Tag: Corruption
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ICE Business
Last year’s temporary detention camps are becoming permanent human confinement infrastructure. Amid a reshuffling of the administration’s internal security services, a longtime private prison executive has been named head of ICE. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security named David Venturella acting director of ICE, effective June 1. He spent eleven years at GEO Group,…
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Corruption Pardons
This is what corruption decriminalized looks like. Yesterday NPR reported that since returning to office, Donald Trump has pardoned at least fifteen former elected officials and their co-conspirators who were charged or convicted of public corruption. This on top of the 1,500 January 6 rioters he pardoned on day one of his current term. Among…
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Bad Banner
Chavez deRemer’s resignation statement called Donald Trump “the greatest President of my lifetime.” Note to my future self. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned Monday under an inspector general investigation. The allegations: an affair with a member of her security detail, a stash of alcohol in her office, taking subordinates to a strip club on official…
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Trump Arch
Meanwhile, just weeks ago, eight million people took to the streets and said: we will have no kings in this land. Note to my future self. On Friday the Trump administration unveiled plans for what they’re calling a Triumphal Arch. At 250 feet tall, with gold lions, golden eagles, and a gilded Lady Liberty on…
Notes To My Future Self 