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I’ve been saying this a lot lately in private conversations with friends, but am realizing I should probably just say it more publicly, since so many people ask me about it: No, you’re not wrong for caring a lot about social justice issues and wanting the church to do the same.

Your frustration with this broken country and your desire to see more being done about it isn’t sinful. Your desire for justice more than peacekeeping isn’t wrong.

Have you read the Prophets? Do you remember Jesus flipped over tables? Do you recall the issues Jesus addresses or the people whose names he knew who would normally be passed over? The poor? The outcast? The women? The oppressed?

He taught us to pray “On Earth as it is in Heaven.” He modeled again and again how to bring that about through his life on Earth.

But, I also would urge you to consider how you are defining the church you are frustrated at. Do you mean the leadership? The staff? The denomination? The institution in general?

Aram Zucker-Scharff
@Chronotope

Here's the thing, as someone who sees themself both in ad tech & as a privacy advocate: Advertisers who seek personalized targeting will focus on platforms with the most personal data: Facebook & Google. But I don't believe the status quo of ad targeting is the only future of it.

So the loss of audience targeting is another major negative for the open web as opposed to walled gardens who are mostly not affected - silence from privacy advocates. 6/
— Paul Bannister (@pbannist) January 5, 2021

The idea that advertisers will walk away from platforms that don't provide personalized targeting simply doesn't hold up. Advertisers buy posters and billboards and TV ads and lots of other things that don't promise the accuracy of web advertising...

Further, the promise of that accuracy has mostly been false. Year after year after year we see that ad products that promise perfect accuracy and tracking don't work, are giving false results, are proving entirely ineffective, or have unexpected negative brand impact...

Also, the one thing we've learned for sure about advertising on the web is that advertisers will try all sorts of things and look towards outcomes. This includes bad things that fail...

The biggest story in tech no one\u2019s talking about is Uber discovering they\u2019d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend.

And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart. pic.twitter.com/SiS3MndewS
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) January 3, 2021

This includes things that don't work at all, but still end up costing millions of dollars.

Do Ads Work? An Inquiry.

In March 2017, @sapna reported that @chase was running ads across 400k sites when they were alerted they were running on hate speech. So they hand-picked 5k sites & deleted the other 395k.

They found NO change in performance. https://t.co/MzSIxjX7y3 pic.twitter.com/0AlKAOVbcF
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) January 4, 2021

Neville1776
@neville1776

Thread. Out of Twitmo, convenient was it not? That the week of 6 Jan 2020 this account was twitmo'd?
First I want to thank God for utilizing @joyinliberty to crowd source my historic adventure in the Communist District formerly known as Washington D.C.

The narratives coming out of the "Storm the Capital" march are wildly insane. On all sides
1. @GOP @GOPLeader @senatemajldr @SenateGOP @JohnCornyn showed their colors. They betrayed us, again, as expected. We see all of them now.

2. Media, of course taking the Chyna money, has been more than happy to gleefully spin their demons upon us. An early victory lap. I had my run ins with them. Running into one, I said to one of the guys, "Look at that face diaper on her face! Showing off to her CCP masters?"

She glared her hate at me, I gave her my winsome smile. *smile*

3. Democrats, libturds, and resisturds all lost their minds. Grabbing mics, phones, computers etc.. To virtue signal their fear and "outrage" its beautiful.

Charlotte
@Charlot_Morris

The superior regional court in Bamberg approved the extradition of Iranian diplomat based in Vienna who has been named Assadi.
6 people were arrested in Belgium, France &Germany,2 of whom were later released. Assadi was arrested at a gas station in Bavaria.
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy

Parliamentary questions:
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Subject: The case of Assadollah Assadi
@eu_eeas @JosepBorrellF @GermanyDiplo

Germany is investigating espionage activities in Europe in connection with former Iranian diplomats
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies @DutchMFA @NorwayMFA @ItalyMFA

When Asadi was arrested on July 1, 2018, German police discovered numerous documents, including a black ledger in his car, with coded dots that appear as instructions for making bombs, according to a report by the television station. German television station One.
@SweMFA #Iran

According to the Channel One report, the couple has received hundreds of thousands of euros for working with Iranian intelligence in recent years.
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy @USAdarFarsi @StateDept
@Ulkoministerio @CzechMFA

GAVNet
@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 01/09/2021

Parker Molloy
@ParkerMolloy

Anyone who is legally eligible to cast a ballot in an election should be allowed to do so in whatever way is most convenient for them. If that's in-person on election day, great; by mail, great; in-person in the weeks leading up to an election, great.

