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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Feds likely eyeing 'cover-ups' to bust Mexican cartels along border: former DEA agent

2025-02-12

[FoxNews] Mexican drug cartels have outfitted dozens of tunnels with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs beneath the U.S. border, posing a major challenge for the Trump administration as it works to curb the flow of illegal narcotics into the country.

The U.S. Drug and Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that most illicit drugs in the U.S. are smuggled via vehicles at southern border entry points, but some enter through cross-border tunnels and subterranean passageways.
Been a bunch in Otay Mesa/San Diego Sector with all the warehouses serving cross-border trade
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to stop the flow of illegal drugs in the U.S., introducing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an estimated 107,941 people in the U.S. died from a drug-involved overdose in 2022.

Former DEA Senior Special Agent Michael Brown, who is the global director of counter-narcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices, told Fox News Digital that the agency blows up the drug trafficking tunnels to make them impassable.

Brown said DEA and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) personnel must intensify their investigations into underground tunnels to discover "cover-ups" of the tunnels' U.S. exits.

"Cover-ups" are seemingly normal storefronts or warehouses used to hide tunnel entrances and exits.

"They (the cartels) move hundreds of kilos out and build a warehouse over the tunnel and call it Joe's Pizza shop or Jose's mechanic shop," Brown said. "It's hard to identify that in Eagle Pass or Brownsville [in Texas]."

The former DEA agent said that if properly managed, federal authorities can identify sources to reveal the tunnels' locations and possible U.S. connections.

Brown said he doesn't believe the U.S. would go to the same length as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did when destroying the tunnels.

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the IDF set its sights on dismantling the terrorist group's web of tunnels. In one instance, the IDF said they pumped water into the tunnels and flooded them.

"The U.S. would never blow up a school under any circumstances," he said. "But if we had a 9/11 every day like Israel, I think American attitudes would change."

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Home Front: Politix

Hyper-woke Squad member Cori Bush is forecast to lose Democrat primary by TWENTY-TWO points, new poll shows, after she used taxpayer funds to pay husband to act as bodyguard while calling for police to be defunded

2024-02-11

The Missouri congresswoman, 47, is behind rival Welsey Bell

...D, of course. From Ferguson, Missouri, where he was a city councilman, he is now the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County. Beloved of “activists”, he already has a long list of controversial behaviours that make him a new face doing more of the same....

by a staggering 22-points in a new poll

Bush has faced backlash in recent months, including a federal investigation into alleged spending misuse for her bodyguard husband

The 'Squad' member also came under fire for voting against banning Hamas terrorists involved in October 7th attacks from the US

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Home Front: Politix

They Endorsed Hamas Terrorism. Then They Hosted a Big-Ticket Fundraiser for Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

2024-02-08

[WFB, h/t Insty] These POS need to be constantly exposed as pariahs
As Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D., Mo.) face difficult primary challenges, the progressive lawmakers are teaming up—by holding a swanky joint fundraiser alongside anti-Israel activists who have endorsed Hamas terrorism and defended notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

Bowman and Bush attended the Saturday fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of Sylvia Aroth and Dante Cacace, with attendees paying as much as $13,200 to attend. The fundraiser's host committee included a slew of anti-Israel activists who have defended Hamas in the wake of the terror group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state.

Melina Abdullah, for example, serves as executive director of BLM Grassroots, which said that "resistance must not be condemned" and praised the attack as "a desperate act of self-defense." Another host, Jodie Evans,

...she’s married to Neville Roy Singham, the Sri Lankan-American entrepreneur who sold his IT consulting firm, Thoughtworks, for $785 million in 2017. He’s been a Maoist Black Nationalist from childhood— which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...

serves as cofounder of Code Pink, a left-wing group that argued on Oct. 7 that Hamas had "every right to resist" Israel's "apartheid regime." Estee Chandler

... a moderately successful movie actress when she was younger, but since the 2000 election she’s joined various anti-Republican and anti-Israel causes to keep her name in the headlines...

also served as a fundraiser host—Chandler, who leads Jewish Voice for Peace's Los Angeles chapter, blamed Israel for provoking Hamas's attack, citing the Jewish state's "constant ethnic cleansing."

The fundraiser comes as both Bowman and Bush face serious primary challenges driven in large part by their anti-Israel views. The left-wing lawmakers have emerged as Israel's top opponents in the wake of Oct. 7, with both accusing the Jewish state of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing." Those remarks prompted condemnation from Jewish leaders in Bowman's and Bush's districts.

