Hopes Notes

I called my local elections office, vote-by-mail state, to ask about alternant format voting. They said they have a new system that will put all my information right on the internet. I was like yeah but no. I’ve done this in the past, (2008,) but sometimes, it’s just easier to have a friend mark the ballot with a pen. I’ll probably see if I can get transport to the courthouse. Maybe I’ll actually go to the polls for the first time, mediforically.
When I write my next longform treatise, it’s going to be titled why I want 2008 back, or now probably 2008’s internet. It doesn’t have anything to do with any event that was going on in 2008.

IFTTT is epic! That is all! OK OK, Well i”ve played with it a couple times, but never realized just how epic it is lol.

Well, I had Botox today. Normally, that would be a not-so nice thing, that would take me about a week to recover from! Not today, apparently. I don’t have much of a headache right now, and I’m doing fine! I was able to go out and get ice cream with my caregiver afterwards, yeah we had ice cream for lunch, because why not? I’d say something good is happening! Either the gavapentin that my doctor decided to put me on is working, or maybe the Lord just decided to give me a break, or both! Either way, I’m happy!!

Well today I start a nine month Bible study, This looks like a college class! Wow, it really does look complex! It should be interesting though, I’m looking forward to starting something new.

I took a break on cases, and pretty much everything to follow the Olympics! Now I’m trying to get caught back up. I started this last week, and now I have to get caught up on the case that started last week.

I had a doctor’s appointment on Friday, and I waited a half hour, and more time after I went into to the exam room, just for the doctor to come in and say my lab results are fine, and have us both walk out!!! My dad took me to the appointment, because it was last Friday. My caregiver only works Monday through Thursdays now.

Speaking of that whole thing, I got a new caregiver, for the fourth time.​ The previous one was calling out of work once or twice a week. She was taken off my case by the agency staff. Although I did have a part in it, because her calling out was becoming extremely annoying!

I found out what happened to former President Trump last night around 9. I’m glad he’s OK. I still pray for the victims.

Listening to Randy Credico’s show Julian #assange, Countdown to Freedom. I’m going to be putting together a post with links to information from the SaiPan hearing after this is over.
[https://wbai.org/listen-live/]

Since I was behind on everything that went on over the two days while I was trying to catch up on the trial of Karen Read, who incidentally it looks like may have a hung jury and retrial. I’ve put together some links from the SaiPan hearing that happen late Monday into early Tuesday, because as one Youtube attorney says “time is a construct.” He’s right, and I’m definitely not Familiar with SaiPan’s time zone! This is not a definitive list, if anyone has more, you can reach out to me on Mastodon at: @ladyhope@theres.life or my X account, which I’ve started using more after this @antipentrap OK here it goes, most of these do come from centralized places, unfortunately! First, the plea agreement: which is right here. OK, I honestly thought I was going to have to rescue my very old PACER account, in my very old legal name, to get this document, but thanks to Stefania Maurizi for posting it! OK OK, I just did a name change last year, and the plea document was giving me a bit of an issue until just now. Kevin Gosztola has covered Julian Assange, and his very long-running case from the beginning. He’s been able to get press access to most of the hearings, accept this last one, of course. He was live streaming during it, though, and provided updates as it was happening. link to Kevin’s stream. There was another stream going on around the same time, done by Kristin Hrafnsson, editor of Wikileaks, and others. This one is really long, but he spends quite a bit of time going over the hearing and what happened in court. link to the freedom flight stream Here’s an X posts from Kevin Gosztola, with quotes from the hearing. link to Kevin’s X post.Gosztola just did a stream today that gave us audio from this hearing which Kristin Hrafnsson, did mention on the 5 hour long stream. “I got to listen to the audio of him interacting with the judge in SaiPan.” Well, here it is, what I’ve been looking for for two and a half days finally revealed itself! link to audio clips from the hearing. \
This article from the Guardian, who I have a love-hate-kind of like little bit right now relationship with, puts it altogether, and quotes Hrafnsson, extensively. link to the guardian article.
I have just finished digesting the plea, and when I’m not so over the entire universe about this whole thing, like maybe sometime next week, I might come back and explain how this hearing worked. We don’t normally do plea and sentencing hearings all in one, and this plea agreement contained provisions for well if crap went wrong! I’ve never actually seen that in any state plea filing I’ve ever read before. We also don’t normally waive the PSI, (pre-sentencing investigation report,) unless both parties ask for it. Yeah it’s something I’ve seen, but both sides have to agree. We did here.
OK OK there was more stuff than that, a lot more, hah! Instead of taking all night to get to it, I’ll just put the links in here lol! The first one is an X thread from a local SaiPan reporter who was in the hearing. [Link to the X thread.
This is from KUAM news on SaiPan right after the hearing, it includes clips of Barry Pollack, Julian’s lawyer, speaking. Yes, unfortunately it’s on Facebook, I can tell you how to get around that, but it requires an userscript manager. Link to clips from the press conference.
One more from KUAM news, a longer video with a longer statement from Pollack. more lclips from the press conference.

Linking to the #Assange freedom flight stream, hosted by WIkileak’s editor. [www.youtube.com/live/zwut…](https://www.youtube.com/live/zwutQ2orqAs)

The world failed to reach me for the past two days. Yes, I caught up at 12:00 pacific this morning. I now have officially found out that Julian Assange is free! I got up to get water, and go to the bathroom. I was going to to put something on from my Youtube subscriptions to go back to sleep. I have this userscript installed, so Youtube only shows me my subscriptions. [https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/475942-youtube-recommendations-be-gone-cleaner-youtube]
In my subscriptions, it said, “Julian Assange finally free.” I couldn’t believe it, and had to go look it up! It’s true, Assange pled guilty to one single count, and the judge in the US district for the Mariana islands, yes this is where they held the hearing this time, determined that an appropriate sentence was time served.
Obviously I’m happy he’s free! However, after 14 years, I wasn’t there to follow the final hearing. the world could not get to me the past two days. I was busy catching up on a case that I’m royally behind on, because it started in the middle of Daybell. I have a local case that I’ll be following in August, so I need to finish this one before that one starts. I also would like to follow the Baldwin thing coming up next month, but that’s completely optional. So yes I’m definitely celebratingg, but I also have a bit of guilt for not seeing things through!!
[https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/24/julian-assange-is-free/]