That is the only acceptable way for a democratic republic to function. Voting should be easy and it should be encouraged. There should be:

- Automatic voter registration.
- No excuses needed to vote absentee.

This is not controversial.

It's telling how people defend more restrictive voting methods. Look at this ridiculous quote from Pete Hegseth about how everyone being able to easily cast a ballot somehow stripping people of the "recourse" of the ballot box.
https://t.co/4AcTPT2HfD

They know there's not widespread fraud. It's not about "fraud." It never was.

They just want to put as many obstacles in the way as humanly possible, to make it more difficult for people to vote.

"We could've voted in person. I can go to Walmart. I can go to a store, I can go to a restaurant, I can go to sports games in some places. You tell me we couldn't have voted? I just don't buy it."

No one stopped you from voting in person, Pete!

Dr. Bodie A. Ashton
@manwithoutatan

So here’s the deal. In the aftermath of Wednesday’s coup, many have been looking to history to find examples of what we can expect now. This is in many ways good (at last), but I just worry we might draw the wrong conclusions. A thread. 1/

The obvious example that people have grasped for is, of course, Germany. These come in two major flavours. Some wanted to ask if the blueprint of dealing with these past four years could be Germany’s post-war denazification… https://t.co/f7CKhPZEy3 2/

I\u2019d like to believe that this will ultimately lead to a cultural transformation much like what Germany experienced post-Hitler. The worst of the underbelly of white supremacy & authoritarianism has been fully exposed. Do you think there\u2019s a parallel?
— Anthony Rapp Voted for Biden Black Lives Matter (@albinokid) January 6, 2021

…while others saw a direct equivalent to the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923: a stepping stone on the path of Hitler’s rise to power. A decade after this farcical, localised revolt in Munich, Hitler rose to national power. The rest, as they say, is history. https://t.co/OhO9UW7X7t 3a/

One historical note -- Hitler's first coup attempt failed, the Beer Hall putsch. Just because Republicans will fail this time, doesn't mean that want try and try again. History is worth remembering.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) January 3, 2021

(Just today, Arnold @Schwarzenegger has compared Wednesday to Kristallnacht. His video message is actually well worth watching here, also because of his personal message that comes with it. https://t.co/rGI5TD3Uir) 3b/

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021

I’ve said time and again that I’m uncomfortable with the direct comparisons often drawn between Trump and Hitler and Trump’s US and Hitler’s Germany (and sorry to my longtime followers who’ve heard this over and over again). And look, I understand why some want to do this. 4/

Seth Cotlar
@SethCotlar

Historian here, with a message for folks arguing against holding people accountable for the siege of the Capitol because "history will be the judge." We are in this mess, BECAUSE people in the past didn't hold their contemporaries accountable. Please don't repeat that mistake.

Nixon was forced out of office, but he was never held responsible for his egregious actions as President. You'll never guess what sort of precedent and example that set for the future President who most shared Nixon's moral turpitude.

Trump channels Nixon's vengefulness and racism, but lacks his intelligence and experience. OMG, WE JUST ELECTED DUMB NIXON.
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) November 9, 2016

In the 1970s, many "mainstream" media outlets buckled to right wing pressure & lent their platforms to gut bucket racists like James Kilpatrick & Pat Buchanan, rebranding them as "conservatives." We continue to reap the consequences of normalizing racism.

I'd forgotten that James J. Kilpatrick, one of Virginia's most staunch segregationists in the 1960s, had a regular gig on 60 Minutes in the 1970s playing the role of the "conservative" in their point/counterpoint segment. This one from 1978 is a trip. https://t.co/8QwZam99aH
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 27, 2020

Here's a thread on Pat Buchanan. In the early 90s Charles Krauthammer and Bill Buckley, staunch conservatives both, called Pat a "fascist" and an "antisemite." And yet he still got major media gigs for DECADES.

Nuts that Pat Buchanan was a prominent mainstream media talking head in the 80's, 90's, and 00's even though he was considered too antisemitic and "fascistic" for even Charles Krauthammer or Bill Buckley. https://t.co/HXIoF7gj9r
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) June 3, 2020

Trump's career (and that of his family) is overstuffed with acts of white collar crime for which no one ever received more than a tiny fine as a slap on the wrist. Everyone one in NYC knew Trump was a morally bankrupt and corrupt crook. But somehow NBC still made him a star.

