There has been a nationwide effort by Republicans to criminalize Black Lives Matter protestors, but not the white supremacist MAGA/QAnon domestic terrorists who engaged in a seditious insurrection against the Capitol on January 6, and stormed at least one state capitol building in Michigan last year as a rehearsal. Back in February I told you … Read more
Among Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s many compelling words are these, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” The John Roberts Supreme Court, and then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have pointedly asserted that “corporations are people, my friend.” If so, corporations cannot be allowed to … Read more
Update to Why Policing Reform Is So Vitally Necessary (excerpt): Which brings me to this authoritarian Rethuglican in the Arizona Republican Sedition Party who wants to criminalize public protests (like Black Lives Matter) and to punish cities that “defund the police” (repurpose funds for mental heath, social services, and conflict resolution). Maybe we should first … Read more
The AP reports, Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops: As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the … Read more
Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr has always been a far-right Catholic culture warrior (Opus Dei) who subscribes to the theocratic Dominionist (Christian Nationalist) movement. See, William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America; and William Barr, nation’s top lawyer, is a culture warrior Catholic; and Bill Barr’s Invisible Crusade, for example. As a lapsed Catholic … Read more