Today's hed gif is all about badass Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. I wrote (a lot!) about her on my 'Stack. I hope you'll click through and read. She's definitely a person worth knowing about.
So excited to see Artemisia! I will definitely go read your writings, thanks for sharing. Read a book on her years ago that I remember really enjoying.
There's a newer film about Gentileschi called "Artemisia Gentileschi: Warrior Painter" (2020), a documentary. It's available through Prime Video. Of the film(s) that came out earlier: at least one depicts the rape of Gentileschi by Tassi as consensual sex, so I don't recommend.
Well, she did figure it out eventually. Welcome to the fold! [I hadn't read the New Republic article, so I had to use the intertubes to figure out what you were referring to.]
"Republicans want to use the Ag bill to wipe out any and all state laws regulating treatment of livestock. Shit, they’re going to bogart all the voters with Americans’ number one issue they care most about: more animal cruelty."
To keep consistent with woman, child, and POC cruelty, since all these groups are considered livestock to these sadists.
according to the Vox article, once again the republicans are trying to murder me . . . this time by starvation, exposure or lack of oxygen for my COPD.
"Transvestite" is an English word that I heard somewhere in the '50s in New England, not just for Weimar Germany in the 30's, who didn't have a German word for it?? That was when America had strict gender rules, before Women's Lib in the 60's that taught that men and women are essentially the same. Now we are back to men and women's social roles being essentially distinct, but disconnected from biological gender. No wonder if some of us are confused. But, "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" at least as far as what you wear in public, totally fine with that.
The gif makes me think of this classic National Film Board of Canada Vignette that aired on Canadian TV in the late '70s and early '80s. The Evening News in the style of 1878.
I'm sort of thankful that I did not read through all of this until almost mid-day my time, because so many of these posts were maddening/depressing (but also really, really good - this was a great list of links!).
But - gah - we can do so much better here in the US. Honestly...
I kind of like the sprinkles countertop - for one thing, if those are real sprinkles embedded in plastic, they did a really good job, smooth and even. It looks more like a photo image printed on vinyl flooring, though.
People still write as if evidence and legal arguments will matter in Cheetolini's many upcoming trials. They won't. The trials will be over as soon as a jury is selected. The evidence is so overwhelming that no reasonable person could vote for acquittal. However, if there is a single MAGA motherfucker on the jury, the jury will hang and Orange Foolius will declare total vindication and ride the wave into the Whitehouse.
We no longer live in a nation of laws, but a nation of tribes.
Not sure exactly how "they" can stop him, aside from the requested gag order, which will be hard to enforce. It's not that the system doesn't care and wants him to win; it's that he is exceptionally good at exploiting weaknesses in the system. The situation where a presidential candidate is accused of treason and is using his candidacy as a shield has never been imagined before.
"aside from the requested gag order, which will be hard to enforce" Anyone else would simply be jailed for contempt and held without bond until trial. Trump has to that extent already ended the rule of law.
It's not so clear that other white-collar defendants would be jailed for contempt for speaking to the press. The reality is that most defendants wouldn't do that for their own sake.
Realistically, if the jury pool is tainted, it's already tainted. If a diehard MAGA gets on the jury to hang it, Trump's tweets and other garbage aren't going to make that any worse or any more likely.
Conversely, silencing Trump too rigorously when he is, legit, a candidate for public office, risks denying him the presumption of innocence that all defendants enjoy. (Ironic as that may seem to us.)
This is why the requested gag order isn't about jury tainting - it's about Trump not speaking publicly about anything that is top secret or classified.
I've watched enough Yellowstone to know that state livestock commissioners have the power to do absolutely anything, and there's nothing Congress or invading California hipsters can do about that.
Our Liz Dye: "And finally, as Lawfare notes, the federal case is in the DC Circuit, which has previously held that the advice of counsel defense is not available when the defendant and his attorney are co-conspirators. This means that, under existing precedent, you can’t defend yourself by claiming your lawyer told you to do it when the lawyer was in on the crime. The DC indictment names six unindicted co-conspirators, all of whom are lawyers, including Giuliani, Powell, John Eastman, his fellow coup-memo author Kenneth Chesebro, and former Justice Department lawyer Jeff Clark."
And this is exactly why Smith named the lawyers as co-conspirators, rather than in separate criminal investigations. And it's also why the Georgia state RICO indictments are so valuable.
Also (not mentioned by Liz): The "advice of counsel" defense basically says, "I was weak and confused and ignorant of the law, and my lawyer told me this was OK to do." Which is not exactly plausible when you're President of the United States, with access to the entire Dept. of Justice and its 10 thousand staff attorneys. Particularly when there are 320 million witnesses to you spending 4 straight years being The Decider and boasting about how much smarter you are than everyone else.
And, as Liz pointed out, he took the advice-of-council defense, tore it up, lit it on fire, and flushed the ashes down the toilet. I hope he INSISTS on taking the stand in one or more of these trials.
