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I'd like to think so but I try to keep in mind that competing with Constitutional principles are powerful supremacist Christian as well as secular supremacist power systems. They don't see any value in the Enlightenment; in fact they oppose and mercilessly deride it as "woke."

Kill lists: Barack Obama’s blind spot He opposes the death penalty in the US, but issued kill orders for Muslims overseas with no trial at all.

in the power of the office, which of course is only explanation, not justification.

There is no acceptable justification. It just ought to be stopped.

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in the first case and subservience to the medieval conception of a bloodlusting Christ infecting his imagination in the second.

Obama, it must be remembered, was a Constitutional scholar whose only conceivable excuse for ordering the murder of suspects might be that he'd been swept up

We're either hypocrites or we aren't. Like whoever you please; just be consistent enough to object to the policy and expect it to stop no matter who orders the killing and no matter how much one likes a politician. It has to stop.

Trump and Hegseth can at least claim pathological amorality

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They'll defend the boat murders by pointing to the weekly Obama/Brennan meetings in which it was decided which suspects Obama would order to be killed.

Party affiliation, Brennan's frequent commentary on MS NOW and Obama's rhetorical flair are irrelevant. It doesn't matter who one "likes."

US Escalation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Live Updates As the Trump administration intervenes more directly in hemispheric affairs, CEPR will be closely following developments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean — and here in Washington.

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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

US Escalation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Live Updates As the Trump administration intervenes more directly in hemispheric affairs, CEPR will be closely following developments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean — and here in Washington.

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Posted elsewhere yesterday

If they're so effective at stopping crime, let's send them to the White House and every other public institution infested by MAGA. And while they're at the DOJ, let's have them seize the Epstein files.

Remember this problem?

YouTube video Jesse Welles “Red” | Farm Aid Mpls 9/20/25

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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean

TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting

Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?

TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person

It's not just a MAGA trick, it's common political rhetoric to refer to a mythical time when everybody was happy. There was a lot of upward mobility between 1945 and the mid-70s but many populations were left out and the trend was brief.

I read the passage. I don't know how they're reading it but maybe put down the sword.

Loomer accidentally reveals the sophisticated inner process by which she ponders which scapegoat she'll shit on this time.

The WP is following the money, not in the way Deep Throat advised in All the President's Men, but in the sense that social media and tabloids do it: by using wild content to draw audiences to their pages and selling that audience to advertisers. Today Loomer, tomorrow an alien love drama.

I think they believe that what I described is a law of nature, the natural order, and that divergence from it accounts for the world's problems. And I think they're scared, too.

I'm speculating but it wouldn't surprise me if it was deliberate and meant to put Karoline in the position of having to stand up for deportation and say that it doesn't matter whose family it is, no one is favored, which is false. If true, Melania and a lot of South Asian IT workers would be out.

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The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

I have to disagree. I respect service but I also respect the choice not to participate in state violence against your will. Voters can take into consideration the hypocrisy of a candidate who may have supported a war that they evaded, but not participating is not inherently a moral failure.

Replace Bill Maher with Colbert or Jon Stewart. 👇🏽

The more I look at that doctrine of masculinity, the more I see it's just male supremacism, the foundation of patriarchy, but unusually brazen. They believe men are rational and competent and necessarily dominant and women are emotional and inferior. Their role is to support men and their violence.

Medicare for All Backers Argue It's a Better Solution Than Whatever Trump Is Cooking Up | Common Dreams As President Donald Trump postpones unveiling his supposed plan to tackle soaring US healthcare costs—reportedly after pushback from congressional Republicans—Medicare for All advocates have renewed c...

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We Americans, Conservative and Liberal, reject reckless and inflammatory language from the people elected to serve us. We’re sick of it.

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This is what we all did to do. Shop only at locally owned stores. Google black owned shops near you.

The more I observe current far right ideology, the more I see its similarities to earlier waves of backlash against New Deal economic policies and the expansion of rights to non-whites, women, and non-heterosexuals. They believe in doomsday, not in a healthy, diverse, sustainable society or world.

Why wasn't I told the files had been released.

Democrats: Service members should not follow illegal orders.

Trump: My orders will be illegal.