Be courteous. Stay calm. Keep your hands where the police can see them. Bang bang bang. You’re dead anyway. Driving while black “is yet another entry in an ever-growing list” of deadly dangers black people face in this era when lynchings are carried out by police i[...]
Archive for April, 2021
April 15th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in America, Biden, China, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia
Biden’s foreign policy takes shape
Every nation’s foreign policy is driven by self-interest and domestic politics, and the U.S. is no exception. That reality is reflected in the foreign policy actions the Biden administration announced on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Keep in mind that President Biden has been involved in domestic [...]
Rep. Jordan vs. Dr. Fauci (video)
Let’s be clear: Fauci is a good guy trying to keep us all safe, while Jordan, even on his good days, is an ass. With that out of the way, let’s proceed to this exchange with Dr. Fauci on April 15, 2021, in which he rants about “freedom” and “rights.” Well guess wh[...]
Play the All-Star game in Taiwan!
Baseball’s poobahs missed a great opportunity when they (quite properly) fled the Undemocratic Republic of Georgiastan. A “great opportunity to seed new markets, build its brand, and address growing anti-Asian sentiment in the United States, … [and] help protect and defend global d[...]
April 14th, 2021 - 9:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
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April 14th, 2021 - 8:46 pm § in Law and Courts
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April 14th, 2021 - 8:36 pm § in Law and Courts
House progressives introduce bill to expand Supreme Court
This isn’t big news, it’s little news, because it’s not going anywhere in this session of Congress. Even if it passes the House, it’ll hit a wall in the Senate, where at least 3 Democratic senators oppose abolishing the filibuster, and probably several more are unwilling to t[...]
Thank you for your service, but you’re going to jail, and your military career is done
He assaulted a skinny black kid who was simply walking in the neighborhood, or at least that’s how it appears in the viral video below. Johnathan Pentland (photo, left), 42, an Army drill instructor at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, could now face criminal charges and military discipline. Read [...]
Wisconsin court again rules against saving lives
Wisconsin’s governor, a Democrat, “did not have the authority to impose capacity limits on restaurants, bars or other businesses without the approval of the Legislature,” the state’s GOP-controlled supreme court ruled on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Read story here. The Hill ad[...]
Ex-Fox host rips Tucker Carlson as white supremacist
Gretchen Carlson, formerly of “Fox & Friends,” who left the rightwing network with a hefty sexual harassment settlement in her purse, used colorful language this week to describe the Murdoch family’s defense of incendiary Fox host Tucker Carlson, who’s using his show to p[...]