Sonny Perdue, ex-agriculture secretary under Trump (bio here), reportedly is a leading contender for chancellor of Georgia’s public university system, and students and faculty are mobilizing against him, Mother Jones reports. (Read story here.) Perdue has zero experience managing a university.[...]
Archive for May, 2021
Trump’s Border Patrol harassed lawyers and journalists
A secret Border Patrol anti-terrorism team routinely detained and questioned immigration lawyers and journalists at the U.S.-Mexico border, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal. “Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and o[...]
May 17th, 2021 - 7:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Loren Culp’s police dog is a crook
Loren Culp ran for Washington governor and lost by a huge margin. Previous to that, he was police chief in the tiny town of Republic, Washington. His campaign ads milked that lofty status for all it was worth: Culp posed in police uniform with Karma, the town’s police dog. Ted Nugent (photo be[...]
Trump left white evangelicals holding toxic trash
“How can you defend White evangelicals?” asks Diana Butler Bass (photo, right), a writer and scholar on religion and culture (bio here). You can’t. Rallying behind a “messiah” who has no morals, is a cheater and liar, a serial adulterer and bankrupt, with the governing [...]
Busting the “welfare queen” myth
I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh years ago while driving across country, on the only radio station I could pick up in eastern Montana. Congress was debating Obamacare, and Limbaugh was against it. He devoted his entire show to ranting about how Bill Gates would be eligible for the program. (Why[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 4:10 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Arizona GOP election official slams his party’s lies
A Republican who was elected as Maricopa County’s top election official last November, and assumed office in January, is quickly losing patience with his party’s lame efforts to discredit the 2020 election results. Joe Biden, who carried Maricopa County by over 45,000 votes (see results [...]
May 16th, 2021 - 2:39 pm § in Law and Courts
This police misconduct cost taxpayers $86.3 million
Not counting 64 years’ of incarceration costs.[1] Two black half-brothers, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, 19 and 15 at the time (photo, left), were railroaded to North Carolina’s death row for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl named Sabrina Buie (photo, right) by sheriff’[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 1:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Ex-deputy accused of planting drugs during traffic stops
He was a bad cop, but a Florida sheriff hired him anyway, after another sheriff fired him, and it didn’t go well for that sheriff, either. Zachary Wester, 28, began his police career in Liberty County, pop. 8,354, in 2015. He lasted less than a year, and his boss warned the sheriff of neighbor[...]