Trump Administration moves to stop USPS Police from protecting mail-in ballots

Careful readers and critical thinkers will note that this story from Politico actually makes no mention of mail-in voting or the November elections. The silence is deafening. As always when I reprint news stories from other sources, the story is printed verbatim. Tumalo Lookout comments follow below the story. From Politico: POSTAL SERVICE Postal police …

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Who ya gonna trust.

Trust is a fragile thing, easily lost and not easily restored. Cops toss more and more of it away every day. We've had an especially long list of incidents this year, exposing cops who have violated policies and attempted to deceive the public. Here's another example, reported by National Public Radio. These incidents occur throughout …

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18 American police chiefs busted.

Credit: OregonLive/The Oregonian Fox News recently published a list of American police chiefs who have retired, been demoted, or been terminated around the country since the murder* of George Floyd by four Minneapolis cops.  This list comes from the Fox story. I suspect that it's not complete, and that more resignations and terminations are on …

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Official Government Propaganda: shooting unarmed black men is a “false narrative.”

Reprinted verbatim from Black Enterprise. I'll return to this article soon, and to CNN's interview of Barr for an in-depth discussion. There's a lot for critical thinkers to talk about here, including government propaganda and institutional racism. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR STATES THAT POLICE ‘SHOOTING UNARMED BLACK MEN IS SIMPLY A FALSE NARRATIVE’ by Cedric 'BIG …

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Today is Ax Handle Saturday.

In this news report, we read not only about the open racism of southern White supremacists. We also read about the institutional racism in law enforcement and journalism. Verbatim from The Washington Post. Retropolis ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s vicious attack on Black protesters in Florida 60 years ago A Jacksonville police officer stands with …

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Cop shoots yet another Black citizen, in back, point-blank, seven times.

Verbatim from The Washington Post, August 24, 2020. Opinions We need Black Lives Matter. The police who shot Jacob Blake prove it. Demonstrators march Monday in Kenosha, Wis., to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Opinion by Eugene Robinson Columnist August 24, 2020 at 1:38 p.m. PDT The Black Lives Matter …

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Rayshard Brooks: Atlanta cop shoots Black Man

Verbatim from The Washington Post, June 15, 2020. Opinions It’s not complicated: Rayshard Brooks should be alive A memorial for Rayshard Brooks on Sunday at the Wendy's where he was killed in Atlanta. (Dustin Chambers/Getty Images) Opinion by Eugene Robinson Columnist June 15, 2020 at 2:02 p.m. PDT Rayshard Brooks should be alive today, not dead …

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Why Texas ceded from the Union (1861)

"... maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race... and which her people intended should exist in all future time.... that the servitude of the African race... is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of …

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Why Georgia ceded from the Union (1861)

".... The Constitution declares that persons charged with crimes in one State and fleeing to another shall be delivered up... to be tried in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed.... the Constitution requires them to surrender fugitives from labor. This provision and the one last referred to were our main inducements for confederating with the Northern States. Without …

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