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Special counsel Jack Smith's final report lays out in no uncertain terms federal prosecutors' position that Donald Trump -- who is set to be inaugurated president in less than a week -- would have been convicted on multiple felonies for his alleged efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election, had voters not decided to send him back to the White House in the 2024 election.

Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, Pierre Thomas, Peter Charalambous, and Lucien Bruggeman

Source:  ABC News

A Turkey From Turkey

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Alarmed by his country's tumbling birthrate, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday declared 2025 the "Year of the Family."

The longtime authoritarian leader bemoaned rising divorce rates and people getting married later in life. And he blamed queer people, portraying the LGBTQ movement as part of a foreign conspiracy aimed at undermining his country.

He can't blame me. At the last meeting, I argued it was Liechtenstein we should undermine, but does anyone listen to me?

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Nuts to Zuckerberg

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You probably heard that CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta is dumping its fact-checking program.

You probably didn't hear that Meta's accompanying new guidelines on hate speech allow Facebook and Instagram users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill.

Surprise!

As Zuckerberg and other tech titans rush to prostrate themselves before the incoming presidential weenie, some of us are getting crushed in the unseemly stampede. In his remarks on Tuesday, Zuckerberg cited "recent elections" and "a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech."

And hate.

According to NBC News, Meta guidelines now read, "We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality."

I find myself imagining the Meta employees in Silicon Valley as they crafted that statement. They knew they were serving up dangerous lies in the service of pandering. Did they experience migraines? Ulcers? Frogs, locusts and boils?

I assume the bottom line here is the bottom line:  Meta will make money from bigots and idiots blissfully free to call queer people crazy.

I don't have to tell you that we fought that label for a long time. We thought we were done. Now we have to fight it again. Yet another result of the Trump victory, the gift that keeps on giving.

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The upcoming documentary on Melania’s life will cover her charitable works, her service to her country, her appreciation of the arts and her deep and lasting friendships. It has a running time of just under 2 seconds.

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Four Years Later

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Today Congress certified Donald Trump's election victory, exactly four years after he inspired a mob to attack the Capitol to prevent Joe Biden's certification.

As Time put it, "The candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time and is legitimately returning to power."

Oh my fellow Americans, you've condemned us all to four more years of that man. I don't know how to thank you, as there aren't enough swear words in the English language.