What is a Non-Violent Revolution or Overthrow of the Despots and Fascists and Billionaire/Millionaire Class Look Like?

Fucking bloody hell, folks . . . a billion robots of the Semen Drip Musk Variety and Total Awareness, i.e. US Trump Alligator Alcatraz Digital Gulag GITMO in every country in the 14 Eyes Net

A decent man, a friend, in Wisconsin, was upset yesterday, man at that big-bountiful-for- the- rich- cunt- Trump bill that “passed” yesterday, in the White Man’s Mad “house.”

Hating the people, man: Goes back to FDR*, man, and then Reagan on steroids, and then, Brandies Memo, and then Reagan, the soulless death ray, and then Gore and Billy Boy and then Bush and his 1,000 points of light from bullet holes in common sense safety nets, and then the Jewish Mossad Operation of the Century, the past century, even though it was 2001. The W Room Temp IQ Bush, and then Bomb them/Deport Them Obama, then Trump Trump Trump trumping that, Biden with his Genocide, and then Trump trumping again. *(see Alan Nasser’s How Franklin D. Roosevelt Botched Social Security — 2013 article)

Shanking a few republican congressmen would be a start. While they are pissing their Viagra fucking urine somewhere, anywhere, weeks before, in their home states, in their fucking beer and rib joints, well well, now that would be a trillion more heroic than Mitch Snyder or Aaron Bushnell.

“Anyone who thinks anyone is on the streets by choice is saying that out of a bed; a warm, comfortable home with a roof over their heads, money in their pocket and food in their stomachs.” – Mitch Snyder

Here, I will give the Snyder historical perspective via long article. If you don’t time for the read, then move on down to the Alligator pens.

1981 saw Ronald Reagan take residency in the White House after defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter. On the streets of Washington, D.C., a persistent issue became increasingly more strident. Reflecting on the period, WAMU host Kojo Nnamdi remarked, “We began to see large numbers of panhandlers appearing on the streets of Washington."^[1] According to U.S. General Accounting Office, rising unemployment, a decrease in services for those suffering from mental illness, and “cuts in public assistance and the decline in the number of low-income housing units” had increased the homeless population.^[2] The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated between 250,000 and 350,000 persons were homeless nationwide. D.C.’s Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), a homeless advocacy organization, put forth a more startling figure: between two and three million.^[3] In comparison to what would come later, these diverging statistics would be one of the more minor disagreements between the Federal government and CCNV.

CCNV was founded in 1970 by a chaplain and students at the George Washington University for grassroots organizing and direct action in Washington, D.C. Initially, the collective’s attention was directed at protesting the Vietnam War.^[4] Following the War’s end, the CCNV turned its attention to homelessness.^[5]

By the close of the decade, a dynamic leader would bring international attention to the group. Mitch Snyder was the product of working-class Brooklyn, New York. After going to prison for car theft, he began studying under Daniel and Philip Berrigan, priests imprisoned for destroying draft records.^[6] Influenced by the Berrigan brothers’ activism, Snyder found his life’s purpose in Catholicism steeped in social justice. Upon his 1972 release, Snyder brought his anti-war idealism to Washington, D.C., what he believed to be the best place to “try and create a more political center.”^[7] After the withdrawal of U.S. forces, Snyder’s moralistic energy was perfect for the CCNV.^[8] He quickly rose to become the face of the organization by the early 1980s.

Faced with a growing homeless crisis, the Reagan administration made a surprising policy decision in 1983. Vacant federal buildings became available to “local governments and charitable organizations” for use as emergency shelters at a “cost basis.” The properties included thousands of HUD and Department of Defense owned structures across the country, including 425 D Street NW, a federal building last used by the University of the District of Columbia.^[9]

As Susan Fennelly, Mitch Snyder’s companion and fellow CCNV activist later related, “One of our community members, Justin Brown, found an old UDC building at Second and E, Northwest, that the General Services Administration had up for auction.^[10] Homeless advocate Susan Baker, wife of Reagan’s Chief-of-Staff James Baker, had previously helped CCNV secure surplus food from military commissaries for the homeless.^[11] So, with Baker’s help, CCNV signed a $1 dollar lease on the building in January 1984, for use as a temporary shelter.^[12] With this agreement, CCNV and the Government entered into a unique arrangement, to say the least. Aside from being a federally-owned building, the neglected structure sat on prime real estate. A short walk from Union Station and the U.S. Capitol, 425 D Street NW provided CCNV with a Metro-accessible location, close to services and within earshot of Congress.

