Here we have unmarked federal troops armed with war weapons, shown beating two medics who were treating an injured and apparently unconscious man. If you have the stomach for it, you can watch them crack their heavy wooden batons against …
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Below is Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Trevor Noah’s show, addressing Trump’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic (see screen shot at left). I’ve always found her to be an extremely impressive woman; hope she gets the nod …
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Seems like a solid approach to me. As we all know, viruses, as well as pathogens of all types, respond very well to right-wing extremism, torrential lies, and the belief system of Evangelical Christians. The fact you have 415K COVID-19 …
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While there is still time, before speaking or writing a statement critical of the U.S. president becomes illegal, I hope readers will check out the video below, in which former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner lays out six articles of impeachment that …
Why Congress Should Impeach Bill Barr: Six Quick and Easy Articles of Impeachment Read More »
Lawrence Tribe has nailed it here. Trump’s use of the U.S. military against American citizens, functioning with no transparency and directed only by the president himself, is the same form of government that the world saw under Franco, Stalin, Hitler, …
In Pennsylvania, misdemeanor simple assault involves intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly inflicting bodily injury on another, attempting to do so, or putting someone in fear of imminent bodily injury. More serious assaults, known as aggravated assaults, are charged as felonies.
The comment at left is typical of those I’ve gotten frequently over the past few years from people outside the U.S. Sure, it expresses disdain, but it’s actually more about pity than it is about contempt. IMO, this guy nailed …
As suggested here, Missouri governor Mike Parson has a unique response to the pandemic. Now, I know readers outside the U.S. (who average 40% of the total, btw) are wondering both a) how it’s possible that the governor of one …
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“If just four senate seats flip from Republican to Democrat, we run the risk of losing everything,” says Ted Cruz in an ad, soliciting “real patriots” to make cash contributions to the campaigns of GOP incumbents who find themselves threatened. …
Americans, especially white ones, have the right to be ass****s, although before now there was never a time in our history where this theory was tested in the real world. Now, masses of people are flouting laws at all levels …
