While the press drools over Trump gossip, serious battles go unnoticed
Democracy in Crisis
CONFRONTING THE DEATH CULT
Before Chicago rapper Vic Mensa performed at the March for Our Lives, he mentioned Sacramento’s Stephon Clark, shot 20 times by police in his own backyard on March 18, holding a cell phone that cops claim they thought was a gun.
PSEUDONYMOUS SEX AND ANONYMOUS EXPERTS
When he is outside of the courthouse, it is neither illegal nor illegtimate to take his photograph. Kerkhoff complains again that “as the prosecutors and lead detective left the courthouse, their photograph was taken and published in media outlets.”
DIARRHEA DIARIES AND DEAD PUSHERS
Like “The Wall,” it’s stupid and simple and perfect for Trump, who has been praising Rodrigo Duterte, whose drug war has killed more than 12,000 people, according to Human Rights Watch. And, of course, Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions probably hates weed more than anything—except Trump, who has been calling Sessions “Mr. Magoo.”
PRESIDENT DICKPUNCHER GOES TO THE MOVIES
That Bloodsport is Donald Trump’s favorite movie is, like so many things about Trump, thinly sourced, apocryphal yet pathetic, and regularly reported as fact.
BIRD BRAINS: HOW A BATTLE OVER AN ENDANGERED SPECIES IS SHAPING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY OUT WEST
It could also put numerous burdens on landowners and ranchers, and on public agencies tasked with carrying out the tenets of those protections. In some areas, a listing could bar grazing, farming, mining, or other activities altogether.
THE PUSH CONTINUES
US Attorney dropped charges against 129 defendants, but continues to prosecute journalists and others
FIRE AND FIRE AND FURY
I watched all of this play out on cable as I tried to deal with the disaster bureaucracy. And it was delightful to see the pundits all talking about Bannon’s terrible week, even if it came for all the wrong reasons.
THEY PEPPER-SPRAYED A 10-YR-OLD
The still-anonymous officer is alleged to have “pushed his finger into” a journalist’s rectum and otherwise assaulted him as the arrests were being processed.
THE STATE OF PROTEST IN 2018: A CASE STUDY
What the “People’s March on Washington” tells us about the state of the opposition