Looking at this list of the benefits of (continued) membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, its perhaps not so hard to see what the swivel-eyed, right-wing nut-job tendency have against it....
When you're conducting a #classwar, pushing a #racist agenda on #imigration, or just trying to curtail popular criticisms of what you are doing for you (political) chums, these are all a but too inconvenient!
Same TX Gov Abbott who vowed to quickly pardon the self-avowed #racist convicted of murder for driving his car into a gathering of Black Lives Matter protestors and shooting one of them to death
When you and your family have been slaughtered with an assault rifle but the Republican governor of Texas wants to make a little #racist peepee on your grave. #GOP#politics#guns#crime
As the #postoffice#horizon scandal reveals more & more details of appalling behaviour by #management at the PO & #Fujitisu, we now seem to be entering a #windrush phase with the Q. of differing treatment of ethnic minority #postmasters & a suspicion that accusations of #fraud were normalised due to #racist assumptions about the proclivities of particular ethnicities of sub-post-office owners.
Once again, we're going to find that #racism is not a problem the country has banished to history.
Another tale from the #MetropolitanPolice... again which I'm guessing won't be making into the current fly-on-the-wall documentary series...
Black police officers are being 'encouraged' to contribute to a fund for the two officers sacked for gross misconduct after a #racist stop & search of Bianca Williams & Ricardo dos Santos' car.
The Met is becoming an lesson in how to destroy your standing with the communities you police... extraordinary but somehow unsurprising!
Am I the only one who's bothered by the "covid is making everyone stupider" discourse? Yes there is credible research showing significant post-covid cognitive slowing (even in the absence of other long covid symptoms). But there's something particularly and insidiously ableist about the way it keeps getting presented as a gotcha.
I feel like #COVID19 laid bare exactly how #racist, #ableist, #ageist, #classist our 'normal' was. The rush to return to that feels like we've all decided to participate in a giant #eugenics experiment
Donald #Trump, late last night, said Black people like him because he has been "discriminated against" by the legal system.
He told the crowd the lights were so bright that, "I can't see too many people out there, but I can only see the Black ones. I can't see any white ones." #racist
Last #superbowl it was in #phoenix, and it was a crap show when a ln affluent non-native who owns a native gallery in old town #scottsdale showed his #racist side and started harassing #indigenous performers.
He wasn’t charged and the police closed the investigation. I swear, superbowl brings out so much racism toward Natives. I hope both teams lose this year lol!
"Racism is dark, dangerous, and disgraceful. Rep. Schriver’s pedaling of the racist ‘replacement theory’ is a deplorable demonstration of his fear of a dynamic and diverse Michigan future where all of our people in every community can succeed,” he said. “What is equally as abhorrent is the fact that this rhetoric has not been condemned in any serious way by Rep. Schriver’s Repub Party counterparts. The silence is deafening.”
Love & Thai restaurant in #Fresno, #California is open in a different location.
A baseless accusation grounded in a #racist#stereotype about #AsianFood using dog meat brought a 6 month barrage of #harassment so heated Rasavong, 41, closed down its previous location over fears for family safety.
Excellent to see that dozens of #MetropolitanPolice officers are refusing to go out on armed patrols. Innocent dark-skinned citizens will, for a while at least, be less likely to be murdered by the institutionally #racist#police force.
How Leonard Leo Weaponized the Courts Against Democracy | The Nation
The Federalist Society, formed in 1982, was the perfect vehicle for forging a right-wing legal cadre and funneling it into the legal system.
Leonard Leo joined the Federalist Society in 1986, forming a chapter of the group at Cornell where he was studying law.
As he rose in the ranks, Leo was an important player in the political campaigns to win Senate approval for Supreme Court justices such as Clarence #Thomas, John #Roberts, and Samuel #Alito.
During the Bush administration, when the Department of Justice wanted to “launder and distribute” a white paper in support of a contentious nominee, they turned to Leo.
Viet Dinh, a Department of Justice official who was also a prominent member of the Federalist Society, e-mailed, ”Tell len leo [sic] I need this distributed asap.”
The Federalist Society was thus organically tied to the Republican Party:
When nominees ran into headwinds, Leo would lead the charge with media campaigns to rally support.
