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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 3, 2021, 10:21 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-prosecutor-pennsylvania-refusing-plea-153804229.html
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       > A white prosecutor in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, told
       deputy prosecutors not to make plea deals with a Black lawyer
       who criticized systemic racism in criminal courts, according to
       emails seen by the Tribune Review.
       >
       > Emails seen by the paper show Allegheny County District
       Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. emailing his deputy prosecutors
       about attorney Milton Raiford.
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       #Post#: 6930--------------------------------------------------
       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: June 5, 2021, 12:04 pm
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       FBI Investigating Postmaster General DeJoy Over Campaign
       Contributions
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       > The Department of Justice and FBI are investigating Postmaster
       General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign contributions of
       former employees. The Washington Post's Jacob Bogage has
       details.
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdAzHJ9tKY
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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: June 7, 2021, 8:41 pm
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       Audio reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate
       Biden
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       > Audio obtained exclusively by CNN shows how former President
       Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly
       pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to
       investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe
       Biden.
       > #CNN #News
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsH5nuBWhq4
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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 9, 2021, 10:30 pm
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       More mic cutters:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania-republicans-cut-lawmakers-mic-234357103.html
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       > A Pennsylvania Democrat had his speech cut short on Wednesday
       after he noted the state's Republican lawmakers are "100%
       white."
       > ...
       > Sims punctuated his remarks with an attack on his Republican
       colleagues and the demographic makeup of their caucus. The bill,
       he argued, was just another line item in "a grossly, predictably
       misogynistic agenda - an agenda pursued by a party that is 100%
       white, in a chamber that is 70% male."
       >
       > House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler, a Republican, then cut
       Sims' microphone. "That's enough," he said amid booing from
       other GOP lawmakers.
       >
       > Sims was unrepentant.
       >
       > "Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you
       cheer for."
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  HTML https://twitter.com/jjabbott/status/1402713851251003396
       (video)
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       > @PAHouseGOP
       > leader has meltdown on House floor after it was raised that
       his caucus is 100% white in a chamber that is 70% male while
       pushing bills that hurt women's health, especially Black and
       brown women.
       >
       > He had it stricken from the record then they shut down the
       floor.
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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: June 9, 2021, 10:43 pm
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       > "Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you
       cheer for."
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       #Post#: 7064--------------------------------------------------
       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: guest5
       Date: June 10, 2021, 11:10 pm
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       As More DOJ Abuses Are Exposed, Demands For Answers Grows
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       > Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York
       Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that the DOJ
       seized private data on members of Congress and their staff
       members and families, and still fresh revelations that the data
       of reporters was also subpoenaed in other investigations.
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSrpVqowzs
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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 12, 2021, 10:49 pm
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  HTML https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/06/11/we-respectfully-disagree-judge-faces-criticism-as-rhode-island-woman-who-yelled-at-black-family-to-go-back-where-they-came-from-avoids-hate-crime-charges/
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       > Dr. Christine Longo (her status as a physician was revealed by
       her attorney after her bench trial), a 34-year-old woman from
       South Kingstown, ran afoul of the law for berating Adote
       Akpabie, his wife and two daughters, as the family vacationed in
       Narragansett in June 2020.
       >
       > Although Associate Judge James Caruolo found Longo guilty of
       disorderly conduct, he ruled that she had not committed a hate
       crime. If Longo had been found guilty of violating the state’s
       rarely used hate crimes law, she would have faced an enhanced
       sentence.
       >
       > Under the law, prosecutors must prove that the defendant
       “intentionally selected the person against whom the offense is
       committed” because of their “hatred or animus toward the actual
       or perceived disability, religion, color, race, national origin
       or ancestry, sexual orientation, or gender of that person.”
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       So, do Longo's own words sufficiently incriminate her? You
       judge:
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       > “Look at this [expletive] Black guy,” Longo said when she saw
       Akpabie walking in the restaurant to reserve a table, according
       to a witness.  “Go back where you came from.” The woman then
       began to shout at Akpabie’s wife and two teenage daughters, who
       were waiting outside of the restaurant.
       >
       > “Blacks don’t belong here,” Logo told Akpabie’s wife and
       daughters, according to police
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       So Caruolo is the problem.
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       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 23, 2021, 11:43 pm
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       It's OK to be a "white" terrorist:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-capitol-attack-first-defendant-100025672.html
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       > Anna Morgan-Lloyd, a 49 year-old Donald Trump supporter from
       Indiana, was the first person to be sentenced for participating
       in the 6 January attack. She will spend no time in prison after
       pleading guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of “parading,
       demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building”.
       >
       > Judge Royce C Lamberth gave Morgan-Lloyd three years of
       probation
       > ...
       > Morgan-Lloyd had initially boasted on Facebook about how she
       had “stormed the Capitol”, calling the event “the most exciting
       day of my life”.
       > ...
       > “I think she’s learned a lot,” Morgan-Lloyd’s attorney,
       Heather Shaner, told the Guardian.
       > ...
       > “She’s a very fine woman, and I hope she gets probation,”
       Shaner said.
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       Lamberth and Shaner are what the Second Amendment was designed
       for.
