Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others built their public lives, political authority, leisure, and claims to leadership on the forced labor of people they enslaved. Their version of republican virtue did not restrain that exploitation. It made it compatible with greatness.....
That image is not incidental. It is the argument.
This video traces the rot in American political culture back to the founders’ own version of virtue — not virtue as accountability, but virtue as a language that explained and authorized exploitation.
The LA Times framed its reporting on Eric Swalwell and Capitol Hill’s sordid culture of silence beneath Constantino Brumidi’s Apotheosis of Washington: George Washington ascending as a god over the very building where American political power still protects its own.
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Bioengineered chewing gum extracts significantly reduce cancer-associated oral microbes while preserving healthy bacteria, suggesting a potential new approach for head and neck cancer prevention.
To grant a fetus legal rights is to say that the state has more interest in the fetus than in the pregnant person. trib.al/3OXSP15
trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:
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The consolidation of the media has been an integral part of the war on America, on the majority of Americans, on facts, science and truth, and especially on women who are the majority in America.
Republicans keeping Rump, who is clearly not in his right mind, in office, must indicate that the alternative is exponentially worse to them.
Here is my urgent appeal to the four living former presidents:
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Here is our Statement of Medical Concerns to the U.S. Senate:
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Please help spread our additional message to Congressional leaders for immediate removal of dangers:
www.commondreams.org.
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(It is signed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, myself, Dr. James Gilligan, Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, and Dr. James Merikangas.)
As our Statement of Medical Concerns, requested by senators, is expected to be brought to the U.S. Senate floor this week, the psychiatric emergency remains unaddressed.
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There has never been any idea, right of far left progressive, that has actually ever been proved correct, survived the rigors of the scientific method, been sound, beneficial to the masses, moral, decent, civilization building.
The fortune being spent to drag around that dead carcass is obscene.
That was from the National Organization for Women (NOW) on Facebook page
In reaction to the CNN report on the "online rape academy" that gets 62 million visits per month, women are sharing the full names and last known locations of men who raped them.
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--well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet, it was interpreted as if I were attempting to engage in a renewed debate with the President—something that is not in my interest at all.”
...Much of what has been written since then is nothing more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. An example is the important address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on April 16. That speech had been prepared two weeks earlier—
Fr. James Martin, SJ (FB)
Pope Leo XIV during a mid-air press conference en route to Angola: “A certain narrative has taken hold—one that is not entirely accurate—due to the political situation that arose when, on the 1st day of the trip, the Pres of the U S made certain statements regarding me….
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And we can't get a refund for this quackery.
This is so important to understand.
