Category: Police / Law Enforcement / ICE
2-year-old killed in Russian shelling attack
Young man tells how family was shot by Russian tanks
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The US is called the wealthiest country on earth and yet the public is the too poor to enjoy life
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Scottie’s world today
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I am seeing this sort of cartoon all over the web.
This was drawn by a right wing cartoonist with no acknowledgement that the right denying masks and getting vaccinated would cut down on the chance of another surge in the Covid virus variants.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
It’s NOT because of gas prices. It’s because they don’t want to pay taxes to support anyone but themselves. Trade lower gas prices for lower education, restrictive healthcare, lax safety regulations, more government in your private parts, etc.
Reading the comments on this cartoon was enlightening. Every tenth comment explained that the report did not say that. Every tenth comment explained what the report said, and how it differed from the right wing narrative. Then after the comment that explained things there was a rash of right wing misinformation posted as the real true story and then the insults. That is what the right wing is today.
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And now some for fun
Josh Mandel Calls Opponent “Pussy” In Near Fist-Fight
These are statesmen? This is what passes as reasonable people for the US congress? This is what the Republican party has devolved into. Thugs. Hyper aggressive and quick to anger. Threaten violence to get what you want. The people that voted for tRump love this as they run on emotion. They don’t think things out, they yell and scream.
The right wing Washington Examiner reports:
Ohio Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly came to blows during a candidate forum Friday evening. Mandel, a former state treasurer and an early front-runner in the race, has targeted Gibbons in recent weeks in the contentious and competitive Republican primary.
At a GOP candidate forum organized by FreedomWorks, Mandel claimed that Gibbons made “billions of dollars” shipping Ohio businesses to China. Gibbons disputed the claim, saying Mandel “never worked in the private sector.”
Mandel then jumped up and stood inches from Gibbons, yelling that he served two tours in Iraq. “Don’t tell me I haven’t worked,” Mandel said.
The Huffington Post reports:
“You’re dealing with the wrong guy,” said Mandel, the race’s evangelical-backed candidate, after a heated exchange about Gibbons’ business interests in China, seemingly mumbling under his breath: “You watch what happens. Pussy.”
Making the incident all the more disturbing, the two men are the current front-runners in the primary to replace Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is retiring. It underscores just how intense Ohio’s primary has gotten and the extreme plays the candidates are willing to make to get Donald Trump’s attention.
The moderator intervened just as Vance urged them: “Guys, sit down. C’mon. God damn. This is ridiculous.”
Federal judge rules Kim Davis violated couples’ constitutional rights; will go to trial over damages
A federal judge has ruled that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015.
In an order published Friday afternoon, United States District Judge David L. Bunning of the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in a civil lawsuit that the two couples, David Ermold and David Moore, and James Yates and Will Smith, filed against Davis.
That settles – without a trial – the question of whether Davis violated their constitutional rights, but no decision has been made yet on whether Davis will be on the hook for the likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees accrued over the six-and-a-half years of litigation.
Bunning denied Davis’s request for summary judgment on the question of damages, meaning that decision will still go to trial and ultimately be left up to a jury. The plaintiffs are asking for compensatory and punitive damages, pre- and post-judgment interest, costs and attorneys’ fees.
“The plaintiffs could not be more happy,” Michael Gartland, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told WKYT’s Garrett Wymer. “As the court notes in the decision, this case has been pending since 2015. They couldn’t be more happy that they’re finally going to get their day in court and they’re confident justice will be served.”
In a news release, Liberty Counsel, the organization who represented Davis, noted that the case could go back to the Supreme Court over religious freedom concerns.
“Kim Davis is entitled to protection to an accommodation based on her sincere religious belief,” Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said in the release. “This case raises serious First Amendment free exercise of religion claims and has a high potential of reaching the Supreme Court.” (Read Liberty Counsel’s full response here.)
A status conference is scheduled to be held by telephone on April 1. A trial date will likely be set then.
Davis’s actions during the summer of 2015 turned Morehead into an epicenter of the battle over gay rights following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
Davis said she acted “under God’s authority” when she, as the order summarizes, “famously refused to comply with Obergefell, which required her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.”
David Ermold and David Moore were denied marriage licenses three times, and James Yates and Will Smith were denied licenses four times, before the two couples were granted marriage licenses by a deputy clerk while Davis spent five days in jail for contempt of court.
The two couples sued Davis, saying her actions caused “mental anguish, emotional distress, humiliation and reputation damages.”
The case has gone through several setbacks, appeals and delays over the course of the past six-and-a-half years.
Davis was previously found to have sovereign immunity in her professional capacity as county clerk, but did not have protection from civil liability in her personal capacity. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal on that issue.
Davis had previously asked state lawmakers for an accommodation for her religious beliefs so that she would not have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she did not receive one. The state later removed the clerk’s signature from marriage licenses.
Davis lost her bid for re-election in 2018.
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Federal Judge Rules Former Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Violated Constitutional Rights Of Same-Sex Couples
Federal Judge Rules Former Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Violated Constitutional Rights Of Same-Sex Couples
Lexington’s CBS News affiliate reports:
A federal judge has ruled that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015.
In an order published Friday afternoon, United States District Judge David L. Bunning of the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in a civil lawsuit that the two couples, David Ermold and David Moore, and James Yates and Will Smith, filed against Davis.
That settles – without a trial – the question of whether Davis violated their constitutional rights, but no decision has been made yet on whether Davis will be on the hook for the likely hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees accrued over the six-and-a-half years of litigation.
Davis’s lawyer Mat Staver responds:
When Davis petitioned the Supreme Court for review in 2020, the High Court denied review in which the only issue raised was sovereign immunity. However, Justices Thomas and Alito appeared to invite future challenges to the 2015 Obergefell marriage case.
Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Alito, wrote that “[t]his petition implicates important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell, but it does not cleanly present them.”
In granting summary judgment for the plaintiffs, Judge Bunning ruled that Davis violated “clearly established” law when she ceased issuing all marriage licenses.
The case will now proceed to trial on the issue of damages, if any. Davis argues that a finding of liability would violate the First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion. This case now clearly presents the free exercise defense and thus could return to the Supreme Court.
Kim Davis is entitled to protection to an accommodation based on her sincere religious belief. This case raises serious First Amendment free exercise of religion claims and has a high potential of reaching the Supreme Court.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why is the US the only developed nation with out a real family leave system? Are we not as pro-life as the right wing claims?
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Scottie’s world today
Sorry got a real late start. Enjoy!
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Conservative politics uses the lens of anger.
It’s an international commodity, folks.
Comrade Carlson.
Tucker said it was not ‘un-American’ to support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. He was wrong. Tucker’s opinion is non-stop coordinated pro-Putin propaganda.
Trump bullshit laid bare.
Republicans are soft on crime because they would lose the entire Party if they had ethics.
Entire Republican Party is garbage politics legislated by garbage politicians to appease the garbage intellect of their base.
So many horrible conservatives to keep track of.
Authoritarians ban books. Create a false world where only THEY have the truth. See: GOP
Control speech. Attack truth. Punish women.
Russia or GOP?
Teaching people about the history of cruel actions only offends you if you identify with the cruelty.
Ex: People were racist. They were cruel.
Cruel person: Hey, I’m racist. Don’t hurt my feelings.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The right is desperate to ignore all the work Biden has done to box in Putin at the same time the right sings Putin’s praises.
Again the right wing cartoons are desperate to find anything to stick in blaming Biden. Gas prices have been addressed, we even have audio of one of the CEOs saying there is no way they would increase production and reduce their profits.
My gods, their country is being destroy while their people slaughtered and the right wing can only think of the money going to help them. Why, because the right things only of the wealthy wanting every cent of the nation’s wealth and they cry to see it going to help people.
Sick. While crime in the US may seem up right now it is not anywhere near what it was 10 years ago. But to compare any crime in the US to a war torn country that has been invaded and their people are being slaughtered is gross.
Yes Biden made a gaff. He goofed. He admitted it, he laughed about it. He is human. He has been known for making verbal mistakes. He did not get angry when he did it, he did not deny it. I find the difference between him and trump greatly refreshing. tRump would have attacked the press who reported it and claimed he never said what everyone heard him say.
Despite the rights many lies, such as Rudy saying he had the laptop but the authorities wouldn’t look at it, the authorities really had the laptop, the emails that refuted what the right wing was claiming were already in the hands of the DOJ / FBI. They clear both Hunter and Joe Biden. The emails to Hunter’s business partners also stressed many times that Joe Biden wouldn’t be bound by anything that Hunter was doing, that no one doing business with them should do so thinking they would influence Joe Biden’s behavior. It was so above board it is like watching a 1940’s TV show.
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And now some for fun
Does “Anti-Imperialism” Apply to Russia Too?
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans are preventing the government from working for the people. Vote them out and have a government of the people working for the people
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Scottie’s world today
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None of these other countries have for-profit corporate insurance. It’s that obvious.
Health care does not need a middle man.
All libertarians eliminated. All FOX World done.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/678996186992164864
Progressive politics will save the country.
American oil companies answer to shareholders and owners, not to the government.
Prices are a reflection of their greed, not supply and demand, nor the cost of crude oil per barrel.
Handful of *subsidized* monopolistic oil companies. It’s not a free market.
Refuse to be your child’s first bully 🌈
Republicans are all about control. The only way to get more power for their white cis-hetero male is to take away the rights of others and attack diversity.
Reactionary Republicans are the worst people.
‘Let others live’ said no conservative, judgmental control freak ever.
Authoritarians spread homophobia. See: GOP
Media bias.
The GOP/Russia authoritarian code:
We are criminals. We are corrupt. We are doing nothing wrong. The other side is worse.
Republicans are willing participants. Corruption is a pillar of authoritarianism.
Russia funds the GOP. GOP attacks democracy, non-whites, LGBTQ community, teachers, students, schools, and public health policy.
From Trump to entire GOP congress: they all take Russian money and parrot Russian active measures.
Marge is an international disgrace.
Republicans don’t even mind. They ❤ Putin.
Russia has their receipts.
Collusion. Conspiracy to commit treason. Propaganda syndication. Pro-Putin.
The dots are connected.
Putin wants to be Stalin. GOP ambitiously enable and amplify the madness.
Anyone who is soft on Putin is a disgrace.
When your selfishness clouds your entire world view. Middle Age Riot
The long-tail of covid is unknown. So ironic for Conservatives, who need absolutes to function, so embraced covid.
Covid is not over
The Republican male view of how pregnancy works.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
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Scottie's Playtime 
There is a difference between giveaways, like tax cuts for corporations and billionaires and investing in country to modernize it and make it competitive on a global scale.
Here we go again. The following is from “New Hopes for a Changing World,”Bertrand Russell, 1951:
“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster…In the situation that existed in the Great Depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again. But everybody thought that to do so would risk almost certain loss. Within the framework of classical economics there was no solution. Roosevelt saved the situation by bold and heretical action.
“He spent billions of public money, and created a huge public debt, but by doing so he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked; and though Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as ‘the madman in the White House.’”…
Our Government is supposed to help everybody, not just to give largesse to rich people in the comedic hope it will effectively filter down the wealth strata of all citizens. Roosevelt did the upper class a true favor, and some still refuse to believe it. Unfortunately, it took a world war to eventually unite us — for a while.