Gizmo
@Sakura509

"Maugham has, over recent months, launched crowdfunding for a legal challenge to the appointment of Dido Harding – wife of Tory MP and government “Anti-Corruption Champion” John Penrose – "

"- as head of the newly formed National Institute for Health Protection, without any interview process or open competition."

"It has ongoing proceedings aimed at answering the question “Just how does public money end up in the pockets of Cummings’s friends?” "

"Separately, last week it opened the latest in a series of cases against the Department of Health to shed light on the award of PPE contracts worth more than £250m to Saiger, a Florida-based jewellery company with no experience of supplying PPE."

"That involved a £21m payment to a middleman – a contract offered without any advertisement or competitive tender process."

TRUTH will out! ⚖️

“The fact is I really, really don’t like acts of dishonesty by the state,” he says, of his motivation. “I don’t like the government misleading the public. It feels to me, every time I hear it, like a direct attack on democracy. And that was really winding me up.”

Many agree! ✊

dr. mondilator, esq.
@mondilator

@stphnfwlr Judge Cohen is going off on them for waiting until after the certification and audit.

“It was a decision knowing ... that you’d take away time from the superior court to resolve” the claims.

Now saying that the only remedy that they can get is congressional objection and vote.

Cohen is highly skeptical that a federal judge can’t invade congressional authority after state certification of an election.

Again reiterating that trump waited too late to make a challenge since only remedy is Congressional rejection of state electors.

Cat Moon
@inspiredcat

Yes, I'm laser focused on how lawyers lead—how we *learn* to lead—as I prep to teach just this to @vanderbiltlaw students, and . . .

As I read @jaesunum's post on @Legal_Ev, all I can think: we are failing to train lawyers to make these important moral (yes, moral) decisions.👇

I genuinely question whether we train law students and lawyers to operate in the way Jae urges us to.

Note, I agree with Jae: "Big business and their legal counsel have the opportunity to steer capitalism to a gentler and fairer recovery, but the clock is ticking.
👇

The reckoning we face in the post-pandemic reality is not one of cancel culture but widespread calamity and increasing risk to our lives and livelihoods."

Both the opportunity and obligation (yes, I believe it is an obligation) we in law face are enormous.

And,

we lawyers are for the most part completely unprepared.

To wit: we do not train new lawyers for this world. We continue to train them primarily for the 2nd industrial revolution, which ended 100+ years ago.

"The intrinsic tension between BigLaw’s growth imperative
: 👇

(read: make more money) and corporate legal’s perpetual grind to do more with less (read: spend less money) is bad for our industry. The resulting distraction, however, is bad for the world. It’s long past time to ask the really important questions.

👇

File411
@File411

I could be wrong but to me it seems like they were broken into task groups
Group A—> breach outer perimeters
subGroup Aa—>charging group West Entrance
subGroup Ab—>charging group East Entrance
rotating men (see next tweet
Group B—> House Chamber
Group C—> Senate Chamber

BREAKING: He's being named by others now, so I can confirm results of the investigation: Eric Munchel from Nashville TN is #ZipTieGuy

His social media has now been locked down, but many of his posts are disturbing and include glorified violence. pic.twitter.com/xachNOyPLf
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) January 9, 2021

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@eta_R3born

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Oleh Falis Aga Triatama, Praktisi Hukum di Winrow Veritas Law Firm.

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Sarah Mojarad
@Sarah_Mojarad

A thread on why doxxing is bad.

Basically, the mob often identifies the wrong people and ruins lives.

“The cyclist was wrongly identified by internet sleuths as marketing executive Peter Weinberg.”

“His home address was shared

“After being wrongly identified, Quinn received countless threats online, with users calling him a racist and posting his home address and personal information online, according to the

“The internet cheered. The media made house calls ... only one problem: wrong

Skai Jackson is being slammed after reports surfaced that she put 'an entire family into poverty' after she allegedly shared details about a 13-year-old boy on

Cory Doctorow #BLM
@doctorow

US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to antiwar advocates.

1/

Long before #cointelpro, federal agencies were intercepting communications and embedding as provocateurs in radical political movements, often with the help of mercenary "contractors" like the @pinkerton_agent. The digital age only ramped up this public-private surveillance.

