To the many good officers out there defending the communities we all live in—thank you. Stay safe and don’t succumb to the hateful rhetoric.
To the bad officers, the racists, the crooked ones—1/3
here’s a chance to really protect & serve the community: resign. Turn your gear in & find another line of work, our people deserve better.
And again to the good officers—look at the unrest caused by the minority of bad actors who mistreat those we are sworn to protect. 2/3
“When a former federal marshal named Al Butler died, he asked his wife to spread his ashes in front of an elementary school where he protected Black children as they tried to integrate all-White schools. He made this request because it was the most important work of his life.”
The effort to expunge the story of Ruby Bridges from a school curriculum did not sit well with me so I sat down & wrote this. Hope you will take time to read it. Opinion | Students need to learn about the haters & helpers in history - The Washington Post
Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.”
This is real, not made up— it’s amendment 11 here
H/T
@juliegraceb
New: A member of Trump’s campaign leadership was arrested after he threatened a mass shooting against law enforcement, threatened to rape his boss’ wife, and was having inappropriate relations with a teenage girl.
He gave Trump an inscribed AR-15.
28-11: The Florida state Senate passes a bill to remove local governments' authority to adopt heat standards, such as guaranteed shade and rest breaks, for workers.
The bill would make all local heat protections “void and prohibited.”
BREAKING: US House of Representatives approves confiscation of frozen Russian assets in the US and handing them over to Ukraine. I’ve been working on this since the war began with many good people in Ukraine and around the world. This is a huge milestone and paves the way for the…
I’ll never forget when TFG was first elected, 2 fmr friends gloated about his use of mis/disinfo to help get elected.
They were *proud* of it, thought it was awesome.
1 was a college classmate, & 1 a fmr LTC in SF.
I still can’t wrap my head around them, & all the others.
“In the end, Zarabi-Majd just wanted the police force to be like every other workplace, where sexual violence isn’t normalized, where discrimination is cause for disgrace, where employees who do wrong are punished.”
An entire political party consisting of nothing but grievance, hatred, bigotry, vapid conspiracy theories, and zero ideas on how to govern or move us forward.
Our parents’ GOP is no more.
Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman
The
@GOP
has no platform; nothing to offer the American people; no interest in governing, legislating, or serving; and a complete and utter inability to denounce the leader of their party for committing espionage against the United States, so we get this pitiful nonsense:
Now flip it & imagine a citizen of a foreign country (be imaginative & pick one 😉) came to visit the US with ammo in their luggage.
What would the Turks & Caicos-boycotting folks say should be done about *that*?
🤔🤔🤔
Bet I know…
MAGAs out here trying to boycott Turks and Caicos because some dumbass American went there with ammo and got caught 🤣….here’s an idea…don’t go to foreign countries with ammo because your precious second amendment doesn’t apply outside this insane gun culture country
When you had people in charge of the very thing they wish to destroy.
Certain Americans want public services destabilized for their own ends—and it ain’t to help their fellow humans.
“It is the number one killer of police, hands down,” said Chuck Wexler, director of the D.C.-based policy group Police Executive Research Forum. “More cops will die of COVID than will be shot, stabbed or die in traffic accidents. And it’s an equal opportunity killer.”
“Love cops? Read Joseph Wambaugh. Hate cops? Read Joseph Wambaugh.”
I first read Wambaugh in jr high school; I was curious about police work from the various cop shows around when I was a kid, and Wambaugh’s writing opened the profession in a whole other way for me—1/-
1. Your physical fitness is a bank account. Start now making deposits to draw from later. Ideally, keep them up, keep deposit g
2. Take lots of pictures, especially of loved ones & places you go. You’ll treasure them later.
Boeing’s organizational culture used to be run by the engineers; once they allowed a “businessman” to take the helm…well, you can see the repercussions for yourself.
An exterior panel of a Boeing 737 carrying passengers on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Medford appears to have torn off mid-flight Friday, marking the latest in a string of recent high-profile mishaps for Boeing planes.
1962: “Former Army Gen. Edwin Walker is in custody of two US Marshals after his arrest…at Ole Miss at Oxford today. Walker was charged with inciting a riot.”
Raise a glass or a prayer for my friend that I learned today has left us.
He was a very kind man who brought joy to many. Thank you, Abe.
Check on your friends, they aren’t always OK.
He loved Morrisey.
via
@YouTube
Just 56% of Mississippians are white.
But white Mississippians make up almost 70% of COVID-19 cases and deaths over the last month (way up from just over 25% in May 2020).
Mississippi is one of the few states where Black vaccination rates exceed white vaccination rates.
There have been *14* convictions to seditious conspiracy stemming from Jan. 6
Oath Keepers
1) Stewart Rhodes
2) Kelly Meggs
3) Roberto Minuta
4) Ed Vallejo
5) Joseph Hackett
6) David Moerschel
7) William Todd Wilson (plea)
8) Joshua James (plea)
9) Brian Ulrich (plea)
Those nifty new pants you’re looking forward to wearing?
Yeah, make sure you remove the looooong sticker off the pants leg before you walk down a hallway filled with people. Where one kind person lets you know the sticker’s still there.
This has been your PSA from me 🫡
If you’re thinking of throwing your vote away this year to “punish the Dems”, you already tried that in 2016 and this is where we are
There are two people who have a chance to be the next president
If Biden loses he will go to his beach house in Delaware with his wife and…
“Banditos repeatedly refused to send backup on dangerous calls to the deputies who brought the lawsuit, pressured them to quit or leave the station…It also alleges that the Banditos once secretly removed ammunition from another deputy’s shotgun.”
