Everyday the police state gets stronger. Little by little our rights are eroding. We either fight or live in chains. Your choice:

Andreas Gal, the Apple employee involved in a controversial US Customs and Border Protection detainment, is speaking out about his experience. In an interview with ABC News, Gal elaborated on why he feels he was targeted and offered more details on the interaction.

Earlier this week, the ACLU revealed that it was filling a complaint alleging that border control officers violated the constitutional rights of Gal. The Apple employee was returning from a business trip to Sweden in November when he was detained at the San Francisco International Airport. During that detainment, border control agents allegedly demanded that Gal provide them access to his Apple-issued iPhone XS and MacBook.

An economic downturn has been predicted for 2019. Very bad news for Trump. He’s been able to avoid the ire of his followers for 2 years. That is about to change.

U.S. retail sales recorded their biggest drop in more than nine years in December as receipts fell across the board, suggesting a sharp slowdown in economic activity at the end of 2018.

New measure by Social Metrics Commission aims to focus political attention on the issue What is the new UK poverty measure – and why is it needed? More than 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, are living below the breadline, with more than half trapped in poverty for years, according to a new measure aimed at providing the most sophisticated analysis yet of material disadvantage in the UK.

Source: New study finds 4.5 million UK children living in poverty

Johnston knows Trump very well as a reporter. So his views carry a lot of weight. But it should be clear at this point to everyone who has followed Russiagate closely. The evidence is overwhelming that Donald Trump is controlled by Putin. That makes him worst traitor in American history. He is sabotaging America on behalf of a foreign power. And those Republicans who defend his treason are in complicity. And those Democrats who refuse to impeach are similarly betraying their country by allowing Trump to stay in power:

Let me be very clear and quotable about this. At an absolute minimum, Donald Trump has divided loyalties, and the evidence we already have suggests that Donald Trump is a traitor. In fact, I would say that the evidence we already have, the public materials such as emails for example, strongly indicate that Donald Trump is a traitor. However, I don’t even think he understands what he’s done.

Syracuse University has suspended their Theta Tau chapter after becoming aware of a graphic recording where members pretend to ejaculate onto another member on his knees while he discusses hating black people, Latinos and Jews. Syracuse.com initially reported on the suspension of the school’s chapter of the engineering fraternity, but SU’s student newspaper, The Daily Orange posted the video which purports to show the “history” of a rival frat. “I solemnly swear to always have hatred…

Source: Syracuse suspends frat after shocking video shows members pledging ‘hatred in their hearts’ for ‘n*ggers’ and ‘k*kes’