So much ignorance in this tweet. Cruz is talking about the "Australian government" but quote-tweeting the chief minister for the Northern Territory who is enacting a mandate specific to the territory.
It's a part of Australia where almost half of the population is Indigenous.
The Northern Territory is under the control of the Labor party; the federal government is under the control of the Liberal Party, which is completely misnamed because it is a conservative party.
Despite having one of the most vulnerable populations in the world, the Northern Territory has had zero COVID deaths.
Best line of the Chief Minister's reply: "I'm glad we are nothing like you."
Isn't it embarrassing as a member of Congress to tweet about another country without understanding their structure of government? Especially when Australia has a federal system almost identical to the US?
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Dayton PD coming up with every reason to justify horrifically brutalizing a human being.
Facts. First, you cannot search a vehicle based on someone's criminal history. That would give police a license to stop and search anyone with a record.
Second, it means absolutely nothing if a police dog sniffs cash and supposedly detects it has been in the presence of drugs. 90% of US bills have cocaine residue on them. nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
Third, they claim they saw Mr. Owensby leaving a "known drug house" I guess to bolster their justification for the search.
Really? OK. So they must have seen Mr. Owensby had no use of his legs. This just makes it all so much worse.
So it turns out the incident at Carmine's in NYC didn't go down like it was reported.
The three TX women who were arrested are Black, they did show proof of their vaccination status, and the altercation started after the hostess called them a racial slur. nytimes.com/2021/09/18/nyr…
Lawyers for Carmine's don't dispute that the women showed proof of vaccination. Security footage obtained by @nytimes shows that the women were seated and that this was not a one-sided physical assault on the hostess.
Even from the cell phone footage people have been posting, it's pretty clear it was very much a mutual physical altercation and, without knowing the circumstances, people just decided to run with a certain narrative.
This murder mystery is crazy, but let's not forget 3 generations of Murdaughs served as district attorneys for the 14th Circuit (covering 5 counties in South Carolina).
Think how many cases they set up or worse. Every one of them needs to be re-examined. nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/…
I am not even going to try to fully explain the case here, Definitely google, but basically the mother and son were murdered (son had been facing manslaughter charges in death of friend on boat) and the father was embezzling money from his law firm nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/…
So then they re-opened a homicide case from 2015 that is seemingly unconnected to all of this, but with which they think the family are involved. nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/…