[above: U.S. Attorney General William Barr winks at Donald Trump moments after the President announces that, as part of his new Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities initiative, federal officers will be deployed to more American cities to put down what he describes as a “radical movement” to “defund, dismantle and dissolve our police departments.”] […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, ATF, caravans, Chad Wolf, chaos, Chicago, Civil War, Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities, COVID-19, DEA, defund the police, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, fascism, FBI, gangs, grievance, Homeland Security, hospital capacity, ICU, law and order, law enforcement, Lori Lightfoot, martial law, police, police state, Portland, public health, racism, threats to Democracy, Tom Ridge, U.S. Marshals Service, violent crime, white grievance, William Barr, wink |
Today was fucked up. I found out that a friend of mine, a nurse in Detroit, died from COVID-19. We hadn’t seen each other in quite a long time, but I thought about her often. About a week ago, I found myself logging into Facebook, just to see if she was OK. Knowing that she […]
Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, anti-science, authoritarianism, California, Constitution, coronavirus, COVID-19, Detroit, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Joe Biden, Justin Amash, Lansing, Michigan Freedom Fund, Monica, NFL, nurses, personal protective equipment, Phil Murphy, PPE, protests, public health, serology tests, social distancing, those anti-science Republicans |
By Mark | September 17, 2019
We’re fast approaching the global climate strike. While events around the world are going to run for an entire week, beginning on September 20, and running though the 27th, it looks as though most of the local activity, here in Southeast Michigan, will be on the first day of the campaign, which is this Friday. […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Act On Climate, anti-science, antitrust, automotive emissions, automotive industry, California, carbon emissions, Climate Change, climate crisis, Climate Strike, Corey Lewandowski, cults, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fuel economy, gas prices, greenhouse gas, House Judiciary Committee, Iran, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Marcy Wheeler, MBS, Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia, suicide cult, Tom Carper, war |
By Mark | February 24, 2017
Yesterday, there was a lot of talk online about how Betsy DeVos, our controversial new Secretary of Education, had taken a principled stand on behalf of transgender students, pushing back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump, both of whom had apparently urged her to support the rollback of protections extended by the Obama […]
I had the opportunity to spend some time this afternoon with Jim Dean, the co-founder and chair of Democracy for America (DFA), as he stopped by the Ypsi-Arbor campaign office for Bernie Sanders on his way to Flint. Among other things, we discussed Bernie’s chances in the Michigan Democratic primary, what the Sanders campaign could […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Bros, black lives matter, Democratic National Committee, Democratic National COnvention, democratic primary, DNC, Flint, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, inequality, interviews, Jim Dean, Mississippi, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, Presidential politics, race baiting, racism, reform, robber barons, Ronald Reagan, sexism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tulsi Gabbard, Vermont |