Even if you do not want to watch the entire episode look at where he stored the gun and then how he fired it. This is the responsible gun owner we are always told about.
My blood sugar has been uncontrolled all day causing me to have periods of extreme tired. As my sugar soars and then the insulin fights to bring it down and then soars again I am seesawing between feeling OK and not able to keep my eyes open. I have been back to bed four times so far today. I feel I have not gotten anything done.
I found out that my part D insurance company wont pay for the insulin my doctor prescribed. Now I have to find what insulin they will cover and see if the doctor thinks that will work for me. It is not about what works best and what the doctor thinks will be the best choice for my medical condition, it is what the insurance company will pay at least part of. I sure could have used that lower drug prices and $15 insulin in the Build Back Better bill that wealthy yacht living Maserati driving Manchin says I don’t need.
In just the first month of 2022, drugmakers have raised the prices of prescription drugs by 6.6%.
Rather than take on Big Pharma's greed, two corporate Democrats and 50 Senate Republicans would rather block Build Back Better and line their own pockets with Big Pharma cash.
Make no mistake: These 52 senators are enabling billion-dollar drug companies to raise drug prices in the middle of a global pandemic. A moral outrage. https://t.co/VIs2KjrLvF
If only the #NYT were this concerned about the debt when #TFG was ramming through tax cuts for corporations and rich people.
What about interest on the W Bush tax cuts and his two endless wars?
They said ‘don’t politicize the bench, no judicial activism’. They lied. It’s what conservatives do.
Most of the braindead Right have no idea of the mission of the Federalist Society. They can’t connect the dots between their grievances with life and a corporate fascist judiciary/SCOTUS.
How do you work for Putin without saying you work for Putin. Hawley is a Russian rat.
If your version of American history is completely positive with all the negative parts whitewashed away, then it's not history — it's propaganda. https://t.co/z46x6YpluP
Too bad he and the legislature spent all that time playing to the all important constituency of fox news’ primetime hosts instead of fixing the power grid. Maybe we can use those critical race theory and abortion bounty laws to keep warm https://t.co/TkufhkhEYR
Always a different set of rules for [mediocre white] men.
Would like to see this broken into Red State and Blue State deaths per capita to compare policies.
NYT avoids telling why the US has such a high death rate: right wing disinformation & Putin
The idea is to walk softly but carry a big stick. I agree with Ukraine on this. Russia would love it if Ukraine’s economy crashed and their businesses closed. That actually could be used by Russia to invade. So world, be ready to act but don’t scream about it world wide.
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Nope, not even close. What was requested is he stop promoting lies about a health crisis and getting people killed. Even he admitted he had to try harder to give the correct information.
No Biden did not base his pick just on skin color, skin color is just one of the qualifications he requires of the nominee. Those who keep complaining of this see only that he is picking a black woman as if it was a random person he seen on the street. The complainers are not even worth arguing because they are doing it in bad faith, wanting to find some fault with Biden, and fault at all.
What’s that have to do with car crash? he prison system in the US always fails. The reality is that it doesn’t rehabilitate. It teaches people to be better criminals. We have more people in the jail and prison than any other country. Yes, the system has certainly failed.
The right is up in arms because ICE is moving families to new locations. They act as if ICE has never moved people around the country and in the night at that. Well I posted on the many flights they did to hide kids taken from their families in the middle of the night. Companies started to refuse ICE to fly these scared kids who were under orders not to talk and who no one was allowed to talk to. This was the real abuse. These kids were taken from their families and taken across the country to be given to adoption agencies (usually christian adoption agencies)to place in families for money. That is called child trafficking.
So the cartoonist admits the average person in the US can not afford necessities which is increasing petty crimes of theft. I think it is time to tax the wealthy and large corporations the way they were taxed in the best economic times of the US such as the 1950’s so the government can take care of the needs of the people. The government can create programs to insure people have the things they need and are not so deep in poverty that they need to steal to stay warm and clothed.
Whoopi Goldberg made a foolish comment about the Holocaust. She apologized. Mike Lester nevertheless piled on.
