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2022-09-29 at 12:43 AM UTC in Nearly 700 days later, most Republicans still believe Trump’s big lie
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2022-09-29 at 12:42 AM UTC in The GOP attack on Biden’s student loan plan is upside-down class war
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2022-09-29 at 12:42 AM UTC in Donald Trump nearly fired Ivanka and Jared via tweethttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ivanka-jared-fire-tweet-b2177231.html
Former President Donald Trump, known for having a flare for the dramatics when it came to dismissing employees in his administration, reportedly came close to firing his own kin via Twitter.
According to an early copy of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book obtained by CNN, the then-president was seconds away from firing off a tweet that would’ve alerted his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, that they were no longer employed in the White House.
Both Ivanka and Kushner were working as senior White House aides and the former president - who reportedly grew tired of his son-in-law’s presence and described him as sounding “like a child” - only decided not to fire them from the fury of his thumbs because his then-chief of staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn warned against it.
Mr Kelly reportedly stopped the president from firing off a tweet that would’ve promptly signalled the departure of the couple from Trump’s White House, warning that the news would be best delivered through an in-person conversation.
That conversation, Ms Haberman writes, never happened. Ivanka and Mr Kushner remained employed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue until their boss and relative departed in January 2021. -
2022-09-29 at 12:41 AM UTC in California Gov. Newsom signs laws to boost housing production
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2022-09-29 at 12:40 AM UTC in I used to feel safe in the U.S. But after changes to abortion and gun laws, I want Canadian citizenshiphttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-amanda-robb-abortions-1.6586112
If you are white and middle class, there are a lot of things you take for granted as an American citizen.
At least I have.
Perhaps chief among them is the feeling you and your family are safe. Even on Oct. 23, 1998, I didn't lose that feeling. That evening, in Amherst, N.Y., an anti-abortion extremist slipped into the woods behind the home of my uncle Bart — an obstetrician-gynecologist who, in addition to delivering babies, performed abortions. The extremist had a semi-automatic assault rifle with him. Around 10 p.m., my uncle and his wife returned from synagogue services. In their kitchen, Bart put some soup in the microwave. While it was heating, he talked to his sons in the adjacent den where they were watching a Buffalo Sabres hockey game. The extremist fired his rifle. Inside my uncle's home, there was a ping and a small hole where the window glass shattered. Months later, Bart's wife Lynne told me what happened next.
"I think I've been shot," Bart said. "Don't be ridiculous," she told me she said. But it was too late. A bullet had already ripped through my uncle's body. He bled to death in seconds in front of his wife and children, then ages seven through 15.
I was 32 at the time, and shocked that America's abortion wars and gun culture had taken a member of my family.
But I didn't think anyone or anything was coming for the rest of us. As strange and even stupid as it may seem, the truth is that my feeling of safety (for myself and my remaining family) endured through too many school shootings, mass shootings, climate change disasters, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and terrorist attacks including 9/11.
Then came June 23 and 24, 2022 — two dates that will always stand out in memory for me.
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York state law that had required residents to "demonstrate a special need for self-protection" in order to carry a firearm in public places was unconstitutional. Thanks to the Second Amendment to our constitution, we Americans have "the right to keep and bear arms." Furthermore, the justices said, there is no reason to exclude the "island of Manhattan simply because it is crowded."
My husband, daughter and I live in Manhattan. It's an island in the middle of the Hudson River, and it is less than 60 square kilometres. On a typical weekday, there are four million people here. That's an average of 66,666 people per square kilometre. Before the Supreme Court struck down that New York law, 32 per cent of Americans owned guns. So, I now must assume that in every square kilometre of my hometown an average of at least 21,333 people have guns.
Would you feel safe?
The next day, the same court struck down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave all American women the right to abortion.
This has already profoundly affected U.S. women and girls. In the three months that have passed since the court issued that decision, at least 14 states have banned abortion and one has imposed a ban at six weeks in pregnancy, before many people know they're pregnant.
I'll cite only two cases of what has happened since. A 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio had to travel to Indiana to obtain an abortion. In Texas, a woman who was in severe pain and bleeding during a miscarriage was denied care. Hospital staff told her to come back when she was bleeding more profusely — specifically, filling a diaper with blood every hour."
