Former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R), who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2012, was arrested Tuesday & faces a misdemeanor charge of family violence after he allegedly assaulted a woman, per The Texas Tribune.@highbrow_nobrowhttps://t.co/P3rmw6jee6
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) April 14, 2021
Category: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
‘(Blank) will not replace us’
Media Matters compiled “replacement theory” clips from Fox News. The 2006 target list was Muslims. Since Trump, enemies include Latinos, Asians, anyone not white & not MAGA. Fox is stoking the rage.
Recall where you were when the Rwanda news broke? https://t.co/Zulx5wuwua @digby
— Tom Sullivan (@BloggersRUs) April 14, 2021
Bye bye Bernie
My latest: How Bernie Madoff did it. "One could think of Madoff as an evil twin of Vanguard founder John Bogle. Both men sensed typical investors weren’t looking to score the Next Big Thing…Bogle met demand the honest way…Madoff by contrast chose fraud https://t.co/bC6Xe63KKH
— Helaine Olen (@helaineolen) April 14, 2021
Shit for brains
OMG you idiot…..
MAGA rioter in more trouble after he used jail-monitored device to tell family he was 'proud' of what he didhttps://t.co/XX2L6J0eE1
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 14, 2021
The story continues
NEW: Federal agents seized @mattgaetz’s phone in December, before he solicited Trump for a pardon after the Jan. 6th insanity.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. https://t.co/YhG0CRudkR
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) April 14, 2021
It was planned that way
Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds https://t.co/5ULsBi4neM
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) April 14, 2021
The enemy within
The team at @UCBerkeleyIRP interviewed Steven Carrillo, the active duty airman who is accused of murdering two officers of the law, and got exclusive documents of the Boogaloo militia he was part of.
This is his story https://t.co/1qZrsMW7Mq via @propublica & @frontlinepbs
— Gisela Pérez de Acha (@giselilla) April 13, 2021
America is really back to ‘normal’
Remember when we had to get kids back to school because staying at home was ruining their mental health? Good times!
Police in Knoxville, Tennessee, are reporting multiple gunshot victims in a shooting at Austin-East Magnet High Schoolhttps://t.co/3Zf6syXNV0
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 12, 2021
Just In: Sylmar High School is on lockdown after a report of a man with a rifle. School police say the man is thought to be in an apartment complex on the north side of the school. https://t.co/PitdDBLYkH
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) April 12, 2021
Three students from the same school in three weeks? https://t.co/RfjxeyKnYp
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 12, 2021
Expertise is good
A former FBI forensic accountant key to Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is one of several accountants now working on the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into the Trump Organization. https://t.co/UqNPmEuLHu
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 11, 2021
Murderers
This shocking body cam footage of an officer shoving snow in a suspect’s face surfaced a day ago. The Acting Chief of Akron, Ohio PD claims that since the investigation is still ongoing, it’s unclear whether the officer should be fired. I call bullshit. https://t.co/Eu1gppsuJH
— Marjorie Gaylor Queen (@Tim_Tweeted) April 10, 2021