Twenty-six rabbis in Bowman's New York City district wrote a letter in October denouncing Bowman's "anti-Israel policy positions and messaging." In Bush's St. Louis district, a coalition of Jewish organizations accused the congresswoman of "fanning the flames of antisemitism."

"Representative Bush has shown little outrage against the horrendous attacks by an organization whose very charter calls for the killing of all Jewish people," the coalition said in a November letter.

"To the contrary, in private discussions she has stated repeatedly that she supports the Jewish community, is listening to our fears and concerns, and stands against antisemitism," the coalition continued. "She then issues public statements that directly contradict what she told us in private."

That criticism helped drive a pair of pro-Israel Democrats to challenge Bowman and Bush. Westchester County executive George Latimer launched his campaign against Bowman in December and has since criticized the congressman for voting against a resolution that condemned Hamas. St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, meanwhile, is challenging Bush, a run that has seen him condemn those who accuse Israel of genocide.

"It is offensive to me that you would say that Israel defending itself is genocide," Bell told a self-described "anti-Zionist" attendee during a November campaign event. "Israel was attacked by a terrorist organization, who in their charter says that the destruction of Israel is their goal. They stated after this attack that they were going to do it again and again."

Both challengers have outraised their incumbent opponents in recent months. Latimer raised $1.4 million in the last quarter of 2023, while Bowman raised just $724,000. Bell during that period raised $490,000 and holds most of that cash—$409,000—on hand. Bush raised $487,000 in the last quarter of 2023 and holds just $216,000 on hand.

While Bowman and Bush's Los Angeles fundraiser may help them close that money gap, it is also prompting pushback. In addition to BLM Grassroots' embrace of Hamas, Abdullah defended Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan after he was banned from Instagram and Facebook. Farrakhan, an unabashed anti-Semite, has called Jews "termites" and praised Adolf Hitler as a "very great man."

"We should all be outraged by the banning of Minister @LouisFarrakhan from Instagram and Facebook," Abdullah wrote in 2019. "In a country built on our backs there can be no 'Black supremacy.'"

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-Great Cultural Revolution

American Library Association president says libraries, public schools need to be 'sites of socialist organizing'

2023-10-12

Unacceptable.

[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] The American Library Association (ALA) president said Sept. 2 at the Socialism 2023 Conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown

reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown

...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
that libraries and public schools need to be sites of socialist organizing.

Emily Drabinski, who also is an associate professor at Queens College, got in line at the microphone and introduced herself as a librarian during the question-and-answer part of a session called "Freedom to Learn: Black And Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education," according to undercover journalist Karlyn Borysenko.

"I just want to say thank you for bringing up libraries and classroom libraries, but also school libraries of all kinds, public libraries and high educational libraries who have been under attack in similar ways," Drabinski said, according to an audio recording captured and posted by Borysenko.

"I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing," Drabinski added. "I think libraries really do too ... I haven’t seen that working in libraries. But I think there’s real opportunity here to both connect with happening in public education, what’s happening in libraries, but also we need some help in the libraries. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing."

The panel’s presenters, Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian, had discussed how to incorporate Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the classroom, calling it "runaway pedagogy," according to Borysenko.

Boryseko told Campus Reform she has watched several webinars where Drabinski skirts around the issue of calling libraries "a site of socialist organizing."

"She’s very smart about what she says publicly, and so to hear her to come right out and lay her agenda on the table is surprising, but not surprising within the context," Borysenko told Campus Reform.

"In that environment, she was surrounded by socialist activists," Borysenko told Campus Reform. "She was surrounded by her people, and she didn’t know she was being recorded. For her to say something like that in that type of environment makes complete sense because she thought she was going to have friends that weren’t going to release it to the media. But it was still pretty shocking to me to hear her so blatantly say that she does want libraries to be ’a site of socialist organizing.’"

Several state libraries in Montana, Texas, Missouri, a local library in Midland, Texas, and another local library in Campbell County, Wyoming, announced this summer that they have left the ALA, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

Lawmakers in at least nine other states — Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming — demand similar action, the AP reported.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Black man who told his mom 'white men' were chasing him and told police he feared for his life was found decapitated - despite cops claiming 'no foul play'

2023-03-17

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Rasheem Carter, 25, went missing after warning his mother men were chasing him

Taylorsville, Mississippi police claimed no reason to suspect foul play after he was found decapitated

He disappeared on in October and was found mutilated in a wooded area exactly one month later

WHO IS ATTORNEY BEN CRUMP?
Ben Crump is the family's attorney in the ongoing investigation.