Would you feel safe?
I don't. And I live in mortal terror for what could happen to my 22-year-old daughter.
After these two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, I decided I didn't just want to work for Canadians; I wanted to be Canadian.
Why? Among my top reasons: Per capita, the United States has about 3.5 times as many gun holdings as Canada, and a rate of homicides by gun that is approximately eight times higher. Also, abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court decided in R. v. Morgentaler that a law that criminalized abortion was unconstitutional.
My uncle Bart moved to suburban Buffalo, less than 25 kilometres from the Canadian border when I was 12. My mother, sister and I visited there every summer afterward until he was killed. Almost always, we'd take a day trip into Ontario.
I loved the country from a young age: the pristine scenery, the towns that look European, the cities that looked futuristic, poutine, maple everything and even the way people there pronounce "about" as "aboot" to my American ears. My paternal grandmother was a proud Manitoban, and I hoped that this was enough to allow me to claim Canadian citizenship.
It used to be.
But the Canadian Citizenship Act was changed in 2009. Today, you need a Canadian parent to qualify for citizenship and other routes to citizenship have their own challenges. My elderly mother-in-law can't be moved easily, so as much as my family wants to apply for permanent residency in Canada, we will continue to live in New York. So, for now, I have to stay in the U.S., in the "safety" of my own home, scared to death. -
2022-09-29 at 12:37 AM UTC in Women Have Swung Toward Democrats Since The Dobbs Decision
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2022-09-29 at 12:35 AM UTC in GOP VOWS TO IMPEACH BIDEN, WILL GET BACK TO US WHEN IT FIGURES OUT WHAT TO IMPEACH HIM FOR
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2022-09-29 at 12:34 AM UTC in 'Obscene,' Says Sanders After CBO Reports Richest 1% Now Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealthhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/obscene-says-sanders-after-cbo-reports-richest-1-now-owns-over-13-us-wealth
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday published Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019, a report revealing that while the total real wealth of U.S. families tripled over those 30 years, the growth was dramatically unequal.
"Families in the top 10% and in the top 1% of the distribution, in particular, saw their share of total wealth rise over the period," the report notes. "In 2019, families in the top 10% of the distribution held 72% of total wealth, and families in the top 1% of the distribution held more than one-third; families in the bottom half of the distribution held only 2% of total wealth."
In a statement, Sanders (I-Vt.) said that "this report confirms what we already know: The very rich are getting much, much richer while the middle class is falling further and further behind, and being forced to take on outrageous levels of debt."
"The obscene level of income and wealth inequality in America is a profoundly moral issue that we cannot continue to ignore or sweep under the rug," the two-time Democratic presidential candidate argued. -
2022-09-29 at 12:33 AM UTC in Deleted posts for: Truth Details
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2022-09-29 at 12:32 AM UTC in GOP VOWS TO IMPEACH BIDEN, WILL GET BACK TO US WHEN IT FIGURES OUT WHAT TO IMPEACH HIM FOR
Originally posted by Truth Details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
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2022-09-29 at 12:32 AM UTC in Sheriff: “I’m sick of these black bastards.... Every black that I know, you need to fire him...”
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2022-09-29 at 12:17 AM UTC in GOP VOWS TO IMPEACH BIDEN, WILL GET BACK TO US WHEN IT FIGURES OUT WHAT TO IMPEACH HIM FOR
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2022-09-29 at 12:17 AM UTC in GOP VOWS TO IMPEACH BIDEN, WILL GET BACK TO US WHEN IT FIGURES OUT WHAT TO IMPEACH HIM FOR
Originally posted by POLECAT lets see, allowing an invasion at our southern border
giving away 70 billion dollars to Ukraine, sending all our extra equipment to Ukraine and leaving us without protection as we cant replace the stuff in full cuz itl take 10 years at this rate because of the chip shortage.
weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, CIA andothers against his political enemy's.
selling our oil reserves to a Chinese co that his son is making money from.
disregarding the constitution to bring in globalism against this country's founding papers .
thats a good start
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/impeach -
2022-09-29 at 12:15 AM UTC in Sheriff: “I’m sick of these black bastards.... Every black that I know, you need to fire him...”https://www.wect.com/2022/09/28/sheriff-im-sick-these-black-bastards-every-black-that-i-know-you-need-fire-him/
COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - On one end of the phone was Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene. On the other was then-Captain Jason Soles, who had just been tapped to lead the Sheriff’s Office while elections officials investigated a complaint questioning whether Greene was eligible to serve as sheriff.
