“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.” - Dag Hammarskjöld
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Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
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THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Warner to Gabbard: "Not only do you think someone who divulged secrets then ran off to Russia should be celebrated, but you don't seem to understand DNI's role ... What message would it send to have a DNI celebrating the work of contractor that on their own would decide what's appropriate to leak?"
Shameful and not even slightly surprising
Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years
1. Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration has offered 2 million federal workers a "buyout" offer.
IT IS NOT TRUE
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Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:
REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director?
DUFFY: *walks away*
(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
OpenAI right now
I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.
“Donald Trump’s first ten days in office amounted to a blitzkrieg against our constitutional system of checks and balances.”
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/30/t...
"[I]n addition to increasing the volume of fact-checkers in underreported areas, there needs to be more conservative organizations doing their own fact-checking." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
I paid to subscribe to several more independent publications today. We have to fund reporters who are willing and able to take a stand, put money behind good journalism, and ensure that there will be uncompromising reporting on culture, politics, and technology
Why do Republicans lie so much? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
sanford.duke.edu/story/electi...
www.theglobalist.com/united-state...
Per Wired, Patel helped *produce* a track from the J6 choir, who he's now claiming he's unfamiliar with. www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree?
RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained--
SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby
RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ...
SANDERS: That is a very troubling response
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
“We went state by state, and we found that in half the states there are no political fact-checkers. That’s like having interstate highways where there’s no risk of getting a speeding ticket.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
'[Newt Gingrich] changed the culture of the Republican Party and created a mentality of "anything goes." Sharp elbows came out and made the Republican politicians willing to say things that were not true because the ends justified the means. They wanted to win.' sanford.duke.edu/story/electi...
“They make a calculation — am I going to gain more from making this statement that is false than I’m going to lose. It’s that simple.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
"The 45th President of the United States offers up his inflammatory rhetoric for the sole purpose of arousing negative feelings among voters in the lower half of the U.S. income distribution in order to tie them to his political ship." www.theglobalist.com/united-state...
Fox goes to Greenland and learns they’re just not that into us: “Most of the people we spoke with did not support Trump’s comments and found them offensive.”
"Looking at this, you’re probably asking yourself, “How is this guy getting a confirmation hearing at all? Especially with his personal vices?” But that’s the key. Hegseth isn’t getting a hearing in spite of his vices. He’s getting this hearing because of them."
www.thebulwark.com/p/vice-is-a-...
