Sorry for the delayed posting. Was out lit-dropping for Kim Stock today. It was worth it.
Barr Authorized Search Of Reporters’ Phone Records. You know, to stop those damn leaks about Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. He will go down in infamy. Some excerpts:
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials.
News organizations and First Amendment advocates have long decried the government practice of seizing journalists’ records in an effort to identify the sources of leaks, saying it unjustly chills critical newsgathering. The last such high-profile seizure of reporters’ communications records came several years ago as part of an investigation into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the New York Times. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into Russian election interference.
It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a department spokesman said the decision to do so came in 2020, during the Trump administration. William P. Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general for nearly all of that year, before departing Dec. 23, declined to comment.
Remember ‘Hydroxychloroquine’? It was Trump’s miracle COVID cure for a minute. Somehow, Oklahoma got a refund on its super-stash. I wonder if Biden can do the same for our national stockpile of this miracle elixir.
Pro-Trump Prophet Kicked Out Of His Own Church. No, not for being rabidly pro-Trump. He founded the ‘Global Fire Church and Global Fire Ministries’ in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, after all. Rather, for ‘a pattern of “unscriptural and unbiblical behavior…in the home, on the road, and in the House of God” that went uncorrected despite being called on it “numerous times.” I prophesy his appearance at a rally with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz in the near future.
A History Of The ‘Worker Shortage’ Crisis:
In reality, though, this should be understood as the latest iteration of a question that’s plagued the owning class for centuries: How can they get everyone to do awful jobs for them for awful pay?
Quite the informative read.
Delaware Rethugs Introduce Voter Suppression Package. Won’t go anywhere, but it gives them something to pretend to do.
What do you want to talk about?