His actions consisted of walking, wearing black and being a witness to history as a freelance journalist. Yet, a few months later, and despite having no clear evidence of such crimes, federal prosecutors slammed him with eight felony charges including conspiracy to riot and property damage.
Democracy in Crisis
MUCH LOVE AND GRIM SOLIDARITY: BAYNARD WOODS TAKES STOCK IN THE LAST DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS COLUMN
Now, more than 70 columns later, either that has changed, or I was wrong-headed from the start. The Trump regime has taken up so much air from every other story that, while it is wildly important and has implications everywhere, I believe that each of these papers is better served following up on the way Trump’s policies affect their local communities.
TRUMP’S ABSURD THEATER OF CRUELTY
How the regime wants you to be outraged about all the wrong things
TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN AND THE POLITICS OF THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE
I took a massive dose of mushrooms at the beginning of the Trump regime. I was trying to prepare myself for the worst, like they do in the studies for cancer patients that have been carried out at Johns Hopkins.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: 500 DAYS IN HELL
Reminding you of some of the absurdities of our world that you may have mercifully forgotten
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE BRADY BUNCH
Prosecutors in the J20 case sanctioned for failing to inform defense about evidence
DRUG WARRIORS: CIA-CONTRA COCAINE CONSPIRACY FALL GUY “FREEWAY” RICKY ROSS TALKS OLIVER NORTH
As outrageous amounts of cocaine entered the country, guys like Ross bought and sold it, and the boys below him cooked it up and sold it as crack, creating an epidemic in neighborhoods that cops couldn’t give a shit about—at least until they could arrest everybody for the drugs the government allowed into the country with a wink and a nod.
THE RED SEA: TEACHERS WANT BETTER PAY, LAWMAKERS WANT CORPORATE TAX BREAKS
Since gaining control of the legislature in 2011, North Carolina Republicans have been on a singular mission to make life better for their wealthy and corporate allies.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: LATE REGISTRATION… AT TRUMP U
“Free Thinkers” Kanye West and Ross Douthat could learn a thing or three from Cardi B
PEACE IS HARD, SNIPING IS EASY
Palestinian ambassador talks peace as Israel attacks Great Return March protesters