Oh no!! 😢 #RIP James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader, starred in Field of Dreams and many other films and Broadway shows and is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, NY. He was 93 https://deadline.com/2024/09/james-earl-jones-dead-1236082801/

#WompWomp

Next stop: SCOTUS

“A federal appeals court Thursday night rejected Steve #Bannon’s bid to delay the July 1 start of his criminal contempt-of-Congress prison sentence.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/steve-bannon-appeal?cid=ios_app

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 “The #Biden administration is making plans to announce one of the largest #immigration relief programs in recent history, developing a policy that would offer legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without proper documents”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-plan-undocumented-immigrants-legal-status-10-years-in-u-s-married/

Nope, social media, you're not going to stress me out today.

I refuse to allow ignorance (from both sides, btw) screw with my peace of mind today.

I will post news as it breaks, but I will not entertain ill-reasoned replies.

I hope you all have a peaceful, safe, delicious Christmas Eve.

My gift to you is getting offline so as to avoid "debates," which in turn, spur more frustrating replies. 🎁 Hugs to all.

☮️❤️

2/ Via emptywheel:

Note, this is an absolutely huge scoop. Kudos to ABC.

BUT: To test why it is coming out requires the dates of Meadows' testimony. Meadows' testimony in DC is ... unreliable, but useful, to Jack Smith. But given GA, Meadows may not be able to rely on that.

🔥Whoa!!⚡️ 1/...

Ex-Chief of Staff Mark #Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned #Trump about 2020 claims: Sources - ABC News #legal https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281

3/ Via Angry Staffer:

For everyone asking how big the Meadows news is:

On a scale of 1-10? 15.5

He doesn’t just know where all the bodies are buried—he helped carry most of them.

4/ Via Will Brockman -

Indeed, the article indicates he has been given only “use immunity” and it may have been for grand jury testimony we already knew about. That’s not “flipping.”

Emptywheel:

This is a distinction people are missing. Other people--like NV's GOP Chair--were given use immunity. After that, they went on to rig the state primary for Trump.

@Teri_Kanefield Where? I've scoured my area in Calif and can't find any yet.

@Teri_Kanefield In Ventura County, CVS doesn't have them. I made an appointment for Monday, when hopefully, they'll get them in.

Today Costco told me it'll be about 7-10 days for them.

@William3rd I did try them. They didn't know when they'd get them. @Teri_Kanefield

@William3rd An article just broke that CVS does have them, and it turns out our pharmacy did get them today. But I can't schedule anything sooner than the Monday appointment I scheduled yesterday, which is fine.

“#Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials” #Ukraine #Russia

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

@KatM He’s deranged.

Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.