“They have done so despite the fact that almost all of these materials appear to lack any connection to actual or expected litigation or the provision of legal advice,” members of Durham’s team wrote. In court papers filed last month, Durham said the Democratic National Committee, Hillary for America, the Fusion GPS research company and the powerhouse Perkins Coie law firm - where Sussmann was formerly a partner - “have all withheld and/or redacted documents and communications” that could potentially be used against the defendant.”ĭurham said they made that decision “based on an apparent theory that political opposition research and/or public relations work … falls within the legitimate scope of attorney-client privilege and work-product protections.” We call on you to demand Musk uphold these basic standards of community trust and safety, and to pull your advertising spending from Twitter if they are not.’Īs the New York Post noted earlier in the week: ‘Your ad dollars can either fund Musk’s vanity project or hold him to account. The authors continued: ‘Under Musk’s management, Twitter risks becoming a cesspool of misinformation, with your brand attached, polluting our information ecosystem in a time where trust in institutions and news media is already at an all-time low. They warned that advertising on Twitter would see their company ‘risks association with a platform amplifying hate, extremism, health misinformation, and conspiracy theorists.’ ‘Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter will further toxify our information ecosystem and be a direct threat to public safety, especially among those already most vulnerable and marginalized,’ they wrote. Musk himself responded to the letter asking who funded them: the answer being an assortment of ‘dark money groups’ like George Soros’s Open Society Foundation NGOs founded by former Clinton and Obama administration staffers wealthy Democrat donors and their family foundations labor unions and the governments of European nations. This is another blatant example of this administration’s bigotry and discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community.
We have recently seen the Trump State Department actually try to limit embassies from flying the Pride Flag.” The Daily Mail reported that Vermont senator and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders attacked the decision at a Meet the Candidate event at the Pride Weekend celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, sniping, “We have seen the Trump administration try to roll back protections for transgender people, and the Trump Education Department rollback protections for transgender students. Pence noted, “We put no restrictions on displaying any other flags or any other displays at our embassies beyond that.”
The embassies have been permitted to fly the LGBTQ flag inside embassies and on exterior walls. flagpole during June, which is LGBTQ Pride Month.
Last Friday, NBC News reported that three American diplomats said the Trump administration rejected requests from some American embassies overseas to fly the rainbow flag on the official U.S.