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Attorney General Bill Barr was slammed by the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday for misleading Americans about the source of violence at the protests over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. “There’s evidence developing, Brian, that the organization we’re seeing of the most violent […]

President Donald Trump would face an existential crisis if Twitter were to enforce it’s own rules and hold him accountable — and one New York Times columnist wants to see it happen. “C’mon, @Jack. You can do it,” Maureen Dowd wrote, referring to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with his username on the platform. She urged […]

On Friday night, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, holding that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s restrictions on church gatherings are not a violation of religious liberty. Chief Justice John Roberts crossed over to join with the liberals for a 5-4 split. But the ruling was dramatic in […]

On Saturday, NBC 4 reported that Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) was pepper sprayed during an incident at a rally in Columbus on Saturday morning. In footage of the incident posted by local anchor Colleen Marshall, several protesters ran at police trying to control the crowd in an attempt to extricate a female protester, prompting officers […]

According to a report from the New York Times’ Peter Baker, Donald Trump has done nothing in the past week but fan the flames of discord at a time when the country is reeling from the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 100,000 in the U.S. and protests have broken out in […]

On MSNBC Saturday, Martin Luther King III laid out why the three police officers who sat by as George Floyd was killed must also face criminal charges. “Is there anything that you can suggest that would make his family feel like there is justice for him and his family?” asked anchor Alex Witt. “Well, yes, […]

On Saturday, “Liberal Redneck” Trae Crowder posted a lengthy Facebook condemnation of police violence, slamming “out of control” cops and calling for justice. “I got a question. How come nobody ever talks about how often Black people don’t riot?” said Crowder. “I mean, all the sh*t they put up with every day for generations without […]

Years before the nation’s nursing homes experienced a heavy COVID-19 death toll, the Trump administration rolled back the federal rules and regulations put in place by the Obama administration aimed at improving infection control in these kinds of facilities. This article first appeared in Salon In an October 2016 edition of the Federal Register, the Center […]

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. I have […]

In the wake of furious police brutality protests in Washington, D.C. on Friday that left federal buildings vandalized and briefly forced the White House to lock down, President Donald Trump claimed that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the protests worse by refusing to allow the Metropolitan Police to “get involved” and handle crowd control. But […]

On his way to Florida to witness the SpaceX launch, Donald Trump stopped to talk to reporters where he dismissed a question about the intent of a Saturday morning tweet taken by many to encourage his followers to show up outside the White House on Saturday night and confront George Floyd protesters. Earlier in the […]

The late Gore Vidal once confessed, with characteristic rapier wit, “I love stupidity. It excites me.” But the excitement and hilarity of human foibles and failures diminish rapidly when the consequences include more than 100,000 corpses. This article first appeared on Salon. Stupidity is a steadfast provider of humor and tragedy in Freedom Central, otherwise known […]

At Saturday’s press conference, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) sharply condemned police brutality against Black men in an emotional speech. “We tend to look at these situations as individual incidents. They’re not individual incidents,” said Cuomo. “When you have one episode, two episodes, maybe you can look at them as individual episodes. But when you have […]

Surveying the past week of racially-charged incidents — one of which led to a former police officer being arrested for killing a Black man in Minneapolis — and other ugliness from the week, Pulitzer Prize winner Colbert King wrote that the police officer, a New York woman who lied to police that a Black man […]

On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” host Joy Reid broke down how white nationalists have openly plotted to cause chaos at Minnesota protests for George Floyd. “We saw uprisings over the Michael Brown killing, we saw it in Baltimore, saw it in New York over Eric Garner,” said Reid. “What I’m hearing now is […]

A comment Donald Trump made on Twitter has set off massive speculation Saturday morning with many wondering if the president is trying to encourage his fans to show up outside the White House on Saturday evening and confront protesters calling for justice for  George Floyd. In the tweet in question, the president wrote: “The professionally […]

After years of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) calling immigrants drug mules, demanding American society be more “homogeneous,” and giving racist interviews to far-right European parties, Republicans have finally moved to disown him. They stripped him of all his committee assignments last year, and now several GOP groups are running ads in favor of his primary […]

On Friday, Politico detailed how the killing of George Floyd, and the ensuing protests, have put President Donald Trump in a difficult position as his campaign struggles to improve his standing with Black voters. “President Donald Trump is throwing himself into a culture war he has long stoked, and a battle for voters he has […]

A four-part tweet by Donald Trump on Saturday morning, where he warned protesters away from the White House with a threat of “the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons,” was greeted with disbelief and anger on Twitter, with one commenter noting: “You love this violence.” According to the president, “Great job last night at […]

On CNN Saturday, commentator Van Jones warned that the prosecution of the Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of George Floyd sets him up to be left off easy. “The idea that you could have a lynching, you know, an officer lynch a man,” said Jones. “That was a lynching. Not one minute, not […]

A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated under the weight of a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. The video went viral. What happened next has played out time and again in American cities after high-profile cases of alleged police […]

In a rapid-fire series of tweets on Saturday morning, Donald Trump boasted about the security being given to him by the Secret Service as protests grip the streets of Washington, D.C., and warned protesters to stay away from the White House. The president also promised anyone who breached security they would be met with ‘”the […]

Today, in 2020, it’s George Floyd in Minneapolis, killed by a police officer kneeling on his throat during an arrest for the alleged offense of “forgery.” Cell phone cameras captured the whole thing. Images of a handcuffed black man lying face-down on the street, under the knee of a white police officer, quickly flew around […]

In response to the George Floyd protests, millionaire T-shirt entrepreneur and motivational speaker Sean Whalen posted an image of himself on Facebook with “one of my black buddies” — before immediately scolding Black protesters. “Hey black America, you know that literally EVERY WHITE PERSON THINKS THAT COP SHOULD HANG RIGHT? You know we think he’s […]

In a blistering piece for the Daily Beast, columnist Adam Howard said it didn’t take long for Donald Trump to flip back and forth from expressing condolences over the death of George Floyd at the hand of four Minneapolis cops to resorting and the race-baiting he has become known for when appealing to his conservative […]