Tulsi dumps COINTELPRO files on MLK
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Speaking of recurring themes in the conservative movement, Trump and Gabbard have decided to go J. Edgar Hoover with a Trump scandal getting traction:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday announced the release of 230,000 files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
“Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at http://archives.gov/mlk,” Gabbard wrote in a post on X. “The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination of MLK, discussion of potential leads, internal FBI memos detailing the progress of the case, information about James Earl Ray’s former cellmate who stated he discussed with Ray an alleged assassination plot, and more.”
Relatedly, his taking the FBI’s smear campaign at face value was a clear sign that David Garrow was well on the way to crankdom. (Maybe the reaction to his doorstop Obama-the-early-years biography wasn’t entirely fair; I also know that I’m sure as hell not about to read a 1,400 page book focused largely on Obama’s college girlfriends to find out.) Still, it’s pretty jarring to see the author of Liberty and Sexuality ending up doing fawning reviews of Selena Zito books for the Washington Free Beacon:
But one of gunman Thomas Crooks’s eight shots killed local firefighter Corey Comperatore, who had been seated with his family in the adjacent grandstand, and that death troubled Trump at least as much as his own narrow escape. “He called me seven more times that day, each call lasting around ten minutes,” Zito astonishingly recounts. “God. The hand of God,” Trump told her. “I cannot dismiss that God has been with me.” But Comperatore’s death “haunted him—that was a bullet meant for him,” Zito reflects. “Someone died because they supported him,” and “the person who died could have been him.”
Ah yes, the legendary compassion of Donald J. Trump.
As Butler so impressively recounts, “the voters’ values haven’t changed, but the parties have,” and the result is a partisan realignment that may linger for years to come. “Republicans are now the party of working-class Americans, and Democrats are the party of the elites.”
The review was published after Trump’s signature bill was passed:
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever – in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
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It’s an anti-elite party, if you think that adjunct English instructors are “elites” and Elon Musk isn’t. Anyway, I think I’m going to pass on Garrow’s future work on MLK too…