Greene wanted to know who in the department had communicated with Lewis Hatcher, the former sheriff whom Greene had narrowly defeated in the election, and Melvin Campbell, a recently-fired sergeant, both of whom are African-American. In Greene’s words, they had a “snitch” in the office, leaking information to his political opponent who had sued to be reinstated until the election protests were resolved.
“I’m sick of it. I’m sick of these black bastards,” said Greene said to Soles. “I’m going to clean house and be done with it. And we’ll start from there.”
The call between Greene and Soles took place about two months into what was a tumultuous start to Greene’s career as sheriff. Greene beat Hatcher in the 2018 election by just 34 votes, at a time when election fraud in this rural part of North Carolina was making national headlines. The results were protested, in part over concerns Greene did not actually live in Columbus County as required by state law. He’d also been improperly sworn in before the state certified the election results.
Soles’ “promotion” to acting sheriff was the result of a court-mediated agreement between Greene and Hatcher, while elections officials worked to determine who was the rightful sheriff. Greene wanted his chief deputy, Aaron Herring, to serve as interim sheriff. But Herring was not an acceptable alternative to Hatcher and his supporters, in part because of Herring’s reputation in Columbus County’s African-American community. Herring was arrested in 2015, charged with punching a handcuffed black man in the face while serving as a Whiteville Police officer. He was later found not guilty, but that did little to quell concerns in some parts of the community about his treatment of African-Americans.
Soles told WECT that immediately after his appointment as acting sheriff, he began getting late-night phone calls from Greene.
“This one particular phone call that received, he made the comment that he hated Democrats. And then he said, ‘I take that back. I hate a black f***ing Democrat.’ And, and I knew right then, I was like, ‘Wow, this is coming from the sheriff.’ And, I had to start recording those conversations,” Soles said of the moments before he hit record on the phone call.
Soles, who is now running for Columbus County Sheriff against Jody Greene, said he was concerned that the most powerful law enforcement officer in Columbus County was racist, and would not treat black employees or the residents he policed fairly.
“It broke my heart. Because that’s not what I believe in. It upset me to the fact that I did have to start recording his phone calls. And I’m not wanting to go around recording people’s conversations. But… this was not the leader that we needed leading the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office making these racial slurs,” Soles explained.
The Recording
The portion of the conversation Soles recorded lasted for six and a half minutes. He says the call happened late one night in early February 2019. Trying to track down the source of the apparent leak in his office, Greene can be heard saying that he’s contacted Verizon to get phone records to see if anyone in his department has made calls to or received calls from Lewis Hatcher or Melvin Campbell in the last two months.
“They’re gone. This is as fair as I’m going to be. Just giving you a heads up, that’s coming. When me and [attorney] Boyd [Worley] and [wife] Angie [Greene] go through it tomorrow, the first numbers we see, they’re gone. They ain’t going to make it brother. I’m telling you, they might as well find somewhere else to go. Because if you ain’t with me - I ain’t referring to you - but if they’re not with me, they’re against me. And they’re gone. And that’s just how it’s going to be. Clarity - whatever her name is, I don’t trust her. Dawn says she’s racist… If I have to fire every mother f***er out there, guess what?,” Greene can be heard saying at the beginning of the recording.
“I’m tired of them f***ing with me. It ain’t happening no more. No godd**n more. So you let them know, if I find their numbers in the next day or two, they ain’t going to like it. They damn sure ain’t going to like it. And that’s got to be somebody in the command staff. Clarity. I don’t trust her. She’s just sitting there staring at me the other day, the whole time. Staring at me the whole f**ing time,” Greene continues, apparently referring to Augustine Clarida, who at the time was an African-American detention officer.