2/

The #NoDAPL protests were infiltrated and surveilled by beltway bandits who billed the US taxpayer handsomely for the

2020's #BLM uprising was subjected to the full array of military and national intelligence surveillance: drones, IMSI catchers, mass interception, infiltrators, wiretaps, "reverse warrants" to recover location data from Big Tech monopolists and

And yet, federal and local agencies were seemingly totally unprepared for a mob of thousands of armed terrorists who stormed the capitol, disrupted the transition of presidential power, and threatened the lives of US legislators as well as the integrity of state documents.

5/

SteelSlatBarrier
@BarrierSlat

@JoeGebhardt2 @GlennGattis1 @toddstarnes How many factual lies can you pack into one tweet> The Trump team had 4 cases in Pennsylvania alone.

In most cases Trump's own lawyers disclaimed any fraud in their own court cases.

Trump's handpicked judges excoriated him worse than any others. /1

@GlennGattis1 @toddstarnes First: Trump sued over Philly counting 5 categories of mail in ballots.

They appealed all the way to the PA Supreme Court.

They lost. https://t.co/bQprvfqDvk /2

@GlennGattis1 @toddstarnes 2nd: Trump sued Bucks County for counting ballots they thought were deficient.

They appealed that decision and lost. And the PA SC denied the appeal without comment.

https://t.co/YZVGpOxZCV /3

@GlennGattis1 @toddstarnes 3rd, Trump sued Montgomery County to stop them from counting mail-in ballots.

Trump didn't dispute the facts at all. **STIPULATED** to common facts.

https://t.co/wqV1aPGNMC

Then they abandoned the appeal. /4

@GlennGattis1 @toddstarnes 4th, Trump famously sued in Federal Court challenging the results of the election. And, as luck would have it, they were assigned a conservative Judge who was a member of the Federalist Society.

Rudy, however, when faced with the prospect of lying to a Federal Judge . . . /5

Kevin Gosztola
@kgosztola

We're moments away from British judge announcing extradition decision in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case. I'll have live updates shortly.

In their closing argument, Assange's legal team outlined how they believed the case brought by the Trump Justice Department was "politically motivated"

The Crown Prosecution Service, which represents the US government in the extradition proceedings, has contended WikiLeaks is in the "business of encouraging individuals to hack into computers"—clearly criminalizing their decade-plus record of journalism.

I see a bench inside of a glass container, where Assange will be isolated during the announcement of extradition decision. This has been standard practice during his case, even after he complained about how it infringed upon his ability to participate in his defense.

Overheard Fitzgerald, who is on Assange legal team, complaining about lack of water.

"It's not as bad as Iwo Jima, I suppose..."

Stefania Maurizi
@SMaurizi

1. Julian #Assange #BailAssangeUK US counsel opposes bail: “cannot be trusted to surrender”

2. US counsel refers to Julian #Assange and “others at @wikileaks “ *orchestrating* @snowden’ escape as a legal ground to oppose #BailAssangeUK

3. Tremendously interesting to see how US counsel just confirmed that @wikileaks original plans was to help @snowden to get protection in #LatinAmerica

4. US counsel mention UK spent 16 million pounds of UL taxpayers to keep Julian #Assange under surveillance in the embassy as an argument to deny #BailAssangeUK : my #Foia unearthed damning documents on how UK didn’t care about the money

5. US counsel argues that the suicide risk assessed by Julian #Assange’s medical experts is NOT well grounded. “NOT so severe as defence assessed”

John McNamara
@JohnMcNamara_

It’s pupillage season with the Gateway opening. I’m not on the pupillage committee at @5SAHLaw but I do deal with mini-pupillages. This is a thread for aspiring barristers applying for both pupillages and mini-pupillages. I hope it helps some of you through a difficult process.

1/ What makes a good application is to an extent subjective. I hope I’ve pulled out some key features which are universally accepted as being important, and will hopefully improve your application and your chances of an interview. Disclaimer: these are all my opinions of course.

2/ PROOF READ. Seriously, proof read it again, and again. Take a break for a day and proof it again. Print it off and read it out loud. Get rid of any typos, spelling or grammatical errors. Your application represents you it should not be sloppy.

3/ Please use the correct name of the chambers you apply to. You wouldn’t believe it but I receive mini applications for other chambers. Given the number of applications received for pupillage received don’t let a mistake like this damage your chances.

4/ Be succinct. Don’t use 10 words when 4 will do. The word limit is a limit not a target. Don’t use flowery adjectives. Bullet points can work. Your audience is a lawyer, make the language direct and driven. Being succinct takes time, strip out non-essential words & information.

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