#Introduction: I started building #worlds on the #internet nearly 30 years ago. I’m an expert in #AR, #VR, #AI, and #ARGs.

Over 2 years ago, I started exposing the people abusing the digital world to #radicalize people and destabilize global #liberal #democracy.

I was banned from the #birdsite w/60k followers and smeared by hundreds of sadistic trolls because I exposed #MikeFlynn, #QAnon and the #insurrection

Grateful for #mastodon and my new home toad.social. 💙🙏🇺🇸🏴‍☠️
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"Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."

— Ulysses S. Grant, Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875) —

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #EducationMatters #SeparationOfChurchAndState #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Rebellion #Confedereds

Earlier Rep #TedLieu (D-CA) kicked some #GOP ass for their #lies & #hypocrisy.

Lieu called out his Republican colleagues for choosing to hold a hearing on #JackSmith’s probes into #Trump instead of an oversight hearing into #DOJ’s slow release of files related to the late sex offender #JeffreyEpstein.

#law #House #Judiciary #propaganda #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

JFC

#StewartRhodes, the founder of the #FarRight #extremist organization the #OathKeepers, was seen on Capitol Hill on Thursday outside of the hearing room where former special counsel #JackSmith is testifying before the #House #Judiciary Committee.

Rhodes was previously convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy & sentenced to 18 YEARS in #prison for his actions related to the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection at the US Capitol.

#law #Trump #propaganda #coup #democracy #Constitution
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Rep #HankJohnson (D-GA) is also questioning #JackSmith very effectively. Unfortunately it is very clear that this “hearing” is designed to be a sound bite generator for the #Republicans to shop around to #FarRight #media outlets.

#law #House #Judiciary #Trump #propaganda #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

#House #Judiciary Committee #JackSmith testimony is back in session after a long recess for unrelated House votes.

#law #Trump #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

#Republican #House #Judiciary Committee members are going to focus on things like #CassidyHutchinson & the #subpoenas for #Congress members’ phone logs, because if they let #JackSmith get into the actual #evidence he gathered against #Trump, it will be damning.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

Also the grandstanding performative courtroom drama behavior of the #congress members is quite heavy handed. #JackSmith who has repeatedly been described as measured & calm is coming off a little stiff especially because he keeps being interrupted. He needs to come back at them like they are hostile witnesses.

#law #House #Judiciary #Trump #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

The questioning by #GymJordan about #CassidyHutchinson was made-for-TV drama.

#JackSmith didn’t need to characterize whether he “thought” Hutchinson was a liar.

Her testimony was #hearsay. Hearsay does not hold up in #court. That’s all he had to say.

Unfortunately Jordan actually found a way to politicize Smith’s measured response that he hadn’t made a final decision on a witness list.

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On #Jan6, 2021, over 140 law enforcement officers were assaulted, #JackSmith plans to tell #Congress, “a fact we should never forget.”

“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President #Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat.”

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“Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential #election, President #Trump engaged in a #criminal scheme to overturn the results & prevent the lawful transfer of power,” #JackSmith wrote in his prepared statement.

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“I am not a politician, & I have no partisan loyalties. My career has been dedicated to serving our country by upholding the rule of law,” #JackSmith says in his prepared statement.

Smith is expected to tell #Congress that his approach is to always follow the facts without fear or favor.

#law #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
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Former special counsel #JackSmith is publicly testifying before the #House #Judiciary Committee today.

The hearing will examine the operations of Smith’s office & his team’s investigations and prosecutions of #Trump & his co-defendants, according to the committee.

#law #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
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