Wonderful Memorial Day reflection by Mark Hertling.

'They will mourn the loss of those who didn’t come home with them and, even in their late years, they will still recall their comrades’ names. And those they remember will remain forever young.'

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A very moving piece by Will Selber on the honor of serving as a casualty notification officer.

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The simple fact is that the civilians of Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second-largest city, with its northern neighborhoods sitting just 13 miles from the Russia border — cannot be protected without suppressing the sources of fire within Russia.

“If Trump is found guilty at his state trial in New York City, the Biden campaign will also consider whether to brand him as a ‘convicted felon,’ this person added. ‘It’s an open question.’”

Really? Seems pretty open and shut to me. Do it. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Particularly disgusting to post this on Memorial Day weekend.

A request for decent Americans who, unhappy with Biden, are tempted to vote for Trump.

Do you see Candace Owens in the top row? Go to her timeline, read down in it, and ask if you can support a presidential candidate who’s pleased to appear with her and welcomes her support.

On this day, (only) 65 years ago: The U.S. Supreme Court, in State Athletic Commission v. Dorsey, affirms the judgment of the Fifth Circuit (in an opinion by Judge John Minor Wisdom) that the state of Louisiana could not prohibit boxing matches between white and black boxers.

On this day, 237 years ago, the Constitutional Convention comes to order in Philadelphia.

Gladstone, in 1878: 'The most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the hand and purpose of man.'

The same guy, by the way, was worth only $8 billion in 2010 when he said the Obama Administration’s and congressional Democrats’ attempts to eliminate the special 20% tax break he and other financial dealmakers get “a war, like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.”

That was Tbilisi yesterday.

On Memorial Day, we honor those who sacrificed everything for our Constitution. These veterans are ex-Trump voters. They remember when Donald Trump called them 'suckers' and 'losers.'

And that’s why they are voting against him this November.

“I approached and asked to speak to the Delphic Oracle. ‘Ma’am, I’m from the USA. Who will our next president be?’ The oracle responded: ‘Of years he will have many, in the House of White he will have lived already, and of letters his last name has five.’” thebulwark.com/p/what-the-del…

“But more than that, what if Trump is right about America?

Because as unpleasant as it is to acknowledge, Trump has been right about a great many things.”
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What the oracle told me last week at Delphi. thebulwark.com/p/what-the-del…

This piece stands up very well. thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-cant…

This fine piece by Kimberly Wehle is a reminder of what Judge Cannon--and Trump--have gotten away with. And a reminder that our institutions have already been weakened and our guardrails put at risk of collapse, as a result of Trump's first term... thebulwark.com/p/judge-outlin…

'Judge Howell’s finding is far more damning of Trump’s criminal liability than the grand jury charging document that Smith spearheaded—it is an assessment by a judge of actual evidence...It indicates Trump knowingly broke the law.'
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'There’s evidence that Trump was behind all of it.
Normally, of course, such conversations would be protected by attorney-client privilege, but...Howell found the crime-fraud exception was established in this case.'
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'The point for Trump and his co-defendants is to file whatever lawyers can dream up, even if it’s legally garbage, in order to give Cannon more reason to delay the trial further in the hope that Trump wins (or steals) the election in November...'
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A very moving piece by Will Selber on the honor of serving as a casualty notification officer.

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