“Tomorrow’s gonna be a new f**king day. I’m still the motherf**king sheriff, and I’ll go up and fire every godd**n [inaudible]. F**k them black bastards. They think I’m scared? They’re stupid,” Greene said. “I don’t know what else to do it. So it’s just time to clean them out. There’s a snitch in there somewhere tellin’ what we are doing. And I’m not gonna have it. I’m not going to have it.”
In the recording, Greene can be heard saying he’s going to start firing people who are “guilty by f**king association” with Campbell and Hatcher.
“We’ll cut the snake’s head f**king off. Period. And Melvin Campbell is as big a snake as Lewis Hatcher ever dared to be. Every black that I know, you need to fire him to start with, he’s a snake,” Greene says before ending the phone call.
Looking for Help
In the years that have passed since making this recording, Soles said he or his supporters have gone to every official he could think of, trying to get them to intervene in a situation that reeked of law enforcement bias.
Soles said he also brought the recording and other concerns about the sheriff to the attention of County Commissioners during a recess at a county commission meeting. However, he said Buddy Byrd, who has had his own trouble with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office, was the only commissioner who followed up with him. While he shared Soles’ concerns, Byrd told WECT he was not able to affect any change without the support of his fellow commissioners, who are largely Greene supporters.
“Everybody had deaf ears,” Byrd said of the reaction of other commissioners when he told them about the recording of the sheriff making disparaging comments about his black employees.
Soles’ supporters then reached out to officials at the state level, trying to get someone to take action. As a result, Soles says that a year and a half ago, an agent with the SBI came to meet with him about the recording of the sheriff’s racially charged comments. He said they seemed concerned by the content of the recording, but explained they could not open a formal investigation without being asked to by the District Attorney or the Attorney General’s office.
“I was told to just keep documenting everything that happens so that we would have a paper trail of it,” Soles said. “And we did. So as things would come in, I would reach out to him again, make sure they were aware of everything that was going on. And after that, we have had several complaints that have been filed with State Board of Elections, on issues that we’re having. And we’ve also met with some other state officials as well, to make sure that they were aware of what was going on.”
When reached by phone on Monday, Columbus County District Attorney Jon David said he learned of the recording for the first time an hour earlier. He said the SBI had reached out to him after getting an email from WECT asking about the recording. After learning what was on the recording, David said he was concerned, but unsure if Greene’s comments reached the level of a criminal violation. He said his prosecutors did not recall being previously informed about the racially-charged phone call.
Criminal or not, David said the comments did raise other potential concerns about biased policing by the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office, and that his office would need to review this to see if it may create issues for the Sheriff or officers in his department being credible witnesses for criminal cases they investigated. Then, on Tuesday, after obtaining his own copy of the recording, David formally requested that the SBI investigate allegations of Obstruction of Justice by the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office.
Soles said he was reluctant to involve the media in this issue. WECT actually reached out to him after someone familiar with the situation tipped off a reporter about the recording. After considering the matter for several weeks, weighing retaliation concerns and the fear people would accuse him of being politically motivated, Soles agreed to share the recording with WECT and do an interview.
“I didn’t want to do this to begin with, you know, I wanted help. I wanted to do it the right way. And I have reached out to everyone that I know to reach out to. I’ve even tried to get to the governor. I started at the bottom of the commissioners and worked all the way to the top to the AG’s office and the governor’s office. But I just can’t get seem to get any help. And so I’m reaching out to you guys,” Soles said.
Changing face of the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office
Since taking office, Sheriff Jody Greene has made some significant changes to his staff. When Sheriff Hatcher was in charge, there were two African-Americans on his command staff: Lt. Jeremy Barber and Captain Clementine Thompson. Green demoted Thompson within days of taking office, and cut her pay by $10,000. She was later fired. Barber, formerly the department’s lead detective, was demoted to the civil division. Greene’s command staff, made up of his highest ranking officers, no longer has any minorities.
Melvin Campell worked as a sergeant at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office under Sheriff Hatcher and continued in that role after Greene was sworn in as sheriff. Campbell had previously served for 30 years on the North Carolina Highway Patrol, where Greene happened to be his supervisor. Campbell said his time at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office came to an abrupt end about two months after Greene won the election.
