A North Carolina judge on Wednesday ruled against media organizations seeking the quick public release of body camera footage showing the fatal law enforcement shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr.
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The President is scheduled to deliver his first joint congressional speech tonight, which will largely serve as a platform to unveil the details of his latest legislative proposal.
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After months of being stymied by Trump-appointed leadership at the Justice Department, the federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani escalated with a search of his office and home Wednesday, the New York Times reported, as part of an investigation into his Ukraine-related conduct. A source familiar with the probe confirmed to TPM that a search warrant was executed on Giuliani’s office and home Wednesday morning.
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When the FBI questioned the Republican congressional candidate Christine Quinn about her attendance at the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C., she was unapologetic.
West Virginia is set to offer young people a $100 savings bond to get vaccinated against coronavirus.
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From TPM Reader TS …
Absolutely right, this latest one. My university sends out an endless stream of apologies for centuries old ethnic crimes, “climate surveys” asking who feels excluded, demands to take one kind of sensitivity training after another, and letters from every administrator after every national controversy showing “compassion” and asking us all about our feelings. Administrators are being hired by the droves to supervise all this, write reports, conduct surveys, and police language.
From TPM Reader DK …
As I see it, there are two complaints about the “wokeness.” One is completely disingenuous and seems to only come from white people: that it goes too far in “restricting” speech or is “overly prescriptive” in dictating how people are supposed to address one another. The biggest legacy of European Colonialism and the white supremacy intrinsic to it is that of the continued insistence on imposing identities around expectations of who people are and what worth people have in its system of values—both societally and—often—financially. Why should I (a white cishet 52 year old) feel the sads—or rage—that I can no longer assume as much as 52 year old white dudes did 10 or 20 or 30 or 50 years ago about the people they meet in their every day lives?
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) on Monday praised the discussions he and several of his fellow GOP senators have been having with the White House on their watered-down counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan.
From TPM Reader SD …
I was listening to some old Shelby Foote C-Span interviews recently on YouTube. I was listening to this one on his interactions with William Faulkner. If you listen to this interview between roughly the nine-minute mark and the 16-minute mark, he gives a lengthy perspective on his views of the South and Mississippi of his youth.
From TPM Reader DH …
I was happy to see MK’s comments. They helped me understand a bit what the anti-wokeness energy is about.