Less than a year ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, an actual member of the U S Congress, made vile comments trivializing the Holocaust in the context of criticizing mask mandates as tyrannous. Even Kevin McCarthy condemned them. Mike Lester bravely and forthrightly responded by . . . publishing cartoons condemning mask mandates as tyrannous.
This is, of course, the same Mike Lester who in October 2018, following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, published cartoons attacking the criticism of Halloween costumes as cultural appropriation and depicting Stacy Abrams as a common thief. It’s pretty clear what bothers Mr. Lester and what doesn’t.
I remember night flights when ICE took children who had been taken from their parents at the Southern border and taken across the US to mostly Christian adoption agencies to be placed with US families for a price. The frighted kids were not allowed to speak to anyone and ICE agents wouldn’t let anyone talk to the children. This is child trafficking. It was done under the tRump administration and it was because of the tRump separation policy that they had children they had to move around the country.
Complete lie. It is stupid to even promote that idea. Remember the US is a country of laws and the DA and Gov. of Texas along with other states have go to court to block every attempt that Biden has made to change rules at the border. The only one rule change that was made was that families seeking asylum are not detained but verified given ways to track them and sent to family or NGO’s in other parts of the country. There are cities and towns in the US that are welcoming as many immigrant families as they can get. Reality is the US has places dying because of lack of people living there. Immigrants bring life back to these places. But that is the only rule change. The borders are not open, apprehensions are up. Facts matter
My first brand new home cost less than my 2018 car. Then I could afford a new home, two vehicles, two motorcycles, and other luxuries on one working persons wages. Not now.
A living wage. Housing as a human right. Medicare for All. Building union power. Legalizing marijuana & expunging records. Tackling the climate crisis.
Republican fascism is here. FOX broadcasts the propaganda. Both thought they would restore past glory by scapegoating and violence.
Half the GOP in Congress will be in prison and they will still chant ‘lock her up’ because the brainless have no objective intelligence, just slogans and grievances.
We had all of our major cities BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!
We need to look at this for what it is — they’re trying to keep us from voting with the threat of violence, because they know they can’t win on the issues.
Because of the red states forcing in person schooling with no attempt at all to use precautions or mitigate the spread of Covid, so many teachers are out sick with the virus that there is no one left to watch the kids as the parents work. Think about the sign, it is not about educating the kids, it is about having a place to park them so the parents can make profit for their employers. If it was about teaching kids than the money would have been put into making the kids and adults safe.
Just what we need, a country that can not afford to take care of nuclear weapons and did not have the expertise needed to control them having them. But they are right they should have gotten much better security promises and treaties for giving them up.
Not quite that bad. There has been some hesitation as to how far to go with sanctions on the part of Germany because they get a large part of their natural gas for heating their homes from Russia. In the middle of winter I can see their issue, but I also want to note they have agreed to go along with the sanctions.
Yes they do hate to be called out for what they are. Most racist say they are not racists. The fringe people want or need to think they are the majority and the ones with the truth.
Notice the cartoonist name. This same deep right wing person who fawns over tRump and rants against anything the Democrats want to do while promoting Covid misinformation is supporting the Canadian anti-maskers / anti-vaccine truckers. Do you wonder if there is dark money fueling all these people ranting against governments attempt to slow down and eradicate the virus?
This normally far right cartoonist is sort of correct above. But what it points out is not that Biden has fallen but that there is not one Republican willing to do the right thing for their country. It shows that the right is party first rather than the good of the country. They would see the country destroyed to make Biden fail, regardless of the cost to the nation.
How immature. The US government requires money to operate and provide services. The IRS exists to ensure that those who owe taxes pay the correct amount owed. The problem is that the Republicans have managed to shift the tax burden on to the lower incomes and poor and away from the wealthy. The Republicans have starved the agency so they can no longer go after wealthy people actively avoiding paying the taxes they owe. The wealthy want as much bad press and to demonize the IRS as much as possible so the people will try to do away with the agency in charge of making the wealthy pay their taxes. This is the right wing media doing the bidding of the wealthy to sway public opinion. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give the wealthy a pass from paying their taxes.
