Three white vigilantes who used their vehicles to chase down and box in black jogger Ahmaud Arbery before one killed him with shotgun blasts were sentenced to life in prison by a Georgia judge on Friday, January 7, 2022 (read story here). The gunman, Travis McMichael, 36, was sentenced to life witho[...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 7th, 2022 - 6:36 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Ahmaud Arbery’s vigilante killers get life in prison
January 7th, 2022 - 6:10 pm § in Politics
Notorious Capitol rioter now accused of fatal DUI crash
Emily Hernandez, 22, a Capitol rioter who gleefully brandished a sign stolen from Speaker Pelosi’s office (photo), now she faces serious criminal charges in her home state after a wrong-way crash on a Missouri interstate highway. The crash occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday night, January 5, 202[...]
Company hired by Arizona GOP for vote “audit” goes out of business
“Cyber Ninjas, the controversial Florida company that conducted a bungle-plagued audit of Arizona votes in the 2020 presidential election, a recount pushed by Donald Trump and state senators over baseless claims of fraud, has folded,” Huffington Post reported on Thursday, January 6, 2[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 10:17 pm § in Politics
J. D. Vance is a liar
J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and a GOP candidate in Ohio for U.S. Senate, is a liar. Vance, a Yale Law School grad who knows better, claims, “”There are dozens of people who protested on J6 who haven’t even been charged with a crime yet are being mistreated [...]
Ban Trump from public office?
“Donald Trump might already be ineligible to serve as president of the United States in the future,” Harvard law professor Noah Feldman says (in an op-ed here). He’s referring to the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which says, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Co[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 8:50 pm § in Politics
This Florida county is a cesspool of haters
Brevard County, Florida, on the Atlantic coast east of Orlando (profile here), is the home of the Kennedy Space Center (formerly Cape Canaveral) and a diversifying population, which an academic expert on political violence has linked to the rise of rightwing extremism. It’s also home to more t[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 5:28 pm § in Science
Fusion energy progress report
Fusion works. If it didn’t, the sun wouldn’t shine, and H-bombs wouldn’t explode. Harnessing fusion for electricity production is just an engineering problem. ” … [T]he enormous potential of fusion makes it hard to ignore. It’s a technology that could safely provide a[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 4:54 pm § in Politics
Jan. 6 by the numbers, a year on
From Mother Jones (here): 140 police officers assaulted 725+ rioters arrested 81 arrested rioters are veterans 70 rioters have been sentenced 225+ rioters charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding police officers 75+ charged with using a weapon or causing serious harm to a police officer Retur[...]
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham misplaces his last marble
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went off the deep end long ago, but his mental decline continues, and it’s sad to watch. (See story here.) Related story (here): Trump aide Richard Grenell (bio here) asserts the worst assault on democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021, was Trump getting ki[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The Capitol riot was a revolt of the rich
The popular image of Capitol rioters as low-class, low-income trailer-park trash is false. Many of the rioters were well-off business owners and professionals. Read story here.[...]