While securing the lease was a huge step, conflict soon emerged. Having sat vacant for some time, the building was in dire need of repair so Snyder and CCNV pushed the government to renovate. The building did not have a sprinkler system and falling plaster exposed pipes. There were only four showers serving between 600 and 800 persons a night according to Snyder’s estimates.^[13] Government officials argued that they were not responsible for upgrades under the terms of the 1983 policy decision, and dug in.^[14]

In September 1984 Snyder began a hunger strike to try to force the government’s hand to make repairs before the winter. Snyder told reporters, “People’s lives are at stake, many more than mine. I don’t want to die but there is no better way than this that I could serve the people out on the streets.”^[15] As his body began to falter, Snyder held tight to his demands: $5 million in federal money to renovate the shelter. Federal officials reiterated that “they did not intend to respond to Snyder’s demands."^[16] Both publicly and privately, officials urged him to end the strike. But as the strike languished, Mitch Snyder was becoming more of a political controversy. Reagan officials desperately wanted to end the strike before the November 6 election, and avoid Snyder’s death.^[17]

On November 4, just two days before the election, 60 Minutes was set to air a report on Snyder’s hunger strike. With public opinion leaning towards Snyder, and pressure from House Speaker Tip O’Neill, negotiations resumed. Snyder and Fennelly along with Susan Baker worked out a deal with Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler and Harvey Vieth, chairman of the HHS’s Task Force on Food and Shelter for the Homeless.^[18]

That same day, an emaciated Mitch Snyder was rushed to Howard Hospital. While hospitalized, HHS Secretary Hecker called to inform Snyder that President Reagan had personally approved the agreement while en route to a campaign stop aboard Air Force One.^[19] With the strike over after 51 days, Heckler announced that "the administration pledges to turn the decaying, vermin-infested facility into a ‘model physical shelter structure to house the homeless . . . to be used as long as a critical need exists.'"^[20] It was curiously open-ended language.

Following the strike’s end, CCNV set about to create the model shelter. Architect Conrad Levenson was hired to draft plans with an emergency grant of $17,500 from the National Endowment for the Arts. Levenson and his team developed a plan that would cost between the original $5 and $10 million.^[21] In addition to services like an infirmary and welcoming aesthetics, the proposed design would make the building ADA compliant.^[22]

Once again, however, the Federal government had different ideas. In May 1985, the General Services Administration and the Task Force on Food and Shelter for the Homelessness countered with an offer of just under $3 million for a bare bones, barracks-style overhaul of the building. CCNV rejected what Snyder deemed a "patch job."^[23] With the Government and CCNV at an impasse, all bets were off and the General Services Administration announced that the building would be demolished.^[24]

With negotiations stalled, it looked as though CCNV had been given the Federal styled, bureaucratic runaround. Even more ominous for CCNV, HHS Secretary Margaret M. Heckler, who had brokered the November 1984 deal, was on her way out. She would begrudgingly accept the position of Ambassador to Ireland in October of 1985.^[25] Heckler’s Chief-of-Staff, C. McClain Haddow became the new point-person on negotiations with CCNV and his contempt for Snyder and CCNV was clear.^[26] “We call him ‘Hollywood Mitch’ because all he really cares about is the attention he gets.’“^[27] The comment was made in reference to a deal that Snyder had signed for a TV movie about his hunger strike, starring Martin Sheen. The proceeds from the film were to benefit CCNV.^[28]

Time seemed to be running out on CCNV’s model shelter. With July 10, 1985 announced as the day the “squalid” shelter would close, CCNV was informed it would have to vacate so that demolition proceedings could move forward. In response, CCNV turned to the courts. “We have lots of lawyers, and I don’t think we’ll have any difficulty finding a judge who can slow this process down so that it will take six months or a year,” threatened Snyder.^[29] His words turned out to be prophetic.

