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Badger Robert says:
The current front runner for the Republican nomination for President is a man who was impeached twice and there were substantial votes for conviction the second time. He and then his businesses lost two expensive civil cases, and now he is a convicted criminal. Perhaps these exceptional circumstances justify exceptional responses.
Badger Robert says:
Ms. Wheeler is correct The Republicans are afraid to tell the voters that the voters have been conned.
Old footnote 1 about the previous meet-and-confer effort removed.
New footnote 1 added about probation office.
bottom of page 6, they clarified that “On May 23,” Trump publicly claimed that…
New footnote 3: “On May 24, Trump continued to issue false statements smearing and endangering agents who executed the search…”
Page 12 is a new “Certificate of Conference” describing a phone conference Wednesday May 29th, and follow-up emails on May 30 and 31st.
emptywheel says:
Yup, Secrets and Laws thinks Jay Bratt repeated his past procedural errors on this one.
gruntfuttock says:
Oh to be a fly on the wall in Trump’s interview with his probation officer :-)
wetzel-rhymes-with says:
Off topic for sure, but hey emptywheel people! Savage Librarian! You will like this. I sang a song in Anglo Saxon for the first time today! Here is the poem Dream of the Rood. These Anglo-Saxons used to pillage us Irish people, I think, when they’d land in their longboats on our Emerald Irish Isle, and they’d sing their hymns at us while they were slaughtering us surely.
The basic line of the poetry for these Anglo Saxon marauders was two falling feet on each side of a pause. It isn’t as refined as iambic poetry which has the civilizing influence and sensitivity of the Gauls. ‘Dream of the Rood’ was probably written sometime in the early 600s by some evangelist hawking John the Baptist’s knucklebones.
Anyway, I think it turned out to make a good start for a melody anyway. Nobody has anything to go on for this. I hope you all like it. I didn’t practice to make a Worktape. This is the first playing at all, so sometimes that’s where the emotion is. If anybody listens, they can follow along with the Modern English below translated by Roy Liuzza I thought, very beautifully, though I’m definitely not expert on Old English.
Listen! I will speak of the sweetest dream,
what came to me in the middle of the night,
when speech-bearers slept in their rest.
It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree
raised on high, wound round with light,
the brightest of beams. All that beacon was
covered in gold; gems stood
fair at the earth’s corners, and there were five
up on the cross-beam. All the angels of the Lord looked on;
fair through all eternity; that was no felon’s gallows,
but holy spirits beheld him there,
men over the earth and all this glorious creation.
Wondrous was the victory-tree, and I was stained by sins,
wounded with guilt; I saw the tree of glory
honored in garments, shining with joys,
bedecked with gold; gems had
covered worthily the Creator’s tree.
And yet beneath that gold I began to see
an ancient wretched struggle, when it first began
to bleed on the right side. I was all beset with sorrows,
fearful for that fair vision; I saw that eager beacon
change garments and colors––now it was drenched,
stained with blood, now bedecked with treasure.
And yet, lying there a long while,
I beheld in sorrow the Savior’s tree
until I heard it utter a sound;
that best of woods began to speak words:
“It was so long ago––I remember it still––
that I was felled from the forest’s edge,
ripped up from my roots. Strong enemies seized me there,
made me their spectacle, made me bear their criminals . . .
harpie says:
I’m sorry to drop this here, but I’m running out the door for the weekend and think people will be interested in this from HC Richardson’s Letters from an American, for yesterday https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-31-2024 [her references are at the bottom]:
[…] Today the Federalist Society, which is now aligned with Victor Orbán’s Hungary, flew an upside-down U.S. flag as a signal of national distress. Their actions were in keeping with Russian president Vladimir Putin’s statement […]
This attack on our democracy was the central message of a crucially important story from yesterday that got buried under the news of Trump’s conviction. In The New Republic, Ken Silverstein reported on a private WhatsApp group started last December by military contractor Erik Prince […] and including about 650 wealthy and well-connected “right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists,” including Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who served as Trump’s secretary of the interior.
Called “Off Leash,” the group discussed, as Silverstein wrote, “the shortcomings of democracy that invariably resulted from extending the franchise to ordinary citizens, who are easily manipulated by Marxists and populists,” […] “There is only one path forward,” Zinke wrote. “Elect Trump.” Another member answered, “It’s Trump or Revolution” “You mean Trump AND Revolution,” wrote another. […]
I can’t check now, but I think Zinke is part of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
Clare Kelly says:
“Impose a cost where you can” MTW
-‘Convicted felon endorses’ [fill in the blank]
-‘Proud Christian Nationalist’ [fill in the blank] ‘declares a few Commandments optional’
(‘Alito recognizes female property rights not in Constitution’ won’t impose a cost, but… FFS’s)
-‘Mike Lee exchanges the “Thirteen Articles of Faith” for a Senate seat.’