Sheriff Villanueva demands LA County leaders stop using term "deputy gangs" in cease-and-desist letter: "It also serves no purpose other than to fuel hatred and increase the probability of assault and negative confrontations against our people," he says
Because this is Missouri and there’s no shortage of racism, I also want you all to know about one of the worst bills I have ever seen in Missouri General Assembly.
Senate Bill 666 makes Missouri a safe haven for the lynching of black men.
🧵
“Charles McGonigal betrayed his oath and actively concealed his illicit work at the bidding of a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Today’s plea shows the resolve to pursue & dismantle the illegal networks that Russian oligarchs use to escape the reach of our sanctions and our laws.”
If I told you 20 years ago that a guy who was facing 91 felony charges, including trying to overthrow the U.S. government, would be the overwhelming favorite for the Republican nomination and none of his opponents would dare to criticize him, well...
NEW: Trump allies tell me Katie Britt’s SOTU response was a key opening salvo into a top campaign focus — appealing to women voters.
“If you could tell me there was one demographic we could target, it would be women,” one source close to Trump told me.
“This is a moment of clarity when we need to reject the national disease of xenophobia and restore our faith in the United States as a beacon for the best people like Maynor Suazo…”
The correct response to human tragedy:
"My heart is with this 8-year-old little boy. I don't care if he was here legally. I don't care if he was here illegally. He was in my county. Five people died... and that's where my heart is."
--Sheriff Greg Capers
#FreshStrong
Katie Britt's overly dramatic rebuttal to Joe Biden’s
#SOTU2024
address!
Is it me or is the only thing missing are sad puppies and her asking to Donate to the ASPCA?
@SkinnerPm
You’re getting a lot or traction, and we who agree with you appreciate having a person whose views resonate & with which we can rally. Don’t let up now, you’re making too much sense.
“But there’s right and there’s wrong, and this is wrong. And Gov. Abbott is outside of what’s right, and so is everybody else within DPS.”
Texas DPS put up razor wire on border property despite owner's protest
1. Trump's NSC aid Robert C. O'Brien's testimony may be the last puzzle piece. Any other witnesses may be targets. Specifically, the people who knew force or violence was contemplated & agreed to it because they were going to be placed in high-level positions in the dictatorship.
Former Aurora Police Department Chief Vanessa Wilson alleges in a new lawsuit against the city that her firing was discriminatory and in retaliation for implementing anti-racism reforms.
“When you’re convinced you have the one and only salvific capital-T Truth, the ends justify the means when it comes to “bringing people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.””
This is going to be a long tweet, and it’s not new news, but it’s new news to me, and I think it’s especially important for everyone, and especially those of you who support
the now indicted
@realDonaldTrump
to become acquainted with the class of people who worked for and…
Glad they’re all fired & charged.
Our job is to get arrestees via the minimum amt of control—if needed at all—and into custody.
Anything past that? Now you’ve become the crook.
I don’t have words for how sick I am over this, and how tired that it keeps happening.
We see Tyre Nichols on the ground, seemingly handcuffed. As additional officers approach, they get their licks in. Two officers hold him down as a third takes at least 3 winding kicks at Nichols' head
The incident in Medina was still very fresh to many in my agency when I entered on duty; US Marshal Ken Muir & Deputy US Marshal Bob Cheshire were murdered by antigovernment extremist Kahl & his Posse Comitatus co-conspirators.
I recently posted an old right-wing extremist song. Here's another song, from a sovereign citizen, honoring Gordon Kahl, an anti-gov't extremist & white supremacist who gunned down 2 US marshals &, in a second incident, a sheriff in 1983.
“When I talk to managers I get the feeling they’re important. When I talk to leaders I get the feeling I’m important.”—Alexander Den Heijer
#Leadership
#Teams
#CultureCarriesTheDay
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, here’s the great San Diego event where everything accidentally went off at once — or as the woman at the end says, “the best fireworks show ever”
(w/sound)
1/ A wave of concerns and departures suggest Florida's new rules to counter "woke" influences in universities might be causing a talent drain. Professors worry about threats to tenure, academic freedom and a chilling political climate.
@TB_Times
(1/23)
.
@RonDeSantis
doesn't see federal role in providing healthy school lunches, condemns the 'food pyramid,' dodges 9th grader's question
Reporting by
@AGGancarski
#FlaPol
“The chief intelligence officer acknowledged fielding requests by Chad Wolf & his acting deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, to create dossiers “against everyone participating in the Portland protest,” regardless of whether they’d been accused of any crime.”
In the 1950's, the top marginal income tax rate on very high incomes was over 90%.
No millionaire EVER said, "I don't think I'll bother to make another million dollars, because my taxes are too high." Not. One. Ever.
1/9
January 1943
@Gallup
poll found that less than half of Americans believed that 2 million Jews had been murdered (let alone the actual number, 4 million).
It’s almost like we can’t bring ourselves to accept the reality of evil depravity…
“The idea that a former president and his followers could pose a threat to Americans performing their civic duty is something we must not forget amid the chaos. It’s easy to wave off as just another Trumpian quirk — until someone gets hurt.”
Recently deceased traitor/spy Robert Hanssen was responsible for how many US assets killed?
How many is Trump responsible for?
I hope we get to learn this.