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Anti-authoritarian. Anti-plutocrat. Anti-kleptocrat. Pro democracy. Pro rule of law. Pro separation of church and state. Preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution. Recommended reading list shown above.
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18.10.2025 20:06 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0This is correct.
Mitch McConnell and John Roberts are, between them, the two public officials most responsible for what has happened to democratic governance.
(Roger Ailes, Leonard Leo, Rupert Murdoch, the brothers Koch, etc on Mt. Rushmore, but not as public officials. Comey in here somewhere.)
Rule of law will not endure simply because it is good; democracy is fragile and always in a fight with its opposites. The rest of the world has much to teach Americans about all of this. If Trumpism was made, it can it be unmade. trib.al/MAxZyJC
07.08.2025 13:25 β π 90 π 23 π¬ 2 π 1Perhaps somebody will also think about asking Bill Barr a few questions one of these days...
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25.06.2025 20:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I admit to indulging in joy watching some of the worst people on Earth have nervous breakdowns over Zohran Mamdani's win in the primary. Others can barely conceal their deep Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. They dont even realize how out of touch, bigoted and silly they sound.
Alas.
Opinion | Despite my endorsement, New York City Democrats rejected a spiteful, score-settling sexual harasser who lied about Covid deaths and currently serves as Benjamin Netanyahu's defense attorney. I have never been more fearful for my party's future.
25.06.2025 17:02 β π 745 π 78 π¬ 8 π 2Opinion | Muslims are bigots because they all make baseless blanket judgments about what Jews want.
by David Frum
Mamdani blows the minds of the Dem establishment and so-called "centrists" and "never Trumpers" who thought they could hijack the Democratic Party in the name of helping to save it from Trump. Their intent: Give Americans a choice between MAGA and GOP lite. A new generation of voters say, "No."
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15.06.2025 18:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NO MORE KINGS!πΊπ²
14.06.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some good news, for a change. Wonderful NYT reporter, Emma Goldberg, pays tribute to Sam Freedman's 35 years of teaching the nonfiction book-writing seminar at Columbia that he created. Statistics? 113 book contracts, 95 published books, around 675 students. Quite a legacy...
25.05.2025 13:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A president who governs by βExecutive Ordersβ is weak, not strong.
12.05.2025 19:33 β π 13043 π 3180 π¬ 415 π 131"There's no democracy without the rule of law." @raskin.house.gov at the DC Law Day of Action Rally:
05.05.2025 13:51 β π 225 π 53 π¬ 7 π 0"...another sort of derangement [is] rooted in the way Israelβs defenders conflate all but the mildest criticism of Israel with antisemitism... too many backers of Israel canβt seem to imagine a reason besides antisemitic animus for impassioned opposition to Israelβs merciless war on Gaza."
29.04.2025 18:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
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