Not in a million years will he expose himself to cross-examination. It's one thing to do a deposition (and he has done more than 3,000 of them), where there's no judge and you can lie and refuse to answer and take the 5th. It's a different matter in court, and he would never do that. I think he's hoping to never get to court - years of delaying tactics are another of his specialties. He's counting on the GOP taking control of the government and shutting down the whole thing - which could happen if the GOP has the majority in both the House and Senate, for the federal trials.
But I agree that it would be awesome if it happened.
Great. House got nailed by giant hailstones yesterday. So did one of the cars, also too. Have lived in Texas since 1980. From 1980 through 2021, never had damaging hail. Have had it twice in the last two years 2021 and yesterday.
The many, many hail storms that plague Denver were very early in the '90s, as you could tell how long a person had lived in the city by the number of dents in the car. Thus, one could identify the native drivers from the rude motherfuckers who had just moved in from CA.
the grapevine has it that somehow Joanne and her Nazi weirdo friends (I refuse to give them the time of day and call them TER*s. they hijacked the F.) are on the pro Russell Brand bandwagon but I can't find the deets.
not that it would surprise me at all but I need a little bit more than a rumor even when it comes to that bunch.
Yeah, maybe. But I have to say, a fair amount of my Purina Peeve Chow goes to the phenomenon of Wonkette commenters who post esoteric comments without a context sufficient enough for a random lurker to figure out what they're referring to -- unexplained acronyms, first names or mangled names, and so on.
Today's hed gif is all about badass Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. I wrote (a lot!) about her on my 'Stack. I hope you'll click through and read. She's definitely a person worth knowing about.
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/artemisia-gentileschi-a-survivor
I have artemisia growing wild in my yard!
In your research, did you come across Anna Banti's novel, "Artemisia"? I thought it was superb.
Saw her work at the Seattle Art Museum. Great art. Her Judith Slaying Holofernes is a real statement work.
I was gonna make a stupid comment about "goin' for baroque", but the art and the article were just too good for that.
I will say that Artemisia Gentileschi is a name as badass as her work.
Once again you have made me better educated. Thanks!
This is also Artemisia (and my first attempt at a substack “note” also too):
https://substack.com/profile/157177296-opalescent-riddles/note/c-40642114?
I did know about her, but thank you for the very nice read!
So excited to see Artemisia! I will definitely go read your writings, thanks for sharing. Read a book on her years ago that I remember really enjoying.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179335.Artemisia
I hope you've seen the 1997 film. I saw it at the theater with a friend who's now teaching art history at a small NJ university.
I have not. Will search out.
It's streamable on Amazon!
There's a newer film about Gentileschi called "Artemisia Gentileschi: Warrior Painter" (2020), a documentary. It's available through Prime Video. Of the film(s) that came out earlier: at least one depicts the rape of Gentileschi by Tassi as consensual sex, so I don't recommend.
Yeah... I read about that as I was doing my research. Gross.
Loved the article! I had no idea and I feel a lot smarter to start this Monday! Thank you.
I'm so happy you liked it! Thank you for reading :-)
Me too, also. It was fascinating and informative.
I loved it. Thanks so much for posting.
I love that Editrix lives in Detroit now. It's just perfect somehow.
Daddow-Rodriguez recalled. “I never, ever thought my medical choices were going to be restricted"
You stupid twat we told you every day in 2016.
Well, she did figure it out eventually. Welcome to the fold! [I hadn't read the New Republic article, so I had to use the intertubes to figure out what you were referring to.]
"Republicans want to use the Ag bill to wipe out any and all state laws regulating treatment of livestock. Shit, they’re going to bogart all the voters with Americans’ number one issue they care most about: more animal cruelty."
To keep consistent with woman, child, and POC cruelty, since all these groups are considered livestock to these sadists.
according to the Vox article, once again the republicans are trying to murder me . . . this time by starvation, exposure or lack of oxygen for my COPD.
thanks, republicans.
"Transvestite" is an English word that I heard somewhere in the '50s in New England, not just for Weimar Germany in the 30's, who didn't have a German word for it?? That was when America had strict gender rules, before Women's Lib in the 60's that taught that men and women are essentially the same. Now we are back to men and women's social roles being essentially distinct, but disconnected from biological gender. No wonder if some of us are confused. But, "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" at least as far as what you wear in public, totally fine with that.
The gif makes me think of this classic National Film Board of Canada Vignette that aired on Canadian TV in the late '70s and early '80s. The Evening News in the style of 1878.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhQQ-UToiY
I'm sort of thankful that I did not read through all of this until almost mid-day my time, because so many of these posts were maddening/depressing (but also really, really good - this was a great list of links!).
But - gah - we can do so much better here in the US. Honestly...
I kind of like the sprinkles countertop - for one thing, if those are real sprinkles embedded in plastic, they did a really good job, smooth and even. It looks more like a photo image printed on vinyl flooring, though.
People still write as if evidence and legal arguments will matter in Cheetolini's many upcoming trials. They won't. The trials will be over as soon as a jury is selected. The evidence is so overwhelming that no reasonable person could vote for acquittal. However, if there is a single MAGA motherfucker on the jury, the jury will hang and Orange Foolius will declare total vindication and ride the wave into the Whitehouse.
