The media previously reported on a scheme to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake Trump electors. On January 20, 2022, CNN reported (here) that this scheme was organized and run by Rudy Guiliani and Trump campaign officials, who “were far more involved than previously known,” and [...]
Archive for January, 2022
January 19th, 2022 - 6:54 pm § in Law and Courts
Portland police training
Portland, Oregon, has one of America’s most violent police departments. This image, discovered by a city employee, was part of a PowerPoint training presentation. Police are supposed to be apolitical public servants; if they’re going to beat up protesters, they should beat them up equall[...]
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January 19th, 2022 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
The difference between sedition and protest
Last week, federal prosecutors filed sedition conspiracy charges against 11 members of the Oath Keepers, including its leader. Oath Keepers is a rightwing armed militia group that participated in the Capitol riot intending to block certification of Biden’s election victory. Additional court fi[...]
January 19th, 2022 - 4:32 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
NY probe finds evidence of fraud in Trump’s businesses
New York’s attorney general, who is conducting a civil probe of the Trump Organization, says there is “significant evidence” that Trump’s company “used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain … loans, insurance coverage, and tax[...]
January 18th, 2022 - 9:42 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump
When 2 + 2 = 6
Two plus two equals six in Douglas Frank’s election conspiracy math. Most of us don’t try to follow Einstein’s reasoning behind his general and special relativity theories, or work through his calculations. We take his word for it, based on his reputation and the support of other r[...]
January 18th, 2022 - 3:41 pm § in Law and Courts
The cops who couldn’t shoot straight
Gunfire broke out at a high school football game in a Pennsylvania town on August 27, 2021. It was a gunfight between two teens. Three officers patrolling the stadium returned fire when a couple of the rounds came in their direction. Rather randomly, it seems; they “discharged their weapons in[...]
Talent agency drops Fox host for comnparing Dr. Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor
Fox host (or ex-host, that isn’t clear yet) Lara Logan (bio here) won’t get any more gigs from United Talent Agency (profile here). She’s so nasty and vile, they want nothing to do with her. She may have lost her Fox Nation gig, too; at the very least, Fox executives have buried he[...]
January 18th, 2022 - 11:32 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Justice Gorsuch is a jerk
“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch doesn’t just sit in a stolen seat on the nation’s high court,” Huffington Post says (here). “He’s also apparently a terrible co-worker [according to] an NPR report that said Gorsuch refuses to wear a face mask to protect against COVID-1[...]
January 17th, 2022 - 5:29 pm § in Health
Guide to who’s not vaccinated in Seattle
“Seattle is one of the most vaccinated major metro areas in the nation,” the Seattle Times says here. Even so, as of early December, there were about 216,000 unvaccinated people over age 18 in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, and that probably hasn’t changed much because most [...]