"Prosperity gospel" preacher Benny Hinn has been raided by the US. His "prosperity" doesn't come from worshiping — it comes from the worshipers to whom he promises riches, and apparently from the US treasury.

The number of prisoners in the US sentenced to life in prison keeps increasing. There are now 162,000 of them.

Activist Desiree Fairooz has been convicted of laughing at the blatantly counterfactual testimony of a senator.

Two others were convicted of being present before the hearing wearing KKK robes.

The Republican Party is the enemy of everything the United States stands for.

Tillerson proposes to disconnect US foreign policy from the stated values of the US (human rights and political freedom).

The sad and ironic thing is that this would be very little change, as the two have been mostly separate for a long time. The US been allied with repressive Salafi Arabia for decades. In the 1970s the US arranged murderous military governments in several countries in South America.

And that's just a fraction of the instances.

US border thugs routinely lie to Central Americans who want asylum, denying them the chance to apply for asylum and the possibility of protection from immediate danger.