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“Words can be dangerous. Gov. Wallace never pulled a trigger. He never fired a gun. But in his speech, he created the environment for others to pull the trigger.”
—John Lewis
The U.S. moved heaven and earth to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. Not because he flew an airplane into the World Trade Center — but, because he incited his followers to.
SCOTUS’s 6-3 conservative majority strikes down limitations on the use of post-campaign contributions to repay candidates’ loans to their own campaigns. The plaintiff? Ted Cruz.PDF
US Admiral Refuses To Send SASH Report To Congress
NY Maritime College president Rear Admiral Mike Alfultis, USMS attempted to hide an external review report that contains evidence of racism and sexual harassment at his college. The leaked copy of the report was subsequently released to the students but it contained numerous redactions. Today we learned that Alfultis, a federally appointed Rear Admiral in the US Maritime Service, has refused to share the report with Congress despite receiving over $1.6 Billion in Federal Aid for the college between 2018 and 2022.
After Evangelical acts of white supremacist violence, Congress should finally pass a domestic terrorism law that gives the FBI more legal authority to step up its intelligence gathering and investigative efforts against Q Anon and others radicalized on the internet.
We are not unifying with white supremacists. You do not defeat white supremacy by uniting with it. You defeat it by crushing it. Everyone should condemn white supremacy, and especially Evangelical white supremacy.
Republican January 6 Committee Chair Liz Cheney blasts the Republican House leadership for “enabling white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” demands that her own party “renounce and reject” its racist ways.
@Liz_Cheney
The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.
My right to not get shot in a grocery store is not superseded by anyone’s right to own a gun.
The end.
All Republicans have to do is say they renounce the white supremacist replacement theory and condemn it. And they can’t / won’t.
FOR CLARITY
Donald Trump is a grifter, gangster and fraud.
Flynn’s a traitor. So is Meadows.
SCOTUS is politicized. Bring Back the Chicago Eight
Fox News is NOT news.
McConnell is an obstructionist.
Bannon is a destructionist.
Putin’s a war criminal.
Ginni is a seditionist
And DeJoy deserves deJail.
Liz Cheney hates Donald Trump but she’s not our friend.
Bezos is a dipshit.
The White House just blasted Jeff Bezos after he attacked Biden on Twitter: “It’s unsurprising that this tweet comes after the President met with labor organizers, including Amazon employees.” They also said it’s obvious why he opposes paying his fair share in taxes.
Here is Jeff Bezos pretending to be against inflation and government stimulus — while Amazon lobbies for massive new tax breaks for itself, and Bezos additionally wants $10 billion of government spending on his space company.
@JeffBezos
In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves. Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent. Misdirection doesn’t help the country.
He was 18 years old and writing about white genocide before he went out to massacre Black folks buying groceries.
No one should be surprised that we have a culture fixated on toxic conspiracy theories when the Horrible History Channel (and others) has been playing conspiracy bullshit for the last twenty years.
New leadership to ATF who will prosecute gun and domestic terrorism crimes.
Biden AND 100 mayors are urging the Senate to confirm Steven Dettelbach to be the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Republicans have opposed him since Jan 20, 2021. Because they know it’s the end of organized crime running America.
Steve Dettelbach is one of the greatest prosecutors of human trafficking, and pioneered the prosecution of controlling people with heroin as an element of coersion. Dettelbach is the person who led and won the biggest domestic terrorism prosecutions in American history up to now (Oklahoma City bombing, Unabomber, Olympic bombing) is now leading what is already the largest domestic terrorism investigation in American history (January 6).