Solly Mack
Solly Mack's JournalFrom February 7, 2022: Trump Presidential Records at Mar a Lago.
“The Presidential Records Act mandates that all Presidential records must be properly preserved by each Administration so that a complete set of Presidential records is transferred to the National Archives at the end of the Administration,” Archivist David S. Ferriero said in the statement, adding that the National Archives “pursues the return of records whenever we learn that records have been improperly removed or have not been appropriately transferred to official accounts.”
The records agency said it believes Trump still has more records that need to be turned over and that "Trump’s representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives."
The agency revealed last week that Trump had torn up numerous documents when he was president that were supposed to have been preserved.
February 9, 2022
The referral from the National Archives came amid recent revelations that officials recovered 15 boxes of materials from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida that were not handed back in to the government as they should have been, and that Trump had turned over other White House records that had been torn up. Archives officials suspected Trump had possibly violated laws concerning the handling of government documents — including those that might be considered classified — and reached out to the Justice Department, the people familiar with the matter said.
February 10, 2022
The National Archives and Records Administration is being pushed to investigate whether Trump improperly took classified information with him when he moved out of the White House on Jan. 20, 2021. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has requested information related to the probe.
February 12, 2022
“Former President Trump’s representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives,” the Archives said in a statement.
February 18, 2022
The disclosure is expected to escalate an investigation by the House oversight committee into whether Trump violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978 by removing and destroying White House documents.
In a letter to the committee, David Ferriero, of the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara), said it had “identified items marked as classified national security information in the boxes”.
“Because Nara identified classified information in the boxes,” he wrote, “Nara staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.”
The agency "has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes" that Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Fla., the National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter to Rep, Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
Then: August 8, 2022
FBI executes search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago in document investigation
Obviously, Trump did not turn over everything and the stalling was no longer tolerable. Hence, the search warrant being served and executed.
Abortion Funds: Donate/Volunteer/Hosts/Drivers. Links.
By State. An alphabetical list of Abortion Funds in each state that has one. You can donate to help women get the healthcare they need.By Region, nationwide, and Indigenous. Also by State.
Donate.
Call them.
Volunteer to be drivers and hosts. Drivers can travel the entire distance or switch off with other drivers. Hosts open up their homes to women who are traveling for healthcare, sometimes with their kids.
This isn't the first (or second, third, fourth, etc.) time I've posted this type of information. Fortunately, Esquire and GQ have made a fuller list of resources to share.
There are already networks within America to help women get needed healthcare. Have been for years.
Be a part of the solution.
Yes, voting for pro-choice (pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-civil rights, etc.) candidates is a must. But there are additional things people can do to help.
Help prevent a woman's death - Donate. Volunteer.
I do.
Thank you,
Solly Mack
The thing is, those differences mean, and have always meant, equality versus inequality. Freedom for
some but not for others. Constitutional rights for some but not for others. Privilege for some and restrictions for others. Advantages for some and disadvantages for others. Opportunities for some and roadblocks for others.
Those differences have meant the difference between life and death for the entirety of America's history.
Those differences matter.
Those differences spark conflict because they should spark conflict. Because no nation that prides itself on the slogan "beacon of light" unto the world should ever tolerate inequality or discrimination on any level. You don't get to claim with your mouth what your laws and practices don't reflect without sparking conflict.
You don't get to claim the aspiration while working to undermine it all at the same time.
Changes to the power dynamics, to the social paradigm, bring hope to those who have been denied the experience of full citizenship - and full citizenship includes feeling safe in your rights - merely pointed to a law on the books doesn't mean a person gets to experience the full meaning of the rights on those books. (You can vote - but pass this test first - or you have to travel 25 miles to the nearest poll, or you must jump through this hoop or that hoop. You can marry - but you can't marry here, or plan your wedding here, or buy your cake here. You can buy a house, but you can't live in this neighborhood. You can work, but you can't get a living wage, or a safe work environment. You can have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - but only if you look like us and think like us.)
Change also means the dominant cultural must stop manufacturing reasons for why they should be dominant to others. They must stop trying to oppress others in order to remain the dominant power. You're not losing any rights or being penalized. You're just no longer allowed to penalize others for not being you. No longer allowed to discriminate. You must accept that all Americans have the right and privileges of full citizenship - instead of chipping away at those rights.
We can't set aside a difference that means someone else will lose out on their rights. We have no right to bargain away the rights of others - and that's exactly what the Conservatives want. They don't want compromise - they want capitulation. They will only accept change that looks like change but still gives them the advantage - no real change at all. They see a gain by those not them as a loss to them - when it isn't.
That's a mighty significant difference.
You can't come to the table with those who only seek an advantage and expect to find common ground.
Someone intent on denying you your humanity will never agree that we share a common humanity.
We will never be treated as Americans by those who see us everything but American.
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