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Blop !

Je me réveille un peu tardivement, mais je donne cette invitation pour le film "Mercato", valable pour 2 personnes, tous les jours, dans les cinéma Gaumont-Pathé de France et de Navarre.

Le film ne semble passer que jusqu'au Mardi 18/03 pour ce distributeur, de fait si vous êtes sur Lyon c'est peut-être plus simple (par courrier sinon je crains que cela soit juste niveau timing).

Le repouet rend les salles obscures 📽️
(L'annonce est sur Geev aussi, si jamais, m'enfin)

Oh #canada ,here's a little secret: Wanna know how to hurt #elon and #don al lot, without it costing you a cent?

Ditch your X/Twitter account and join us here at #mastodon . All of you.

-We're a friendly bunch (well over 10 milion of us)
-We have loads of NORMAL news outlets to stay up to date
-We have the cutest cat vids as well as the smartest people
-We REALLY do not like trump.
-You'll not be trading one US soc media, for-profit company in for another one.

#Trump's Mafia Diplomacy: #Zelensky's Impossible Choice and #Europe's Twilight”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“Trump’s actions [..] are underpinned by a disturbing, calculating logic when viewed through the lens of a #mafia #don & his three core drives: #China #containment as the ultimate ‘family business,’ an insatiable ego demanding respect (& revenge), & an ingrained drive to enrich & empower his #oligarchic#famiglia’”

open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p

The Geopolitical Compass · Trump's Mafia Diplomacy: Zelensky's Impossible Choice and Europe's TwilightBy Raja Sohail Bashir

Outcry as DC US attorney claims he and colleagues are ‘President Trump’s lawyers’

The interim US attorney for Washington DC #Ed #Martin has explicitly declared himself and other federal attorneys to be
❌the president’s lawyers
-- rather than an independent, law-abiding officer sworn to uphold the constitution.
“As President Trumps’ [sic] lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first,” the US attorney’s office posted in a image on X, signed by Martin.

The statement directly contradicts the federal oath of office Martin swore, which requires attorneys to ❇️“conduct myself uprightly and according to law” and
❇️“support the constitution of the United States” – with no mention of personal loyalty to any president.

This post follows a pattern of controversial actions by Martin,
who recently promised the billionaire #Elon #Musk he would ❌“pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work” related to Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency”.
Without filing any charges, Martin claimed his office had evidence people “committed acts that appear to violate the law” against Musk’s initiative.

👍Some congressional Democrats immediately condemned Martin’s statement.

The Florida congressman
👏#Maxwell #Frost called for Martin’s resignation,
writing: “US attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers.”

The Virginia congressman
💪🏽#Don #Beyer posted: “Washingtonians deserve federal law enforcement who will protect their rights
--without violating the constitution, and focus on fighting crime rather than trying to censor the free press and political opponents. Basic understanding of punctuation would be nice, also.”

The justice department has historically maintained independence from White House influence to ensure equal application of the law.

♦️Martin’s office did not respond to a request for comment on how his declaration aligns with this tradition or his sworn constitutional duties.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f

The Guardian · Outcry as DC US attorney claims he and colleagues are ‘President Trump’s lawyers’By Joseph Gedeon

Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist #Marcus #Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.
After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940.

The Rev Martin Luther King Jr said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny”.

It’s not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by president-elect Donald Trump.
Issuing preemptive pardons – for actual or imagined offenses byTrump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration – would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.

Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.
He announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of #nonviolent #drug #offenses.
He also gave a broad pardon for his son #Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

The president has announced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row,
converting their punishments to life imprisonment just as Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
In his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of executions, 13, in a protracted timeline during the coronavirus pandemic.
A pardon relieves a person of guilt and punishment. A commutation reduces or eliminates the punishment but doesn’t exonerate the wrongdoing.

Others pardoned on Sunday included #Don #Scott, the speaker of the Virginia house of delegates, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and served eight years in prison.
He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 2019, and later became the first Black speaker.

Biden also pardoned immigrant rights activist #Ravi #Ragbir, who was convicted of a nonviolent offence in 2001 and was sentenced to two years in prison and was facing deportation to Trinidad and Tobago;
#Kemba #Smith #Pradia, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and sentenced to 24 years behind bars, but has since become a prison reform activist;
and #Darryl #Chambers, a gun violence prevention advocate who was convicted of a drug offense and sentenced to 17 years in prison, but who now studies and writes about gun violence prevention.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus GarveyBy Guardian staff reporter
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3) 📦 Si toutefois quelqu’un ne peut faire autrement que par un envoi postal, on pourra en discuter. Mais a) je ne suis pas serein pour qu’ils arrivent intacts et b) ça pèse lourd tout ça. Le cas échéant, les frais de port sont à la charge du receveur.

ℹ️ Je peux filer d’autres photos/infos sur demande, en réponse à ce pouet ou par message privé.

#annonce#comics#don
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Maintenant, les infos importantes.

1) C’est un don.
Je ne vends pas le lot, je le donne. Dans cette logique, même si je ne peux rien vérifier, je préfère en faire profiter un·e passionné·e plutôt qu’un revendeur.

2) Le lot est en région lyonnaise (sur l’ouest lyonnais plus précisément). Je privilégie une remise en main propre. Je ne suis pas pressé, donc une fois qu’on est d’accord, ils peuvent attendre chez moi.

🧵

#annonce#comics#don