1. Here is link to the Garland memo addressing the violence directed towards school officials. What laws might be used to deter this violent behavior?
Justice Department Addresses Violent Threats Against School Officials and Teachers justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
2. First, I think it is organized and driven as part of the post #45 GQP's desperation to keep the MAGA mob incited through the 2022 midterms. I believe that identifying the perpetrators, and lawfully searching their emails, phone and text records will prove
3. the conspiracy. The use of interstate commerce to incite violence violates the anti-riot statute 18 USC 1801 and carries up to 5 years. I believe like the Jan 6 attack, this violence is linked to #KochNetwork funders. If proof exists to support a conviction, the DOJ
4. must act decisively to charge all persons involved and pursue convictions. And if they start looking at the violent anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers IMO they will also find the GQP #KochNetwork inciters lurking nearby.
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1. Like @neal_katyal, I'm docket watching the 5th Circuit and I just looked again and nothing has been filed. I think the reason may be simply, contrary to the panel on @MSNBC, that this is a disaster for the @TexasGOP. Sure, some will raise money of it but IMO application of
2. well-established political theory says that this is going to torch the GOP, not advance it. They did it because the Texas legislature was willing, but it does not reflect the vast majority of Texas' electorate. A corrupt election financing system created a Texas legislature
3. Frankenstein, but that monster does not reflect the electorate. So now, the GOP, nationally, has to decide if it wants to go all in. #KochNetwork is funding all of this. They do it to create chaos. Keep the base calling for blood.
1. We saw the reports of the provocative flights of #China's #PLAAF warplanes violating #Taiwan's defense zone. But what wasn't reported at the time was that the #US and allies likely knew the Chinese were going to do something on their Oct 1 National Day celebration and put
2. four aircraft carriers in the region. So while China showed off its military power with over 75 planes on their National Day, not far away an armada of over 120 warplanes was watching.
October is a particularly auspicious time in Chinese history.
3. Besides Mao's Oct 1,1949, declaration of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan holds its big day on Oct 10, called, "Double Ten" that celebrates the beginning of the end of the Chinese Imperial monarchy that established the Republic of China headed by Dr.Sun Yat Sen.
1. Very tough language.
"Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, and anyone who uses them should be identified and held to account. The United States has concluded that FSB agents poisoned Mr. Navalny in Russia using an unscheduled nerve agent from a Novichok group of
2. agents, and only Russia has researched, developed, and used such chemical weapons. There can be no impunity for such actions. The United States calls on Russia to answer the questions in accordance with its obligations and to make clear to the international community what it
3. has done and is doing to ensure that there is no further use of chemical weapons from Russian territory."
Not familiar with what enforcement mechanisms exists other than the ability to do a snap inspection.
1. If the reports are true that the #ChineseCommunists have occupied the US base at #Bagram, #Afghanistan@POTUS@JoeBiden's @WhiteHouse must confirm it. First, I have a rule about reporting. If I know something about a US operation that is not publically known, including
2. being known to our adversaries, I won't post it. My dad covered the Chinese Civil War for the @AP and my mom, who witnessed it, and I often discussed the ethics of reporting in a war zone, and I'm confident that the US press corps is not obligated to report things that might
3. harm national security. My general rule is, if the enemy knows, then the US people generally have a right to know. Besides the terrorists, the #ChineseCommunists are as close to an enemy as we currently have. And if they are in Bagram they certainly know it and our confirming
2. The number and scope of the #DaeshK attacks in #Afghanistan strongly suggests that #DaeshK have been successful at increasing force size as an anti-Taliban alternative. By not being engaged in defeating #Taliban, both @POTUS and @KremlinRussia_E risk building a more deadly
3. international #Daesh terrorist force. The Russia's southern flank will be more-sooner impacted, but this will eventually spread if no action is taken to stop it, especially with #Pakistan's undeterred malign involvement and terrorist infested north.