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       > Unlike most federal defendants, who typically remain in
       detention before trial, the vast majority of people charged in
       the Capitol riots have already been released, a Guardian
       analysis found. The stark contrast in pretrial detention rates
       has prompted questions about whether the predominantly white
       Capitol defendants were getting different treatment from
       prosecutors and judges than most federal defendants, who are
       Black and Latino.
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       Duh!
       By the way, note Morgan-Lloyd's face shape:
  HTML https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/06/17/19/newFile.jpg
       #Post#: 7286--------------------------------------------------
       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 24, 2021, 10:28 pm
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  HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-us-farmers-dismayed-as-white-farmers-lawsuit-halts-relief-payments/ar-AALiJRN
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       > Black US farmers dismayed as white farmers’ lawsuit halts
       relief payments
       > ...
       > The money, intended as a way to address more than 100 years of
       discriminatory practices and policies that have historically and
       disproportionately disadvantaged Black owners of farmland, is
       now being held up due to an injunction granted this month by a
       federal judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
       >
       > The USDA says it will “forcefully defend” the payments and is
       fighting lawsuits against them with the Department of Justice.
       Around the country there are other lawsuits against debt relief
       to Black and minority farmers with claims of discrimination
       against white farmers, including one in Texas backed by the
       ex-Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
       >
       > Farming while Black, according to Rodney Bradshaw, never gets
       any easier. “My feeling before [the injunction] was that we’re
       finally getting some justice that was due to us after the
       Pigford agreement [a discrimination settlement in the late
       1990s]. Now, it’s that promises to Black farmers are always put
       on hold,” says Bradshaw, of Jetmore, Kansas.
       >
       > He is a descendant of Black settlers with a more than 100-year
       legacy of farming in Kansas, but that legacy is as threatened as
       ever today, he says, because of racism that has been allowed to
       run rampant, and in some cases been historically supported, by
       the USDA.
       > ...
       > Black farmers peaked in number in 1920 when there were
       949,889; today there are only 48,697; they account for only 1.4%
       of the country’s 3.4 million farmers (95% of US farmers are
       white) and own 0.52% of America’s farmland.
       >
       > Part of the reason was displacement of Black farmers due to
       New Deal legislation, whose purpose was to help farmers by
       paying them to reduce crop production, thereby forcing food
       prices to rise. But white farmers used the money to purchase
       mechanical farming equipment and pushed out Black sharecroppers
       whose work was no longer needed due to the decreased production.
       >
       > Disenfranchisement didn’t stop there. In 1965, the US
       Commission on Civil Rights found that the USDA discriminated
       against Black farmers when providing financial assistance
       payments and loans. In 1999, the Clinton administration admitted
       that the USDA’s loan practices were discriminatory, in what is
       now known as the Pigford Settlement.
       >
       > The Pigford Settlement was named for the Black farmer Timothy
       Pigford of North Carolina, who was the lead plaintiff in a
       victorious 1997 class action lawsuit – still the largest civil
       rights settlement ever won against the federal government. It
       was supposed to pay just over $1bn to Black farmers, but less
       than 16,000 payments were received, even though more than 22,000
       claims were filed.
       > ...
       > On the recent injunction, she says: “A colleague reminded us,
       ‘It is always going to be all deliberate speed if it’s on white
       supremacy’s time.’”
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       #Post#: 7337--------------------------------------------------
       Re: State subverters
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 29, 2021, 10:42 pm
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       It's OK for "whites" to feel threatened by a broken car:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-indictment-georgia-officer-killed-175112206.html
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       > ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury has declined to indict a former
       Georgia state trooper who shot and killed a Black man last year
       after trying to pull him over for a broken tail light.
       >
       > Jacob Thompson, who worked for the Georgia State Patrol, had
       been arrested on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault
       in the Aug. 7 death of 60-year-old Julian Lewis. After the case
       was presented to a Screven County grand jury Monday, the grand
       jurors did not indict Thompson on any of the charges.
       > ...
       > Thompson, who is white, tried to pull Lewis over for a broken
       tail light in rural Screven County, near Georgia's border with
       South Carolina. When Lewis didn't immediately stop, the trooper
       pursued him and forced his car into a ditch, then shot Lewis in
       the head.
       >
       > Thompson wrote in his incident report that he shot Lewis as
       Lewis was revving his engine and turning his steering wheel, as
       if he was trying to ram the trooper. But Georgia Bureau of
       Investigation Agent Dustin Peak testified in September that was
       impossible, because Lewis’ car battery disconnected when it hit
       the ditch, leaving the vehicle inoperable.
       >
       > Peak testified that dash camera video shows one second elapsed
       between the time the trooper got out of his patrol vehicle and
       when he fired the shot that killed Lewis.
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       Thompson's face:
       [img]
  HTML https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/MoHxswcjVN0ZsDEwzJLffw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTc1Ny44MDg5ODg3NjQwNDQ5O2NmPXdlYnA-/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VD8wIIOgow6PCeqRWW3l3w--~B/aD0zMTU3O3c9MjkzNzthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2633c540c4a4c9405b00dfb54ecbd6ea[/img]
       But who were the jurors? They are now complicit in the crime.
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