Speaking before a House panel on August 1, 1985, Snyder stated the obvious, that if the 800 bed shelter were to close “its residents will be forced to sleep in parks and abandoned cars because there are not enough beds in other District shelters."^[30] Empathetic yet impartial, U.S. District Judge, Charles Richey ruled that the shelter could close, if an alternate site could be provided. In his ruling he stated, “No less than the President of the United States should treat this as a national emergency . . . in order that the full impact of the nation's resources can be brought to bear to eliminate this national disgrace."^[31] In line with the ruling, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced that funds promised by President Reagan allocated to renovate the CCNV shelter would be given to the “District government for alternative housing."^[32]

The alternative the Feds identified was the former Department of Defense War College in Anacostia Park.^[33] To run the facility, the Federal officials selected the D.C. Coalition for the Homeless. CCNV was quick to shine light through the gaping holes in this proposal to move the homeless away from vital services to isolated National Park Service land in Southeast, Washington, D.C. As one shelter resident explained, there were obvious benefits to the 425 D St. NW location: “A lot of the churches around here give away clothes and food. They don’t do it like that in Anacostia."^[34] Similarly, Ward 8 citizens criticized the new plan as "just another attempt to dump unwanted facilities on an area of the District that has been dumped on too much."^[35]

On Kojo Nnamdi’s Evening Exchange, Mitch Snyder participated in a roundtable which included Lawrence Guyot of the D.C. Coalition for the Homeless. Guyot compared Snyder to Jim Jones and called for him to release the residents of the CCNV shelter to the Anacostia facility. Snyder deftly responded “You are being used—as a wedge between us and the administration. You’re gonna have to move out of the way and when you do, we’re gonna face the administration head on and...we’re gonna push ‘em right out of this damn city ‘cause they are the most vile, vulgar, insensitive, inhumane, human beings we’ve ever seen and you shouldn’t let them use ya."^[36]

When the Coalition vans arrived at the CCNV shelter to transport residents to Anacostia they were met with opposition and left with fewer than ten people.^[37] In December 1985, U.S. Marshals posted eviction notices, but Snyder and residents vowed to remain. C. McClain Haddow warned the standoff could end violently citing the number of CCNV shelter residents who were Vietnam War vets—men who, in his words, "specialized at doing one thing: killing people."^[38]

Thankfully, the eviction and violence never came. Mayor Marion Barry stepped in and announced that D.C. police would not assist Federal Marshals in pushing out the shelter residents. On December 28, 1985 President Reagan halted the evictions paving the way for renovations to finally begin. It would take another two years, two more hunger strikes and the publicity from the movie starring Martin Sheen, but a $6.5 million renovation was unveiled at a ribbon cutting in February 1987.^[39] The revamped facility had 600 beds, a new kitchen, a new dining area and additional showers.

It was a victory, but for Snyder, only a partial one. He worried that the renovated shelter would not suffice to meet Washington’s needs. “We still have to come up with another $5 million in the next 60 to 90 days if we’re going to have the rest of the building renovated by winter."^[40] The battle to shelter the homeless in the nation’s capital would continue.

Epilogue

The story of Mitch Snyder and CCNV was brilliantly preserved in Ginny Durrin’s Oscar-nominated 1988 documentary, Promises to Keep. The film shows Snyder and CCNV engaged in an unrelenting struggle with the U.S. government. After the numerous emotionally-taxing scenes, the story ends on an uplifting note—a completed model homeless shelter. The looks of joy and relief on the faces of CCNV personnel are powerful.^[41]

Sadly, however, for Mitch Snyder the creation of the model shelter did not bring personal happiness. On July 5, 1990, he was found hanged in his room, two days after he was last seen alive. Notes lamented his failed romantic relationship with Carol Fennelly and the D.C. Council’s recent moves to weak emergency shelter laws.^[42] Councilman John A. Wilson spoke of the extreme burnout Snyder may have felt, eerily before his own suicide by hanging, “I think America is hard on sensitive people, and I think Mitch was an extremely sensitive person who took his successes and failures personally."^[43]

Learn more

In 1987, a Fort Wayne, Indiana television station did a special report on homelessness in America. Reporter Ken Owen traveled from Fort Wayne to Washington, D.C. to interview Mitch Snyder along with Indiana politicians, including then-Senator Dan Quayle.

