I really feel like the world would benefit from having more than one historical reference, so not everything was a choice between “totally fine” and “Hitler.” https://t.co/na2MBM0QEn
This Seattle protest has nothing to do with police, it has to do with harassing owners of property in a gentrifying neighborhood in Seattle, and it's being played up a lot by right-wing users on Twitter:
For folks just seeing @bonappetit problematic content, please don’t center Iranians & neglect to mention that the writer was fine w/ ignoring US occupation of Afghanistan. As Iranians, we gotta do better. Afghans are subjected to violence by Iran & ignored by int’l community.
States where @JoeBiden is zeroing in with $280 million in TV and digital ad reservations leading up to the November election:
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Florida
North Carolina
Arizona
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nevada
New Hampshire
Colorado
Virginia
Georgia
Iowa
Ohio
Texas
Guatemalan security forces on Sunday used sticks and tear gas to beat back a large migrant caravan bound for the United States, just days before the advent of a new U.S. administration, which urged travelers to abandon the journey.
A coronavirus variant first reported in Britain is believed to be potentially 50 percent more transmissible and has spread to over 50 countries. Here’s how it was born.https://t.co/UQ5ZhDLGWK
A Pennsylvania woman accused of being one of the Capitol rioters told a former "romantic partner" she planned to steal a laptop computer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and sell it to Russian intelligence, court documents revealed Monday.
Riley June Williams was charged with disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with the intent to disturb a session of Congress and other charges after her former flame turned her in.
William's ex, who was described in Special Agent Jonathan Lund's charging document as W 1 (witness one), called the FBI and told them she "intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.”
‘The man, Emad Shargi, 56, who is Iranian American, was summoned to a Tehran court Nov. 30 and told that he had been convicted of espionage ***without a trial*** and sentenced to 10 years.’ https://t.co/2RAAyDnEAN
The options here are limited. Give up your vehicle, meet violence with violence. That's about all you can do when someone puts a gun on you and demands your property. It's the city and it's going to happen. Don't like it, but that's Chicago. https://t.co/yRud8ZBKQN
@GlennLoury models for us all the virtue of epistemic humility: If we are to heal the wound that cleaves our country in twain, we all—left and right—must learn to admit when we were wrong and to update our models of the world accordingly. Looking forward to this episode! https://t.co/dI3GkxA7UL
MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny returned to his home country Sunday, five months after a near-fatal nerve-agent attack, and was arrested at the border, a show of fearlessness by Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and of anxiety by President Vladimir V. Putin.
..(Violence) is what is offered to the masses (by Republican far right radicals) in lieu of actual power. The result is violence that becomes almost casual . .. a politics of delusion that is acted out in the real world ... many who participated in the (Capitol) attack are having trouble grasping the legal consequences that came along with their live-streamed insurrection .. For far-right leaders today, inciting violence against the nation's "enemies" (the press, the "Deep State", Democrats, liberals, BLM) offers the fan base a pathway to political participation ...freedom has been refashioned to contain violence at its core: freedom to carry a weapon and use it at will, to infect others around you during a pandemic ...
It hasn’t been updated yet today so we have a couple new cases on our site from this morning but credit to them for informing the public of latest court proceedings
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) lost her seat on the House Financial Services Committee after House Democratic leaders on Thursday rejected her request for a waiver to serve on the Financial Services panel and other committees simultaneously, two House Democratic sources told The Hill.
The Financial Services Committee is one of five House panels deemed “exclusive” by Democratic leaders under caucus rules adopted in July 2020.
This is a bit more conservative than likely the taste of many Dagbloggers. However, it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the declining communities that may not have bankrolled and funded the rise of Trump, but certainly yelled, smashed things and voted on his behalf.
There is an analogy made in the conversation to life on Indian reservations and I would go so far as to say the schizophrenia and nonsense nature of MAGA had a whole lot to do with the contrast of people who on one hand were taught that they are privileged and that being poor was for brown people and a lifestyle and situation that puts them where the people they once (and perhaps still) looked down upon once were.
“It’s as if corporate America has impeached the president and has canceled the president. We will see what the Senate does, if they decide to impeach and convict. But companies moved more swiftly than the House and the Senate and that’s a remarkable thing.” --@brianstelterpic.twitter.com/rtdUyyotXG