#justice system

Evil, thieving Dr. Trump and his grifting sons stole from the cancer charity they had established in trump's name.

Donald Trump and his foundation were found to have misused funds that were supposed to go to charity—including money tied to cancer-related causes.

A court ordered the foundation shut down and required millions to be paid back.

hi uay<3 so i think theres a lot to be said for a Tribe called quest especially their first two albums i personally love a lot. Excursions was the song that launched my rap era. but also beyond the stuff everyone will tell u about i have to give my fun as fuck album Rooftop soundcheck by Justice system. super sunshiney rooftop jammin funky funk jazzy jazz rappy rap. it does all three of those a whole lot and super well + fun + W + yay + smiling:) super great vibe all throughout it is so intensely charcore possibly my favorite rap album of all time. very very extremely likely. but also speaking of rap albums that also do jazz really well. okay well so i have a whole philosophy abt jazz rap okay. i really love any jazz rap ofc but what i go CRAZEY for is when the jazz part is actually accentuated beyond just Vibes kinda? not that vibes is bad but yk :p anyway i think Shades of blue by Madlib and Jazzmatazz by Guru are to jazz rap what Lizard by King crimson is to the realm of 'symphonic rock'. like a lot of music in the area is just doing Electric light orchestra stuff, basically just tossing some of the instrumentation over to some strings or such. but lizard is like. Okay So This Is Orchestra Music Also. and thats what those last few albums but especially shades+jmt are for jazz rap to me:) so so cool i just go crazy for a nice low end upright bass type of sound with my cool & chill & funky beats. but anyway!!!! i also rec Life's like by Jazzyfact and Home brew self titled and. oh oh my god. this is bad. this is really really bad. ive totally neglected to mention my darling sunshine joy of my life Six feet deep by Gravediggaz... go n listen to my girlfriend six feet deep by gravediggaz.. its like the total opposite vibe of rooftop but still just as funky n fun<33 so so cool. anyway im gonna add the album covers for all the stuff here just bc this turned into a whole big overwhelming (for me at least) wall of text^-^ tysm for askinggg hoping u well on ur rap voyage:)

Remember this? (1999)

“Paula Jones is paid a $850,000 check from President Clinton, bringing an official end to the four-year saga spurred by her allegations of sexual harassment.”

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Literally this meme…

There’s no way the Socs would be facing the charges or possible sentencing that Johnny was. They wouldn’t have to go on the run. Their families would hire fancy lawyers to “prove” that they were the ones who acted in self defense against the juvenile delinquents who obviously provoked them.

Darry and Soda would not only have to mourn their baby brother, they would have to sit in court listening to his name get dragged through the mud; listening to rich, smug lawyers for rich, smug murderers paint their kindhearted, sensitive, bookish, sunset-watching, poetry-reading, precious baby brother as a menace to society who deserved to die. They would probably see newspaper articles saying the same thing; the boy with good grades so much potential reduced to just another hood who had it coming. They would be recognized by respectable, middle class folks who would shake their heads in disapproval or pity.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/22/jury-nullification/#voir-dire

I don't know if you've heard, but water has started running uphill – I mean, speaking in a politico-scientific sense:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

By which I mean, the bedrock consensus of political science appears to have been disproved. Broadly speaking, political scientists believe that lawmakers and regulators only respond to the policy preferences of powerful people. If economic elites want a policy, that's the policy we get – no matter how unpopular it is with everyone else. Likewise, even if something is very, very popular with all of us, we won't get it if the super-rich hate it.

Just take a look at the gap between public opinion and policy outcomes: most people think "capitalism does more harm than good"; most Canadians, Britons and Australians aged 18-34 think "socialism will improve the economy and well-being of citizens"; 72% of Brits support a national job guarantee; the majority of Californians support permanent rent-controls; and most people in 40 countries want CEO salaries capped at 4X that of their lowest-paid employees:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/#water-flowing-uphill

The inability of the public to get its way isn't just an impressionistic view – it's an empirical finding, based on a representative sample of 1,779 policy outcomes, that politicians ignore the will of the people in favor of the will of billionaires:

economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

And yet, all over the world, we're seeing these irrepressible outbreaks of antitrust policy, aimed squarely at shattering corporate power:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting