Leigh Avril

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
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I knew Dan Drezner when his headings were like "Sanctions work somewhat better than you think."

Decapitation Strike Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now.
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Yes, the Greenland visit looks like a setup. The vice-president goes into one of his rehearsed rages about Europeans not respecting his family or some such. Then Trump demands that the Danes apologize, show respect, etc. But no one buys it since it was all on a published Signal chat the day before…

Remember that the people on the Signal chat include the US negotiators on Ukraine. It is no wonder that Putin is twisting them around like taffy at the county fair.
#signalgate

@timothysnyder.bsky.social: Trump making ‘ethical and strategic mistake’ with Putin www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

This morning’s sunrise in RVF

Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us

YouTube video by MSNBC Rachel Maddow on Tulsi Gabbard: Six things about Trump's pick for director of national intelligence

Hello Tulsi Gabbard, how are ya.

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The vice-president a week ago.

“Obviously.”

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After Biden pardoned Jan. 6 police officers, Trump pardoned Jan. 6 criminals The new president agreed to let violent criminals back onto American streets, and then peddled discredited conspiracy theories and lies about the attack.

In a nutshell...

"Biden pardoned January 6 police officers,
Trump pardoned January 6 criminals."

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YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities

If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...

RFK Jr key adviser petitioned regulators to revoke approval of polio vaccine Aaron Siri is helping Trump’s health secretary pick to select top jobs despite long history of attacking vaccines

The global impact of Donald Trump’s insane choices of key government leadership positions to implode the U.S.’s Gold Standard of Health and Democracy.
#MadDictatorTrump
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Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines (Gift Article) Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

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Ok, this is just madness. It is sick beyond sick.
#RFKjrInsanity

'Just not qualified': Trump health leadership raises red flags Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's picks of Marty Makary as FDA commissioner, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general, and Dr. Dave Weldon for CDC director, who would work under the authority of ...

We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession.

That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.

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Like the lawyers, doctors and other medical professionals are preparing to stand up and speak truth to power. Our fellow citizens deserve no less.

Titled “VENMO TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN ALL INDIVIDUALS AS OF 09/14/20,” the document uses thumbnail photos of Mr. Gaetz, dozens of women & several other men to show how payments flowed between them. Lines w/arrows connect the men & the women, showing how much Mr. Gaetz and his associates paid the women.

Ah, the irony!

“Yesterday I visited my son's school and I saw a bright colored bench in the yard. I asked if it was new.

He said to me, ′′no, that's the ‘friend’s bench.’ When someone is down, they'll sit there so others find them."

To me, that’s how finding Bluesky feels.

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Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

The words “Info Wars” where the O is in the shape of an onion.

The Onion has bought a bankrupt Infowars with help from the Sandy Hook families. Please let this be the new logo:

Standing Tall or Wrestling in the Mud? Confronting Trumpism in modern politics

Let’s not shy away from calling Trump what he really is: emotionally, physically, and mentally weak. A professional victim who…manages to still whine and fail despite all his surface successes. He’s a man to pity, not follow, and a stain. My latest:

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Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:

Vaccines are a miracle and amazing

I know we live in a corporate Oligarchy, but I've never seen it so transparently so.