So-Called Police Accountability Task Force Votes Against Police Accountability. Just the way Speaker Peter drew it up:
- FAILED – Create policies creating civilian review boards for police agencies
- FAILED – Review the Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights
- FAILED – Review Collective Bargaining Agreements, in particular their relationship with Freedom of Information Act requests
That’s how you kill police reform in Delaware. Publicly announce that you’re serious about it. Then fill a task force full of cops and police groupies, and let them kill it. Nothing will change until the House leadership changes. Three leadership positions, two cops/one legislator who depends on the cops for her job. Oh, and an ex-cop to head the Task Force. Garbage in, garbage out.
Netanyahu’s ‘Wag The Dog’ War Appears To Have Worked. For Netanyahu. Nobody else:
Mr. Netanyahu, whose career seemed threatened in recent weeks after a fourth indecisive election, oddly stood to benefit from the crisis, which has sidelined concerns about Israel’s political gridlock. The crisis also has given momentum to Hamas, the militant group in Gaza that does not recognize Israel’s legitimacy.
An irredeemably evil man.
How To Deal With Trolls Masquerading As Reporters:
AOC Being Harassed By Marjorie Taylor Greene In 2019. You simply must watch that video from Andrew Kaczynski. This woman is insane and dangerous. She must be thrown out of Congress.
Trump Targeted Immigration Lawyers At Border:
Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d introduced himself as a counterterrorism specialist.
Levy was part of the legal team representing the father of a girl who’d died the previous month in the custody of the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP. “There was so much hate for immigration lawyers at that time,” she recalled. “I thought that somebody had put in an anonymous tip that I was a terrorist.”
Not even Nixon was this Nixonian.
Yep, Dark Money Group Wrote Those Voter Suppression Bills:
In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators across the country. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” she said, “or we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe.”
The Georgia law had “eight key provisions that Heritage recommended,” Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action for America, a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, told the foundation’s donors at an April 22 gathering in Tucson, in a recording obtained by the watchdog group Documented and shared with Mother Jones. Those included policies severely restricting mail ballot drop boxes, preventing election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms to voters, making it easier for partisan workers to monitor the polls, preventing the collection of mail ballots, and restricting the ability of counties to accept donations from nonprofit groups seeking to aid in election administration.
The leaked video reveals the extent to which Heritage is leading a massive campaign to draft and pass model legislation restricting voting access, which has been swiftly adopted this year in the battleground states of Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Iowa. It’s no coincidence that so many GOP-controlled states are rushing to pass similar pieces of legislation in such a short period of time.
Horse Racing, Medication And The Derby. Does this sound inhumane to you? It does to me.
Buccini/Pollin Hits Yet Another Jackpot: Welcome To Riverfront East. I think they should just name it The Landed Gentry, as in gentrification, which will be the inevitable result.
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