out this footage. The next 20 seconds or so in this video are breathtaking:

TOP 10 CLOSE TORNADOES

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Fredy31

16:05

@BradC He wants a show. He thinks his thralls will be there in encouragement as a show of force.

Thing is, with his call to arms of 'tuesday ill get indicted' he doesnt have a mob anymore.

BradC

yeah, Trump's calls for demonstrations on his behalf have... not gotten an impressive response

Jolenealaska

16:27

I'm going to take a power nap at my computer. But I want to see the indictment right away. Would somebody ping me please if it gets posted?

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Fredy31

17:48

Guess his base jumped on the Desantis wagon

BradC

18:41

he's in the courtroom

looks like a pool photo, everyone is using the same one. Here's a better version:

via @McFarlaneNews on Twitter:

> Trump pleads not guilty - 34 counts of falsifying business records in first degree

BradC

19:01

Some tweets that the details are now known (there is at least one conspiracy charge), but I haven't yet seen a link to the indictment

Harry Litman with LA Times appears to have a copy of the indictment, he says it is lengthy, there is detail about "tax funny business", information about Trump's "conduct in furtherance of conspiracy while in the White House"

BradC

19:23

but still no linkable document

Trump is leaving the courthouse

Press conference from the DA is scheduled for 3:45 ET, 10 minutes from now

STILL no indictment released

Here's the 16-page indictment of Donald J Trump

Nzall

19:39

@Jolenealaska DING DING DING

It's indictment day

user 85795

Show and tell time!

BradC

34 counts of "falsifying business records in the first degree", looks like the claim of a conspiracy charge was incorrect

Nzall

So essentially, it's 34 counts of entering something into the books that shouldn't be there

BradC

Consists of compelling paragraphs like:

> The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858770, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization

Ooo, that voucher number 858770, that'll get you every time

Nzall

> French railway employee killed after tasting unknown liquid left at the station

Jolenealaska

19:48

Well, that was anticlimactic. But he's indicted!

Nzall

No English article yet, but here's a Dutch article you can probably translate using Google: vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/04/04/sncf-vloeistof-overleden

BradC

there's apparently an additional 44-page document that is the "speaking indictment" hinted at earlier

Jolenealaska

> Yesterday evening, at the Châteaucreux station in Saint-Étienne, an SNCF employee received an abandoned bag containing some water bottles with an unknown liquid. He makes the somewhat strange decision to taste it. He spits it out, but in vain: he has convulsions and begins to vomit. Even before the ambulance arrives, he loses consciousness so as not to wake up again.

BradC

sorry, 44-paragraph, not 44-page. Here it is:

Statement of Fact in the People of New York vs Donald J. Trump

this is directly from the Manhattan DA. Here's their press release, which contains links to both docs

yep, super mangled. Fixed

This second doc is much more of a narrative. Sample:

> From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects.

> In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York. The participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.

Jolenealaska

> The Defendant directed Lawyer A to delay making a payment to Woman 2 as
long as possible. He instructed Lawyer A that if they could delay the payment until after theelection, they could avoid paying altogether, because at that point it would not matter if the storybecame public. As reflected in emails and text messages between and among Lawyer A, LawyerB, and the AMI Editor-in-Chief, Lawyer A attempted to delay making payment as long aspossible

Bastard to the very end