President Trump has made clear that he is eager to use the might of the American military and the resources of the federal government to crack down on what he sees as domestic threats: violent crime, illegal immigration and the antifa movement.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Am I supposed to interpret that as "probably true but the US media is super cautious about any Barron story" or "probably false, because, British media."
I looked these up in light of the gutting of our ability to respond to Ebola and every other possible outbreak, but it struck me that THIS is the guy who wants to criminalize criticism of the president and his leadership?
Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone. In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.
When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.
Growing up in the valley, my kids went to school with a lot of actor’s kids, but the only time I was truly star struck was when I realized I was walking behind Diane Keaton at parent’s night. When I was young she was such an icon of movies that mattered to me.
No idea where Blair falls, but I do think there is a range to Epstein’s many impressive connections from absolutely evil participants to shallow society clingers who just couldn’t imagine a very rich friend of their friends is *really* a loathsome sex criminal.
I still don’t get how the major reporting doesn’t frame this as obvious. It’s as if the administration just randomly shut off all traffic lights, in the absence of a plausible reason I think we could assume the goal is pain and chaos.
