In North Carolina, America Majority Action is mailing out this deceptive notice that appears to be an official government document. If you scan the code it takes you to an official looking site that asks for personal identifying information.
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“Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the killing of Mr. Pretti, a registered nurse with no criminal record who was pinned down when immigration agents . . .”
“. . . opened fire and killed him. The rush to blame Mr. Pretti and exonerate the immigration agents — even while officials were still gathering the facts — deviates entirely from the way law enforcement investigations are normally carried out.”
“But it also underscores what has become a pattern by Mr. Trump and top administration officials to justify an increasingly violent crackdown: immediately going on the offensive and demonizing the victim, often distorting the facts in the process.”
Donald Trump was asked about the shooting in Minneapolis while he was aboard Air Force One on his way back to DC from another taxpayer funded golf weekend in Florida.
Question: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement … Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
The killing of Renee Good, the criminal investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, charges against James Comey and Letitia James, the potential reduction in military retired rank of Senator Mark Kelly, the belittling of Marjorie Taylor Greene …
A Yale study documents how the Supreme Court has shifted from appointees by both parties being statistically the same in rulings for the rich and the rest to in recent times Republican appointees heavily favoring the rich.
The effect? The Republican dominated Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has dramatically increased the impact of money in politics allowing the rich to exert outsized influence with their checkbooks and diminishing the political power of the rest.
The Court has gutted the labor movement and the collective power of unions, giving advantage to the owners to the detriment of the workers. Similarly, they’ve eviscerated government regulations meant to protect workers from physical and economic harm.
I read 4 articles that show how core institutions can quickly devolve into the opposite of the principles upon which they were founded.
The first was an article on how a country founded on a rejection of royalty has devolved into a monarchy. Here’s one passage from the article:
“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch. Mr. Trump takes it upon himself to reinterpret a constitutional amendment . . . ”
“. . . and to eviscerate agencies and departments created by Congress. He dictates to private institutions how to run their affairs. He sends troops into American streets and wages an unauthorized war against nonmilitary boats in the Caribbean. . .”
As everyone knows, the most critically important post at each of our major institutions of higher learning is the football coach. And if your coach can’t lead your institution’s dedicated team of student athletes to a national championship, then the only way . . .
. . . to rid your institution of that humiliation and disgrace is to fire the coach and poach a better coach (and a better group of dedicated student athletes) from some other institution of higher learning.
So what do you do if you’ve entered into a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract with a coach who hasn’t brought the most important thing in higher education to your institution — a College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy? You fire him.
Another example of the real divide in America between the rich and the rest.
Trump’s crypto czar billionaire David Sacks has investments in over 400 companies that stand to benefit from policies he advances.
As the article says, “Policies that Mr. Sacks supported at the White House have laid the groundwork for his investments to flourish.”
And don’t just take my word for how this ethical conflict of interest reeks to high heaven …
“Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Mr. Trump and a critic of Silicon Valley billionaires, said Mr. Sacks was a quintessential example of ethical conflicts in an administration where ‘the tech bros are out of control. . .”