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Heavily armed guard outside of ICE Detention Center say,

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NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:

Norma Bowe, a registered nurse who runs the Global Grace Health mobile clinic out of the Reformed Church of Highland Park and regularly provides medical support to protesters, said she rushed over after witnessing a federal agent drag the woman and tear off her shirt.

Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.

More mean for the sake of mean at the link.

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UNC law professor Gene Nickol tells NC Republicans that, try as they might,

You can’t escape your party’s racial agenda.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

Afterthought:

I think “racist agenda” would have been a more appropriate phrasing, but that’s just me.

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As far as I can tell, this is little more than KKK v. 2.0.

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Retired ATF agent David Ziegler contrasts the behavior of Donald Trump’s secretive police with the standards he was expected to comply with when he was on active duty and issues a warning:

For those who believed, “It can’t happen here,” it already has.

Follow the link for his reasoing.

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The NAACP has suggested that black student athletes to unite against the New Secesh, refusing to attend sports powerhouses (such as UGa., Alabama, FSU, etc.) in states that are attempting to gerrymander minority voters out of existence. Rick Stron discusses this.

(In the first two minutes, you can watch the New Secesh come out from under their hoods and show themselves. It’s pretty scary.)

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The Constitution may protect freedom of speech, but, in Texas, freedom of speech is apparently not street-legal.

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Yet another persons held in an ICE detention center concentration camp tells his story.

Just read it, and, as you do, remind yourself that this is being done in the name of liberty and justice for all..

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A Self-Fulfilling Predicament 0

After I read this news item, the one thought that came to my mind was, “Why am I not surprised.”

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There’s a Price Tag on Prejudice 0

Farron runs the numbers.

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Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.

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In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:

Menendez, who was making his eighth visit to Delaney Hall, said Republican members of the GOP-controlled House and Senate were ignoring conditions at detention facilities nationwide, because “they want to hide from the fact that they’re tearing families apart.”

Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.

And, while we’re on the subject . . . .

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.

Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.

Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.

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Southern states erasing

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. . . meet the Privatization Scam.

The mean for the sake of mean leaves one agog.

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If you don’t like historical fact, well, heck, just go with historical fiction.

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Speaking of normalized nastiness, Florida Man.

They’re not even bothering to don their hoods any more.

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Man labeled

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SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.

Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

All of this is disgusting of course, but even more disgusting has been seeing our captured national media frame this crisis in terms of a political horse race.

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So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.

The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.

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