The top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI have shown themselves again and again to be beholden to the president, spending most of their days fawning over him and trying to stay in the good graces of his White House. They have demonstrated no independence of thought or action from this president. They do not have their employees' backs. They have eviscerated the expertise within their ranks, decimating crucial units like the Civil Rights Division. The aftermath of yesterday's shooting only reinforced how dire the situation is. Trump didn't just comment on the evidence. He and his administration lied about it, twisted it, and propagandized about it. They publicly reached ultimate conclusions about guilt and innocence. They repeatedly savaged the woman killed, calling her a "domestic terrorist":
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders. The guy, I'm telling him like, Please step off the school grounds,' and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he's trying to push me, and he knocked me down," a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said. "They don't care. They're just animals," the official added. "I've never seen people behave like this." read more
A state-by-state health report card, out today from the United Health Foundation, finds an array of encouraging signs for America: Rates for premature death, drug deaths, firearm deaths and homicides all fell. Rates of cancer screenings, physical activity and volunteerism all increased.
But rates of e-cigarette use and multiple chronic conditions increased. Homelessness and unemployment " socioeconomic factors that help determine the nation's health " rose.
Why it matters: America's Health Rankings " from the United Health Foundation, established by UnitedHealth Group " synthesize 99 measures of health and well-being, drawn from 31 data sources, to produce a "comprehensive portrait of health at both the national and state levels."
Darren Michael, associate professor at Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk. read more
The victim of a fatal ICE shooting has been identified as a 37-year-old mother with a now-orphaned 6-year-old son. Renee Nicole Good was identified by her mother, Donna Ganger, in an interview with the Star Tribune as the woman killed on a residential Minneapolis street on Wednesday. "She was probably terrified," Ganger told the outlet, before insisting her daughter is "not part of anything like that at all," referring to protesters confronting ICE agents. Officials have not identified the ICE agent who fired three shots into her vehicle, killing her. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as President Donald Trump, accused Good of trying to run over multiple ICE agents before she was gunned down"but video disputes their account.
MAGAts are madly in love with Jonathan Ross and Derek Chauvin.