By 2016, the role of the Federalist Society as the essential gatekeeper of Republican judicial nominees was recognized by presidential candidate #Trump, who promised the right-wing base, “We’re going to have great judges, conservative, all picked by the Federalist Society.”
The network Leo brought together comprises three cords:
♦️the GOP (which needed conservative judges),
♦️the legal profession (where young lawyers were hungry for a pathway to judges),
♦️and plutocratic donors (eager for judges that supported plutocracy and right-wing politics).
💰Money was a crucial component of this network.
George Conway, a former Republican who had been active in the Federalist Society, told ProPublica,
“There was always a concern that Scalia or Thomas would say, ‘Fuck it,’ and quit the job and go make way more money at Jones Day [a big law firm] or somewhere else.
Part of what Leonard does is he tries to keep them happy so they stay on the job.”
This explains the luxurious lifestyle enjoyed by right-wing judges as they vacation and cavort with robber barons such as Harlan #Crow and Paul #Singer.
The judges get to enjoy the lifestyle of the 1 percent despite earning a government salary.
While the Supreme Court is the big prize, the conservative legal movement that Leo forged worked to reshape lower courts as well as state courts, helping to promote not just right-wing judges but also district attorneys.
Sometimes the lobbying was demagogic. Politico reports,
Leo became interested in Wisconsin in 2008.
An incumbent state Supreme Court justice, Louis #Butler, had angered the state’s largest business group with his ruling in a lead paint case.
The ensuing ad campaign was contentious and expensive, featuring commercials showing Butler, who is Black, next to the picture of a sex offender who was also Black.
The #racist demagoguery of that judicial race is of a piece with the way Republican jurists have so often worked to curtail voting rights.
The whole claim that #originalism was meant to enhance democracy has been revealed as a fraud.
The same #antidemocratic tendency can be seen in the way the court is working to limit president Biden’s agenda, as in the recent decision in
👉Biden v. Nebraska overturning student debt relief—a measure that was in the Democratic Party platform when Biden won the election.
The goal was to create an ideologically committed faction that could dominate the courts and advance its agenda without democratic check.
#Trump used a #racist slur while discussing a contestant on #TheApprentice during a recorded conversation 2 decades ago.
Fmr show producer Bill Pruitt, said while deciding between a Black finalist, Kwame Jackson, & a White finalist, Bill Rancic, Trump adviser & show judge Carolyn Kepcher, advocated for Jackson, Trump winced multiple times & asked:
“I mean, would America buy a [n-word] winning?”
Trump picked the white guy.
Four-points restraints are supposed to be a last resort & only to be used briefly but the #racist staff at this Illinois #penitentiary left inmates in them for days, sometimes leaving scars the inmates dubbed “The Thomson tattoo”. THEN the new warden tried to address the abuse & got a letter from inmates warning him the guards were trying to bribe them to attack him. #OverseerOfficer#abuse#whitesupremacy
It's a great day to block people with right-wing, pro-colonialist tendencies who call themselves liberal or even "progressive". When someone shows you who they are...
Funny how Cancun Cruz didn't have any objections to the appointment of demonstrably biased judge, Aileen Cannon. But when a black female judge, who Cruz himself voted to confirm, is appointed by the same system, suddenly he's got all these concerns and objections. Cruz and his colleagues aren't even pretending to act in good faith anymore.
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
#Pecker said #MichaelCohen called him furiously denying the child was Trump's, saying he offered to take a DNA test & bc #Trump was German-Irish & the woman was Hispanic, it was impossible.
FTR, Pecker was saying that #Cohen indicated a child w/a #Hispanic woman couldn't be Trump's. (#Racist 🤬 that he is)
Trump often talks "good genes" & bloodlines. He denigrates #immigrants from #LatinAmerica & says undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country."
In the speech in support of the ceasefire resolution, the #Democratic Florida #StateRepresentative Angie Nixon said: “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?”
In #Trump's America, the new normal is a #racist, white father storming the stage and assaulting the black District Superintendent because he doesn't want his graduating daughter to shake his hand. Look at this poor girl's face as she realizes what her father has done. This #bigot's terrible actions ruined what should have been a moment of pride and celebration for his child. His #hatred was more important.