Source: Washington Post

A senior Department of Homeland Security official whose office compiled “intelligence reports” about journalists and protesters in Portland, Ore., has been removed from his job, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Brian Murphy, the acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position elsewhere in the department, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-official-whose-office-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-journalists-and-protesters-has-been-removed-from-his-job/2020/08/01/f01247be-d3ff-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Shared on a skeptics mail list - I don't know if this is parody, unintentional self parody, or .... REAL

I'm sure it belongs only in the lounge.



https://deepstatemappingproject.com/

Source: New York Times

“The name on the school building is something each student had to walk under, and you want that name to be someone they can aspire to be,” ..... “That person should be someone that a student can embody.”...

She has imagined returning to school and seeing Mr. Lewis’s name on the front of the building. “The feeling of knowing I go to John R. Lewis High is amazing,”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/us/robert-e-lee-high-school-john-lewis.html

WaPo reports...



Confederate generals are what make us and our history the greatest nation in the world?

Either Or Or not sure.

Source: CNN

A retired Chinese soccer star has openly called for the downfall of China's ruling Communist Party... Hao Haidong, 50, was a household name among millions of soccer fans in China in the 1990s and 2000s..

Hao read out in Chinese a manifesto of the "Federal State of New China," a government proposed by Guo as an alternative to the Chinese Communist regime. "The Communist Party's totalitarian rule in China has caused horrific atrocities against humanity," he said, denouncing the party as a "terrorist organization" that has "trampled over democracy, violated the rule of law and dishonored lawful agreements.... I think the Chinese Communist Party should be kicked out of humanity. The ghost of Communism should no longer be allowed to drift in this world. This is what I've concluded after 50 years of living."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/asia/chinese-soccer-star-intl-hnk/index.html

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This soccer player has balls.

Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University. A former federal prosecutor, he is the author of “Chokehold: Policing Black Men.”

Analysis of he difficulties in getting a conviction against a police officer and the rational for the charges that were brought.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/31/filing-charges-george-floyds-death-was-easy-part/

Source: Public Safety Alert

Mayor Bowser is ordering a city wide curfew for the District of Columbia... She has also activated the DC National Guard to support the Metropolitan Police Department.

Read more: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/3rd-day-george-floyd-protests-washington-dc/2318177/ to source

Editorial on rejecting myth of “outside agitators” along with online disinfo.