The terrifying implications of pardoning insurrectionists who killed and maimed

This past weekend, in his Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker, Donald Trump reaffirmed his intention to pardon the people who attacked our Capitol, killing five civilians and three police officers and sending more than 140 cops to the hospital.“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day...

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TRT World Exclusive: Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land

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“When I speak to leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean, their number-one request is for Congress to stop American weapons of war from falling into the hands of the gangs that are destabilizing their countries,” said Castro. “Especially in Mexico”

#ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence

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Latino Lawmakers Introduce Stop Arming Cartels Act - The Antagonist Magazine

Latino lawmakers introduced legislation to prevent the sale and trafficking of military-grade weapons to Mexican cartels 

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With each experiment's results, the case for UBI becomes stronger, and it's clear that some very wealthy people don't like those results.
In March of 2021 and again in late 2022, Texas became the first state to attempt to stop more results.

#LaborsBeenADisposableComoditySince1619 #StateSanctionedViolence
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

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The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments

The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. (This article is also available as a YouTube video and as a podcast episode) As a well-known quote often

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It provides no answers for the obvious cover-up and fails to hold anyone accountable. However, the report didn’t shy away from naming names.
Although damning, the DOJ stopped short of filing any charges or recommending the firings of any local, state, or federal law enforcement officers or authority figures involved in the failure to save lives for the sake of promoting themselves as heroes. Despite the obvious negligence, and ultimately, culpability, the report doesn’t mention the word “negligent” or “negligence” once.
#copoganda #ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence #EndTheFilibuster
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Analysis: The DOJ’s Uvalde Report Falls Short

By not holding anyone accountable the Department of Justice’s report on the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas falls short

Decolonizing Journalism

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/uvalde-school-shooting-federal-investigation-police-response

states require students and teachers to receive far more training to prepare them for a mass shooting than they require for the police. At least 37 states require schools to conduct active-shooter-related drills, nearly all on an annual basis. But Texas is the only state that mandates that all of its police officers complete repeated training, at least 16 hours every two years. That requirement was implemented after the #Uvalde shooting.
#ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence #2ndAmendmentPatrols #BidenIsComplicit #EndQualifiedImmunityNow
#DomesticTerroristMovement

“Cascading failures”: Justice Department blasts law enforcement’s botched response to Uvalde school shooting

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had responding officers followed general procedures, some victims would have survived.

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Henry Kissinger is dead. I worked down the hall from him in the mid-90s at the same think tank. Kissinger was often demanding and foul mouthed. He stormed into my bosses office the day after Oliver Stone's movie Nixon was released - ranting fowl language while slamming the office door so hard he shattered the window. This is of course trivial compared to the massive amount of pain he inflicted on the world. #USPol #ForeignPolicy #StateSanctionedViolence https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Rolling Stone

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/12/who-wasnt-complicit-how-martin-scorsese-won-the-trust-of-the-osage-nation

#StateSanctionedViolence: The #racist “guardianship” system was not overturned until 1978 and, today, only 6,000 Osage retain any #oil rights. “We estimate 1.5bn barrels have been removed from our lands in all this time,” says Standing Bear

#CarbonBombTheft, #HumanRightsViolations and #ClimateChange are linked

‘Who wasn’t complicit?’ How Martin Scorsese won the trust of the Osage Nation

The director brought in Chief Standing Bear as a consultant on Killers of the Flower Moon. When they met, Scorsese made it clear that the crime drama would not be an insensitive Hollywood portrayal of Native Americans

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/24/the-fight-to-stop-cop-city-wont-stop/

#StandingRock redux: Weelaunee Forest, which was Muscogee tribal lands… over-policing communities led to #gentrification targeting movements against #policeterror and #violence. COINTELPRO a #corrupt state, which will use any means at its disposal to stamp out #protest.

#Copcity #Dispossessions #PoliceBrutality #statesanctionedviolence #kleptocracy

The Fight to Stop Cop City Won't Stop

The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, intended to consume at least 85 acres of forest adjacent to Atlanta’s Black working-class neighborhoods, is

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