Police in Colorado shot and killed a woman who was 7 months pregnant just for driving away in fear after they wrongfully accused her of shoplifting. The DA declined to charge the cops who killed Destinee Thompson and her unborn child. Her family is suing for justice.
BlueMAGA big mad today.
They got their Crime Bill, Patriot Act, Iraq War, Student Debt-lover, cop/military-funder, drilling permit guy.
You won.
The rest of us are furious bc you helped destroy our country & our world.
But congrats. You got exactly what you wanted.
Top cop in jail. Former Warner Robins police chief George Johnson arrested for charges ranging from sodomy to incest in 2022 involving a female child. Johnson is 79. Not a drag queen.
https://t.co/dEbroPuDif
A Black family on an AAU basketball trip is terrorized and harassed by Frisco, TX police … all because these geniuses did not know the state abbreviation for Arkansas is AR, not AZ — so the police assumed the car was stolen.
I hope they sue and the officers involved are fired, but none of that will erase the emotional damage and trauma done to this family.
Florida: No more indoctrinating our children.
Prager: We are literally here to indoctrinate your children.
Florida: Welcome aboard.
https://t.co/drB3Lrf9EA
Argentina just made a deal with the US-controlled IMF for a loan to... pay back another loan to the IMF.
The IMF is the master of imperial debt traps.
When Argentina was ruled by right-wing oligarch President Macri, the Trump admin ordered the IMF to give him the biggest loan in history ($57 billion). Trump was trying to influence Argentina's 2019 election to help the right.
Despite the US meddling, Macri lost, and the center-left won. But the new government was stuck with unpayable IMF debt, which has devastated Argentina's economy and fueled hyper-inflation.
Uganda President Museveni to Putin:
"One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was Africa being confined to producing only raw materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals. I can give you an example: the global business for coffee is worth $460 billion. That is the value of the coffee business in the world. But of those $460 billion the coffee producing countries of the whole world share only $25 billion and Africa shares only $2.4 billion out of $460 billion.
This issue is the biggest stunting factor why the African economies are stunted; they do not grow, because all the value is taken by other people. Germany earns more from coffee than the whole of Africa. Germany earns $6.85 billion from coffee, while Africa earns only $2.4 – 2.5 billion. This is the big scandal.
So, what I want to propose to Russia and China is to discourage as a policy the importing of raw materials from Africa, to instead work with the Africans to add value at source. This would within a very short time transform the economies of Africa from low- and mid-income to high- and middle-high income because we see from the example of Uganda that everything is depressed now; production is high but we are still producing raw materials."
This is Carlos Pena. Last year, a SWAT team threw more than 30 grenades into his printing shop, destroying almost everything. Carlos was not suspected of a crime.
Then, the city left him with the bill. He can no longer make a steady living.
He's not the first victim. A thread.
Richard Pryor talks about why media executives censored his shows, to blunt his message of working class unity, and how maintaining racism to keep people divided is intrinsic to capitalism
This is a war crime.
Where is the international outrage and condemnation?
Where are the calls for sanctions?
Or are those strictly reserved for Ukraine?
A Texas A&M prof criticizes Texas’s opioid policy during a guest lecture. A student complains to her mom (former state senator), who complains to Lt. Gov. The prof gets suspended and censured while the chancellor assured the Lt. Gov. she’ll be fired. https://t.co/mwJgOzB5C0