London court ruling to determine if WikiLeaks founder Assange is extradited to the US Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say the U.S. has provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances that he will have free press protections if extradited to the United States to face espionage ... 05/20/2024 - 12:05 am | View Link
Editorial: Education ministry should intervene on police issue Both in Canada and the U.S., police liaison programs have been shown beyond any dispute to reduce crime and bullying in schools. 05/16/2024 - 11:45 pm | View Link
Why Matt Gaetz promised Trump he was 'standing back and standing by' Matt Gaetz’s entire political brand revolves around provocation. But even by his usual standards, the Florida Republican’s post on X on Thursday was genuinely surprising. Gaetz published a photo of ... 05/16/2024 - 11:03 am | View Link
From the Embers of an Old Genocide, a New One May Be Emerging While the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine and Gaza, Arab forces in Sudan seem to be trying to eliminate non-Arab tribes. 05/15/2024 - 8:01 am | View Link
Briggs: Indianapolis' police union keeps getting paid and trashing the city anyway Indianapolis keeps paying police more and buying frivolous toys. It's never enough for the FOP, columnist James Briggs writes. 05/14/2024 - 11:22 pm | View Link
In SNL's cold open Saturday, Trump says he’s invited a few people from “my short bus––I mean my shortlist.” Via Yahoo News:
He brings out South Carolina Governor Tim Scott (played by Devon Walker). “I’m here to help Trump win the Black vote,” he says. Trump adds, “I’m more popular than you among the Blacks, which is really saying something.” Walker, as Scott says, “Black people have called my support humiliating, but trust me, I am my own man!”
Trump then brings out South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (played by Heidi Gardner), wearing a red MAGA hat, holding a stuffed dog, and pointing a fake gun at the dog (a reference to her shooting a dog).
Iran president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were killed yesterday in a helicopter crash resulting from a “technical failure,” Iranian state news media reported. They were traveling from Iran’s border with Azerbaijan after inaugurating a dam project when their helicopter went down in a mountainous area near the city of Jolfa.
Rep. Jamie Raskin called for an investigation after Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, said non-committee members were drinking in the chamber during a hearing where Marge Greene kicked things off by insulting lawmaker Jasmine Crockett. Via the Independent:
“I didn’t see the drinking but the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury, raised it,” Mr Raskin told Fox News outside the US Capitol on Friday.
The Drain the Swamp fabulist spoke at the wholly corrupt National Rifle Association's event on Saturday in Dallas, Texas, and went on to brag about doing absolutely "nothing" about gun violence. Trump is very proud of that, just as he is proud of overturning Roe. Trump can't feel empathy, and he's sucking up to the NRA out of desperation for votes to keep him out of prison.
Crooked Timber - Originalism for Realists;
Just an Earthbound Misfit - they're called 'self-inflicted wounds';
No More Mr. Nice Blog - Yastreblyansky for the record;
Reveal - shot by a civilian with a police gun;
Tell Me a Story - Hairy Butthead talks at female graduates.
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Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of the most pressing and divisive issues facing our country. Imagine a nation, our nation, where the top 1% possess more wealth than the bottom 90% combined— a nation, our nation, where the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens with each passing year.