Fred Mannby

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.” - Dag Hammarskjöld

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Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

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THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Warner to Gabbard: "Not only do you think someone who divulged secrets then ran off to Russia should be celebrated, but you don't seem to understand DNI's role ... What message would it send to have a DNI celebrating the work of contractor that on their own would decide what's appropriate to leak?"

Shameful and not even slightly surprising

Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years

Donald Trump Goes On Rant About DEI In Response To DC Plane Crash The president also blamed the Biden and Obama administrations for the overnight plane crash in Washington, D.C., where there have been no reported survivors.

they are really going to blame black people for every little thing that happens aren’t they

Despite media reports, Trump has not offered federal employees a "buyout" Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration...

1. Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration has offered 2 million federal workers a "buyout" offer.

IT IS NOT TRUE

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Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director?

DUFFY: *walks away*


(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.

Trump’s Fusillade of Tyrannical Orders | Washington Monthly Donald Trump’s embrace of the unitary executive theory inches closer to the “very definition of tyranny” that James Madison warned against.

“Donald Trump’s first ten days in office amounted to a blitzkrieg against our constitutional system of checks and balances.”

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/30/t...

Rising ‘epidemic of political lying’ — Harvard Gazette Founder of PolitiFact discusses case studies from his new book that reveal how we got to where we are now.

"[I]n addition to increasing the volume of fact-checkers in underreported areas, there needs to be more conservative organizations doing their own fact-checking." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I paid to subscribe to several more independent publications today. We have to fund reporters who are willing and able to take a stand, put money behind good journalism, and ensure that there will be uncompromising reporting on culture, politics, and technology

This.👇

Rising ‘epidemic of political lying’ — Harvard Gazette Founder of PolitiFact discusses case studies from his new book that reveal how we got to where we are now.

Why do Republicans lie so much? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
sanford.duke.edu/story/electi...
www.theglobalist.com/united-state...

Per Wired, Patel helped *produce* a track from the J6 choir, who he's now claiming he's unfamiliar with. www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree?

RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained--

SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby

RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ...

SANDERS: That is a very troubling response

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

Rising ‘epidemic of political lying’ — Harvard Gazette Founder of PolitiFact discusses case studies from his new book that reveal how we got to where we are now.

“We went state by state, and we found that in half the states there are no political fact-checkers. That’s like having interstate highways where there’s no risk of getting a speeding ticket.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Election 2024: Lying in Politics [Podcast] | Sanford School of Public Policy New research into how and why politicians lie, which party does it more, and what can be done about it.

'[Newt Gingrich] changed the culture of the Republican Party and created a mentality of "anything goes." Sharp elbows came out and made the Republican politicians willing to say things that were not true because the ends justified the means. They wanted to win.' sanford.duke.edu/story/electi...

Rising ‘epidemic of political lying’ — Harvard Gazette Founder of PolitiFact discusses case studies from his new book that reveal how we got to where we are now.

“They make a calculation — am I going to gain more from making this statement that is false than I’m going to lose. It’s that simple.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Decision 2024: Why Does Trump Get Away With So Many Lies? - The Globalist What does it say about the state of civics in the United States if a former U.S. President, and possible future one, has no compunction to lie ever more grotesquely?

"The 45th President of the United States offers up his inflammatory rhetoric for the sole purpose of arousing negative feelings among voters in the lower half of the U.S. income distribution in order to tie them to his political ship." www.theglobalist.com/united-state...

Fox goes to Greenland and learns they’re just not that into us: “Most of the people we spoke with did not support Trump’s comments and found them offensive.”

Vice Is a Moat If Pete Hegseth is confirmed, it won’t be in spite of his personal failings. It’ll be because of them.

"Looking at this, you’re probably asking yourself, “How is this guy getting a confirmation hearing at all? Especially with his personal vices?” But that’s the key. Hegseth isn’t getting a hearing in spite of his vices. He’s getting this hearing because of them."

www.thebulwark.com/p/vice-is-a-...