Stephan: What kind of person harasses someone who has spent the last 9 months working countless hours at the risk of their own life trying to help strangers survive their illness. A Republican, of course. Am I exaggerating? No, sadly I am not.
The leader of the Republican Party chapter in Parker, Colorado has apologized after he declared “war” on public health officials and publicized their home addresses.
Colorado’s 9 News reports that Parker Republican leader Mark Hall earlier this week sent out a message on his Facebook page attacking public health officials for their role in enforcing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
Hall then warned public health workers that “if you work for the state, CDPHE, Tri-County or other agencies, you are on the radar, at your homes and elsewhere” and accused them of being “anti-Americans.”
Hall’s decision to dox public health officials was subsequently condemned by the Douglas County Republican Party, and Hall subsequently deleted the […]
Stephan: As 2020 ends I think it is important that we honestly face what we have become. Otherwise we can not repair our country properly.
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In the waning days of the Trump presidency, there’s a steady drumbeat coming from the corporate news media and its pundits: the suggestion that, come Jan. 21, everything will suddenly and magically return to “normal.”
Never mind the mounting COVID death toll, which on several days this month has spiked above 3,000 a day.
After four years with Donald Trump at the helm, one would have to be a comatose ancestor worshipper not to see how Trump exploited the shaky 18th-century architecture of patriotism for his own family’s enrichment.
A man who failed to win the majority of the popular vote in 2016 had carte blanche to turn state […]
Stephan: American police kill more people in a year than all the police in all countries of Europe combined. And the number listed here is actually larger because that was as of 20 December, there have been several more murders by police since then.
People hold up placards during a protest for Casey Goodson Jr. in Columbus, Ohio on December 11, 2020. Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by law enforcement on December 4, 2020. Credit: Stephen Zenner/ AFP/Getty
Police have killed more than 1,000 people so far in 2020, according to the Mapping Police Violence project.
The research group’s database reveals that officers have killed 1,039 people in the U.S. as of December 8—including 21 people who were aged 18 or under.
According to Mapping Police Violence, by the end of November, there had only been 17 days in the year when police officers did not kill someone.
And in a year that saw a nationwide reckoning on race following the police killings of George Floyd and other Black people, the database reveals that 28 percent of those killed by police in 2020 were Black—despite Black people only making up 13 percent of the U.S. population.
Floyd, who was unarmed, died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes while he gasped for […]