Kudos to Nicole Sandler for snagging Antonio Banderos to voice her intro disclaimer and, again, thank you both for doing this.
Clare Kelly says:
I meant to thank harpie for their contribution here, and post the above separately.
More coffee awaits me.
Matt___B says:
HCR corrected her mis-attribution to the Federalist Society in this letter. She meant the Heritage Foundation. Yes Heritage, the sponsors of Project 2025.
harpie says:
Thank you very much for posting that
very important correction here, Matt___B!
VA in SC says:
This is a huge grisly putrid corruption of a body politic…it seems to go deeper with every layer exposed,then excised.
Every investigation eventually returns to either those flushed with billions, connected to Russia and extremist religious/ racist terrorists.
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Krisy Gosney says:
Agreed, VA in SC. I never bought into the shadowy rich pulling all the strings theory of yore. But now I believe it’s the not so shadowy ultra rich playing chess with the ultra hard right Christians as pawns. I think though that the ultra rich will pull out of their plans and leave everybody else hanging when/if they start to feel a cut into their riches. So a cut into their riches, I hope, is somewhere on a table being planned. Not the spooky ‘socialism’ but climate crises, no birth control, etc, has an actual hard dollar cost to them.
MsJennyMD says:
Previews to Coming Attractions:
Ronan Farrow”s book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy” written in 2019. Interviews with Anderson Cooper.
There is a through line from the rigged election movement to the rigged trial movement. Both take possible problems for which we have established methods for dealing with; i.e. pre election lawsuits and the entire system of appeals to declare that the entire system is corrupt. Their answer to the “corruption” is to bypass the checks and balances in place and defer to a one time authority. Mike Johnson has said he wants his friends on SCOTUS to reach down and throw out the New York case thus bypassing the checks and balances of the appeals procedure. The Maga movement wanted to bypass the checks and balances of impeachment proceedings and/or the next election and instead have an instant decision by a congressional vote. Authoritarian rule is so much more efficient!
Fancy Chicken says:
Prepped for the week ahead!
Added Dr. Wheeler’s “Ball of Thread” podcast to my Patreon memberships, added a written review on Apple Podcasts for it which I hope everyone is doing to help promote it, doubled my June contribution to EW and made sure there’s plenty of Pepto and Excedrine Migraine on hand.
I really hope the readers of EW who don’t or aren’t able to contribute regularly will realize this is one of those times to pony up if they are able as I doubt there will be the thorough coverage and analysis of Hunter Biden’s trial in Delaware that is needed anywhere else but here.
Nicole Sandler says:
Awesome! And you can support Marcy here. Both of us are among the few who work without a paywall so these shows (and her posts) are available to everyone. Don’t forget that you can support my show too. The homebase is nicolesandler.com.
Fancy Chicken says:
Thanks Nicole, I’ll add you to the contribution list. I really enjoy your show.
Nicole Sandler says:
Thank you so much!
Fancy Chicken says:
Part II
On a different tack, I’m steeling myself for the June 21st hearing in FL on Trump’s MTD that Jack Smith’s appointment is illegal in part because he is a private citizen. Not only is Cannon taking into account Ed Mees’s amicus brief in support of Trump, she’s also asking for both sides to present briefs on how the Supreme Court’s recent affirmation of the Consumer Financial Bureau’s creation and funding being legal effects Trump’s MTD. Another truly WTF request from Cannon.
I have a terrible feeling (please someone correct me as I want to be wrong) that hearing might not follow Cannon’s pattern of entertaining ridiculous motions from Trump’s team then belittling Smith while still siding with him.
Kavanaugh makes no secret he thinks the Supreme Court’s upholding of Special Counsel legitimacy was a huge mistake and is itching to revisit it (hopefully not in Trump’s immunity case) which makes me nervous Trump might pursue it to that level. I have no idea how the 9th Circuit overseeing Cannon views Special Counsel appointments but I am still very, very concerned the MTD issue could become a real problem in the case.
Here’s to hoping June is a month in which the Rule of Law prevails.
P-villain says:
Kavanaugh having a problem with special prosecutors is pretty rich. What a toad.
P J Evans says:
Cannon is 11th Circuit. 9th is west coast.
Fancy Chicken says:
I really have a problem confusing the 11th with the 9th. This is not my first time making that mistake here.
Thank you for gently pointing it out.
Maybe after embarrassing myself twice I’ll finally figure it out.
