Consider mostly disrespectful, showing contempt? absurd picks for many cabinets & heads of agencies ( Read more... )

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Bluntly said, easy-to-understand. Read them through

These 101 acts (not all actuallly materially benefiting himself as he sees it) Trump did. All did and many still are doing immense harm. Read them all. @RBReich.

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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... )

Heather Cox Richardson: excellent summary of the 4 point indictment of Trump by a grand jury in DC yesterday; she goes beyond that to point out the crucial importance of holding someone accountable who tried to and continues to try to destroy the basic institutions of democracy and rule of law.

I include a URL to a video she did yesterday where she ( Read more... )

I talk about the people who don't get much attention but are in large numbers responsible for allowing Trump and his GOP to get as far as they have:


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Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American. 10/24/2022 wo armed people dressed in tactical gear stationed themselves by a ballet drop box in Mesa, Arizona; left when law enforcement officers arrived: 2 people said the armed men filmed them; one said he or she was accused of "being a mule" (there to stuff fake ballots in the box). How this was ( Read more... )

The ninth hearing of the Jan 6th commission showed in stark reality that for 187 minutes of violent mob attack on the capitol Trump refused to do anything to stop them; quite the contrary, he wrote 2 or 3 tweets which added gasoline to the fire: egging them on to find and punish (hang) Mike Pence; telling them they were doing the right thing were ( Read more... )

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