A white 18-year-old man allegedly shot 10 people fatally and wounded three at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday afternoon in what law enforcement officials described as “racially motivated violent extremism.” Out of the 13 people the suspect shot, 11 were Black, according to authorities.
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It’s hard to say that one mass shooting is worse than the next — other than in the brutal metric of body counts. They’re all different flavors of the same horror. But the news out of this afternoon’s shooting in Buffalo is particularly sobering, shocking, enraging. One of the ten dead was a retired cop working as a security guard at the grocery store. He engaged the shooter and shot him. But it didn’t stop him because the shooter was wearing body armor. That little detail is the one that just stopped me in my tracks.
Police appear certain that the shooting, allegedly by an 18 year old from out of town, was racially motivated, though they haven’t yet discussed the evidence that makes it so clear. Eleven of the thirteen who were shot are Black. Two are white.
The Plot to Keep Meatpacking Plants Open During COVID-19
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As hundreds of meatpacking workers fell sick from the coronavirus that was spreading through their plants and into their communities in April 2020, the CEO of Tyson Foods reached out to the head of another major meatpacker, Smithfield Foods, with a proposal.
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Republicans who aren’t named Donald Trump see the value in an incumbent.
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You can never understand national politics without understanding the elite mores of Washington, DC. People toss around the word “elite.” But here I mean it in a more specific sense of the mix of journalists, staffers, elected officials, lobbyists, activists and more who have power in and essentially run the political town of Washington, DC. (The actual place where most of the population lives is a different thing.) As I’ve written in various contexts over the years that strata of the city remains heavily wired for the GOP, even though there are lots of people from that world who certainly aren’t conservatives and by definition many are Democrats. I wanted to flag something to you that kind of captures it.
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A state judge in Georgia laughed former U.S. senator and Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate David Perdue out of court, saying in essence that he had no idea what he was talking about when he filed suit late last year over the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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Justice Samuel Alito is evidentially toting around an old grudge.
Continue reading “Alito Calls Landmark Supreme Court Decision Expanding LGBTQ Worker Rights ‘Indefensible’”Judgment Day: Durham Finally Gets 2016 Conspiracy Theories Before Jury
Michael Sussmann, the Democratic-aligned attorney, was indicted in September 2021, days before the five-year statute of limitations would have expired.
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Just Add Water And Presto!
Just like that you can turn the baby formula shortage into a … racist attack on immigrants?
It played out quickly Thursday. The “credit” for the bank shot from baby formula shortage to xenophobic attack on immigrants to blaming Biden for it all appears to belong to Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL). Well played, well played.
But she wasn’t alone.
- The NYPost was ON IT: “Border detention center looks stocked with baby formula despite shortage”
- It gets 4 Pinocchios from the WaPo factchecker.
Where Things Stand: Some Updates On Those Impending Jan 6 Panel Hearings
When the Jan. 6 select committee begins holding hearings on their investigative findings in about one month, we may see video testimony from some members of the Trump family.
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