Trump NY Hush Money Fraud Trial: A Verdict Is In [UPDATE] Compelling Hallie Biden 
The current front runner for the Republican nomination for President is a man who was impeached twice and there were substantial votes for conviction the second time. He and then his businesses lost two expensive civil cases, and now he is a convicted criminal. Perhaps these exceptional circumstances justify exceptional responses.
Ms. Wheeler is correct The Republicans are afraid to tell the voters that the voters have been conned.
The audio was great this week.
Thanks! If you watch till the end. Marcy thanks me.
Yeah, I had a feeling Marcy was coming up short in the techie advice department. thanks, Spocko!
My abused ears are truly grateful. Thank you from this end as well.
Great show!
BTW, the most powerful use of the word “yet” that I have read in my lifetime!
https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1796696088121950665
Off topic: From this courtlistener page about the classified docs case:
It looks like SCO has re-filed their MOTION to Modify Conditions of Release by USA as to Donald J. Trump.
Almost identical to the original motion.
Old footnote 1 about the previous meet-and-confer effort removed.
New footnote 1 added about probation office.
bottom of page 6, they clarified that “On May 23,” Trump publicly claimed that…
New footnote 3: “On May 24, Trump continued to issue false statements smearing and endangering agents who executed the search…”
Page 12 is a new “Certificate of Conference” describing a phone conference Wednesday May 29th, and follow-up emails on May 30 and 31st.
Yup, Secrets and Laws thinks Jay Bratt repeated his past procedural errors on this one.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in Trump’s interview with his probation officer :-)
Off topic for sure, but hey emptywheel people! Savage Librarian! You will like this. I sang a song in Anglo Saxon for the first time today! Here is the poem Dream of the Rood. These Anglo-Saxons used to pillage us Irish people, I think, when they’d land in their longboats on our Emerald Irish Isle, and they’d sing their hymns at us while they were slaughtering us surely.
The basic line of the poetry for these Anglo Saxon marauders was two falling feet on each side of a pause. It isn’t as refined as iambic poetry which has the civilizing influence and sensitivity of the Gauls. ‘Dream of the Rood’ was probably written sometime in the early 600s by some evangelist hawking John the Baptist’s knucklebones.
Anyway, I think it turned out to make a good start for a melody anyway. Nobody has anything to go on for this. I hope you all like it. I didn’t practice to make a Worktape. This is the first playing at all, so sometimes that’s where the emotion is. If anybody listens, they can follow along with the Modern English below translated by Roy Liuzza I thought, very beautifully, though I’m definitely not expert on Old English.
https://soundcloud.com/pretzel-267082125/dream-of-the-rood?si=e4c136b4f2184d7a83b0712592ea11e0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
DREAM OF THE ROOD (30 lines or so)
Listen! I will speak of the sweetest dream,
what came to me in the middle of the night,
when speech-bearers slept in their rest.
It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree
raised on high, wound round with light,
the brightest of beams. All that beacon was
covered in gold; gems stood
fair at the earth’s corners, and there were five
up on the cross-beam. All the angels of the Lord looked on;
fair through all eternity; that was no felon’s gallows,
but holy spirits beheld him there,
men over the earth and all this glorious creation.
Wondrous was the victory-tree, and I was stained by sins,
wounded with guilt; I saw the tree of glory
honored in garments, shining with joys,
bedecked with gold; gems had
covered worthily the Creator’s tree.
And yet beneath that gold I began to see
an ancient wretched struggle, when it first began
to bleed on the right side. I was all beset with sorrows,
fearful for that fair vision; I saw that eager beacon
change garments and colors––now it was drenched,
stained with blood, now bedecked with treasure.
And yet, lying there a long while,
I beheld in sorrow the Savior’s tree
until I heard it utter a sound;
that best of woods began to speak words:
“It was so long ago––I remember it still––
that I was felled from the forest’s edge,
ripped up from my roots. Strong enemies seized me there,
made me their spectacle, made me bear their criminals . . .
I’m sorry to drop this here, but I’m running out the door for the weekend and think people will be interested in this from HC Richardson’s Letters from an American, for yesterday https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-31-2024 [her references are at the bottom]:
I can’t check now, but I think Zinke is part of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
“Impose a cost where you can” MTW
-‘Convicted felon endorses’ [fill in the blank]
-‘Proud Christian Nationalist’ [fill in the blank] ‘declares a few Commandments optional’
(‘Alito recognizes female property rights not in Constitution’ won’t impose a cost, but… FFS’s)
-‘Mike Lee exchanges the “Thirteen Articles of Faith” for a Senate seat.’
Kudos to Nicole Sandler for snagging Antonio Banderos to voice her intro disclaimer and, again, thank you both for doing this.