We no longer live in a nation of laws, but a nation of tribes.
The chances of a MAGA juror hanging the jury in all 4 trials is slim.
I wish I agreed. It will only take one on each jury, and even in DC, MAGA idiots constitute >20% of the public. I don't like those odds.
Yep. And jury tampering/ witness intimidation is already underway, and they’re just letting him do it.
Not sure exactly how "they" can stop him, aside from the requested gag order, which will be hard to enforce. It's not that the system doesn't care and wants him to win; it's that he is exceptionally good at exploiting weaknesses in the system. The situation where a presidential candidate is accused of treason and is using his candidacy as a shield has never been imagined before.
Trump is one very clever motherfucker.
"aside from the requested gag order, which will be hard to enforce" Anyone else would simply be jailed for contempt and held without bond until trial. Trump has to that extent already ended the rule of law.
It's not so clear that other white-collar defendants would be jailed for contempt for speaking to the press. The reality is that most defendants wouldn't do that for their own sake.
Realistically, if the jury pool is tainted, it's already tainted. If a diehard MAGA gets on the jury to hang it, Trump's tweets and other garbage aren't going to make that any worse or any more likely.
Conversely, silencing Trump too rigorously when he is, legit, a candidate for public office, risks denying him the presumption of innocence that all defendants enjoy. (Ironic as that may seem to us.)
This is why the requested gag order isn't about jury tainting - it's about Trump not speaking publicly about anything that is top secret or classified.
I've watched enough Yellowstone to know that state livestock commissioners have the power to do absolutely anything, and there's nothing Congress or invading California hipsters can do about that.
Pretty much. The most effective move would be for people to stop eating such shitty animal intensive diets, but this is America.
Once I figured out it's a comedy, I started to enjoy it.
Our Liz Dye: "And finally, as Lawfare notes, the federal case is in the DC Circuit, which has previously held that the advice of counsel defense is not available when the defendant and his attorney are co-conspirators. This means that, under existing precedent, you can’t defend yourself by claiming your lawyer told you to do it when the lawyer was in on the crime. The DC indictment names six unindicted co-conspirators, all of whom are lawyers, including Giuliani, Powell, John Eastman, his fellow coup-memo author Kenneth Chesebro, and former Justice Department lawyer Jeff Clark."
And this is exactly why Smith named the lawyers as co-conspirators, rather than in separate criminal investigations. And it's also why the Georgia state RICO indictments are so valuable.
Also (not mentioned by Liz): The "advice of counsel" defense basically says, "I was weak and confused and ignorant of the law, and my lawyer told me this was OK to do." Which is not exactly plausible when you're President of the United States, with access to the entire Dept. of Justice and its 10 thousand staff attorneys. Particularly when there are 320 million witnesses to you spending 4 straight years being The Decider and boasting about how much smarter you are than everyone else.
And, as Liz pointed out, he took the advice-of-council defense, tore it up, lit it on fire, and flushed the ashes down the toilet. I hope he INSISTS on taking the stand in one or more of these trials.
Not in a million years will he expose himself to cross-examination. It's one thing to do a deposition (and he has done more than 3,000 of them), where there's no judge and you can lie and refuse to answer and take the 5th. It's a different matter in court, and he would never do that. I think he's hoping to never get to court - years of delaying tactics are another of his specialties. He's counting on the GOP taking control of the government and shutting down the whole thing - which could happen if the GOP has the majority in both the House and Senate, for the federal trials.
But I agree that it would be awesome if it happened.
[Heh heh ... he said "expose himself" ... heh heh.]
I tend to agree, but on the other hand, it's usually a mistake to understimate Trump's delusional, malignant narcissism.
Great. House got nailed by giant hailstones yesterday. So did one of the cars, also too. Have lived in Texas since 1980. From 1980 through 2021, never had damaging hail. Have had it twice in the last two years 2021 and yesterday.
The many, many hail storms that plague Denver were very early in the '90s, as you could tell how long a person had lived in the city by the number of dents in the car. Thus, one could identify the native drivers from the rude motherfuckers who had just moved in from CA.
the grapevine has it that somehow Joanne and her Nazi weirdo friends (I refuse to give them the time of day and call them TER*s. they hijacked the F.) are on the pro Russell Brand bandwagon but I can't find the deets.
not that it would surprise me at all but I need a little bit more than a rumor even when it comes to that bunch.
Who is Joanne?
Maybe J.K. Rowling?
Yeah, maybe. But I have to say, a fair amount of my Purina Peeve Chow goes to the phenomenon of Wonkette commenters who post esoteric comments without a context sufficient enough for a random lurker to figure out what they're referring to -- unexplained acronyms, first names or mangled names, and so on.
That beer can shower head is the most redneck thing I've ever seen, and I grew up with rednecks.
Taylor Swift has ALWAYS been the best role model for young women in this country. And I'm talking about from when she first hit it big.
She's a person of substantial character.