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Snyder and his lackey, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, have leaned hard into the contention that the team's problems, while once egregious, are long over.

“His refusal to testify sends a clear message that he is more concerned about protecting himself than coming clean with the American people.” As U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ruled in March 2021, Snyder’s motions in a defamation suit were really court abuses meant to “burden and harass individuals formerly associated with the Washington Football Team who may have acted as sources” for revelations. If, as Snyder has claimed in public statements, his lone failing was that he was too hands-off rather than handsy — try to contain your convulsive laughter — then why has he worked so feverishly behind the curtain to compile opposition research on the legion of accusers? Ex-cheerleaders — who he once proposed serve as quasi-escorts — report that he sent private investigators to their doorsteps as recently as the spring of last year. A Snyder spokesperson said dismissively before last month’s hearing that mistreatment of women at his franchise was “addressed years ago.” The problem with this assertion is that it’s worse than contemptuous; it’s false. This alone is evidence of unrepentant scorn for the victims and the inquiry.

While being known for his own false and misleading emails, Trump faces armies of unaffiliated fundraisers who ape his message and sometimes threaten ...

We want to play ball because we are all in the same party on the same mission,” said one Trump fundraising adviser. “It’s no surprise that every candidate in the nation is trying to tap into it.” Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. Here’s a complete calendar of all the primaries in 2022. Trump’s advisers have so far been selective in how they try to police the unauthorized use of his political brand, often reaching out privately in phone calls and text messages to candidates to tell them their behavior is not okay. “You do NOT want to disappoint Pres. Trump,” the message said, without any mention that it was from Hagerty’s campaign. Brnovich’s campaign is being led by National Public Affairs, a consulting firm founded by two veterans of Trump’s own campaign team: former Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien and former deputy campaign manager Justin Clark. Frequently, solicitations are designed to trick donors into thinking they are giving to Trump himself, a misrepresentation belied only by the fine print. The letter was one of dozens of demands that Trump’s attorneys and aides have sent in recent years. At one point, Trump told his team to slim down the emails, but he was then advised that would cost his PAC money, which he did not want, another adviser said. At the same time, Trump himself is no stranger to misleading fundraising appeals.

On the centennial of U.S. independence in 1876, a Black militia unit marched through Hamburg, S.C. A group of White men started a conflict that became a ...

A coroner’s jury in Aiken, S.C., charged 94 White men with murder in the Hamburg Massacre and other racial attacks in the state. “A volley of five or six shots was his only reply, and he fell a corpse in the road.” Finally, the Times reported, the White guards “mounted their horses and rode rapidly away, and by 3 o’clock not a sound could be heard in the village where for six hours the work of death had been going on.” “Each fugitive when found was greeted with a yell and marched to a tree, where the other prisoners had been carried,” the Times reported. He leaped over a low fence at the roadside as Phillips had done before and was shot before he had gone 5 paces.” Nelder Parker was shot in the back and died the next day. Many things were done on this terrible night which of course cannot be justified, but the negroes sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.” “The windows were aimed at and were soon riddled with bullets,” the Times reported. By dark, the militia was running short on ammunition, and many of those inside the armory began escaping. Four days later, more than 200 armed White men — many of them “Red Shirts” from paramilitary rifle clubs — arrived in Hamburg with a former Confederate general demanding that the militia unit disarm. Capt. D.L. “Dock” Adams asked the White men — Henry Getzen and his brother-in-law Thomas Butler — to go around the marchers on the 150-foot-wide grassy street. Two days after the July 4 incident, Butler’s father, a prominent local planter, filed charges in Hamburg against Adams for “obstructing the public highways.” The town’s Black magistrate, Prince Rivers, set a trial for the next Saturday, July 8. At about 6 p.m., two young White men in a horse-drawn buggy rode toward the troops and demanded to pass through.

Jack is a puppy I picked up last week, eight months after the death of my much-loved Havanese, Latte. As soon as I brought Jack home — a powder puff of black ...

It is not only the expression of the human capacity for sick cruelty; it is the violation of a trust so generously given. When I am not crying in my sleep, I now feel such gratitude for an animal willing to comfort another animal during some of the most trying days of his life. And Jack is the bouncy incarnation of innocent joy. In human relationships, the transforming presence of love is worth the inevitability of grief. In a very real sense, Latte was a better person than I am — a daily practitioner of the hardest parts of the Sermon on the Mount. She was meek, merciful (except to those godless squirrels), peaceable and pure of heart. The 18th-century evangelist John Wesley gave a sermon, “ The General Deliverance,” on the survival of animals in the afterlife — a very English line of theological argument.