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UK: Amber Rudd lying

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

The Tory minister in charge of deportation said she didn't know about the numerical targets, but a secret memo shows she was lying.

A former manager of the immigration agency says that ministers could hardly have been ignorant of the targets. He also says that the policy ("hostile environment") is more responsible for the cruelty than the targets are. Maybe that is so, but targets can push staff to be crueler than their consciences would normally permit.

US Republicans are even worse, because they are theocratic too. The Tories don't judge people by their lifestyle, only by their wealth.

US: Trump cabinet rubber stamp

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

"Rubber-Stamping" Trump's War Cabinet, 6 Democrats Voted With GOP to Confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State.

These DINOs are Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Doug Jones (Alabama), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), and Bill Nelson (Florida). If I lived in one of those states, I would support a progressive primary challenger at the next opportunity.

Mississippi: jailing poor people

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

The Southern Poverty Law Center made the town of Corinth, Mississippi, stop jailing poor people over fines they could not pay.

However, towns and cities across the US engage in this cruelty. In many cases it is a byproduct of Republican tax-cutting. For plutocratists, squeezing money out of poor people is preferable to taxing rich people.

Dress code discrimination

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

US school dress codes are often explicitly biased against blacks, but even when they aren't, they tend to be enforced in a biased way (like so many laws).

Selling favorable news coverage

dimanche 10 juin 2018 à 02:00

A former Tory official is now a corrupt newspaper editor, and has sold Google and Uber a promise of favorable news coverage.