LAPD focused on peaceful protesters while ignoring looting, business owners say In other words, those were their orders. Wonder why...
Cops Kill Man
A Beloved BBQ Chef Who Fed Police For Free Was Fatally Shot After Louisville Authorities "Returned Fire" At A Crowd Update: Dave DeCamp has the full story here.
Dear Leader Hides in Bunker
Doing his best impression of Bush and Cheney on September 11th, Trump flees in cowardly terror to his underground bunker due to protests and riots outside. As though 1 the protesters had any intention of storming the White House and lynching the president or 2 that the cops and soldiers on premises would be unable to stop them if they tried. Surprised that Mr. All Politics is Daytime Cable News would seek to portray himself as such a weak, fearful little girl at a time like this, but he is what he is.
Democratic Party Leader Susan Rice: Blacks Are Only Upset By Police Abuse Because Russia Tricked Them!
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1267190459681603584 Of course. America is already great. Now if only the terrible Russians didn't control all of our minds, then we'd finally be happy!
Coming Apart at the Seams
It doesn’t have to be this way America is burning. Quite literally. The most destructive riots in America in a very long time have hit more than two dozen cities, as opportunistic thieves and arsonists hijack massive peaceful protests and acts of peaceful civil disobedience sparked by the senseless murder of a man named George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25. The riots are a tragedy not just for those who have lost or been hurt – a few were even shot during a protest in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday – but for the protesters’ cause which is their righteous anger at unaccountable police...
Justin Amash Introduces ‘Ending Qualified Immunity Act’
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648
5/29/20 Danny Sjursen on the Futility of the War in Afghanistan
Danny Sjursen discusses America’s absurd Afghan War strategy for the last nearly two decades. Sjursen served in Afghanistan during the Obama surge, seeing firsthand the utter futility of America’s attempt to conquer and rule a country that for centuries has been the graveyard of empires. Scott and Sjursen are hopeful that President Trump will follow through on some of his rhetoric and instincts and actually try to end this war, though they realize how difficult it will be even for a president who seems ready to leave, given all the entrenched interests that would like to stay...
5/29/20 Coleen Rowley on the Dangerous Failings of the FBI
Scott talks to Coleen Rowley about the failures in America’s intelligence agencies that contributed to the 9/11 attacks, and that continue to plague us today. She reminds us that three FBI agents in three different states tried to pass very specific warnings to their higher-ups about the possibility of an attack like the one on September 11th, but were ignored in all three cases. After 9/11, of course, our politicians assented to an unprecedented expansion of surveillance powers, most likely assuming that they would never be the victims of the abuse of these powers. In reality, they...