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This really could be “The American Experiment is not Going Well (Part 6) Part 2” but let’s call it Part 7. This was quite a week. SCOTUS started of with a doozy, that gratuities (bribery) for public officials after the fact are legal. The courts and local governments are
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I didn’t watch the debate. I can’t tolerate watching TFG and hearing his whiny voice. From what I gather it went as expected, although it sounds like Sleepy Joe was real sleepy. Trump spouted one lie after another but was more energetic. His base will be happy. Personally,
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It will soon be time for this country to finally decide to end Trump or not. I know what way I want this to go, but if the US decides to bring back a tin pot dictator who’s incompetence knows no rival, who will loot the treasury and destroy
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Such an anachronism. So many of the people in this country are tuned into Fox “News” and other misinformation and conspiracy theory promoting outlets that fooling is happening daily, to millions of people. May you live in interesting times indeed.
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I admit to double taking on this one. Pausing when reading and thinking “that can’t be true”, but after doing the research realizing that yes, this is true. HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses Yes, Houston’s largest school district is getting rid
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After reading summaries the indictment is a pretty open and shut case and probably the worst handling of secret information in all of history. There was an opportunity for the GOP candidates to unify and commit to the rule of law and by doing so jettison him but the party
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The Supreme Court is quite something. Thomas has been on the take from his billionaire friend for years. Gorsuch sold property to the CEO of a law firm arguing cases before of the court. Let’s also not forget that Scalia who died in 2016 did so at a luxury
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It’s very encouraging to see action from Merrick Garland these last few days. First, not Trump, but the Breonna Taylor case where finally Federal charges were brought by the DOJ against the officers. The officers who used false claims to justify the no-knock warrant that led to them killing
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In the short few months I put my thoughts down in part 4 the Supreme Court has stepped forward as an activist and hard right court with no respect for precedent. It goes far beyond precedent though, with the court inventing things like the “major questions doctrine” and out lying
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The GOP has been fighting to control the Supreme Court for decades. Mitch McConnell’s shameless power plays to install Kavanaugh and Barrett were just the latest machinations to co-opt the court. When you consider the gutting of voting rights, the recent shadow docket rulings, and process Thomas’s silence
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In this post back in September 2021 I predicted that you get to 1M deaths in time for the midterms, and the GOP would make it a political cudgel. I got the math right. According to this site we’re over 1M as of today. Daily deaths are declining but
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More an more information is spilling out on TFG’s failed coup attempt on Jan 6th. The latest being a PowerPoint plan for the coup, that was shared with as yet unknown GOP senators. While all of this is going down the media has been covering the level of threats