Episode Notes
1) Derek Chauvin seeks a new trial for murdering George Floyd
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/03/derek-chauvin-seeks-to-overturn-george-floyd-murder-conviction-and-get-new-trial
The police hold the power to deprive anyone at any time of their life and liberty. They should be held to a higher standard of behavior and responsibility and if they don’t like it then maybe they are in the wrong business. If George Floyd was breaking the law, he should have been arrested, Mirandized and given his day in court instead of being murdered on the street by a police officer who was entrusted to keep the public safe. George Floyd was a member of that very public.
2) A grand jury declined to indict New York State Attorney General Letitia James
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-letitia-james-again
With every subsequent attempt to indict Attorney General James, the stack of evidence that this is a selective and vindictive prosecution grows. It was never going to be the guardrails we thought existed in government that will keep the worst impulses of this administration in check, it was never going to be a press that turned out to be too afraid of Trump to challenge him or outright owned by Trump lackeys who would hold him to account…it was always going to be we the people.
3) The Supreme Court upheld the gerrymandered Texas map despite the stated fact that it was a racial gerrymander
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5619692/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-map
In the meantime, Republicans in California are challenging the new maps passed by the voters and it will likely end up at the Supreme Court. Will the rogue justices strike down California’s democratically-decided gerrymander even after upholding the Texas gerrymander, which was achieved through political fiat, bypassing the democratic process? And what does this portend for the upcoming decision as to whether or not to finally wipe away the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act?
4) What is Narcoterrorism?
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/political-science/narcoterrorism
This is a term that the Trump administration is using to blow small boats in the Caribbean to smithereens and justify an invasion of Venezuela. They began mass deportations of Venezuelans on the pretext that they are members of the gang Tren De Aragua, without providing any evidence, to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to justify the roundups. This act assumes we are at war with a country before invoking it, so Trump is trying to create this justification on an ex post facto basis. Terrorism is defined as the use of violence to advance a political end. If anyone could be called a terrorist, it would be the Trump Administration, which is using extreme violence to achieve Stephen Miller’s seeming political aim of emptying the country of black and brown people.
5) What is ethnic cleansing?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethnic-cleansing
The Trump administration is promoting the idea of “remigration”, which is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-threatening-naturalized-american-citizens
6) If It’s about drugs, why did Trump just pardon an epic narcotrafficker?
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/12/examining-trumps-pardon-of-former-honduran-president-convicted-of-trafficking-drugs-to-u-s/
7) Are you ignorant or just a liar?
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/trump-shylock-antisemitic-slur
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-trump-admits-he-doesn-t-know-who-he-pardoned/ar-AA1PNV1e?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
Regarding the second strike on that boat in September:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pESVEu8w22E
First the administration said the second strike never happened, then they said that they did happen, adding that they always intended the strikes to be lethal, but that Secretary Hegseth never ordered the
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