Santos is a person of color. But that doesn’t stop him from using the white power hand sign.
George Santos Swears in Using a White Power Hand Sign
Andrew Tate gets Arrested on Human Trafficking Charges
The moral of this story: Don’t F**k with Greta Thunberg.
Texas Governor Dumps Refugees in Frigid Weather outside VP’s Home on Christmas Eve
How ironic. On the holiest night of the year so-called Christians discard refugees as if they were trash. The GOP does some evil things. But this could be one of the worst.
This is really intended as a distraction from Abbott’s failure as a public servant. But does he really care? He just got reelected.
When you fail as a leader what do you do? You distract and scapegoat. That’s what Abbott and the GOP are doing.
This abomination also shows that Democrats are cowards in not stopping the deportations. It is a crime also under our constitution. Do your job Dems.
It’s in the Bible :
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31
Then there is this:
I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35
RNC Coordinated fake Electors at Trump’s ‘direct request’: Ronna McDaniel
This is an criminal act intended to overthrow our Constitutional republic. I expect, and demand, the Justice Department act accordingly:
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel confirmed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was involved in lawyer John Eastman’s fake elector scheme.
During a brief excerpt from her deposition played during the Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, McDaniel explained that Trump called her and put her in touch with Eastman, who then engaged with the RNC about the scheme over the following months.
“He turned the call over to Mr. Eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the RNC helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of these legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result of any of the states. I think more, just helping them reach out and assemble them,” she said. “My understanding is the campaign did take the lead, and we just were helping them in that — in that role.”
The Wealthy saw their Incomes Rise 18.5% in 2021. The Bottom 90% of Americans saw a Drop
It’s the same old story. The 1 percent are plundering our country. Income inequality in America is the worst it’s ever been for country. And it’s one of the worst in the Western world, if not on the planet.
New data shows that the gap between the top wealthiest Americans and the working class reached new heights last year as multimillionaires in the top 1 percent experienced the highest wage raises in real, inflation-adjusted dollars while the wages of the bottom 90 percent fell.
In 2021, the top 1 percent of earners saw their annual wages rise by 9.4 percent. The raise for the wealthiest of the 1 percent was even higher, with the top 0.1 percent’s wages rising by 18.5 percent.
This stands in stark contrast to the wage trend for the bottom 90 percent, who received a 0.2 percent pay cut in 2021 in real wages. This allowed the top 1 percent to seize nearly 15 percent of all wages last year — and, in fact, the top 1 percent was the only group that saw its wages rise in 2021. Meanwhile, the bottom 90 percent saw its share of wages sink to a record low of 58.6 percent.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that Americans are dying at third world levels:
And this is isn’t about the pandemic. Income inequality has been on the rise for decades. It’s an inherent part of the system. It’s a natural consequence of a two-party system that is owned by the 1 percent.
Kari Lake: Trump is the “Most Amazing Man in her life”, not Husband
This is what a cult looks like. She was thanking someone who did very little to help win an election.
She’s always classy, though:
She’s like her hero, Donald Trump, a political arsonist. She wants to burn down the house.
But she got what she wanted. Lake found some idiot judge willing to entertain her trump-like lies about the election being stolen from her.
Judge Warned In 2021 Of Gay Bar Attack Suspect’s Shooting Plans
The criminal justice system failed in this case as it has for so many others over and over again. It particularly fails when it comes to people with ‘mental illness.’ There is no system for dealing with it:
A judge dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against the suspect in the Colorado gay nightclub shooting even though she had previously raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout, court transcripts obtained Friday by The Associated Press reveal.
Relatives, including the grandparents who claimed to have been kidnapped, had also told Judge Robin Chittum in August last year about Anderson Aldrich’s struggles with mental illness during a hearing at which the judge said the defendant needed treatment or “it’s going to be so bad,” according to the documents.
Still, no mention was made during a hearing this July of the suspect’s violent behavior or the status of any mental health treatment.
He even made a bomb threat but was allowed to walk the streets a free man until the shooting in November. How was that possible?
Colorado gay club shooter tried to reclaim guns seized after 2021 bomb threat but prosecutor says they were not returned.
Joe Manchin’s Anti-Environment Amendment Defeated Despite Support from Biden, Schumer
Just a reminder that the Democratic Party, along with the GOP, is no friend of the environment. Here we have a powerful Democratic Senator and the President conspiring to help the fossil fuel industry. And it was a dirty deal done under the cover of the defense budget, which always passes:
The U.S. climate movement and people on the frontlines of the planetary crisis celebrated Thursday after the U.S. Senate declined to add Sen. Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel-friendly permitting bill to a military spending package.
…”Defeated for the third time this year, this zombie bill would have fast-tracked dangerous fossil fuel and mining projects that would undercut the positive impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act,” explained Chelsea Hodgkins, Oxfam America’s climate policy adviser. “Sen. Manchin’s proposal would do nothing to address the real barriers to renewable energy development, which include fully resourcing underfunded agencies and investing in community-supported renewable systems.”
…”We are thrilled that Manchin’s push to get his Big Oil wish list attached to must-pass legislation has failed for the third time,” said Ariel Moger, government and political affairs director at Friends of the Earth. “Leader Schumer and Democrats who voted for the dirty deal should be ashamed of themselves.”
…Ahead of the vote, Biden on Thursday reiterated his support for Manchin’s proposal, provoking widespread outrage.
Texas Republicans want to Round up all the Transgender in the State
History is repeated when we don’t learn from it. In the 1920s and 30s the NAZIs attacked and threatened Jews. In America today, it’s people of color and other groups, including transgender individuals. Are we going to allow history to repeat itself. We obviously can’t wait on the Democrats to protect us. They won’t:
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that officials working for Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to get employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety to compile them a list of transgender people in Texas, by cross-referencing the people who had changed their sex on their driver’s license.
“‘Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,’ the chief of the DPS’s driver license division emailed colleagues in the department on June 30, according to a copy of a message obtained by The Washington Post through a public records request,” reported Molly Hennessy-Fiske. “‘We won’t need DL/ID numbers at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents.’ After more than 16,000 such instances were identified, DPS officials determined that a manual search would be needed to determine the reason for the changes, DPS spokesman Travis Considine told The Post in response to questions.”
So are we surprised when the transgender community are under physical attack. They are being targeted by individuals and groups whom are incited to commit violence against them throughout the country:
When five people were killed and dozens more injured in a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, on the eve of Transgender Remembrance Day, the nation was rightfully horrified. But no one should be surprised.
Daniel Aston, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, Derrick Rump, and Raymond Green Vance were enjoying community with their friends, families of origin, and chosen families when they were heinously murdered by a gunman with a history of violence. Their deaths follow an unprecedented surge of anti-LGBTQ legislation, vile rhetoric from politicians and staff, and threats against LGBTQ people by white supremacists who are encouraged by extremists on social media and pundits within right wing media.
Store Manager: Kaylee Told him she had a Stalker
Actually it was Maddie who made the comment as she gestured to Kaylee. This interview is an important revelation. Up till now the police have been waffling all over the place about the possibility that at least one of the victim of the Idaho murder was being stalked.
The 99 Percenters 