Former State Senate Pro Tem Patty Blevins died at age 72. Lots of politicians had nice things to say about her. I’ll let El Som have his say when he’s available.
Longtime Wilmington retailer Al’s Sporting Goods announced it will close at the end of the year, ending a 93-year run on lower Market Street.
The student protests in France, now in their second week, have shown that French police are nearly as violence-prone at ICE. A number of students have been badly injured – one had a hand ripped off, another his jaw broken – by “non-lethal” weapons. Critics have noted that police were nowhere near as violent with the Gilet Jaune protesters, who were a good bit more violent than the students have been.
Third Way, the surrender-monkey Democratic outfit that the media insists on calling “center-left” when it’s no such thing, is pissing on the idea of adding seats to the Supreme Court because it could trigger a backlash against their preferred Vichy Democrat candidates. Boo-fucking-hoo. As I’ve said for years, these people are bigger threats to progressivism than Republicans because they pretend to be on our side.
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