If Bragg can get a conviction in the hush money case, Trump will officially be a felon. The Supreme Court is only delaying the Jan6 case until summer, because they fear the optics. And there are a bunch of civil cases against Trump related to Jan6 coming up. 3/

Trump might be able to delay most of the criminal cases until after the election. But not all of them. And he will certainly not be able to keep them out of the news. If Trump really can't pay the hundreds of billions the New York courts are demanding from him, he will be bankrupt in a month. 2/

I don't know how this will play out politically in Israel. The Israelis have been choosing far right governments for decades. But the betrayals of the far right, the "judicial reform" and failing to protect their own people, are now out in the open. 3/

All Hamas had to do was draw up plans and give the orders. Now Israel is probably going to plunge itself into a war that will be far bloodier for both sides than the Hamas raid. 2/

It is becoming a nation run by corrupt nationalists and religious zealots. Israel needs tough love instead of being unconditionally spoiled by the USA and Europe. 2/

I had really hoped Mastodon could have become the new Twitter. But if Blue Sky keeps its promise of promoting federation instead of becoming just another walled garden at the whims of its owner, I am OK with Blue Sky becoming the new Twitter.