The 6 Interlocking Schemes Fani Willis Is Trying To Make Stick To Teflon Don
By Josh Kovensky, Talking Points Memo, 8/15/2023
The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashes slavery keeps getting worse, Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2023
Good story about the ridiculously stupid white bigot education programs in DeSatan's Florida--
The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashes slavery keeps getting worse
Local Police and FBI Harass BLM Protesters While Ignoring MAGA Mass Murderer
The Colorado Springs police working with the FBI infiltrates a local social justice, BLM, fair housing community organization with undercover cop that looks like a goofy sex worker. They target peaceful protesters, arresting them for protesting police violence (an officer and possible FBI agent are caught on tape talking about putting a boot in the face of a local college professor participating in a protest march) and unaffordable housing. Basically, the local police and FBI are doing everything they can do to setup criminal dossiers on some unfortunate left liberal protesters, while at the same time dropping the investigation of a local bomb threat by a violent rightwing nutjob who goes on to murder a bunch of people in a MAGA hate-crime a month or so later,
And then add this to the broader Orange Grump era context of the police and the conservative right: 1) The biggest police unions endorsed Trump in 2016 and again more than a year out from the 2020 election. 2) The Secret Service erased records of their internal communications around the Jan 6 insurrection. 3) There is evidence of cooperation between local police departments (Portland, for example) and violent bigot militia groups. 4) There are a staggering number of instances of police violence against unarmed US citizens and 5) Near total police intransigence against reforms to reduce police violence. This is concerning stuff. The kind of stuff from which fascist police states are made.
Meanwhile, I gather from local media that the police are Quiet Quitting because of all the overwrought "Defund the Police" rhetoric from shrill, aggressive, overly dramatic BLM protesters and retired school teachers like me. And so "Backing the Blue" means more cops and less oversight or no reform because oversight and reform hurt police morale. It's either suffer the police Quiet Quitting or hire more cops and let them crack heads and do sweeps as they see fit. Local politics probably can't be this stupid but this is how it sounds in the local papers.
Anyway, amazing story from Democracy Now and Colorado Springs. And reporter Trevor Aaronson and his podcast Alphabet Boys deserves some props too.
John Eastman Comes Clean: Hell Yes We Were Trying to Overthrow the Government
Abraham Lincoln was doing no more than stating a commonplace when he said this on the eve of the Civil War in his first inaugural address (emphasis added): “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
In other words, yes, you have a revolutionary right to overthrow the government if you really think its abuses have gotten that intractable and grave. But the government has an equal right to stop you, to defend itself or, as we see today, put you on trial if you fail.
Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, July 31, 2023
"A study by New York Times reporters on Friday noted that Elon Musk has steadily come to dominate satellite internet technology with the Starlink technology made by his SpaceX rocket company, and that he has used that dominance to restrict the activities of Ukraine’s military. Musk began to launch satellites into space in 2019, and currently has in position more than 4,500 of the 42,000 satellites he plans. He controls more than 50% of the globe’s working satellites. The federal government contracts with SpaceX for its rockets and the technology that reaches into areas other companies don’t yet reach. Ukraine, for example, depends on the 42,000 Starlink terminals across the country. Late last year, Musk restricted the use of Starlink on the battlefields, leaving Ukrainian troops without the ability to communicate in a way that suggests he was conducting his own foreign and military policy that conflicted with that of the United States. But a number of countries worry that no one man should have such power, and U.S. officials noted his proposals for a peace plan that would have given Russia Ukrainian land. The Repuglicans have always been bad but never this fascist police state crackdown bad, this lowdown craven in their poor, self-destructive, nihilistic judgment bad. And now a captain of industry swaggering around with his monopoly capital bullshit; another common feature of fascist movements, by the way. And of course Evil Tony Starks supports you know who. "Semafor’s Washington bureau chief Benji Sarlin noted that while “[e]veryone has thoroughly absorbed it already, it is 100% insane to have a president [Trump in '24]opposed by basically his whole cabinet—some of whom actively are or considered running against him themselves.” Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, July 31, 2023 |
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