Tag Archives: wire tapping

#ReleaseTheMemo v. #RemoveNunes …Which side are you on?

By Mark | February 1, 2018

To properly tell tonight’s story, we need to get into the wayback machine for a minute… Buckle up, folks! OK, so do you remember, last March, way before the national conversation turned to porn stars and shitholes, when Donald Trump informed us that he’d been illegally “wiretapped” by Obama? And do you remember how, in […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Carter Page, Chris Wray, Christopher Steele, Chuck Schumer, classified information, conspiracy theory, coverups, deep state, Devin Nunes, dossier, Eric Swalwell, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Fusion GPS, grave threats, high crimes and misdemeanors, House Ethics Committee, House Intelligence Committee, intelligence community, James Comey, Justice Department, leaks, MI6, Michael Flynn, Michael Rogers, Nancy Pelosi, national security, NSA, obstruction of justice, porn stars, recusal, Republican lies, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Sally Yates, shithole, Stormy Daniels, surveillance, Vladimir Putin, Walter Jones | 271 Comments

How shall we greet Trump this Wednesday in Ypsilanti?

By Mark | March 13, 2017

I want to go and protest Trump’s visit to Ypsilanti on Wednesday, but I don’t have a good idea for a sign. The best I’ve been able to come up with so far is the image above, which I just cobbled together using whatever rudimentary tools I could find online, but I doubt that it’ll […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Climate Change, David Duke, Donald Trump, fuel economy, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, grab them by the pussy, Kellyanne Conway, microwaves, protest signs, protests, racism, Rosie the Riveter, somebody else's babies, Steve King, surveillance, tapping phones, white nationalism, Willow Run, xenophobia | 22 Comments

How different would things be now, if Bush, after the 9/11 attacks, had responded, “The answer to violence is even more Democracy”?

By Mark | July 24, 2011

The following video is of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, addressing the press and the people of Norway after the murder of nearly 100 people on the tiny island of Utøya. It is the kind of thoughtful response to terrorist violence that I longed for here in the United States after the attacks of 9/11, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, Anders Behring Breivik, Bush, Free Speech Zones, Jens Stoltenberg, Jonas Gahr Støre, political violence, terrorism, The Answer to Violence is even More Democracy, threats to Democracy, Utøya, violence on the extreme right | 6 Comments

The Obama administration is seeking increased domestic spying powers

By Mark | September 27, 2010

Earlier this summer, we discussed a special report issued by the Washington Post on America’s rapidly expanding domestic surveillance infrastructure. I, and others, were shocked by the continued growth under the Obama administration. Among other things, it was noted that some 30,000 individuals are presently employed exclusively to listen in on our domestic conversations. Here, […]