I noticed Goodwin never pointed out the injustice of appointing white people over qualified black women. Remember that Reagan promised to put a woman on the Supreme Court if he were elected—and he did. Was that pandering? Trump promised to put anti-abortionists on the Court, and he did. Was that pandering? Conserves are scared of a more balanced court. That’s why they stacked the Supreme Court with single minded simpletons who pander to the ultra right wing evangelicals.
Michigan state senate candidate Mike Detmer (@DetmerMike) tells a crowd that he wants citizens to bring guns to polling places: “…if we can’t change the tide, we need to be prepared to lock and load. So you ask, ‘What can we do?’ Show up armed.” #milegpic.twitter.com/emIKnfyqsi
Please watch the video above. It is CC. I have watched it three times and it chills me more each time. Think about this. This Republican candidate is openly appealing to his right wing followers to show up at voting places armed, to unplug and stop voting if they don’t like what they see. Don’t like that black guy voting, just threaten violence, or unplug the machine he is using. Heck shut down entire voting places in black areas. They do not see this as a problem, to them this is the goal so that they take complete power. This is not democracy. They are not trying to win votes, they are demanding that others not be allowed to vote. I spent yesterday arguing with right wing cult members who had no idea of reality or facts who about civilian vigilantism thought it was great and simply standing your ground. Defending your way of life one wrote to me. Cops and people should be able to mete out punishment as they wish. This is a clear and immediate danger to all of us who want democracy in the US. And these people that are saying take guns to the polling places and use your second amendment rights are supported by Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. By all the right wing opinion shows. Really scary. OK back to the roundup I go.
The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney is asking for the FBI’s help in providing security for buildings and staff one day after former President Donald Trump called prosecutors investigating him “racists” and said his supporters should hold “the biggest protests we have ever had” in cities like Atlanta if the prosecutors “do anything wrong or illegal.”
At a rally in Conroe, Texas, Saturday night, Trump, without naming them, railed against Willis plus New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., who are investigating his business empire, calling them “racists.” The three are Black. Trump provided no evidence of racial discrimination.
“These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They’re racists and they’re very sick — they’re mentally sick,” he said. “They’re going after me without any protection of my rights from the Supreme Court or most other courts. In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you.”
In a letter to J.C. Hacker, FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office, Willis asked for a risk assessment of buildings surrounding her office and the courthouse where the grand jury will sit. She also asked for FBI agents to provide security, saying “security concerns were escalated this weekend” by Trump’s rhetoric. Willis said her office had already received communications from people unhappy with the investigation before Trump’s rally.
“I am asking that you immediately conduct a risk assessment of the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center, and that you provide protective resources to include intelligence and federal agents,” Willis said in the letter, obtained by CNN. “It is imperative that these resources are in place well in advance of the convening of the Special Purpose Grand Jury.”
CNN has reached out to the FBI in Atlanta for comment.
Willis, a Democrat, compared potential violence associated with her investigation to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Trump said Saturday night that he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly attack if he wins the White House again. Several high-profile Republicans, including New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, quickly dismissed Trump’s suggestion.
“We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Willis said.
The State Of Georgia and The FBI should send the bill for heightened security to TFG as his little pity party and suggestion of mass protests in Atlanta will cost someone somewhere some big bucks! https://t.co/en05dwcWqb
A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael is shown during the sentencing of he and his father Greg McMichael and neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. | Stephen B. Morton via AP Photo
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery’s parents denounced the proposed deal for Travis McMichael, with mother Wanda Cooper-Jones and father Marcus Arbery emotionally asking the judge to reject agreements filed for McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael.
In rejecting the deal, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood said it would have locked her into specific terms — including 30 years in federal prison — at sentencing. Wood said that in this case it would only be appropriate to consider the family’s wishes at sentencing, which the proposed deal wouldn’t allow.
Travis and his lawyer asked for a 10 minute break to discuss whether he moves ahead with pleading guilty. The judge had yet to rule on his father’s proposed deal.
