It is dangerous for any industry to wield this kind of power— impunity from consequences—it is courting genocide when police are granted it.
Officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is reinstated washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
The use of tear gas on the apartments in Brooklyn Center will have long lasting health impacts, mental and physical, on the primarily Black families and young children who live there. This is how disability is manufactured in Black communities through state violence.
Police out here shooting children & we're debating about whether "defund the police" is too radical a slogan. #defundthepolice
'Justice' sought after Chicago police ID dead suspect, 13 apnews.com/article/shooti…
a reminder: Lincoln undercut the radical potential of the Civil War with a compromise that he made in the name of moderation & unity-- & to create political distance from his "radical" flank-- bringing on Andrew Johnson as his VP on the 1864 ticket
Three of our last four presidents were born within nine weeks of each-other in 1946:
Trump: June 14, 1946
Bush II: July 6, 1946
Clinton: August 19, 1946
Hawley’s now publishing with a press founded by a Nazi-sympathizer, owned by a “Christian values” media group, & distributed internationally by Simon & Schuster, the publisher that dumped his book contract in the first place.
So fresh & so clean, clean npr.org/2021/01/18/958…
Advanced intelligence warned that white terrorists were planning attacks for 1/6. Why was the Secretary of Homeland Security in the Middle East?
Chad Wolf resigns as homeland security secretary washingtonpost.com/national/chad-…
What would Barr be unwilling to do? What line would a man like him draw, that he would resign now?
William P. Barr to depart as attorney general, Trump announces - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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