“Aaron [Herring] called me to the office and say my services are no longer needed,” Campbell recalled. When Campbell later had a chance to hear the recorded conversation with Greene calling him a “snake” and saying that African-Americans in the department should be fired, he said he couldn’t believe his ears.
“It kind of shocked me,” Campbell said. “You know, I mean, that that came out his mouth. I thought we was friends. You know, I mean, like I say, I really did think we was friends. But with friends like that, who needs enemies?”
Campbell said it was sad to watch his fellow black law enforcement members be fired or demoted by Greene. He added the lack of any minorities on the command staff was also demoralizing, and even went as far as to say the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office is not a friendly environment for people of color.
“It sends a bad message,” Campbell said. “You would think he would have someone in the minorities in his command staff. I don’t think it’s great.”
Those familiar with the department tell WECT that a significant number of the staff in the detention center are African American, but jailers make less money than sworn law enforcement officers and don’t have arrest powers. We’re told on the law enforcement side of the department, there are only a handful of deputies who are black, and none are high-ranking officers. A picture taken of the entire Columbus County Sheriff’s Office from 2021 appears to support that description.
According to US Census Data, 30% of the Columbus County population is black, and roughly 63% is white.
Reaction from Sheriff Jody Greene
When contacted by a WECT reporter on Monday about the recording, Greene seemed completely blindsided.
“Absolutely not, I do not recall that. And it says what?” Sheriff Greene asked when we first questioned him about racially charged comments he’d made on the recording. “Is it me? What does it say I said?”
A WECT reporter proceeded to read quotes from the audio recording.
“I do not recall any of that. Absolutely not. Where was I at when I supposedly said this?” Greene asked.
When told the recording was made during a phone call he placed to Jason Soles in February of 2019, Greene responded, “This is ridiculous.”
Regarding the lack of any minorities on his command staff, Sheriff Greene says one black member of the command staff was dismissed for things they were doing off duty that reflected negatively on the department. Greene said the other was demoted for job performance issues. The sheriff said he couldn’t elaborate further because it was a personnel matter.
When asked if he was denying it was his voice on the recording, Sheriff Greene said he didn’t know because he had not heard the recording, at which point WECT provided him a copy. Greene followed up with WECT Tuesday to say that the county attorney would be reaching out to the station on his behalf. Chief Deputy Aaron Herring later emailed a letter from Boyd Worley, the Attorney for the Columbus County Board of Commissioners.
The letter questions the authenticity and legality of the recording, but does not even broach the topic of the racially charged comments. It instead focuses on the conversation in question between Soles and Greene being a protected personnel matter.
“In short, personnel matters cannot be discussed or shared publicly due to state laws governing the privacy of current and former employees,” Worley’s letter reads. Worley served as Greene’s personal attorney during the disputed sheriff’s election proceedings. He was later hired by the county.
Shortly after this story published online, Greene posted a statement on the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, saying his office serves citizens of all races, and although he admits to using offensive language, he denies saying anything with racial or malintent. Greene said he would cooperate fully with the SBI investigation. -
2022-09-28 at 3:26 PM UTC in Satanic Temple files lawsuit against Indiana’s near-total abortion ban
Satanic Temple files lawsuit against Indiana’s near-total abortion ban
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2022-09-28 at 3:25 PM UTC in Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson You're aware of the state of inflation…right?
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/fiscal-policy-and-excess-inflation-during-covid-19-a-cross-country-view-20220715.html#:~:text=Our%20back%2Dof%2Dthe%2D,ppt%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom. -
2022-09-28 at 3:23 PM UTC in Mississippi governor, who opposed water system repairs, blames Jackson for crisis
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2022-09-28 at 3:22 PM UTC in Republicans block probe of contributions by Chinese elites to Trump PAC through spa operator
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2022-09-28 at 3:21 PM UTC in Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/racism-survey-prri-maga-republicans/
The results shouldn’t surprise anyone paying attention to the MAGA crowd’s rhetoric and veneration of the Confederacy. “Among all Americans, the median value on the structural racism index is 0.45, near the center of the scale,” the poll found. “The median score on the structural racism index for Republicans is 0.67, compared with 0.45 for independents and 0.27 for Democrats.” Put differently, Republicans are much more likely to buy into the notion that Whites are victims.
