Mr. Trump’s unprecedented assault on the integrity of American democracy requires a criminal investigation. The disturbing details of his postelection misfeasance, meticulously assembled by the Jan. 6 committee, leave little doubt that Mr. Trump sought to subvert the Constitution and overturn the will of the American people. The president, defeated at the polls in 2020, tried to enlist federal law enforcement authorities, state officials and administrators of the nation’s electoral system in a furious effort to remain in power. When all else failed, he roused an armed mob that stormed the Capitol and threatened lawmakers.
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On August 3, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the Associated Press reported that the subunit of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for Region 10 (much of the South) has ordered the union to pay $13.3 million to Warrior Met Coal. They have no intension of doing so. The corporate media is not held accountable. Truth takes a back seat to the bottom line: “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he'll still be rooting for CNN even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the network and others to hold the media accountable. The U.S. government, and media, is silent. That is why we need 99% news. We won't forget those forgotten by the power establishment in the West. Credit goes to The Guardian for this article. They consistently cover news that benefits the 99 percent: A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists. New day, different excuse: Former President Donald Trump just cannot stop talking about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, acknowledging on Sunday that the FBI did take stacks of boxes but demanding the documents be returned because they were protected by either executive or attorney-client privilege. Well, not really. It's a doctored video. But it's very clever. You should see it nonetheless. There is a lesson to be learned. Unlike the rightwing media, I tell the truth here. The video is so well done that apparently many of Hannity viewers are upset. That led the FOX host to demand Twitter ban it: Timothy Burke's Twitter video got the Fox host so hopping mad he immediately tweeted about it, demanding that Twitter take it down. What looks like an obvious parody to most people probably isn't as obvious to Fox News viewers, who don't exactly look at anything said on Fox News all that critically. So it's understandable that Hannity was a wee bit upset, fearing his gullible audience would be fooled.
Is this a just determination? Or should there be further investigation from an outside investigator?: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said Friday that its internal investigation found no criminal conduct by a white Highway Patrol trooper who used physical force against a handcuffed Black man during an arrest — a confrontation caught on video by relatives of the man being arrested. During Thursday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, fill-in host Brian Kilmeade mentioned the Florida judge who approved the search warrant used by the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago on Monday and who has subsequently faced death threats for doing so. During Kilmeade’s commentary, however, a fabricated image of two separate photographs appeared on screen depicting the judge on an airplane receiving a foot massage from convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. During the handoff to Sean Hannity’s show, Hannity pointed out that the image was digitally altered. “I think that’s actually a picture of Jeffrey Epstein with somebody putting [the judge’s] head on there,” he said. As Snopes pointed out, the judge’s upper body was substituted for Epstein’s. The image credit that Fox News listed is a Twitter user whose handle is @whatimemetosay and who describes themselves as a “meme creator” and “digital art creator,” making the network’s apparent error even less excusable.
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