Georgia

Trumpist candidate Bruce LeVell fails to get past 0.2%. Sad!GA-06 is the best educated district held by a Republican congressman in the whole country. They don't like Trump there. But instead of keeping a low profile, Trump was blithely tweeting away this morning and even did an attack ad robo-call, making it clear to everyone that the contest today was a referendum on Trump. Turnout was very high-- over a third of registered voters.

What do Ukrainian neo-fascists, nationalist ultra-Catholic Polish parties, Baltic linguistic nationalists, Georgian kleptocrats, Albanian terrorists,  Serbian liberals and the neo-Ottoman regime in Turkey all have in common?
The answer is that each has been embraced and used by the United States in order to portray false unity in a geo-political movement against Russia.

Two Georgia cops were fired Thursday after videos surfaced showing them punching and stomping on the head of an unarmed non-resisting man.
But they should also be criminally charged, so let’s see how that pans out.
From the looks of it, it is something the two Gwinnett County police officers have been doing on a regular basis.
This time, it just happened to be caught on camera by a pair of witness, which is why the cops are also under criminal investigation.

A young boy holds his fist up while wearing tape over his mouth during a Black Lives Matter protest at an entrance to Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in response to the police shooting deaths of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Okla. and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C.
Disturbing new footage released by the Greater Atlanta chapter of Black Lives Matter on Wednesday shows a white police officer kicking a handcuffed Black man in the face.

Soda spills, young poo and death by doughnut + this day in history w/FDR dies and our song of the day by Ride on your Morning Monarchy for April 12, 2017.

Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org. (Photo: Kirk Walter/Public Domain)
Carl Malamud is a law advocate, but not the kind who represents plaintiffs or defendants in a court of law. No, Malamud is a proponent for the free access to one’s ability to read the law. Sounds simple right? Unless you live in Georgia, that is.

Hugging robots, banishing queues and increasing our influence + this day in history w/firing Dave Mustaine and our song of the day by Future Islands on your Morning Monarchy for April 11, 2017.

Here, the potential to become an accidental criminal is rather high since residents aren’t even allowed to see copies of the legal code without first applying for a license and paying a hefty fine to the state.

Georgia deputies lied to a family about the cause of their teenage son’s death, recently released dash cam reveals.
“I was originally told that he hit a tree at 80 mph,” Greg Dyksma told the ledger-enquirer regarding his son who was killed at the hands of Harris County sheriff deputies.
“Then the story changed to he hit a cop car at 10 mph. Then it changed to they pushed him off the road. So I heard all these stories, but nothing’s been confirmed.”

Holland was smart. They chucked their electronic voting system this week and everyone voted using paper ballots after Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear were caught trying to hack into electronic voting equipment the way they did in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Ohio, putting Trump over the top.