Mr. Crump, esq. is a race-baiting ambulance chaser of long standing.

In a press conference on Monday, he took aim at local authorities for not communicating with Carter's family. He said they believe Carter was the victim of a hate crime.

Crump is a specialist in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases.

In 2002, he represented the McMeans family after a white state trooper shot Genie McMeans Jr.

He was involved in representing the families of Martin Lee Anderson, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown between 2007 and 2014.

The lawyer has taken on a number of widely reported cases since.

In 2015, he represented the family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes who was killed by three policemen in Washington.

He also represented the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American woman who was shot by police.

Crump was the attorney who represented the family of George Floyd in May 2020.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Chicago on pace for 6 times as many carjackings as eight years ago: report

2022-08-23

[FoxNews] Arrests for carjackings in Chicago have slumped to a near record low despite the surge in incidents

Chicago carjackings are on pace to rise again in 2022 after already dramatic increases in 2020 and 2021, trending towards a number that would be six times higher than just eight years ago.

"The data on Chicago carjacking through the years, and especially through the first half of 2022, serves as an unfortunate example of what happens when a city becomes 'open' for crime, with no real deterrence or consequences in most instances," wrote Wirepoints Senior Editor Matt Rosenberg, who analyzed the 2022 data.

Chicago is on pace for 1,960 carjackings in 2022, according to data compiled by Wirepoints, blowing through the 1,848 record set just last year. The number would represent an over sixfold increase from 2014, when the city recorded 303 carjackings.

The dramatic rise in carjackings follows a trend that started in 2020, when the number of incidents crossed over the 1,000 mark for the first time at 1,413, up from the 603 recorded in 2019.

The numbers are in line with an overall rise in crime that has plagued Chicago and other major American cities in the last two years, a problem some experts have pinned on pandemic-related lockdowns and a more passive approach to policing in the wake of social unrest following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

"Certainly, the protests and riots mid-2020 after the death of George Floyd followed a pattern of spiking violence that we've seen following past viral police incidents, such as the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. This pattern has been termed the ‘Ferguson Effect’: police pull back while violent crime spikes precipitously," Hannah Meyers, director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital of the crime spike earlier this year.

The Wirepoints analysis pointed to similar problems in Chicago, arguing that a lack of consequences for committing crimes has helped spearhead the increase.

"Chicago’s growing carjacking problem is a microcosm of what’s gone wrong in the city," Rosenberg wrote. "Carjackings are more frequent, they are more weaponized, and there are fewer consequences than at almost any time in recent history."

Making matters worse, the data shows that 76% of carjackings in the city this year have been classified as "aggravated," meaning either a weapon was used during the crime or there was a victim present that was older than 60 or under 16 years old.

The city is also making fewer arrests for carjackings despite the surge, with rates of arrest averaging about 10% between 2010 and 2019 before falling to six percent in 2022, near the record low of five percent set in 2020.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Talcum X Uses $40k of BLM Grift Money to Buy a Dog

2022-08-02

[Washington Free Beacon] Shaun King's social justice PAC is going to the dogs. Literally.

Grassroots Law PAC, which the progressive grifter founded to elect soft-on-crime local officials, paid roughly $40,000 since December to the California-based Potrero Performance Dogs, according to campaign finance disclosures. The payments are labeled for "contractor services," making their purpose difficult to discern. But days after a $30,650 payment in February, King welcomed a "new member of the King family": an award-winning mastiff bred by Potrero named Marz.
Really, when they re-purpose this money to their private lives, at least it's not going to fcuk up our society.
King, who has been hounded

*giggle*

for years by allegations of fraud, has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Grassroots Law. But the payments for a dog raises questions about whether the former Bernie Sanders surrogate is using PAC contributions the way donors intended.

"This luxury dog expense may not be illegal for a PAC, but it shows little respect for King's donors," said Scott Walter, the president of Capital Research Center, which investigates left-wing groups. An heiress of the Hormel meatpacking empire is the PAC's largest donor. Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife donated millions of dollars to Real Justice PAC, which King launched in 2018 and works closely with Grassroots Law.

Grassroots Law PAC, which aims to "elect candidates who are committed to reducing mass incarceration and police violence," has spent nearly as much on King's pet as it has on political candidates. The PAC has contributed around $56,000 to political candidates since 2021. It paid $10,000 to Potrero in December and another $30,650 on Feb. 16.

