Happy ‘PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT’ Day! [UPDATE-5]
We’ve been waiting too long for this day.
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We’ve been waiting too long for this day.
After the wholly repugnant speech Donald Trump gave in South Dakota — on lands stolen from Lakota and Dakota nations — it’s important to remember one thing.
We want a slice of normalcy: a cold beverage in hand, burgers on the grill, fireworks overhead, fireflies after dark, family and friends all around us. And we want it now. Some of us, though, won’t get these things. Some of us have been forgotten.
It’s ultimately all one thing: Donald J. Trump needs to be removed from office for abuse of power and dereliction of duty.
There’s an action item at the end of this post. It’ll be more effort than Trump put into protecting our troops in Afghanistan from Taliban boosted by Russian secret bounties.
Jim Jordan, killer clown — an existential threat to members of Congress who have to put up with him while they represent the rest of us.
There’s always more than three things to address but here’s three we should look at more closely — Yesterday’s COVID-19 oversight hearing, the data debacle in Tulsa, and racist facial recognition.
Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday didn’t live up to my worries about violence or Trump campaign’s expectations for turnout.
A post to capture Attorney General Bill Barr’s bizarre Friday evening attempt to firing Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York
Very big SCOTUS day today. Huge — and that’s in spite of the court declining to hear cases on multiple issues.