Marcus Arbery told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Brunswick that he’s “mad as hell” over the deal, which lawyer Lee Merritt said could enable Travis and Greg McMichael to spend the first 30 years of their life sentences in federal prison, rather than state prison where conditions are tougher.
“Ahmaud is a kid you cannot replace,” Arbery said. “He was killed racially and we want 100% justice, not no half justice.”
Cooper-Jones described the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to propose the plea deal despite her objections as “disrespectful.”
“I fought so hard to get these guys in the state prison,” she said. “I told them very, very adamantly that I wanted them to go to state prison and do their time. … Then I got up this morning and found out they had accepted this ridiculous plea.”
Wood continued preparations to summon summoning the first 50 potential jurors to the courthouse on Feb. 7 for questioning.
The proposed plea agreements were filed with the court late Sunday. There was no mention of a deal with their co-defendant, William “Roddie” Bryan. No details were disclosed in court Monday morning. Federal prosecutors didn’t mention the deals in the court’s morning session.
Federal deals would not affect state murder convictions in Arbery’s killing. All three men were sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 7 after a trial last fall.
The hate crime charges accuse McMichaels and Bryan of violating the 25-year-old Black man’s civil rights by chasing him through their neighborhood in coastal Georgia on Feb. 23, 2020. The McMichaels armed themselves and pursued Arbery in one pickup truck while Bryan joined the chase in another and recorded video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.
A national outcry erupted when the graphic video leaked online two months later. Georgia was one of just four U.S. states without a hate crimes law at the time. Legislators quickly approved one, but it came too late for state hate crime charges in Arbery’s killing.
During the state trial in Glynn County Superior Court, the defense argued that the white men had authority to chase Arbery because they reasonably suspected he had been committing crimes in their neighborhood. Travis McMichael testified he opened fire only after Arbery attacked him with fists and tried to grab his shotgun.
The federal judge ordered that a jury pool be chosen from throughout the Southern District of Georgia, which covers 43 counties, to improve odds of seating a fair and unbiased jury.
You can no longer be neutral on this issue. You are either against white supremacy and the negation of black history, or, you identify with white supremacy and you require an anti-black agenda to exist.
Your exposure to humanity should make you curious. Tell your parents to open a book.
It is exhausting to see people decrying Biden picking “a less qualified” or “unqualified” Black woman for SCOTUS, without even seeing who the nominee is. You are essentially saying that you think there is literally no Black woman in this country qualified to sit on the Court.
Just a reminder that the Heritage Foundation, a pillar of conservative policy, is actively engaging in spreading anti-vax misinformation.
It boggles my mind that in 2022, with thousands still dying daily, a major think tank is still agreeing "shots don't prevent spread." 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/0fsGi6Lzge
Being a police officer isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs and it’s far behind such risky ( but genuinely useful ) endeavours as working on a farm and collecting garbage.
Not only that but COVID became the number one killer of cops « in the line of duty » last year.
— Scott #FuckElonMusk AbolishThePolice #ACAB Menor (@smenor) January 30, 2022
Also he’s a fantastic idiot if he thinks that violence against women isn’t a norm in society or that the threat of being punched (or whatever else) by men isn’t an actual risk that women constantly navigate
— E. McCumber @independentpen@mas.to (@independentpen) January 30, 2022
People can still travel by air, they just have to follow the rules as they always have had to follow the rules. The rules now include wearing masks and having the Covid vaccines.
My comment on the above cartoon was deleted as spam. I suspect that the cult followers of the right simply flag any comment that contradicts what they spew. The person writing the comment that was removed doesn’t get notified and has no way to know why it was flagged or who flagged it. There is a request for review and I hit them, but I have never seen the review have any effect. I have had comments on review for over two months with no resolution. So it scam to block non-right wing misleading comments. Below is the comment that was marked spam.
The southern border is secure, one of the most secure of borders. The norther border is not only not secure in many places it is not even marked or patrolled. In fact the northern border often runs through towns, down the center of roads, or is just sections of beach. Why do some people focus on the well patrolled and watched southern border and not the wide open northern one confuses me. There has to be something different about the people crossing them … Oh I got it skin color maybe?