King has come under fire over the years amid repeated failures at his various social justice endeavors. The mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Ohio boy killed by police, said King "robbed" her by holding unauthorized fundraisers in her son's name. A former King ally, DeRay Mckesson, has publicly accused him of fraud. Real Justice PAC was ordered in December to pay $30,000 to the city of Philadelphia for campaign finance violations in the race to elect District Attorney Larry Krasner (D.).

King has denied allegations of fraud, chalking his failed projects up to poor management or false claims from his enemies. He released an audit in 2019 that said he received a $4,166 monthly salary from Real Justice PAC and "no compensation at all" from Action PAC, the predecessor to Grassroots Law PAC. He said he was "literally the only person" on Action PAC's staff who does not get paid.

"I have not received a salary or a stipend of any kind for the entire year," he claimed. "I do it all for free."

While King said Marz would provide "alertness and protection" alongside duties as a family pet, it appears the thoroughbred is no longer in the activist's care. Potrero Performance Dogs showed Marz at an American Kennel Club competition earlier this month, where he won Best in Show. The breeder said in a social media post this month that Marz was back in its care because "he's got a little too much energy to be a family dog so he came back."

Potrero, Grassroots Law, and King's media company did not respond to requests for comment.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Blue-city prosecutors in red states vow not to press charges over abortions

2022-06-28

[Politico] Dozens of elected prosecutors across the country — including a number representing blue cities nestled inside red states — are pledging to not press charges against patients or providers over abortion in the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling giving states full control over abortion policy.

So far, 84 district attorneys and other prosecutors from 29 states and territories and Washington, D.C., have signed the statement distributed by Fair and Just Prosecution. Altogether, the officials represent jurisdictions covering 87 million Americans, according to the organization.

Significantly, the signatories include district attorneys in states like Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas — all Republican-controlled states with abortion "trigger bans" set to activate within a month, now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Other prosecutors have also joined in via public statements online.

"Criminalizing abortion will not end abortion; it will simply end safe abortions, forcing the most vulnerable among us — as well as medical providers — to make impossible decisions," the statement read. Later, it added: "Our legislatures may decide to criminalize personal healthcare decisions, but we remain obligated to prosecute only those cases that serve the interests of justice and the people."

The statement marks a public, preemptive deployment of "prosecutorial discretion" in the battle over abortion policy. Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies have significant leeway over what cases they choose to pursue.

But it’s still unclear what practical effect the prosecutors’ stand will have in each state. Abortion providers are already suspending procedures in a number of states with bans already written into statute, like Planned Parenthood in Arkansas. Similar actions have taken place in Alabama, West Virginia and a slew of other states.

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Fifth Column

Confirmed: Robert John Stoms (b. 10-28-88, pronouns it/its) was the Antifa member from Portland who was arrested for violence and drug crimes at the pride event in Coeur d'Alene

2022-06-15

Confirmed: Robert John Stoms (b. 10-28-88, pronouns it/its) was the #Antifa member from Portland who was arrested for violence & drug crimes at the pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Press has reported extensively on arrests of 31 Patriot Front members but ignored this arrest. pic.twitter.com/mEf2lnRrSQ
— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 14, 2022

Courtesy of Nero in comments yesterday, the list of arrested Patriot Fronters. Possibly some are also elsewhere in the Rantburg archives...

Mishael Joshua Buster - 22 from Spokane, WA
Jared Michael Boyce - 27 from Soringville, UT
Nathan David Brenner - 26 from Lewisville, CO
Colton Michael Brown - 23 from Rovendale, WA
Josiah Daniel Buster - 24 from Watauga, TX
Devin Wayne Center - 22 from Fayetteville, AR
Dylan Carter Corio - 21 from Cheyenne, WY
Winston North Durham - 21 from Genesse, ID
Joseph Garret Garland - 23 from Freeburg, IL
Branden Mitchel Haney - 35 from Kaysville, UT
Richard Jacob Jessop - 21 from Idaho Falls, ID
James Michael Johnson - 36 from Concrete, WA
James Julius Johnson - 40 from Sioux Falls, SD
Connor Patrick Moran - 23 from Watauga, TX
Kieran Padraig Morris - 27 from Haslet, TX
Lawrence Alexander Norman - 32 from Prospect, OR
Justin Michael Oleary - 27 from Des Moines, WA
Cameron Kathan Pruitt - 23 from Midway, UT
Forrest Clark Rankin - 28 from Wheat Ridge, CO
Thomas Ryan Rousseau - 23 from Grape Vine, TX (Founder of Patriot Front)
Conor James Ryan - 23 - from Thornton, CO
Spencer Thomas Simpson - 20 from Ellensburg, WA
Alexander Nicholai Sisenstein - 27 from Midvale, UT
Derek Joseph Smith - 24 from Sioux Falls, SD
Dakota Ray Tabler - 29 from West Valley City, UT
Steven Derrick Tucker - 30 from Haslet, TX
Wesley Evan Van Horn - 34 from Lexington, AL
Mitchell Frederick Wagner - 24 from Florissant, MO
Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield - 24 from Elk Ridge, UT
Graham Jones Whitsom - 31 from Haslet, TX
Robert Benjamin Whitted - 22 from Conroe, TX

