October 20, 2020

Rep. Barbara Lee @RepBarbaraLee: In order to dismantle systemic racism,

https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1318674100534059008






Would love to see Lee get a cabinet position.

October 20, 2020

Nomi Prins @nomiprins: Featured in this corruption scandal...

https://twitter.com/nomiprins/status/1318666433958727686









Funny how you never see the cops take these guys in.

October 18, 2020

Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of "unconscionable cruelty" in teen rape case

Barrett decided to overturn a $6.7M jury award to a teen allegedly raped in a jail run by ex-Sheriff David Clarke


IGOR DERYSH
OCTOBER 16, 2020 10:23PM (UTC)


Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has been accused of "unconscionable cruelty" by a watchdog group over her role in an appellate court decision overturning a district court which found a Wisconsin county liable for millions in damages to a woman who alleged she had been repeatedly raped by a jail guard.

"After a 19-year old pregnant prison inmate was repeatedly raped by a prison guard, Amy Coney Barrett ruled that the county responsible for the prison could not be held liable because the sexual assaults fell outside of the guard's official duties. Her judgment demonstrates a level of unconscionable cruelty that has no place on the high court," Kyle Herrig, president of the progressive watchdog group Accountable.US, told Salon. "The only thing more concerning than the rush to confirm by Senate Republicans is what we are learning about Amy Coney Barrett's extremist record. It is hardly surprising that she has dodged question after question during her testimony."


Barrett was one of the three judges on a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel which reversed a $6.7 million verdict against Milwaukee County in 2018 after a corrections officer was charged with repeatedly raping a pregnant 19-year-old inmate.

Former corrections officer Xavier Thicken was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault in 2013 after the woman alleged that he had raped her during and after her pregnancy at a jail run by the controversial former Sheriff David Clarke. Those charges were dropped when he agreed to plead guilty to felony misconduct in public office in 2014.

The woman later filed a lawsuit against Milwaukee County. In her testimony, she alleged that Thicklen had raped her in different parts of the jail when she was eight months pregnant and demanded that she perform oral sex on him after giving birth.


https://www.salon.com/2020/10/16/watchdog-group-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-unconscionable-cruelty-in-teen-rape-case/

October 17, 2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: #KnowYourRights on how to protect you and your family from eviction.

https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1317557745663574016














No one in America should have to carry these fears and during a pandemic, it is simply barbaric.

October 17, 2020

Attorney Ben Crump: Rest in power #BernardCohen, who fought to legalize interracial marriage

https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1317251225889497089

October 16, 2020

Sen. Collins acknowledges her PAC donated to pro-QAnon Maine candidates

by WGMEFriday, October 16th 2020

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Senator Susan Collins is acknowledging that her political action committee, "Dirigo PAC" has donated money to a pair of northern Maine candidates for the state legislature who believe in QAnon.

Trump criticizes Sen. Collins for saying she'll vote against Judge Amy Coney Barrett
QAnon is a conspiracy theory that says that President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against Satan-worshipping pedophiles across the government, businesses and the media.

Kevin Bushey and Brian Redmond each received $400 from the Dirigo PAC.

Both have posted on social media at length about the conspiracy theory.

https://wgme.com/news/local/sen-collins-acknowledges-her-pac-donated-to-pro-qanon-maine-candidates


America and the world for that matter need to see Republicans marginalized to the extreme.

October 16, 2020

Video Shows Cop Handcuffing, Taunting 7-Year-Old With Autism After He Spat At School

Yep, there are only a few bad apples. Cops have to be trained to be human, I guess.


by Michael Gordon, The Charlotte Observer/TNS | October 15, 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The video from former Statesville Police Officer Michael Fattaleh’s body camera shows him rushing across a classroom toward two women who are sitting with a small boy.

“OK, I’ve got him. He’s mine now,” Fattaleh says. He takes the 7-year-old, child with autism from the women, handcuffs the boy’s arms behind his back and presses him to the floor.

According to the video of the Sept. 11, 2018, incident, the student remains in that position for the next 38 minutes. Sometimes he sits quietly. Other times he sobs in apparent pain or pleads for Fattaleh to let him go.

“I’ve got all day, dude,” the officer says early in the encounter. ” … If you are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be shortly.”

The boy’s crime? According to a new lawsuit filed by the child’s mother, identified as A.G., Fattaleh says he saw the student with special needs spitting in a “quiet room” at the Pressly Alternative School in Statesville.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2020/10/15/video-cop-handcuffing-taunting-7-year-old-autism/29036/

October 15, 2020

Charlotte Clymer @cmclymer: Early votes by this point in the presidential election...

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1316765266156695553












This is the turnaround, imo. Republicans will not be benefitting. Hell is almost over.

October 15, 2020

We're talking about water. Rep. Ted Deutch @RepTedDeutch: Gov DeSantis ended eviction protections.

https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch/status/1316400304259293184












The political party for sociopaths.

October 11, 2020

THE FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE IN A POST-GINSBURG WORLD

The Trump administration has already offered the eight-member court an opportunity to restrict abortion access amid the pandemic.


Jordan Smith
October 11 2020, 8:00 a.m.


ORIAKU NJOKU WAS outside the U.S. Supreme Court alongside a crowd of activists and advocates for abortion rights as the nine jurists inside heard oral arguments in a case that, depending on its outcome, could destroy access to abortion in Louisiana.

It was a crisp morning in early March, mere days before the coronavirus pandemic would see the country all but completely locked down. Njoku, one of the founders of Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, a nonprofit that provides assistance to individuals seeking abortion care across six states in the Deep South, was rallying outside the court with her sister. “There was so much energy,” she recalled.

It was nearly four years to the day since the last time Njoku had been in front of the high court. That morning, in early 2016, the court was considering the constitutionality of a set of abortion restrictions in Texas that had shuttered half the state’s clinics. At the time, there were just eight justices on the bench; Antonin Scalia had died several weeks earlier. In the end, Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to strike down the restrictions, which included a requirement that abortion providers have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The court found no evidence that this was necessary to ensure patient safety.


Now, Njoku was back in the same space rallying for the same cause: The restriction at issue in the Louisiana case was identical to the admitting privileges requirement the court had invalidated in Texas. “It was a full-circle moment, where it was almost four years to the day; I’m back here again, literally fighting for … the same thing,” she said. “I was like, ‘They have to uphold this precedent.’”

excerpt:

When the decision was announced, Njoku realized that it wasn’t exactly a game-changing victory. Anti-abortion lawmakers have passed more than 450 abortion restrictions over the last decade, many of which still stand, making access to abortion difficult, if not nearly impossible, for millions of people. This is especially true for people of color, LGBTQ people, poor and low-income people, and people in rural areas, who are routinely hit hardest by restrictions on reproductive care, as well as broader inequalities within the health care system. These inequalities have been widely exposed not only by the pandemic, but also through a summer of civil rights protests that have thrown new light on the country’s continuing legacy of racial oppression.

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/