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#USpolitics #Before #MacMiller

9 years ago you said it and nobody agreed with you, and laughed about it
now you say it and everybody agrees with you, but are afraid to say it.

It was before he got elected the first time.

"Mac Miller’s Timeless Trump Takedown" [ ± 1-3 min]
by NowThisImpact [May 25, 2025]

youtube.com/shorts/94A7P7gZbFA

#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep
#VoteUpAndDownTheBallot

#USpolitics #Before #MacMiller

9 years ago you said it and nobody agreed with you, and laughed about it
now you say it and everybody agrees with you, but are afraid to say it.

It was before he got elected the first time.

"Mac Miller’s Timeless Trump Takedown" [ ± 1-3 min]
by NowThisImpact [May 25, 2025]

youtube.com/shorts/94A7P7gZbFA

#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep
#VoteUpAndDownTheBallot

The Supreme Court Case Designed To Legalize Bribery

In the case of 🔸Snyder v United States,🔸 which the Supreme Court will hear on April 15th, James E. #Snyder is claiming that when a public official accepts a “#gift” from a person or corporation who has benefited from that public official’s actions, that should not be legally considered a #bribe.

Think of it instead as a “#tip,” like you’d leave for good service in a restaurant.🤔

Snyder is the former mayor of Portage, Indiana, who, federal prosecutors successfully argued in court, rigged a city bidding process for $1.125 million worth of new dump trucks to help out a friend who sold such trucks.

After the contract was awarded to his buddy, his friend’s company gave a “tip” to Snyder of $13,000.

Snyder is appealing his bribery conviction before the Supreme Court next month, and his main argument is that the federal #definition of #bribery must include an explicit advance agreement, a spoken or written #QuidProQuo, to exchange money or gifts for official actions.

And that all this explicit agreement stuff must happen #before the official acts are taken.

If five for all of the six Republicans on the Court agree with Snyder, it will end almost all federal bribery prosecutions of #corrupt elected officials and we’ll see an explosion of politicians anxious to fall all over themselves to “earn a tip” after they bow to their “friends” wishes.

(Katya Schwenk has written a great summary of the case and its implications for The Lever.)

levernews.com/the-supreme-cour

The Lever · The Supreme Court Case Designed To Legalize BriberySnyder v. United States could make it legal for public officials to accept rewards for their corrupt actions.

Jacobi Jupe, Maria Dizzia, Ava Lalezarzadeh and Hope Davis have joined the cast of #Before, starring Billy Crystal and Judith Light.

Jupe will play Noah, a troubled foster child, who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s (Crystal) past.

Dizzia will play Barbara, Eli’s daughter.

Lalezarzadeh will play Cleo, a street and booksmart colleague of Eli’s.

Davis will play Dr. Jane, a respected Chief of Pediatric Neurology.

(deadline.com/2024/01/billy-cry)