Last night, there were FBI raids in Wexford County and Hartland, leading to several arrests. At roughly the same time, another five men were taken into custody in Ypsilanti by agents of the FBI. [While they were arrested here, it doesn’t look as though any of the men lived in Ypsilanti.] According to court documents, […]
Tag Archives: political violence
Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020
Since we last spoke,
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun reform, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Katrease Stafford, Kroger, lungs, lynching, masks, milkshakes, Monica, privilege, public health, race inequality, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, Texas, violence on the extreme right 42 Comments
They execute babies, don’t they?
Yesterday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after referring to leaders of the FBI and DOJ as “scum” and “dirty cops”, Donald Trump went on to reiterate the dangerous falsehood that, after women give birth in the United States, they have the option of killing the child. “(Babies are) wrapped in a blanket,” Donald Trump told the […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged abortion, call to violence, Cesar Sayoc, dirty cops, DOJ, enemy of the people, FBI, Green Bay, hate crimes, incitement to violence, infanticide, irresponsible rhetoric, Julia Pulver, MAGA, MAGA bomber, racism, rhetoric, scum, second amendment, Unite the Right, violent rhetoric, white nationalism, Wisconsin 78 Comments
What the fuck is happening in Florida?
Claiming that ballots (ostensibly cast by Democrats) had been “forged,” the President of the United States declared this morning that the counting of votes in Florida should stop immediately, and that that Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis should be declared the winners of their respective races. This, Donald Trump reasoned, was the right thing to […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andrew Gillum, Arizona, Arlington, Bill Nelson, Cesar Sayoc, concessions, conspiracy theories, Craig Holman, Donald Trump, Election Day, election interference, fake news, false accusation, Florida, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Warner, midterm elections, Miriam Adelson, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Public Citizen, recounts, Republican lies, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis, Sheldon Adelson, Veterans' Day, voter fraud, Voting Rights Act, Wayne Allyn Root 146 Comments