This essay by Laurence Tribe, based partly on three new books, but also on a lifetime of studying law and being a judge at times too, shows the reader that the supreme court has usually functioned as an autocratic anti-democratic institution, among whose unchecked are the right to choose what cases they will hear (and choose, as they did lately, no ( Read more... )

I must honor him. Amy Goodman has been piling up material for the last three days. The New York Times obituary by Peter Keepnews is very good It's hard to peel photos off the Internet nowadays as most are protected as Webfiles, so I haven't got the best -- only what's popularly distributed ( Read more... )

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It speaks for itself:

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For a transcript:

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/6/putin_ukraine_christmas_ceasefire

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To which I add HCR's explanatory truthful assessment of the origins and aims of the far right extremists who are ( Read more... )

Dear Friends and readers.
What needs to be done is first thing to say. Break the filibuster, pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and stop all these measures intended to make it hard to vote.  Then get after the FFC and refuse to give licenses to news shows which are propaganda and repeats these lies that we do not have a legitimate gov't.  ( Read more... )

In spirit of my previous blogs, here is something I fear my readers might overlook, only it's a movie instead of an essay.


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It just distresses and upsets me to the point I can't sleep when Trump is allowed to say outrageous nonsense and then is obeyed supposedly based on this.
I turned on PBS and, before I could shut it off, I hear him (Judy Woodruff betrayed her viewership last night and had him on however briefly three times) say the Chinese, UN, and WHO are all ( Read more... )

The FEC. If you were wondering why the FEC does nothing when Trump blasts his evil campaign from the white house, why nothing is done about corrupt bribery, about the open judgement the Russians interfered in 2016 and are doing so again today, you should know that under him, they have no quorum and so cannot process any complaints. They have 350 ( Read more... )

As I write this blog I am saddened because starting next week, I will be gradually changing my way of paying my bills from mailing out checks to automatic online payment. I deeply regret this but Trump's patsy destroyer, Louis DeJoy, whose qualification is he is a major donor to Trump's campaigns, put at the head of the post office is now wreaking ( Read more... )

He is also speaking to us today:

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The US federal gov't has now turned life in the US for a vast vast number of people into a nightmare that is real. We are in the US up to 150,000 deaths in four months. Congress went home without passing a relief bill at all, Trump shrugged his shoulders. After trying out postponing the coming election (but he's ( Read more... )