How long till they get alt-right militia helping them, I wonder?
How long till people get disappeared? (But I guess that was already happening in Chicago.)
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It’s another instance of Trump implicitly using race in his campaign pitch, which he’s also been doing explicitly on other issues. In this instance, the president appears to be using a policy to fight housing segregation in an attempt to scare white voters about outsiders coming into their neighborhoods. On Friday, he said that Democrats want to “eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down.”
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Political consultant Jeff Longstreth, lobbyist Neil Clark, lobbyist Juan Cespedes and former Ohio GOP Chairman Matthew Borges are each charged with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering scheme.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David DeVillers are expected to brief the press on a federal racketeering case that involves a $60 million bribe, a news advisory says.
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They’ve done that with crowds of white people, that I can see in neighborhoods that are around me, as well as some in my own 'hood. It’s hard to do with one-story brick ranch houses, though, but some do. The areas made up of what I call “Monopoly houses” - are a different story.
I’m sick of him.
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At least it wasn’t some paltry sum. 
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Yeah, that was my first thought. Along with, I really wonder what the bribe was for.
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I guess that answers that question. A secret $250k each quarter is a nice scam if you can get it, but I suppose keeping it is a whole 'nother can of worms.
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When the mask comes off, it’s just as everyone expected.
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The first story references the second, but maybe nymag /intelligencer has a gentler paywall?
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Weird the article didn’t mention the dropped rape charge against Trump that supposedly happened at Epstein’s island.
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Man, it’s early to talk about the debt. Especially considering the deficit spent 8 years consistently dropping, only to have Trump almost double it again (or quadruple or more, if you count the estimated impact from Covid-19…). And, uh, who was in office during that time before Trump? Oh, yeah…
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I just wish folks would care about debt in the same way, regardless of which party is in the white house. Also, right in the middle of an emergency isn’t the time to sacrifice people at the altar of fiscal responsibility. But that’s just bananapants, right?
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As an aside, ya gotta love some of the names these guys have…he could be Roy Chip, and he’d still be the same person.
Remember this one: McGeorge Bundy?
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Well, that was not a turn I expected things to take. And a heck of a comparison to what Floyd was accused with.
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A criminal complaint filed Wednesday says investigators used bank card transactions and Minneapolis Police payroll data to establish the couple were Minnesota residents while claiming to live in Florida — but that they did not file Minnesota income tax returns for the years 2016, 2017 or 2018.
Even when the Chauvins filed Minnesota returns, they underreported income, according to the charges. The filed tax returns for years 2014 and 2015 did not report income received from Chauvin’s off-duty security work and Kellie Chauvin’s photography income.
Derek Chauvin was registered to vote in Florida as of June, and had voted there in the 2016 and 2018 general elections, according to a statement from Bill Cowles, supervisor of elections for Orange County, Fla.
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Parental discretion advised:
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Wow. This is scary to watch.
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That’s more telling that he realizes: Trump : American protesters = Putin : Ukrainian protestors.
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