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"Cheney is staunchly conservative—more so even than her father. She could even have been described as 'doctrinaire,' at least until the doctrine of the Republican party became explicitly and aggressively undemocratic." Good piece from the archives: https://www.thebulwark.com/liz-cheney-for-president/
Liz Cheney Should Run for President

It’s the logical next step, and the right thing to do.

The Bulwark
RT @DarickR
“Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), who claimed last week that “we have no idea what is in Covid vaccines” (the full list of ingredients for each type has been publicly available for years)” https://open.substack.com/pub/presspass/p/the-house-covid-subcommittee-has?utm_source=direct&r=ceaoz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The House COVID subcommittee has anti-vaxxers and some of the insurance industry's top allies

Some subcommittee members receive big checks from the nation’s biggest health insurers.

Bulwark+

The Speaker’s fight is the debt ceiling fight is the budget fight is the Ukraine aid fight.

Meaning: 1/2 of the fed legislature will be mostly non-functional for the next two years.

And that’s why the Speaker stuff is so important—it's the template.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/the-mccarthy-speakership-fight-is?r=9qmvz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The McCarthy Speakership Fight Is Only a Preview

The chaos conference.

Bulwark+

The NFL said Thursday it will not resume the Bills-Bengals game that was suspended Monday night after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest on the field.

https://www.chron.com/sports/article/AP-sources-NFL-will-not-resume-Bills-Bengals-game-17698483.php

#sports #news #damarhamlin #hamlin #bills #bengals

NFL: Bills-Bengals won't resume; playoff scenarios revealed

Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians are calling “remarkable improvement over the...

Associated Press
What's missing is any explanation of how the deals being made on Capitol Hill benefit any non-members of Congress (constituents).

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When an oligarch says "free speech," he means "my power to shut you up." When an oligarch says "free speech absolutism," he means "my absolute power to shut you up."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1604942176177233922

Timothy Snyder on Twitter

“When an oligarch says "free speech," he means "my power to shut you up." When an oligarch says "free speech absolutism," he means "my absolute power to shut you up."”

Twitter

I made this chart in April.

In my opinion, the greatest challenge to civilization right now is not global warming, hunger or oppression, it’s psychopathic billionaires and chaos agents openly working to destroy society for their own power and profit.

This is an aggressive metastasis deep within the body politic wrapping its tentacles around our organs and strangling us from the inside.

We can’t really solve anything until we solve this. ⬇️
Fascism does not stop on its own. It must be defeated.

#SpaceKaren yelling at a supermarket employee who doxxed his location in aisle 14.
I'm in my favourite country in the world right now. This place is a beautiful example of free speech, the US should try to copy them. Here in Qatar they actually kill journalists. I'm jealous.
#journalists #twitter #elonmusk