a- The black-run District of Columbia government has just agreed to pay $1.6 million to people who sued—backed by the ACLU—over being arrested for rioting in the January 20, 2017 riots protesting the election of Donald Trump. This is probably collusive, like "Consent Decrees" and Jacob Frey's $27 million settlement with the Floyd Family in Minneapolis. It's not Frey's money, or the District Government's, either, it's the taxpayers' money, and they want to lose these lawsuits, if it suits their political goals. NPR quotes a guy from the ACLU, cheering this on: "The contrast between the over-policing of constitutionally protected speech on Inauguration Day 2017 and the under-policing of a violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol earlier this year starkly demonstrates law enforcement's institutional biases," Scott Michelman, legal director of the D.C. ACLU, wrote in a news release. "A