4-4 The Arraignment Day Episode (#100!)

Finland joins NATO! And, a former President gets Arraigned

👀 Ali Zaslav,Jeremy Herb,Nicky Robertson. (2023, March 29). Senate votes to repeal Iraq war power authorizations, 20 years after US invasion | CNN politics. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/politics/senate-vote-aumf/index.html 

► “A Texas Tribune investigation, based on police body cameras, emergency communications and interviews with investigators that have not been made public, found officers had concluded that immediately confronting the gunman would be too dangerous. “

► Despart, Z. (2023, March 20). “He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15. The Texas Tribune. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/20/uvalde-shooting-police-ar-15/ 

*so when you hear, “It’s not about the gun!” Yeah, in this case it totally was. 

🚩  Wade, P. (2023, March 26). Trump 'Went to Waco to bring back visions' of cult leader David Koresh, democratic rep. Says. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-waco-rally-david-koresh-cult-1234703923/ 

Former President Donald Trump's rally in Waco, Texas, this weekend comes amid the 30th anniversary in the city of the infamous deadly standoff at the Branch Davidians compoundin 1993 between U.S. law enforcement and Branch Davidians infamously resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of the religious cult and four federal agents.

SEE ALSO: Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Mississippi — the site of the notorious “Mississippi Burning” murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.

✦ ABC News. (2023, March 24). Trump rally falls during anniversary of Waco's dark past. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-rally-falls-anniversary-wacos-dark-past-98110495 

FOR A LITTLE SANITY,

♘  Judge blocks Tennessee law restricting drag performances in public. (2023, April 1). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-tennessee-law-restricting-drag-performances-public-2023-04-01/ 

♘ "The Samuel Alito’s mom’s satanic abortion clinic" is a thing that exists now. (2023, February 15). Salon. https://www.salon.com/2023/02/15/the-samuel-alitos-moms-satanic-abortion-clinic-is-a-thing-that-exists-now/ 

BACK TO INSANITY-

➧  Woodcock, C. (2023, March 30). Missouri reps just voted to completely Defund the state’s public libraries. VICE. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.

ACLU-MO filed the suit on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association (MLA) in an effort to overturn a state law passed in 2022 that bans sexually explicit material from schools. Since it was first enacted in August, librarians and other educators have faced misdemeanor charges punishable by up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine for giving students access to books the state has deemed sexually explicit. 

➧ Haring, B. (2023, March 25). Kanye West claims he likes Jewish people again after viewing Jonah hill in the film ’21 Jump street’. Deadline. https://deadline.com/2023/03/kanye-west-claims-likes-jewish-people-again-after-viewing-jonah-hill-in-21-jump-street-1235310182/

ANIMAL STORY:

Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but /FOR ONCE  it wasn’t a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner➧ ABC News. (2023, March 31). Officers 'arrest' alligator walking near Tampa Bay Stadium. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officers-arrest-alligator-walking-tampa-bay-stadium-98266340