REMEMBER THOSE DAYS, man? Now, the reality was that in 1980s money, fucking food, went a long long way. You had semi-shitty Greyhound buses and mass transit in urban areas. Compared to now, no matter how hateful that fucking war criminal-validated fucking Contra Freedom Terrorist Reagan was, we had his goons and the web of crack cocaine also to thank.

That hero, Webb:

“Dark Alliance” was originally published in three parts from August 18 to 20, 1996, in the San Jose Mercury News and carried on its hightech Mercury Center website.9 This was significant because it marked the first time for a US newspaper to make use of the new technology known as the Internet as part of a major news investigation.

Webb had wanted to use the newspaper’s website particularly to show the hard evidence and detailed documentation he had amassed as a way to counterbalance what he called the “high unbelievability factor” of his investigation—a true story that the public would literally find too hard to believe unless it was documented in great detail.

And that is where the next significant aspect of “Dark Alliance” comes in: it was the first news media investigation to expose the links between the CIA, the contras, and the rise of crack cocaine use in the United States.

Other journalists, most notably Associated Press (AP) reporters Brian Barger and Robert Parry in the mid-1980s, had reported on the ties between the CIA and large-scale cocaine trafficking by the anticommunist paramilitary forces in Nicaragua known as the “contras.”

In his “Dark Alliance” investigation a decade later in the summer of 1996, Webb provided the crucial missing piece of the puzzle: what happened to the powdered cocaine once it had been smuggled into the United States by Nicaraguan contra supporters and turned into dried “crack” cocaine, and how the money made from such crack sales on American streets made its way back to the contras in their

CIA-sponsored campaign to overturn the new socialist government of Nicaragua. While “Dark Alliance” did not implicate the CIA in specific incidents of drug smuggling into and within the United States—a point Webb was always clear in publicly emphasizing—his series did present strong circumstantial evidence that the CIA at least knew of the cocaine smuggling into the US by the Nicaraguans and did not act to stop it. As Webb also demonstrated in “Dark Alliance,” some US government agencies went as far as offering bureaucratic cover and legal protection to some of the most infamous cocaine traffickers in the Western hemisphere.

Webb had specifically documented in his series how the crossing of paths of three main characters—Nicaraguan wholesale drug traffickers Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón, along with a young African-American street-level drug dealer named “Freeway” Rick Ross—had eventually led to an outbreak of crack cocaine use and abuse in Los Angeles that then spread to other US cities, hitting African-American communities the hardest.

Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series was also significant in the way it was treated by the influential Big Three newspapers. Instead of building on Webb’s groundbreaking investigation and moving the story forward, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times attacked the “Dark Alliance” series for often self-serving reasons and sought to tarnish both Webb’s credibility as a journalist and his investigation. This was unprecedented, certainly in contemporary US press history. (source)

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And what did all that crack and coke do to poor communities? To the rich cocksuckers?

"It was originally 100-to-1, meaning that you got essentially 100 times the amount of [prison] time for crack than you would for the same substance in powder form. That was reduced to 18-to-1 around 2010. But it still exists. With all that we know about crack, with all the compassion that we have now for addicts, we still haven't moved far enough to eliminate that disparity entirely."

On how the crack epidemic came to an end

let's celebrate the fact that the crack epidemic is over. Let's celebrate the fact that we survived it without a whole lot of intervention from the government and that it was young people who made the decision to not continue the trend.

