I’m Ashamed to be so superficial. But really, the faces, the hair?!?

Exactly. I would love just non-stop chatter about how to stop him. We can see how we got here. We can see where we are. Now we need to imagine all sorts of ways to stop him. Everyday. All the time.

This is true!

Family Xmas involved many conversations about Heated Rivalry!

He is accountable to whom? One man, I guess. Not to the voters.

Of all the day’s depressing stories this one seems to combine their idiocy, cruelty and short-sightedness.

I agree! Completely. He can be a pain to read. Then you put the book down, thinking that was some book. Just remember Hurstwood at the end of Sister Carrie.

You all need to read Fletcher Knebel’s Night of Camp David. I mean, it’s not much of a novel, but there it is, the president gone mad.

Lesson from the Somali pirates!

Just goes to show you, a man can make nice while stuffing his pockets and destroying our world.

We could try “shut up, ratty.”

I’ve read almost all the amazing books mentioned here. King Leopold’s Ghost is simply one of the very best. It changed how I saw the world.

I seem to recall that rebate checks were part of the fascist nightmare Sinclair Lewis imagined in 1935. Checks never did happen! Gotta remember.

A brilliant and wonderful friend. I love this picture of her.

But think what a boon for all the struggling real estate brokers. Deals galore! Movers and shakers.

I’m still haunted by Katznelson’s discussion in FEAR ITSELF about how the collapse of the legislative branch eased the fascist takeover in Germany and Italy. Why not the US? White racist southern senators liked their power in the senate. Not great, I know.

They might also note that a very old man seems to be in a big hurry.

The future, Mr. Jeffries. The future. He needs us all to work with him. I’m old and I’m on board.

He’s just the speaker, not the listener of the house.

I’m still haunted by Ira Katznelson’s argument that it was the hold of the legislative branch that kept the US from falling into fascism in the 1930s. True, they were a bunch of white racists, but they held the senate.

I know. This made me very mad. Among other things.

AARP exposed as Antifa cell!!!! Finally the truth comes out.

I often think about that September day, driving, listening to the report on the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan. It seemed to mark a very scary moment. This too, in its way.

Exactly. Distraction from yesterday’s obscene videos. What will tomorrow bring?

The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention | American Civil Liberties Union Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when local law enforcement arrested him. Then, ICE detained him.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was a member of the Atlanta community for more than 20 years before ICE detained him for covering a protest.

On this episode of At Liberty, we discuss what his deportation means for the state of free speech.

Could it be that he really doesn’t care? Not at all.

What an exceptional person Jason is. What it is to be human. Thank you, Jason and Karl and Marie.

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Somehow I find this more disturbing than the dozen other disturbing things of the morning. Malicious lies or memory lapse?

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig