Wow: “Early in the COVID-19 pandemic a blizzard of disinformation had deadly consequences. A Carnegie Mellon study analyzed more than 200 million tweets discussing COVID-19 at the height of the first lockdown. Eighty-two percent of influential users advocating for “reopening America” were bots. This was a targeted “propaganda machine,” most likely Russian, designed to intensify the worst public health crisis in a century.”
CNN Is Hosting a Town Hall for a Guy Who Tried to Get Me Killed
Donald Trump tried to end American democracy. Why is CNN throwing him a rehabilitation party?
here, via Seth Abramson: 'FFS this explains literally everything
If you give RFK Jr. the time of day after learning that he’s advised by the biggest ratf*ckers in the MAGA cult—Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone—just admit you’re a rabid Trumpist interning with a psycho psyop collab' #RFKjr#rightwing#mikeflynn#rogerstone
Excuse me, but, just fuckin’ amazing—how we’ve been played..
(W. A. Criswell, the SBC ex-president and legendary pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, one of America’s leading megachurches, approved: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person.”)
Well. Isn’t that interesting : John Roberts, later chief justice of the Supreme Court, [..] championed judicial term limits in 1983, when he was working in the Office of White House Counsel under President Ronald Reagan:
Excerpt From
Tyranny of the Minority
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
“The framers adopted life tenure” John G. Roberts, “Memorandum for Fred F. Fielding,” White House, Oct. 3, 1983.
Roberts 1983 Memo: “The framers adopted life tenure at a time when people simply did not live as long as they do now. A judge insulated from the normal currents of life for twenty-five or thirty years was a rarity then, but it is becoming commonplace today. Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence.”
Dubbed the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act,” the legislation from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) would nix the lifelong protection given to former presidents if they are convicted and sentenced for a felony that carries a year or more in prison time.
Put this on blast! [Gifted article, The Washington Post] Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been gathering data on the vulnerabilities of its Western adversaries, a classified Russian document shows. By Catherine Belton
[NYTimes]: Out of left field, Justice Gorsuch asks whether presidents can pardon themselves as a way to prevent successor administrations from prosecuting them. By Charlie Savage
“The mistake you make is in being afraid. That is the great mistake. The signs are given us for our good, not for our harm. But when you are afraid you read them wrong and make bad things where good ones were meant to be.”
“Judge Clarence Thomas, who came to prominence as a fierce black critic of racial preference programs, was admitted to Yale Law School under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class, university officials said.
What does Donald Trump have over these Republicans in Congress. Watching Senator Lankford- Oklahoma, talk about immigration to Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation -- you can sense the animal fear these people have of Trump.
What does he have over them?
December 2022: “Beijing is watching closely to see the price Russia pays, or the reward it receives, for its aggression. What is happening in Europe today can happen in Asia tomorrow,” NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg warned. “If Putin wins in Ukraine, the message to him and other authoritarian leaders will be that they can use force to get what they want. This will make the world more dangerous and us more vulnerable.”
Excerpt From
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Yaroslav Trofimov #ukraine
To be sure, that crowd outside Trump tower are Trump employees.. They are paid to be there. That is not a crowd of supporters that is a crowd of 'hollywood extras'.