Dominic X. Ramsey

The crack epidemic ended not because the drug warriors rode in on white horses or because Nancy Reagan said, "Just Say No." The crack epidemic ended because the next cohort of young people who would have used crack looked around at their communities and saw the devastation and said, "Not for me." And I think a really important thing to underline, is that .. we didn't celebrate that. So let's celebrate the fact that the crack epidemic is over. Let's celebrate the fact that we survived it without a whole lot of intervention from the government and that it was young people who made the decision to not continue the trend. And that's not according to me. That's according to research by the Department of Justice, where they surveyed the hardest hit cities around the country and interviewed young people and said essentially "Why? Why aren't you doing crack?" And they said, "That whole world is too scary."

On the difficulty of telling this story

In covering Black America, I've also had to cover a lot of tragedy and hear a lot of traumatic things from people. And I had always prided myself on being able to kind take it in and to process it and turn it into something beautiful and meaningful and not be affected. But after five years of putting together this book, I was completely wrecked. I lost 40 pounds. I had a heart tremor where I was getting palpitations and had to wear a heart monitor. Every loud noise scared me. My nerves were completely shot. ...

I had to take seriously what had happened and what had happened to the people that I talked to, and how seriously impactful those events were in their lives and how the stuff that I went through impacted me. I was a kid having to get down on the ground when I heard gunshots. And that was just a normal thing: You're in the middle of play, you hear gunshots, you get on the ground, you get back up and you keep playing. Having my first bike stolen by a crack addict and the fear of having to go home and explain that to my mom, that I had given somebody my bike to fix and he never came back with it. That stuff lived in me and it needed to be excavated.

I want to say that that I'm doing much better now, including having gained the weight back, unfortunately. But I think the message from that for me is that lots of us that lived through that period, we still have some stuff that we have to deal with. We need to ask our family about that aunt or uncle who kind of disappeared and nobody talks about. We need to first learn their stories, then lift their stories up as a part of our stories. ... We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic — not as this aside, but as a part of who we've been and what we've been through.

An award-winning investigative reporter, Gary Webb (1955–2004) is best known for his Dark Alliance series that linked a Northern California drug ring with the CIA and the United States’ burgeoning crack epidemic. When the story first appeared in 1996 on the website of the San Jose Mercury News, it became an unprecedented internet sensation, receiving up to 1.3 million hits daily. The report was the target of a famously vicious media backlash that ended his career as a mainstream journalist. When Webb told the whole story in the book Dark Alliance, some of the same publications that had vilified him retracted their criticism and praised his courage in telling the truth about one of the worst official abuses in our nation’s history. Others, including his own former newspaper and the New York Times, continued to treat him as an outlaw. Before joining the Mercury News, Webb cut his journalism teeth at the Kentucky Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is the co-recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (for a story at the Post about links between the Kentucky coal mining industry and organized crime) and a Pulitzer Prize (as part of a team at the Mercury News covering the 1988 San Francisco Earthquake). Dark Alliance won the 1999 Firecracker Alternative Book Award in the Politics category, and was a finalist for the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. In 2014 Webb’s story was adapted into the major motion picture Kill the Messenger. His death in 2004 was ruled a suicide.

What went wrong, Cool Hand Luke? Family? Mother? Community? The fucking Cunt-tree?

Cool Hand Luke and the Captain (Stephen Bibi Trump IDF et al), Failure to communicate?

Denaturalize . . . MAGA people all need to be shanked if they can’t get into the food and fun at socialist re-education/ new education/ real education camps.

They all should be shanked, MAGA and Demon-crats. SHANKED.

Get your fucking mind right, cunt deplorables, all of you still apologizing for Trump, all of you motherfuckers yesterday in my town of Waldport all lined up 6 am for July 3 10 pm mother fucking fireworks, dudes.

I took a client to my house, BBQ, watched Ford v. Ferrari movie and ate homemade stuff, and luckily, we have a balcony that looks out to the sea, so we watched the motherfucking bombs bursting in air.

When I drove him home north, 15 miles, the fucking roads were packed and the little town of 2,300 was crowded.

