Tag Archives: government

Trump Contradicts Himself Regarding Sidney Powell’s Role

After Sidney Powell pled guilty this week to election interference, Trump claimed she was never on his legal team. That’s not what he said in 2020. No surprise. “Character? Integrity? What the fuck are you talking about?”

Also tagged , , Comments Off on Trump Contradicts Himself Regarding Sidney Powell’s Role

Fox News Settles with Dominion for $787 Million, Averting Defamation Trial Over its 2020 Election Lies

John Gruber at Daring Fireball nails it, as usual: Fox News addicts justify their continuing viewership on the grounds that, more or less, “everyone does it” — that MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, etc. all blatantly lie to their viewers/readers in the same way Dominion proved that Fox News lies to […]

Also tagged , , , , Comments Off on Fox News Settles with Dominion for $787 Million, Averting Defamation Trial Over its 2020 Election Lies

How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown

Jonathan Martin reporting at Politico: NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Standing in the sun outside Tennessee’s Capitol Monday afternoon, and hoisting a sign that had the words “thoughts and prayers” crossed out in red, Karen Carter explained why she drove nearly two hours from her hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., to confront most anybody who looked like they […]

Also tagged , , , , Comments Off on How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski reporting at ProPublica: IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on […]

Also tagged , , Comments Off on Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

It’s Time to Ban “Right Turn on Red”

The dangerous maneuver is allowed thanks to a flawed idea about emissions from the 1970s. We don’t need it. Abigail Weinberg reporting at Mother Jones: It’s an obsolete relic of the 1970s oil crisis. It’s dangerous to pedestrians. And, if you drive a car in the United States, you likely do it every day. It’s […]

Also tagged , , , , Comments Off on It’s Time to Ban “Right Turn on Red”

End Daylight Saving Time and switch to Standard Time all year

Beth Ann Malow, M.D., Director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Division and board certified in Neurology and Sleep Medicine, wrting a guest OpEd at The Tennessean: Changing our clocks abruptly also results in an uptick in heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents. Many wish to return to Standard Time, and as a sleep physician, I stand […]

Also tagged , , Comments Off on End Daylight Saving Time and switch to Standard Time all year

Vox: The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and Ellen Ioanes reporting for Vox: As Lauren Bonds, the executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, told Vox in an interview Friday, “so many of the high-profile police killings that we’ve seen in recent years have started out as a traffic stop — started out as an expired tag, […]

Also tagged , Comments Off on Vox: The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

Nearly Half of All Sheriffs in Louisiana Are Violating Public Records Laws

Richard A. Webster reporting for Verite News and ProPublica: Nearly half of Louisiana sheriffs are in violation of a state law regulating the preservation and destruction of public records, according to documents provided by state officials. The disclosure follows an article this month by Verite, also published by ProPublica, on accusations that the Jefferson Parish […]

Also tagged , , Comments Off on Nearly Half of All Sheriffs in Louisiana Are Violating Public Records Laws

Brutal.

The City of Memphis, Tennessee has released four videos on Vimeo depicting the police stop and beating of Tyre Nichols: Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 These videos are absolutely fucking brutal. Heartbreaking.

Also tagged , Comments Off on Brutal.

U.S. Insurrection +2 years

  On this day in 2020, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by Trump-supporting domestic terrorists*. Full stop.   Peter Wehner writing at The Atlantic: Two years ago today, a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Seven people died as a result of that attempt. More than […]

Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on U.S. Insurrection +2 years