The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.
For those of you who will see this man for the first time this evening as DRC-Congo (once known as Zaire) takes on Colombia in the World Cup tonight, the history of the man he represents: Patrice Lumumba, is worth your time to learn.
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Sen. Tuberville promised voters he would donate “every dime” he made in Washington, D.C., to Alabama veterans — and even present checks on a monthly basis. Six years later, tax records and his own nonprofit show no evidence that ever happened.
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watching live, it’s a clear penalty
with benefit of video review, how is this not a penalty?
the chasing defender just jump kicked the attacking player and never touched the ball
Prairieland defendants receive unusually harsh sentences in trial that featured mountains of flimsy evidence, a judge who tipped the scales, and the apparent withholding of key information and evidence by law enforcement including the FBI.
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In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Egregious.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
What now FOX?
The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID
🚨 BREAKING: Close Trump advisors have been informing him the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled, which he immediately denies to blame liberals.
This story is disturbing. A woman in the US *legally* has been in immigration jail for 9 months. DHS admits she has status & does not oppose her release.
ICE still won't let her out. Whatever your politics, no one should be OK with this insane government incompetence & cruelty.
I count NINE armed personnel guarding a tourist who *briefly put her hand in the water* of a public monument—after a plainclothes sting operation to find water-touchers rolled her up.
Anyone who thinks this is how you should run a government is mentally ill.
Chris Hayes: You were detained for 5 hours during this arrest?
Hearn: Yes. I was in the lockup. I was photographed, fingerprinted, and not allow to make a phone call. No, nobody knew I was there. I was held that whole time, was never read my rights.
In the old USSR, people could be arrested for photographing bridges, tunnels, etc. A repressive and paranoid regime assumed the photographers must be spies and saboteurs. Americans laughed at such petty tyranny. Nothing like that could happen in their free country! Until now.