Fucking patriotism? Fucking tourists out for some fucking House Negro fun? The bill had just passed, and this is how the world of Consumer and Costco and Crocodile Tears US Mercenary A celebrates?

Get your mind right, Captain Trump. Let’s shank any and all people who are part of the death and gulag machine:

And so the educated ones are working in the fields, man, and how many motherfuckers are happy, gleeful that the egg heads and smart ones and the college boys and girls in the sciences have to be belly up like crack users or meth users or Purdue Pharmacy users or fentynal users?

QUOTING: The grant funding I receive from various sources covers part of my salary, which is guaranteed by the state because of my tenured position. But many states, including Hawaii, Texas and Ohio, are now considering bans and limits on tenure. If this were to happen in California, I would be particularly at risk given that my work focuses on health-disparity topics that are being targeted for cancellation: HIV, global research ethics and supporting emerging faculty members who are conducting research into the challenges faced by aging adults in minority groups.

It would be naive to think that this won’t affect the job market: I expect many researchers to lose their salaries, jobs and health-care insurance as grants and funding dry up. This is already starting to happen. Frankly, it’s time for many scientists to start thinking about a career change, or at least how they might diversify their income streams to protect themselves against a loss of funding or a period of unemployment.

Many think that the current challenges will be reversed after a few years, but that is a long time to be without an income. And even if most scientists were able or willing to move abroad, it’s unlikely that there would be enough overseas funding to make up for cuts to science here in the United States.

One way to protect against these cuts might be to develop other streams of income while still pursuing a scientific career. Each of us has things we are good at apart outside scientific area of expertise. For example, my family and I have planted fruit trees and grown tomato plants, and we keep chickens that lay eggs, and my network allows me to sell those products. Other colleagues are generating cash from pet sitting and copyediting, working as a paid nanny or a personal chef, picking up paid teaching opportunities in schools and consulting for community-based organizations.

If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B — The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MAGA’s are so happy with the reality of the headline above? 99.999 Percent of them. So, start shanking the politicians and the fucking MAGA. One deplorable pol and voter at a time.

Tesla's Optimus prototype, still tele-operated in demos such as a laundry-folding video, lags Boston Dynamics' Atlas but could sell for under $20,000 once mass-produced, Musk says.

The Congressional Budget Office pegs Trump's bill as a $2.4 trillion deficit add-on, largely via tax cuts favoring higher earners. Musk insists only "radical productivity gains" will bridge that gap.

Read your fucking Fuck You Book and see how many millions of moms and pops, aunts and uncles, grannies and gramps are posting this cunt’s fucking Cool Hand Luke on Steroids Prison Camp?

[The first group of migrants has been sent to Guantánamo, but legal challenges loom]

Shank a uniformed ANYONE?

[Sailors and Coast Guardsmen erect tents for a migrant holding facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. President Trump has directed the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare for 30,000 detained migrants.]

Yeah, David Swanson is a winner: But non-violent what against these cocksuckers who are in the process of making Soylent Green 6.0?

The Impeachment Problem by David Swanson /

I wish U.S. academics would spend less time fantasizing choices between various murders with trollies, or playing games with theories about how greedy robots might do diplomacy, and more time on the impeachment problem.

The United States has an impeachment problem. Impeachment was put into a Constitution that made no mention of, allowance for, or plans to survive the existence of political parties. Presidents are now generally not impeached for any abuse or outrage unless there is one party that doesn’t itself engage in that same abuse or outrage and that party is in the majority in the House. The use of a sex scandal for the impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of the process of destroying the impeachment power, but we’re now probably past sex scandals, for better or worse. We’re reduced to obscure or even fictional offenses, or physical attacks on Congress Members. And even those can be impeachable only when the non-presidential party has a House majority. And even then, the same party would have to have a two-thirds majority in the Senate to get a conviction, since a president’s party’s members will do virtually anything a president commands.

