NORMALLY I ORDER the linked reports in Dispatches in accordance with news values that were mine as a daily newspaper news editor or telegraph editor. This is to say international news generally outranks all but the most significant local news, and crisis, scandal or disaster outranks everything else unless it is a positive story about some development (such as an increase in the minimum wage) that benefits us all. But those criteria vanish down the proverbial toilet in the face of the following story, which, though it is about the victimization of one man, nevertheless exemplifies the stark, Gestapo-type terror with which the JesuNazi Trump/Pence Regime threatens us all. Indeed it is a wake-up call of the most alarming sort -- precisely why I have chosen it to lead this edition of "Weekend Update":
Rakem Balogun, who lost his home and more while incarcerated, is
believed to be the first person targeted and prosecuted under a
secretive US surveillance effort to track so-called 'black identity
extremists.' In a leaked August 2017 report from the FBI’s Domestic
Terrorism Analysis Unit, officials claimed that there had been a
'resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity'
stemming from African Americans’ 'perceptions of police brutality.'"
"Democrats on Wednesday officially filed a petition to force a vote in the Senate to save net neutrality. With a single Republican supporting the effort, only one vote is needed to advance a resolution that may one day soon reinstate the net neutrality rules overturned by the FCC last year." Please use this story's clickable form to contact your senators.
"Sen. Joe Donnelly on Saturday became the second Democrat to announce he will cast his vote in favor of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel -- boosting her prospects...
(To read the rest, go here.)
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