I meant to thank harpie for their contribution here, and post the above separately.
More coffee awaits me.
HCR corrected her mis-attribution to the Federalist Society in this letter. She meant the Heritage Foundation. Yes Heritage, the sponsors of Project 2025.
Thank you very much for posting that
very important correction here, Matt___B!
This is a huge grisly putrid corruption of a body politic…it seems to go deeper with every layer exposed,then excised.
Every investigation eventually returns to either those flushed with billions, connected to Russia and extremist religious/ racist terrorists.
[Welcome back to emptywheel. THIRD REQUEST: Please use the SAME USERNAME and email address each time you comment so that community members get to know you. “VA in SC” is your 4th username; you’ve previously commented as “Virginia Holder” “Virginia” and “Virginia T Holder.” Pick a username and stick with it — make sure it is unique (“Virginia” is not) and at least 8 letters in length. /~Rayne]
Agreed, VA in SC. I never bought into the shadowy rich pulling all the strings theory of yore. But now I believe it’s the not so shadowy ultra rich playing chess with the ultra hard right Christians as pawns. I think though that the ultra rich will pull out of their plans and leave everybody else hanging when/if they start to feel a cut into their riches. So a cut into their riches, I hope, is somewhere on a table being planned. Not the spooky ‘socialism’ but climate crises, no birth control, etc, has an actual hard dollar cost to them.
Previews to Coming Attractions:
Ronan Farrow”s book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy” written in 2019. Interviews with Anderson Cooper.
Ronan Farrow explains what he thinks is ‘a pivotal moment’ in Trump’s criminal case
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRJ1-Tqi6Dc)
And
(https://www.facebook.com/AC360/videos/anderson-talks-with-ronan-farrow-who-helped-uncover-the-catch-and-kill-practice-/945043110610128/)
There is a through line from the rigged election movement to the rigged trial movement. Both take possible problems for which we have established methods for dealing with; i.e. pre election lawsuits and the entire system of appeals to declare that the entire system is corrupt. Their answer to the “corruption” is to bypass the checks and balances in place and defer to a one time authority. Mike Johnson has said he wants his friends on SCOTUS to reach down and throw out the New York case thus bypassing the checks and balances of the appeals procedure. The Maga movement wanted to bypass the checks and balances of impeachment proceedings and/or the next election and instead have an instant decision by a congressional vote. Authoritarian rule is so much more efficient!
Prepped for the week ahead!
Added Dr. Wheeler’s “Ball of Thread” podcast to my Patreon memberships, added a written review on Apple Podcasts for it which I hope everyone is doing to help promote it, doubled my June contribution to EW and made sure there’s plenty of Pepto and Excedrine Migraine on hand.
I really hope the readers of EW who don’t or aren’t able to contribute regularly will realize this is one of those times to pony up if they are able as I doubt there will be the thorough coverage and analysis of Hunter Biden’s trial in Delaware that is needed anywhere else but here.
Awesome! And you can support Marcy here. Both of us are among the few who work without a paywall so these shows (and her posts) are available to everyone. Don’t forget that you can support my show too. The homebase is nicolesandler.com.
Thanks Nicole, I’ll add you to the contribution list. I really enjoy your show.
Thank you so much!
Part II
On a different tack, I’m steeling myself for the June 21st hearing in FL on Trump’s MTD that Jack Smith’s appointment is illegal in part because he is a private citizen. Not only is Cannon taking into account Ed Mees’s amicus brief in support of Trump, she’s also asking for both sides to present briefs on how the Supreme Court’s recent affirmation of the Consumer Financial Bureau’s creation and funding being legal effects Trump’s MTD. Another truly WTF request from Cannon.
I have a terrible feeling (please someone correct me as I want to be wrong) that hearing might not follow Cannon’s pattern of entertaining ridiculous motions from Trump’s team then belittling Smith while still siding with him.
Kavanaugh makes no secret he thinks the Supreme Court’s upholding of Special Counsel legitimacy was a huge mistake and is itching to revisit it (hopefully not in Trump’s immunity case) which makes me nervous Trump might pursue it to that level. I have no idea how the 9th Circuit overseeing Cannon views Special Counsel appointments but I am still very, very concerned the MTD issue could become a real problem in the case.
Here’s to hoping June is a month in which the Rule of Law prevails.
Kavanaugh having a problem with special prosecutors is pretty rich. What a toad.
Cannon is 11th Circuit. 9th is west coast.
I really have a problem confusing the 11th with the 9th. This is not my first time making that mistake here.
Thank you for gently pointing it out.
Maybe after embarrassing myself twice I’ll finally figure it out.