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Clues From D.C. Plane Crash Suggest Multiple Failures in Aviation Safety Clues emerging from the moments before an Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet suggest breakdowns in the system meant to help aircraft land safely at the busy Reagan National Airport.

It's crazy that, as an extremism reporter, I'm sharing a story about federal aviation safety mainly for the purpose of counteracting disinformation put out by a U.S. president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

Doing well, thank you. Nose down writing scripts and editing on our series. Going to try to punk rock my way through this thing with resistance art. It’s what ‘ol Joe Strummer would do.😉 Hope you and your family are good. Would love to hook up soon for coffee or a beer. I could head your way.

4th Circuit To Weigh Whether NC Supreme Court Election Challenge Should Proceed in State or Federal Court Read more here.

Please pay attention to this case being argued in the 4th Circuit tomorrow. It could determine whether the GOP succeeds in stealing a NC Supreme Court seat by disenfranchising 60,000 voters.

Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So let’s see, Trump has been President for a week and now we are fighting with Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Denmark, Panama, Colombia, and pretty much the entire EU.

It does seem that Viktor Orban and Netanyahu now likes us more though, so there’s that.

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

An important read heading toward our fairly uncertain future.

@byjordangreen.bsky.social - Just in case you hadn’t seen this.

This is the stuff they feed the cult to keep them from noticing that the only reason why they wanted power was to stay out of prison, have immunity from prosecution, then use the levers of power to enrich themselves exponentially faster than any group of people in human history.

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

Three Kings post up in the manger. No myrrh. No frankincense. But carryout containers of kung pao, lo mein, dumplings and hot and sour soup.
"We have traveled far."
"No spring rolls? Where are the ribs?
Silence.
"You didn't grab hot mustard packets?"
Crickets.
"Wise men my ass."

I’m here today to be transparent and honest with you about how things are going here. As a grassroots, scrappy independent paper, we’re going through big changes.
triad-city-beat.com/help-save-tc...

Attn. federal employees planning to stay on for the incoming administration:

If you find yourself being asked to violate the law or otherwise cause harm, and want to speak with a journalist, please be assured I will keep your identity confidential.

Reach out at jordangreen@protonmail.com

Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter sa...

Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/t...

ALL JOURNALISTS:

As my firm has done since Pres Clinton's Admin, we are willing to consider requests for pro bono legal representation, incl litigation, in #FOIA matters pertaining to 2nd Trump Administration.

Please contact me at Mark@MarkZaid.com if you wish to discuss. @bradmossesq.bsky.social

Wondering if there's much of a freelance market in ghostwriting manifestos, most of which seem to be either grossly overwritten or tersely underdeveloped and generally unprofessional. Given the political tenor of these times, it seems like it could be growing sector for the ink-stained among us.

Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54

finally a reasonable take

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

Image: The Virginia Defender Newspaper. Text: Crisis & Coverup at Red Onion Super-Max Red Onion and its sister supermax Wallens Ridge State Prison are both located in the mountains of the far southwestern corner of Virginia in rural, segregated white communities, while their prisoner populations are near totally Brown and Black.

Racism and horrid, inhumane conditions so intolerable that men incarcerated at Red Onion Prison in Wise, Virginia are setting themselves on fire in desperate attempts to get transferred. “Not protests, but acts of desperation hoping to get out of an insufferable situation.” 1/4

Self Immolation at Red Onion State Prison Dear Friends, On September 15th, 2024, a tragic, horrifying event took place at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison—an event that highlights the unbearable conditions incarcerated individuals face every...

This story is being missed. These men deserve coverage & resources. @byjordangreen.bsky.social, @rawstory.com

“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze.”

Wonder how that 17 year old kid far from home, perched above a nuke would feel about MAGA capitulation to the Russian dictator and the appointment of a Russian asset to run our intelligence services. Almost glad he isn’t here to have his heart broken. 2/2

In 1963 my father was 17. He joined the Army to escape rural poverty in NC. He was sent to Red Stone arsenal to train then to a nuclear silo in Germany to serve with a missile unit there. He passed away in 2016. He died from a disease(ALS) that other men in his Army unit died from as well. 1/2

Tulsi Gabbard has all the red flags of a foreign intelligence asset. MAGA is all about the capitulation to power. They don’t believe in America and feel that we are weak. MAGA is perfectly happy selling our nation out to Putin.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...

Resegregation is alive and well, especially in NC where the gerrymandered lege constantly thwarts the will of voters.
#USDemocracy

www.propublica.org/article/segr...

After Tom Homan threatened to jail local officials who oppose mass deportations, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he’s prepared to go: “Gov Carr has always been one of my heroes. He was the Gov in the middle of Japanese internments during WW2 who said this was the wrong thing to do.”

LONDON (AP) — A civil jury in Ireland finds that mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel.