recommending some movies: Good Night and Good Luck, All the President's Men, The Killing Fields, The Insider, Denial, The Whistleblower, The Report. Links in replies. Please add your own re: McCarthyism, Kissinger's crimes, US in Southeast Asia, Media cancelling reporters, etc.
Only one media outlet is reporting that LA Mayor Karen Bass' mic was turned off during the roundtable with Donald Trump last night.
None of them are reporting that they physically took away her microphone too because she kept trying to fact check him.
Shameful.
Under the GOP tax plan, if your boss takes you out to lunch, that is a taxable event for you, and your boss gets to expense the meal. If you are a restaurant worker and they provide a meal. That is a taxable event for you now. #FAFO
🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.
This is infuriating. I want to scream.
Today, Michael Fanone was informed that he is NO LONGER A VICTIM IN THE EYES OF THE DOJ, therefore not entitled to standard information about recently released individuals against whom former Officer Fanone provided valuable testimony. 🤯
According to the DOJ, he’s not even entitled to their home address.
The violent offenders who stomped on cops’ heads get privacy, and he and his colleagues get NOTHING?
Not even the acknowledgment that they were victims of violent crimes?
ARE YOU 🤬 KIDDING ME?
Before leaving office, Pete spoke to students at the University of Michigan last week.
A student asked him to say something to give them hope.
This is what he said:
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It would be easier
were this truly
the end of the world,
for in that case
you would be free
to do nothing.
But this is not
the end of the world,
just the end of the world
as you knew it,
and so in this case
you are obligated
to do something.
BREAKING: The esteemed Virginia Theological Seminary releases a powerful statement supporting Bishop Mariann Budde after she called out Donald Trump to his face and became MAGA's Public Enemy #1.
This just poured fuel on the fire...
"We are proud of our alumna Bishop Marianne Budde for her faithfulness to the Biblical witness. To ask a President to be merciful is in the tradition of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible," the school's president Ian Markham president and dean wrote on Facebook.
"While the overwhelming response VTS has received about her sermon has been positive, we have also received various complaints about our work because of her training in our Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry programs," Markham continued.
"To be clear, we teach the Gospel as reflected in Holy Scripture. We support and stand alongside our Bishop alumna," he bluntly added.
This is the kind of courage that this moment in history demands. For daring to suggest that our so-called Christian president should show mercy and compassion, Bishop Budde has been inundated with hatred.
She stated that many Republicans now "wish me dead" thanks to her sermon at the National Cathedral and still she refuses to apologize or back down.
The Virginia Theological Seminary is the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the United States and the second oldest. Donald Trump picked a fight with our nation's religious leaders. He's losing badly.
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ICE agents are harassing and threatening Native Americans.
If this has happened to you, call my office at (202) 225-6190.
Trump said you can tell bad immigrants by what they “look” like. Tribal members look like the first Americans. Stop harassing them.
Minnesota’s Department of Health has issued an urgent health advisory calling for hospitals and clinics to test hospitalized patients with respiratory illness for bird flu A (H5N1)
Mandatory subtyping within 24 hours of admission.
🧵I saw an Aboriginal aunty busking in Newtown last night. She plays the saxophone & it was special.
I listened for 20mins, dropped $50 into her case & said "You remind me of Marlene Cummings, the great blues & Jazz artist from way back."
She looked up, crying: "I am Marlene."