Little Wisp

Police fuckery update: An SPD officer threatened a local livestreamer who has been covering the Seattle protests for weeks by saying “we have your address” while he was filming them. The streamer, being reasonably upset at this, tried to film the cop who threatened him while saying “that’s the officer that said ‘we have your address, we’re gonna ticket you!’ Yeah, ‘we have you address.’”

I live in this city!! My partner literally streamed on twitch people who were streaming from Facebook. I have friends who were gassed and assaulted. I am afraid for the people in my city. Many have gone missing and a protester was murdered when someone drove into the crowd. The protests have not stopped and they will not stop until there is real change. I can’t be in the streets as I am immunocompromised and live with vulnerable adults but I want to be there.

“President Trump has not only consistently abused his powers and conflated his personal interest with the national interest. He has used his vast powers of secrecy to conceal his crimes and betrayals. That should stop the day he leaves office and it can be easily done. It doesn’t rely on the courts or the Congress. The new President will inherit all those powers for his own tenure and all past Presidents. As Trump himself has so failed to understand none of these are his powers. They are the powers of the sitting President. The process should be an orderly and considered one. There is no national interest in revealing every embarrassing moment. And all must be done to protect actual national security interests. But the cover ups need to end and they can. Those who are willing to come forward with pertinent evidence should be given the opportunity to petition for a more formal immunity for coming forward. The true goal is getting the complete story.”

“If Joe Biden wins the election in November he will immediately be confronted with a broken country and a host of public crises – a pandemic, a wrecked economy, a longterm need to restabilize a sputtering global order. There will be great pressure to turn on the page on the story and simply move on, if only for lack of time. So Biden’s supporters should begin insisting now on a commitment to an orderly process of clearing the executive stables of the dung of Trumpism. This should include, starting now, a warning to all those in power not to destroy any documents or records – in the broadest sense of the term – and that any officials will be held liable for destroying records and evidence which are all the property of the United States government and not any transient officeholder. It’s the one act that should ensure prosecution. Trumpism has been an historic assault on our civic and democratic order. We cannot simply have it become a normal part of our history. A chief part of the President’s corruption has been abusing his powers to hide his wrongdoing. We can’t move forward without undoing those crimes and unwinding the lies.”