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The Curious Case of George Santos

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/28/the-curious-case-of-george-santos/
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Sun, 29/01/2023 - 02:30
Life as a fictional character Noah Lanard and David Corn find that fact-chaecking the freshman congressman from New York is more like editing a work of fiction: In September 2020, George Santos’ congressional campaign reported that Victoria and Jonathan Regor had each contributed $2,800—the maximum amount—to his first bid for a House seat. Their listed address was 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson Township, New Jersey. A search of various databases reveals no one in the United States named Victoria or Jonathan Regor. Moreover, there is nobody by any name living at 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson. That address doesn’t exist. There is a New Mexico Street in Jackson, but the numbers end in the 20s, according to Google Maps and a resident of the street. Santos’ 2020 campaign finance reports also list a donor named Stephen Berger as a $2,500 donor and said he was a retiree who lived on Brandt Road in Brawley, California.

“Unthinkable violence”

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/28/unthinkable-violence/
Created
Sun, 29/01/2023 - 01:00
It’s not just mass shooters Videos of police beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis. I just can’t watch them this morning. But a New York Times special report on mass shootings clicked with the reported violence of the policemen who beat the Black motorist (ultimately to death) during a traffic stop. “Jillian Peterson is a professor of criminology at Hamline University. James Densley is a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University. Together they run the Violence Project and are the authors of ‘The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic‘,” reads their bio in The Times. They intersperse their conclusions about 50 years of mass shootings with terse summaries of what motivated shooters they studied (emphasis mine): These are abridged details from profiles of the suspected or convicted perpetrators of more than 150 mass shootings in the United States. The profiles are based on news reports, public documents and our conversations with the shooters’ friends, colleagues, social workers and teachers. These events have become more frequent and more deadly over time.

‘Sheer Brutality’: Released Footage Shows Fired Memphis Cops Beating Tyre Nichols

https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/28/sheer-brutality-released-footage-shows-fired-…
Created
Sat, 28/01/2023 - 22:07

"Charging or jailing the killers is not enough," said the national director of the Working Families Party. "Justice is changing the conditions so no one dies during a traffic stop."

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Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again) as Workers Die on the Job

https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/28/far-right-supreme-court-ready-to-gut-unions-a…
Created
Sat, 28/01/2023 - 22:05

By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step […]

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Patrick Lawrence: The Shadows Descend in Ukraine

https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/28/patrick-lawrence-the-shadows-descend-in-ukrai…
Created
Sat, 28/01/2023 - 22:05

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and “murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world the Times inflicts daily upon its unsuspecting readers. When The Times terms someone or some society or some chain of events shadowy or murky it […]

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