Axios reports, McCarthy vows probe of DOJ over Mar-a-Lago raid: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday the House would investigate the Department of Justice if Republicans took the majority. He’s seen enough? No one has seen what is in the search warrant obtained by the FBI, except the federal judge who issued the … Read more
Here you go, Troll Boy (Rep. John Kavanagh). “It is a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias.” ― Stephen Colbert. On Sunday, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace sparred with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) over Banks’s vote against an emergency relief bill that would have allocated funds to police and first responders. … 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
What does “defund the police” mean to you? Following the tragic and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos Ingram Lopez and others at the hands of law enforcement officers, there have been calls to “defund the police.” Often the same people who say “defund the police” also add “that doesn’t mean … Read more