The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are regrettable tragedies.
They could’ve been avoided—& further unrest can be avoided—if state & local officials work with federal law enforcement and stop encouraging civilians to interfere. There can be no mob veto on enforcing the law.
Okay so,
1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution
2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents
3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen
4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement
You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.
Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.
Two independent journalists in south Arkansas claim we're poaching their would-be readers by somehow manipulating Google search results.
Their claims are false and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how Google works.
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Little Rock Police Department officers threatened volunteers with arrest as they attempted to gather signatures Thursday on public property at an event held by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission. https://t.co/vO6CjgXS2i
Spending 19k on a “lectern”= bad. Paying a buddy’s new consulting company—b/c the old one was dissolved after your partner was subpoenaed for planning Jan 6th— 19k & pretending it was for a “lectern”=worse. Calling a special session to gut FOIA to cover it all up=FBI. #podiumgate
The latest turn in #podiumgate:
An anonymous former state employee, represented by @TomMarsLaw, claims to have evidence Gov. Sarah Sanders' office unlawfully altered documents and withheld records that should have been made public under the FOIA.
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Y’all my co-workers are the motherfucking BEST hellooooo @Lindsey_millar and @rhettybe SO PROUD OMGOMGOMG Your “love letter to Vino’s” won top prize💕@VinosBrewPubLR
Reaves went from a two-way contract to a standard minimum contract in 2021 NBA training camp -- and now less than two years later, cashes in on the maximum allowable salary from the Lakers.
The opening of the 459-acre Blue Mountain Natural Area represents the final puzzle piece to connect a series of natural areas that together make up 21,000 acres. https://t.co/p4mEmblr6V
A pliable legislature stomped on the poor, indulged the rich and threw teachers, librarians, children and trans people under the bus, all because the MAGA governor told them to. #arpx#arnews https://t.co/sm1Ut9Jpcw