Daily Archives: 1, June 15, 2023

Comey’s wife tells how she was ‘devastated’ at Trump’s victory

Former FBI Director James Comey shared a photo of himself wearing a T-shirt and holding a coffee mug promoting the presidential campaign of Joe Biden

Ex-FBI director James Comey on 2024 race: ‘It has to be Joe Biden’

FBI Deputy Director Admits Redacting Mention of Joe and Hunter Biden in Document to Congress

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate admitted during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that the FBI redacted any mention of audio recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden in a document shown last week to Republican lawmakers in which an FBI informant alleged the Bidens were involved in a bribery scheme around 2015 and 2016.

White Starbucks manager who ran Philly branch where two black men were notoriously refused bathroom access – sparking protests – is awarded $25M as jury finds she was fired because of her race

During the uproar, then Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson went to Philadelphia to apologize to the men. 

He also ordered more than 8,000 stores in the US to close so 175,000 workers could get training in unconscious bias

And Then There’s The Real World:

Apr 15, 2018 – Starbucks C.E.O. Apologizes After Arrests of 2 Black Men

Apr 18, 2018 – The Philadelphia Police Department released audio recordings… placed by a Starbucks employee last week claiming two black men wouldn’t leave the store…

In a Facebook video he posted, Ross said the department received a call that the men were “trespassing.” After officers arrived, he said an employee told them that the men came into the cafe and wanted to use the bathroom but were not allowed to do so because they hadn’t bought anything, which Ross said is against company policy.

He said the men were asked to leave three times but refused.

Apr 19, 2018 – Philadelphia’s top cop apologizes to black men arrested at Starbucks

May 11, 2018 – Starbucks: No Purchase Needed To Use The Restroom – NPR

How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull?

Jun 11, 2020 – For years, the military, the police and white supremacists have displayed the skull symbol of Marvel’s comic-book outlaw the Punisher on unauthorised clothes, bumper stickers and spray-paint…

Marvel makes the Punisher commit suicide after cops, soldiers, and patriots adopt his iconic logo in opposition to lawlessness