This impeachment problem, unless it is solved, effectively means that a popular nonviolent movement to oust a lawless dictator from the throne on Pennsylvania Avenue must turn out the entire government and start over. The reason the proper course is not the one everyone has been conditioned to mindlessly follow, namely waiting for a distant election, is the same reason impeachment was put into the Constitution: some abuses and outrages should never be tolerated. They do too much massive damage, and they set precedents that are very hard to undo. When Bush-Cheney and then Obama were allowed to finish out and not be removed, warmaking became more acceptable than ever, as did warrantless spying, lawless imprisonment, torture, murder by missile, etc. Criminal thuggery became firmly a policy choice, not an impeachable or prosecutable offense — unless of course you’re not the president. The top impeachable offenses by Bush are in this list of 35. Partway into the Obama presidency, I documented his continuation of 27 of those 35.

The Trump-Biden-Trump era has iced the cake of acceptable and legalistic monstrosities. In 2019, RootsAction put together a list of 25 articles of impeachment for Trump:

Violation of Constitution on Domestic Emoluments
Violation of Constitution on Foreign Emoluments
Incitement of Violence
Interference With Voting Rights
Discrimination Based On Religion
Illegal War
Illegal Threat of Nuclear War
Abuse of Pardon Power
Obstruction of Justice
Politicizing Prosecutions
Collusion Against the United States with a Foreign Government
Failure to Reasonably Prepare for or Respond to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria
Separating Children and Infants from Families
Illegally Attempting to Influence an Election
Tax Fraud and Public Misrepresentation
Assaulting Freedom of the Press
Supporting a Coup in Venezuela
Unconstitutional Declaration of Emergency
Instructing Border Patrol to Violate the Law
Refusal to Comply With Subpoenas
Declaration of Emergency Without Basis In Order to Violate the Will of Congress
Illegal Proliferation of Nuclear Technology
Illegally Removing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Seeking to Use Foreign Governments’ Resources Against Political Rivals
Refusal to Comply with Impeachment Inquiry

One could go on piling up the articles of impeachment or documenting their continuation and expansion. But what’s missing is not the documentation. Here’s a guy who incited violence at his campaign events prior to his first stint on the throne. RootsAction proposed his impeachment for open financial corruption on his first inauguration day. The case was beyond solid, and has been built up ever since. Every weapons shipment for genocide by Biden, Trump, or a harmoniously bipartisan Congress violates numerous U.S. laws. The corruption is gradiose, fantastic, megalithic. The wars, the lies, the kidnappings by masked thugs, the environmental destruction, the promotion of bigotry and hatred — it’s a festival of flagrantly overly justified grounds for removal from office. But what’s missing is the will to make removal happen. On June 24, a huge, happy, bipartisan majority voted not to impeach Trump for making himself a king, just 10 days after huge demonstrations all across the country denouncing Trump for having made himself a king.

I’m afraid of what will happen instead of impeachment. President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. And there is nobility in that idea. But there is no such thing as making nonviolent revolution impossible. And the powers of nonviolent action are virtually unknown in U.S. culture. Mildly objecting to mass murdering foreign people is a lot for us. The notion that we might actually learn from the successes of foreign people could be asking too much. And so the vast panoply of options between demanding impeachment and hitting Capitol Police officers with flag poles may be lost on too many of us. It may be lost on us beyond our ability to recognize the absurd insufficiency of choosing between two disastrous candidates every four years. We may realize what a scam this so-called democracy is, but not realize our latent power to take it over without counterproductive violence. That does not bode well.

• First published at DavidSwanson.org.

The white plague man, the plague:

Shank whomever you can, dudes:

ANd so the literal cunts of the White Man Rapist in Chief’s White Man’s House are on duty: Shank ‘em.

Spy chief Tulsi Gabbard is on the hunt for “deep state” leakers — prompted at least in part by damaging reporting that undermined the White House’s case for an immigration crackdown.

Her leak investigation, however, may already be running afoul of the law, a Senate Intelligence Committee member said this week.

Gabbard failed to notify Congress about her search for leakers despite a law requiring her to do so for “significant” disclosures, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said at a Wednesday hearing.

King, who caucuses with the Democrats, said he thought there was no question the law had been triggered.

“If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee,” King said.

“If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee.”

