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The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin by Jeff Taylor and Chad Israelson bit.ly/2ULKBnA 
(pp. 19-20) Dylan's "parents were leaders in the local Hadassah (a women’s Zionist organization) and B’nai B’rith...spent some of his boyhood summers...attending Herzl Camp, a Jewish summer camp with a Zionist focus."
(p. 131) Dylan praises Chabad for its work against the the illegal drug trade. #chutzpah
1/My firm filed new #FOIA lawsuit today for @wbaidlaw to compel disclosure of @FBI records re: #whistleblower’s efforts to reveal pattern of falsified intel reports generated by FBI & @CIA that led to unlawful retaliation. Story of #MarkMcConnell told in
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
2/In July 2017, McConnell was detailed by Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Office to work at Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATFS) at request of JIATFS leadership.
3/Primary reasons for detailing McConnell were to inject agency-agnostic prosecutor perspective into fed law enforcement agency interactions at JIATFS to try & smooth out unproductive competitive interagency law enforcement behaviors ...
Time to talk global vaccine exports - a topic where data availability (hopefully) will soon improve as opportunities for "vaccine diplomacy" emerge and - despite the Indian tragedy and glaring global inequalities in vacc access, the news is generally quite good. A 🧵
2) Best news (H/T @ChadBown) is that @pfizer is now FINALLY starting to fulfill international contracts also from US located production, following the (alleged) expiry of de facto contractual bans on doing so. Up to 1mn doses now going to Mexico. 👍 reuters.com/business/healt…
3) EU exports continue to rise rapidly and reached - once the earliest shipments in Dec 2020-Jan 2021 are included in the data - ~161mn by late Apr with 148mn since Jan 31st 2021 alone bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
1/4) In 75 BC, a band of pirates captured a young Roman nobleman who was on his way to study in Rhodes. From the start the 25-year-old Julius Caesar refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at the sum of 20 talents of silver...
2/4) ..he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and demanded they raise his ransom to 50 talents! Settling in to wait for the ransom to arrive, Caesar bossed the pirates around, made them listen to his speeches and shushed them whenever he wanted to sleep..
3/4) ..always addressing the pirates as if he were their commander and they were his subordinates. In the 38 days it took for the ransom to arrive, Caesar would often tell his captors that after his release he would return and crucify them all - at which they would merely laugh..
Welcome back to another episode of #DeconstructingLee.
In this episode we will delve into @RepLeeZeldin @leezeldin and his amazing run of #FelonPhotoOps.
Short of a visit to Rikers, how does a man end up being photographed with so many fraudsters, felons & the newly indicted?
In this episode we will delve into @RepLeeZeldin @leezeldin and his amazing run of #FelonPhotoOps.
Short of a visit to Rikers, how does a man end up being photographed with so many fraudsters, felons & the newly indicted?
In the beginning, there was Ed Walsh.
Ed just finished serving 2 years for his conviction on wire fraud & theft of government services.
Ed liked to play golf, gamble and politick while ‘working’ his job as corrections officer.
@RepLeeZeldin was Walsh’s protege:
Ed just finished serving 2 years for his conviction on wire fraud & theft of government services.
Ed liked to play golf, gamble and politick while ‘working’ his job as corrections officer.
@RepLeeZeldin was Walsh’s protege:
In case you would like to further explore just how seriously Ed breeched the public trust, here is the DOJ press release.
@leezeldin’s mentor ladies and gentlemen!
justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/e…
@leezeldin’s mentor ladies and gentlemen!
justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/e…
anybody interested in a #rant on the #earnings of #freelance #journalism? if so, let me first brew some coffee and you can fasten your seat belt.
only @brunchik? see, you folks don't even give a shit.
