The rich used to pay taxes. Now they loan money to the US government – at a profit that everyone else pays for.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/01/republicans-arent-going-to-tell-americans-the-real-cause-of-our-314tn-debt

President Biden to Clown McCarthy: "Show me your budget and I'll show you mine." Feckless McCarthy has none!

Feckless Kevin McCarthy has nothing to negotiate with President Biden today regarding the debt ceiling. His House of Election Deniers Maniacs can't agree on much of anything,. They have no budget. They have no fiscal framework and they zero intent on helping the American people..

Depraved Republicans Are Trying To Make Jamie Raskin Remove His Cap As He Undergoes Chemo.
https://politicususa.substack.com/p/republicans-are-trying-to-make-jamie

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis has to be fired for there to be any chance tat changing the culture in the police dept.

The GOP's House Ethics Committee Will Be Led By An Election Denier.
Most Republicans named to the panel, including its new chair, fueled lies about the 2020 presidential election and voted to reject the election results.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-ethics-committee-election-deniers_n_63d94543e4b01a4363909a77

Florida is at the forefront of a nationwide campaign to silence Black voices and erase the full and accurate history and contemporary experiences of Black people.

Just sprayed my snow blower and shovel with Pam cooking spray. We'll soon see how it works. Waiting on a coat to dry before shoveling my drive way.

Watched the third streaming episode of "The Last of Us" last nite after seeing some of the rave reviews (all from men). Personally was disappointed: a love story between two gay men, who at the end commit suicide together after one becomes terminally ill.

Why is John Durham still employed at the Department of Justice?

Young Black folk are leaving New York for greener pastures in the South. New York has just become too expensive to raise a family. In the last decade New York's Black children and teenagers declined by 19%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/nyregion/black-residents-nyc.html

Cindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 80s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the beloved sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," has died. #RIP

Two emergency medical technicians and a lieutenant in Memphis have been fired in the wake of Nichols' death.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tyre-nichols-memphis-fire-department-fired_n_63d84b39e4b0c2b49ade44eb

An Ohio couple has been unmasked as leaders of the neo-Nazi “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel that distributes lesson plans to 2,400 members.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-ohio

In 2023 Nazi Ron DeSantis thinks he can become president of the United States by being the most racist white guy in the Republican Party.

Policing in America is broken! We need federal law to curtal the physical and mental abuses and in to many cases the murder of innocent and unarmed citizens!

A classic case of "contempt of cop" where police officers
physically punish, even killing civilians for perceived disrespect or disobedience.. Tyre Nicholas. orders from the Memphis police were often simultaneous and contradictory. Officers commanded Mr. Nichols to show his hands even as they were holding his hands. They told him to get on the ground even when he was on the ground. And they ordered him to reposition himself even when they had control of his body.

MAGA House Maniacs and Election Deniers make up the majority on key House committees. Democracy is in peril from within.

Memphis Police officers unleashed a barrage of commands that were confusing, conflicting & sometimes even impossible to obey, a Times analysis of footage from Tyre Nichols’s fatal traffic stop found. 71 commands in a 13 minute span before they even reported Nichols was in custody.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/tyre-nichols-video-assault-cops.html

Too many officers of all races and ethnicities, imbued with a culture of us vs. them, do not see a Black man who has a broken taillight or makes an illegal U-turn as a citizen who made a mistake. They see him as a threat to police dominance and control — and therefore as someone who must be subdued, humiliated, cowed, put in his place.