“Andy Ngo is the latest conservative voice to be CANCELED by Big Tech: SoundCloud bans his podcast,” the headline reads. “Journalist Andy Ngo became the most recent voice to be banned from a Big Tech platform after SoundCloud has permanently banned him from its platform,” the[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
A “peaceful” riot
Many Republicans, with the help of enablers like Fox News, have tried to falsely portray the Capitol riot as a peaceful protest, and even compared the rioters to “tourists”. Here’s one of those so-called “peaceful” protesters: “Forty-three-year-old Shane Jason Woo[...]
June 23rd, 2021 - 5:42 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Detained American reporter freed
An American reporter detained by authorities while covering an anti-government protest has been freed. Worldwide, journalists are arrested by the hundreds every year, and 50 were killed last year (see figures here). Last month, Belarus’ strongman hijacked an airliner and seized a journalist on[...]
Remorseful Capitol rioter gets probation
A Capitol rioter drew a sentence of probation, community service, restitution, being prohibited from own a gun, and submitting to drug tests after profusely apologizing for participating in a violent attempt to overthrow our government. Anna Morgan-Lloyd (mugshot, left), 49, who traveled from Indian[...]
June 17th, 2021 - 10:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
St. Louis gun wavers plead guilty
Update: Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis attorney couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protesters peacefully walking past their home, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and will pay fines, CNN reported on Thursday, June 17, 2021. They also will surrender the guns they used to threa[...]
June 15th, 2021 - 4:24 pm § in Politics
Ex-GOP Rep’s bizarre and pathetic “protest”
It seems Dana Rohrabacher was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Not as a working congressman; he was bounced from the House in the 2018 “blue wave” election. “I marched to protest, and I thought the election was fraudulent and it should be investigated, and I wanted to express tha[...]
Capitol riot prosecutors zero in on Oath Keepers conspirators
More than 15,000 people marched on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to protest the election of Joe Biden. The march descended into disorder, which appears to have been a mix of protest, riot, and insurrection. It’s been necessary to painstakingly sort through those present to ascertain who[...]
May 29th, 2021 - 3:50 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
McConnell blocked a Capitol riot inquiry. What now?
Although some GOP senators voted for a commission to investigate the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, the House-passed bill did not make it past the 60-vote Senate hurdle, mainly thanks to Senate GOP leader McConnell’s opposition. That means there will be no impartial bipartisan inquiry [...]
May 27th, 2021 - 3:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
You won’t believe who Republicans blame for the Capitol riot
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll taken from May 24-26, 2021, found that 73% of Republican voters blame the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on ““left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad,” while only 23% blame Trump. Look. I hate to say this, and I don’t like to stereotype, but these peo[...]
May 25th, 2021 - 8:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Tamir’s killer wants his cop job back
Timothy Loehmann (photo, left) is back in court trying to get his job back. (Read story here.) Loehmann was the trigger-happy rookie cop who shot Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy, in a Cleveland public park in 2014. Rice was playing with a toy gun. Loehmann and a veteran officer were sent to the [...]