King’s comments underscored how Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has managed to alienate committee Democrats at the same time as she has drawn public criticism from President Donald Trump.

Under the disclosure law, Gabbard is also supposed to provide the committee with an initial damage assessment of significant leaks, laying out what kind of harm they have supposedly caused the government. She also has yet to do that, King said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi distributed plans inside the Justice Department last week to scrap rules protecting journalists and their sources from surveillance and subpoenas over unflattering coverage and leaks. Bondi’s memo leaked to the press immediately.

“This Justice Department will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump’s policies, victimize government agencies, and cause harm to the American people,” reads the memo, citing recent leaks to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Reuters as examples of the kind of reporting that would no longer be tolerated. “I have concluded that it is necessary to rescind [former attorney general] Merrick Garland’s policies precluding the Department of Justice from seeking records and compelling testimony from members of the news media in order to identify and punish the source of improper leaks.”

Eliminating these rules is the latest signal of a looming threat to reporters, who could face subpoenas and search warrants for daring to publish information that President Donald Trump would prefer kept secret. Journalists who resist legal demands to disclose their sources could face fines or even jail time.

But it didn’t have to be this way.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. government deported a cannibal that “ate other people” and then, while on a flight from the U.S., became so “deranged” that he began to “eat himself.”

Noem first shared the dubious tale late last week during an interview with Fox News’s Jesse Watters. The Cabinet secretary said that a U.S. marshal “off-handedly” told her about a cannibal on a “planeload of illegals.” When Noem asked, “What do you mean he was a cannibal?” the marshal replied: “He started to eat his own arms.”

Watters probed further. “Was this bad hombre handcuffed to something and he was trying to chew his arm off so he could escape, or was he just hungry?” he asked. “You know, what bothered me the most is that this U.S. Marshal just said it like it was normal,” Noem replied, adding, “He said he was literally eating his own arms. That is what he did. He called himself a cannibal and ate other people and ate himself that day.”

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Sorry, I am dusting off phrenology books. These fucking Onservatives and Republicans and Trumpies and female rabid rats all have many things in common with their looks, their eyes, their brows, their cheek and jawbones.

SHANK them ALL.

Bad characters, for sure, and those death star of David’s and Crusades crosses on their fucking chests.

Well, Phrenology for Our Times — MAGA, Cool Hand Luke’s Captains, and cunts like this:

Bound to hate, kill, and stir the Room Temperature head of TRUMP and Comp.

Key Takeaways

• Phrenology, or craniology, is a now-discredited system for analyzing a person’s strengths and weaknesses based on the size and shape of regions on the skull.

• The Viennese physiologist Franz Joseph Gall invented phrenology in the late 18th century. His student, Spurzheim, and Spurzheim’s student, Combe, would alter and popularize phrenology throughout Europe and the United States.

• According to phrenology, there are anywhere between 26 and 40 distinct regions, or “organs,” in the brain associated with mental facilities. The bigger the region relative to the rest of the skull, the more Gall believed it was used.

• Phrenology, even at the peak of its popularity, was controversial and garnered immense criticism for reasons ranging from the methods of Gall’s experiments to its supposed promotion of materialism and atheism. Modern MRI studies have provided a rigorous argument against phrenology.

• Although Gall believed that the phrenological structure of brains was fixed, his successors contended that these traits were malleable. This provided justification for phrenology as an early biological theory of crime as well as in educating those of lower classes about their position in society by 19th-century advocates.

• Despite its defunct status, phrenology has greatly influenced the development of neuroscience, notably the idea that certain functions are controlled by certain regions of the brain and the existence of white matter.

SHANK them ALL: VD spreads his Vance seed:

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals rendered fat from bones 125,000 years ago — 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans. Thousands of bone fragments and other remains from Neumark-Nord in Germany suggest a large-scale operation in which animals were purposely transported to the area. “The social organization might be different, the technology might be different, but how you have to live in such a landscape to make your living and to survive and prosper is absolutely comparable to modern hunter-gatherers,” says zooarchaeologist and study co-author Lutz Kindler.