The wall is not practical, it is not effective, and it is easily defeated. We all seen the videos of people scaling the new walls, cutting them with battery operated saws, or using makeshift ladders to go over them. The idea of a wall is only a media gimmick, a political tool, a pretend solution to please the anti-immigration crowd. There are long sections where the wall cannot be built due to terrain, where people don’t want to give up their land, where it is an environmental disaster. It simply is a not needed boondoggle.
Ah healthcare. Republicans have blocked every attempt to lower drug costs and to improve healthcare for the public. Look it up.
Why do we need to rebuild the military? Didn’t tRump brag he did that? Almost over night even. They were out of bullets until him he said. Thing was the military budget increased under Obama, under tRump, and under Biden. Those are facts, look it up.
Infrastructure for political cronies like the one support by Republicans that just passed and was signed into law. Know why that is so popular with corporations and the wealthy? It gives large amounts of public assets to businesses so they can charge the public to use them. That is real crony problem, Republicans giving the country to the wealthy instead of having government working for the public.
Oh I agree that we shouldn’t have bribes to China for Ivanka’s trademarks. That was horrible. She got 18 in two months during first two years when China was on good terms with the former president. Russia got many good deals in the hope of approving serval ventures tRump wanted to in Moscow. He even offered Putin the top penthouse for free. it is a fact look it up.
OK so your opinion host talking points are bull. Go back to what I said, why are the GOP not talking about them? They are not pushing any policies. They argue culture wars, they talk about a kids potato toy not being called Mr. or Misses anymore as it is a national crisis. They screamed for weeks that Dr. Seuss was being canceled because the owners did not want to keep publishing books that were not selling out of the collect of his works. Look at what the Republicans are talking about and see it is fear and outrage they are trying to create. Move past that and they offer nothing to improve your daily life.
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This was the comment I was replying to.
These are polices the GOP are behind and all make American Lives better: Securing the border. Finish the Wall – the materials are there, awaiting construction, Ensuring we don’t have another chaotic exit, leave folks behind strategy, anywhere else. Improving Heath Care and reestablish Private Insurance with less government. Having Infrastructure that is really Infrastructure and not a money to political cronies bill. Stopping all of the concessions to our enemies in return for a bribe of a relative. Continuing what the new VA gov an other GOP govs are doing by ensuring the lies of CRT are not in school curriculum. Stopping using govt bureaucracies as political tools. Rebuilding the military. Withdrawing from Iran and Paris deals.
None of these divide the people like Dems policies do nor are they designed to keep Dems in power.
There are limits and rules to every right in the US. How is it freedom to push misinformation that is responsible for killing many people and holding back the recovery from a pandemic? It is not anti-freedom to make sure that the public has the correct true information and that misinformation distribution is curbed or labeled as such. Spotify has begun labeling all misleading misinformation about Covid and says they will include links to the correct information. It also is a free market decision for those who disagree with the company to remove their music. Again no violation of freedom.
Participants at a neo-Nazi rally in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday waved Nazi flags and shouted antisemitic and anti-Black slogans, according to StopAntisemitism.org. The rally was organized by the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was live-streamed on the American Nazi Party’s website. NSM has a 25-point manifesto on its website and advocates an American “White” ethnostate in which only those with European ancestry can be citizens.
My son just witnessed nazis in Orlando. He said there were dozens hanging on the corner. The guy getting assaulted got out of his car and pushed one of them. @fox35orlandopic.twitter.com/HUvNgI3zwl
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Whoopi Goldberg made a foolish comment about the Holocaust. She apologized. Mike Lester nevertheless piled on.
Less than a year ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, an actual member of the U S Congress, made vile comments trivializing the Holocaust in the context of criticizing mask mandates as tyrannous. Even Kevin McCarthy condemned them. Mike Lester bravely and forthrightly responded by . . . publishing cartoons condemning mask mandates as tyrannous.
This is, of course, the same Mike Lester who in October 2018, following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, published cartoons attacking the criticism of Halloween costumes as cultural appropriation and depicting Stacy Abrams as a common thief. It’s pretty clear what bothers Mr. Lester and what doesn’t.