News of the Week for Oct. 4th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dems: Yeah, Trump and McConnell have us boxed in on Barrett<\/a> Conservatives Should Be Careful What They Wish for in Judge Amy Coney Barrett<\/a> Tempering expectations about a Justice Barrett<\/a> McConnell Seeks to Delay Senate Return Until October 19<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oregon Politicians Who Let BLM Ravage Portland Respond to Proud Boys With Extreme Force<\/a> How Black Lives Matter Is Being Used to Further a Communist Agenda<\/a> Portland Rioters Hurl Firecrackers, Rocks at Officers; Weapons Recovered as Unrest Continues, Police Say<\/a> NY Attorney General: We Should Just Ignore Some Arrest Warrants<\/a> Trump insists protesters are throwing Bumble Bee tuna cans, in the midst of pandemic tuna shortage<\/a> Suspect In Ambush Shooting Of Two LA Deputies Has Been Charged With Attempted Murder<\/a> Is That a Pipe Bomb in Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy to Arrest Me?<\/a> Nick Kristof’s Times Colleague Kindly Helps Him “Find Trump’s Anarchists in Portland”<\/a> Photographer Went Undercover With Looters Expecting To Find White Supremacists. Instead, He Found Anarchists<\/a> Virginia School Board Weighs Speech Code that Would Prohibit Criticism of Equity Plan<\/a> Officer In Grand Jury Testimony: Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Initially Said Taylor Shot At Officers<\/a> We Have ‘More in Common Than Not’: Utah Proud Boys-BLM Collaboration Provides a Model for Reconciliation<\/a> Some Additional Clues Come From The Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings<\/a> A Conservative Went Undercover With The Black Bloc In Portland: “They’re Trying To Create Propaganda”<\/a> Coalition of students, faculty call to ban cops from all UC campuses<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Covid: Labour MP apologises for calling pandemic ‘good crisis’<\/a> Donald Trump and wife Melania test positive for coronavirus<\/a> The Conservative Trans Woman Who Went Undercover With Antifa in Portland<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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\nIndeed, and their allies on media \u2014 both mainstream and social \u2014 aren’t helping, either. Almost from the moment that Donald Trump announced that he would nominate a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, Democrats and progressives have attacked Amy Coney Barrett over her faith, her adopted children, and the very idea of replacing Ginsburg at all. <\/p>\n
\nFollowing Donald Trump’s selection of Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, conservatives celebrated the choice. They see in Barrett a kindred spirit who would overturn Roe v Wade, destroy Obamacare, and prevent the Supreme Court from legislating from the bench.<\/p>\n
\nMichael McConnell, the distinguished conservative Stanford law professor and former judge, urges folks to calm down about Amy Coney Barrett. His column appears in the Washington Post, and thus, I assume, the folks he mainly wants to reassure are D.C. area liberals.<\/p>\n
\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is looking for a consent agreement from Democrats to delay reconvening the Senate until October 19. But McConnell says that the Judiciary Committee hearings on the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will go ahead as scheduled starting on October 12.<\/p>\n<\/a>Riots & Revolution<\/h1>\n
\nA massive police presence in Portland, Oregon, last night was said to deter Black Lives Matter protesters and right-wing Proud Boys demonstrators from violent confrontation yesterday in the city.<\/p>\n
\nThe Black Lives Matter movement is promoting a communist agenda, says investigative journalist James Simpson. <\/p>\n
\nPortland rioters repeatedly tossed rocks, fireworks, and other objects at officers on Saturday as unrest continued to fester in the city, police said.<\/p>\n
\nNY Attorney General Letitia James had decided to make an example of the police-shooting death of Allan Feliz in 2019 and use that as an excuse to push for a rather radical change in NYPD policy. Feliz was pulled over by an NYPD sergeant named Jonathan Rivera last October and provided someone else’s ID (his brother’s) when asked for his driver’s license. The brother had some outstanding warrants for minor infractions. An altercation ensued, leading to Feliz being shot and killed by the officer.<\/p>\n
\nFirst it was cans of soup, now the president says cans of tuna are being employed as weapons<\/p>\n
\nA suspect is being charged with attempted murder for the ambush shooting of two LA deputies on Sep. 12. His name is Deonte Lee Murray and he had previously been arrested and charged with a violent carjacking that happened on Sep. 1 so he was already in custody.<\/p>\n
\nInsanity Wrap needs to know: What should the New York Times say about COVID-19 that shows Trump was right all along about travel?<\/p>\n
\nIn July, the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof appealed to his readers. “Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ in Portland,” he asked. Then he offered up 900 or so sarcastic words, in this vein<\/p>\n
\nA furloughed photographer who documented protests starting on May 31 expected to find white supremacists behind widespread looting but instead found anarchists, according to a New York Times opinion column.<\/p>\n
\nTeachers’ union concerned the code will stifle speech<\/p>\n
\nAccording to released grand jury testimony, it was Breonna Taylor who shot at police officers during a March 13 raid on her apartment, boyfriend Kenneth Walker allegedly told police before changing his story.<\/p>\n
\nIn the slugfest following the first debate, President Trump\u2019s comments when asked to condemn a group called the Proud Boys received overwhelming attention. He told them to “stand back and stand by,” which he clarified the next day. He was telling the group to stand back and stand down so that law enforcement can handle the riots and other crimes going on in some of our major cities. Trump also shared that he was not familiar with the group or its aims.<\/p>\n
\nAs was announced earlier this week, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron turned over 15 hours of recordings yesterday from the grand jury hearing the Breonna Taylor shooting case. I didn\u2019t have time to sit through the whole thing, so I\u2019m grateful for the work of reporters from the Associated Press and other outlets who slogged through all of it looking for relevant information. Much of it was apparently the typical, pro forma questions and answers you would expect from such an investigation confirming a lot of what we\u2019d already heard, but there were a few nuggets in there suggesting that the accounts offered by the police involved in the raid were mostly accurate.<\/p>\n
\nReason published an interview yesterday with Erin Smith, a trans woman who is also a Trump supporter who worked in Republican politics. After encountering Antifa in at a 2016 protest in San Francisco, Smith became interested in the group and spent time going to rallies and livestreaming them. She spoke with many people at these events and got used to talking with them. Then last weekend she decided to dress in black and show up at a black bloc event in Portland, essentially going undercover in the midst of a group of people who hate her.<\/p>\n
\nThe coalition demands all cops be removed from University of California campuses by September 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/a>Corona Virus<\/h1>\n
\nLabour’s shadow education secretary has apologised for previously suggesting the Covid-19 pandemic could be a “good crisis” for her party<\/p>\n
\nThe US president confirms on Twitter that he and the first lady have contracted COVID-19 and they <\/p>\n
\nConfessions of a black bloc mole<\/p>\n<\/a>Election 2020<\/h1>\n