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Emi And The Desert Crow

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Girl with the Alexander Hamilton tattoo. 💙⚖️Relentlessly watching the docket, posting about the law (and live posting important hearings!) I have ADHD, there will also be chaos. "With fear for our democracy, I dissent." @emiandthedesertcrow on Threads.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · Feb 13

Goodbye, independent DOJ. It was nice knowing you and daydreaming about working there someday.

a man in a suit is sitting in a grave with the words r.i.p to what we had written on the ground .

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting in a grave with the words r.i.p to what we had written on the ground .

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 13h

Full interview (with @weissmann.substack.com!)

youtu.be/DR79GW6SvxE?...

The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 13h

Jack Smith's closing message: "I think we're at a moment now where people have to think about what matters to them, and if they believe in things like the rule of law, they believe in democracy...they need to take that commitment and find another way to be part of the solution."

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 13h

Friends of Walter Giardina and another agent who was fired, Chris Meyer, have set up a page where you can find out more about their service (both are veterans). Donations are currently paused but good to have on your radar and to read about both agents: www.supporttheirservice.com

Support Their Service

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 13h

Jack Smith on everyone in his team being fired. He mentions Walter Giardina, the FBI agent who was fired just after his wife passed away.

"I just don't see how anyone can hear those stories and not be moved by it."

(He seems moved talking about it).

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 13h

Jack Smith on the dismissal of the Adams case, the lack of investigation over the Signal leaks, and prosecuting James Comey.

"Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on."

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith: "The idea that politics would play a role in big cases like this...it's absolutely ludicrous..."

On bringing cases for political reasons: "My boss, my first boss, he would've tossed me out a window."

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 15h

Jack Smith (speaking last week in London) on his team and other DOJ and FBI employees: "I get very concerned when I see how easy it is to demonize these people for political ends when these are the very sort of people--I think--we should be celebrating."

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 18h

😆 I would be shocked if they ever bring in any of Jack’s team to testify publicly. Too risky because it destroys the narrative and all the conspiracy theories they’re pushing.

Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 18h

Want to listen in on the next hearing about deploying the National Guard in Portland before Judge Immergut? Details of telephone line below…

Hearing on October 15, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 373876354#.

Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sure this’ll go *real well* for Jim Jordan…

Jordan asks Jack Smith to testify over 'partisan and politically motivated' Trump prosecutions
House Judiciary chair gives former special counsel Oct. 28 deadline to schedule closed-door interview

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if some of these “sightings” are secret technology. Like the USS Nimitz encounters. They said they were seeing things on radar for days and people boarded the ship to retrieve data, but they don’t know who they were. Pretty sure that was Nimitz.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 19h

😆 I had a friend years ago who was doing a PhD on corvids, she used to make puzzles for them to solve. The birds she was working with were insanely intelligent. They’d finish her puzzles in minutes and she’d go back to the drawing board lol

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 19h

And these were two prosecutors who had otherwise stellar records! Which makes it all the more puzzling

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 19h

Wow that’s crazy! I bet there are loads of secret military technologies being developed.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 19h

English Lit and any subject that touches upon history and archaeology are basically all about arguing a point with evidence. So it’s disorienting when people won’t even accept that as a premise because it doesn’t conform to their existing beliefs 😵‍💫

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like I’m trained to use evidence to make a point (first degree is in Eng Lit and Celtic Studies—basically history, language, and archaeology) so it’s crazy to me that some people just discount everything, even when you’ve backed it up.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I need to catch up on that podcast, I stopped listening to any coverage lest it impact my own (I was writing a column for Luke Beasley’s newsletter). So I didn’t hear the podcast Andrew Weissman did for MSNBC either. I’ve just started listening to it for current stuff.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I set an alarm to be up when he dropped the election interference report at midnight and had taken days off work to listen to the appeals and SCOTUS arguments 😩

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I think I was mildly depressed after he resigned from DOJ. I was like “what exactly do I with myself now?” I’d read every public filing and the dates of upcoming filings were on a calendar I bought specifically for that purpose.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I’ll look him up!

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah they had no strategy for how to handle him at all. Even Furman says that himself.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

I just don’t understand it. I find it infuriating that you can show people evidence and they still won’t believe you.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

Bugliosi said he’d have introduced the Bronco chase to show consciousness of guilt because OJ was caught with a disguise, his passport, and loads of cash. The prosecution thought the chase made the police look stupid, so they left it out.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

The prosecution also introduced things that they didn’t follow up on later in the trial, so there was stuff just hanging in the air with no dots connected. Looks like they changed strategy mid trial.

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Emi And The Desert Crow @emdissents.bsky.social · 20h

Some of the stuff they left out is wild. There was a witness who saw his car leaving the area at a high rate of speed on the night of the murder. Prosecutors thought she would have credibility issues because she spoke to a media outlet. Bugliosi says he would have put her on the stand.

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