BREAKING: Dr. Scott Warren found NOT GUILTY on all charges for providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to two undocumented men. Yet again, No More Deaths has withstood the government’s attempts to criminalize basic human compassion. — No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) November 20, 2019 This was not a mistrial. This was not a judge …
Crimes against humanity
The Vice President Announces a Ceasefire That Is Not a Ceasefire & the President Announces That Everyone is Happy With It
Earlier this afternoon, the Vice President, with the Secretary of State behind him, announced a ceasefire he had gotten Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to agree to. The President then did an impromptu press gaggle on the tarmac of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport where he ran with this news. The President spun the Vice President’s announcement …
Some Good News to End This Week!
The Federal courts have worked diligently to make America great again and provided us with three items of good news to end this most infrastructure of weeks. 1: President Trump lost his appeal to stop a House subpoena of his tax documents: "In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of …
Annals of the Horrible
Thought I’d share some (late) lunch joy by cleaning out a couple of browser tabs I’ve been meaning to share with the Jackaltariat. First up in the catalogue of awful… Nothing says more about a society than how it treats its most vulnerable. Which is why this, from Pennsylvania coal country last month, says all …
Taking Heed of What Ben Ferencz, the Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Wants Us To Know
Yesterday marked the 77th anniversary of the beginning of the NAZI’s clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto known as the Great Deportation. This summer is also the 100th anniversary of the Red Summer of 1919 that saw over 200 African Americans killed in what are still incorrectly referred to as race riots instead of targeted acts …
Mike Pence, the GOP’s Emergency Backup Monster
After seeing the photographs and videos and reading the press reports last night, you really had to wonder what idiot thought it would be a good idea to send VPOTUS to McAllen. And it turned out to be Idiot-1. https://t.co/iPKPdlzrXu — George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 13, 2019 There have been rumors that “Idiot-1” wants to …
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The 24th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre
On July 11, 1995 Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian Serbs led by Ratko Mladic. In the days and weeks prior to the Serbs taking the city, approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically killed, including those trying to flee the city and into and through the woods and forests to reach safety from …
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