Tag: minneapolis
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TAPA # 164 SAVE OUR ELECTIONS
This is a worthy read, especially for those concerned about upcoming elections and the future of our democracy. Trump has debased the presidency and diminished America’s character, both at home and abroad. If our democracy is to survive, we must pay close attention to what is happening. This is not normal. It is deviant. Yet…
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TAPA # 163 VOTE FOR CHAT!!!
Trump claims he is merely enforcing existing immigration laws that prior administrations failed to enforce for a variety of reasons. Immigration was elevated as a political issue to motivate voters, often by invoking claims of increased crime, despite FBI data showing that violent crime declined in the post-COVID period. Trump promised to pursue violent criminals,…
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TAPA # 162 WE ARE ALL MINNESOTANS!!!
We have all been shocked and saddened by the murders in Minneapolis carried out by agents of our own government. We have seen similar jackbooted behavior by federal forces in Los Angeles and Chicago, assaulting women and children, dragging elderly men, American citizens, from their homes in freezing temperatures, dressed only in their underwear. Many…
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TAPA # 161 MALFEASANCE!!!
Malpractice is negligence: when a professional fails to meet the accepted standard of care and that failure causes harm.Malfeasance is intentional wrongdoing, especially by someone in public office or a position of trust. Malpractice is typically a civil offense, remedied through monetary penalties. Malfeasance, by contrast, can be criminal, particularly when it results in serious injury or…
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TAPA # 160 MURDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Trump has no bottom to his depraved indifference to citizens’ rights. What we have witnessed in the Trump-directed invasion of Minnesota and the murders in Minneapolis confirm his fundamental inability to lead or protect the public, indeed, even our most basic right to life itself. His coterie of loyalists Noem, Patel, Bessent, Bovino, and Blanche…
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TAPA # 159 A JAN 6TH REDUX
This morning, I dreaded reading the papers. The murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse and U.S. citizen living in Minneapolis, by federal agents sworn to protect us was revealed in bystander video. There is no question about what happened. You can read it, watch it, and see it for yourself. Pretti was coming…
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TAPA # 155 ” GOOD AND PROPER “
When I first read this, I thought it was a comedy skit spoofing Donald Trump’s long-standing obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize. But no, it is real. Written by the President of the United States. It reads like a note from a first grader to a classmate who wouldn’t share a Mounds bar. Text message…
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TAPA # 152 TRUTH WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Today I watched the compilation of videos assembled by The New York Times. Their frame-by-frame analysis, slowed and synchronized across multiple angles, makes one thing unmistakably clear: this incident demands a serious, independent investigation. What the videos reveal explains precisely why President Trump, Secretary Noem, and Attorney General Bondi have worked to block any comprehensive inquiry.…
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TAPA # 151 THE USE OF FARCE
There has been a great deal of talk about “respect” in the aftermath of the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Before returning to that, however, we need to examine what “respect” looks like coming from the top of our government. Yesterday, while touring a Ford plant in Michigan, the President of the…
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TAPA # 147 THE SODFATEHR
To use the technical term Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey used to describe the Sodfather’s, the couch-pervert Vance’s, and the Barbie-Doll Secretary of DHS’s explanation for why ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed a 37-year-old American citizen, church member, poet, and mother of a now-orphaned six-year-old child: it is BS. Instead of waiting for a proper investigation, out…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 