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Democrats must not cave in to Trump | Bernie Sanders The government shutdown is not an accident. Trump’s budget would push millions into poverty and must be stopped

"Trump is a schoolyard bully. Anyone who thinks surrendering to him now will lead to better outcomes and cooperation in the future does not understand how a power-hungry demagogue operates.

Day after day he shows his contempt for the constitutional role of Congress and the courts."

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

"The present government invites a terror attack. Most of the people directing the relevant agencies are incompetent; the next layers down have been purged in culture wars; much of the remaining personnel have resigned, been fired, or are demoralized; and potential attackers have been encouraged."

Joel Pett

No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action

"The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Adam Zyglis

Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.

"To Trump, and to the media environment in which he thrives, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like."

Scott Stantis

A Year Ahead of the Midterms, Americans’ Dim Views of Both Parties Democrats’ frustration with their own party is up sharply, as many say it hasn’t pushed back hard enough against Trump and the GOP. In contrast, 40% of Republicans say they are frustrated with their p...

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

David Horsey

Libertarianism is Dead A Return to Liberal Tradition

"I was once young, stupid, and libertarian because the idea that people should be free to pursue their own ends is just a beautiful idea to me. But a funny thing happened along the way: I started finding problems with the political theories in the libertarian world."

Mike Luckovich

The ACA Has an Absolute Bombshell Hidden in It, and Dems Can Take Advantage of It We can build a system that is resilient to Trump's sabotage efforts.

"Section 1333 of the Affordable Care Act explicitly authorizes states to form Health Care Choice Compacts where qualified health plans operate across state lines. The provision became law in 2010. It took effect January 1, 2016. Zero states have used it. Not one."

Nick Anderson

Water rises and land sinks in Vietnam's Mekong Delta 'Our planet at +1.5°C' (5/6) The Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City, home to a third of Vietnam's population, face rising seas and the toll of decades of resource overuse, leaving much of the delta at ...

"Together, the delta and Ho Chi Minh City make up one third of the country's population. These river areas, which helped shape Vietnamese identity, are now under serious threat from rising sea levels linked to global warming."

www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

Kevin Kallaugher

America Killed Fishermen and Called It Counter-Narcotics Fifty-seven people are dead. The Pentagon says 'narco-terrorists'. Their families say fishermen.

"This was never about narco-terrorism. The US wants a war it doesn’t have to declare, one that bleeds quietly across borders and headlines. These strikes were tests. To see how far a superpower can push before anyone calls it what it is. And they’re not calling it anything at all."

You Are Not Supposed to Believe in Anything The New Propaganda

"Modern authoritarian propaganda can be entertaining, provocative and contradictory, designed to confuse and distract rather than convince and persuade. The idea is often not to motivate people, but to demotivate them."

Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy

"You can watch the whole thing for yourself but the bottom line is this: the wife of the US homeland security adviser apparently threatened to denaturalize someone because she didn’t like the fact he criticized her."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If only . . .

Text describing parliamentary crisis in Austria in 1933

To all my US friends, with regard to a parliament not convened.
In Austria, in 1933 the parliament became nonfunctional because all 3 presidents resigned, so for some time nobody had the authority to convene the parliament. This led to dramatic consequences.

Welcome to Your Reckoning Republicans discover—with shock!—that white supremacists were the call coming from inside the house

"The respectable conservative establishment accommodating Nazi ideology creates space for federal agencies to adopt Nazi aesthetics. The intellectual infrastructure providing cover for antisemitism enables the operational infrastructure to embrace the visual language of fascism."