In the same thread, Rex Mundi added:

Thomas Ryan Rousseau, formerly of Occupy Wallstreet, formerly of Charlottesville white supremacist rally, now with Patriot Front. Funny how this same guy keeps popping up wherever there is major civil unrest... and just never seems to get in Dutch with LE, much like Epps. Great gig if you can get it.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Black Lives Matter has nearly $42 million in assets: IRS documents

2022-05-17

And how much in liabilities?
[FoxNews] The BLM Foundation has an operating budget of $4 million

According to 63-pages of tax documents acquired by the Associated Press, executives of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. have nearly $42 million in assets, despite spending more than $37 million from July 2020 to June 2021.

The $37 million was spent on grants, real estate, consultants and other expenses.

BLM received $90 million in donations amid the 2020 protests and riots that were carried out in major cities across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd. The foundation reports it invested $32 million in stocks from the $90 million in donations, according to the tax documents.

Organizers tell the Associated Press that the investment is expected to become an endowment to ensure the foundation’s work continues in the future.

The foundation has an operating budget of $4 million, a board member told the Associated Press, but the tax filing showed the BLM Foundation spent nearly $6 million on a mansion in Los Angeles, according to the report.

The BLM Foundation has operated as a nonprofit sponsored by a charity before it became an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit in December 2020, requiring it to publicly disclose its finances.

"This 990 reveals that (the BLM foundation) is the largest Black abolitionist nonprofit organization that has ever existed in the nation’s history. What we’re doing has never been done before," said Shalomyah Bowers, the foundation’s board secretary.

Brian Mittendorf, Ph.D., an accounting professor at Ohio State University, said the disclosure will likely set up the foundation for criticism as its "huge windfall" has a "mismatch" and "gaps" in its data.

"It comes across as an early startup nonprofit, without substantial governance structure in place, that got a huge windfall," Mittendorf told the outlet.

"People are going to be quick to assume that mismatch reflects intent. Whether there’s anything improper here, that is another question," the professor continued. "But whether they set themselves up for being criticized, I think that certainly is the case because they didn’t plug a bunch of those gaps."

The BLM Foundation started in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin, 17, and grew following the death of Michael Brown, 18, the following year.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Twitter Co-Founder Claims CNN Made Up Story in Ferguson

2022-04-20

[Townhall] Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, claimed on Monday he saw CNN trying "to create conflict and film it" while covering the protests and riots in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown.

Dorsey made the comment when responding to Brain Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent, posting an article from the Washington Post about how Fox News host Tucker Carlson is always selling the same thing, "He's selling doubt..."

"[A]nd you all are selling hope?" Dorsey replied.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Critical Race Theory Is A Societal Dead End

2021-07-31

[LI] The recent survey by Gallup showing a precipitous decline in positive views on race relations would not come as a shock to Legal Insurrection readers who have followed our coverage dating back to Obama’s campaign, the false narratives of the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases, and the more recent rise of Critical Race Theory activism.

It’s a theme I was able to talk about on the John DePetro radio show on July 21, the day the Gallup survey was released but before I knew about it. DePetro is a radio talk show host who was voted Best of Rhode Island in 2020. He’s also someone who doesn’t hesitate to get out of the studio and onto the streets to video protests and other news events, and has tons of sources and is very keyed-into the local political intrigue.

DePetro has had both Nicole Solas and Ramona Bessinger on his show. During my appearance, I was able to talk about the work Legal Insurrection has been doing in bringing forth and taking national stories about how critical race theory is playing out in schools.

What I liked about the interview is that he didn’t try to force a view on me. He asked questions and gave me the room to answer. The video and transcript are below.

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