"The lesson of Iraq is that it can happen here. We are not immune: The entire nation can lose touch with reality. We saw all this happen with our own eyes. Let’s face it now: We all knew it was a lie. Some people just wanted to believe it or cynically didn’t care. We went to war and killed hundreds of thousands for something that was just not real. If the jingoism, militarism, and bureaucratic machinery of the Bush era somehow fuses with the rowdy, populist hate-mongering of Trumpism, then the question of fascism will be settled: we will unambiguously have it."

https://johnganz.substack.com/p/how-start

RT @[email protected]

“[T]he best way to deradicalize the GOP isn't indirectly by softening up its voters with better industrial policy; it's directly, by making the party's extremism and corruption a first order liability for all of its candidates” https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=826c4daecf

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HalMarshall2309/status/1620198173531668483

The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death

Like most flavors of police reform, these measures presume that the police officers who kill do so only because they simply don't know what else to do, because they haven't been trained to do anything else. It presumes that they won't use a chokehold if they are told to not use chokeholds. It presumes that if we just tell police officers "Hey, stop murdering people who are no kind of actual threat to you," they will stop doing that. It assumes a certain amount of good faith that is not necessarily applicable to the kinds of police officers who kill people. https://www.wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-police-reform

I hope there's a whistleblower at the New York Times and/or FBI who will reveal the source or sources who got the Paper of Record to help Trump win the presidency and derail the Clinton campaign.

Read this by @willbunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

and this by Timothy Snyder

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-specter-of-2016

The metastasizing FBI scandal has many facets, but unraveling the Times' role is crucial for journalism -- and the paper has stonewalled relentlessly since 2016.

Part of what makes police brutality and racism so terrible is that, unlike other risks, it can't be escaped.

I can choose a safe car to guard against crashes. I can exercise for heart health.

But there is nothing I can do to guard against racist, violent cops. Even being an attorney who is wearing a suit doesn't help, as I've been racially profiled on my way to court, and physically grabbed by courthouse security on multiple occasions.

#BLM #GeorgeFloyd #TyreNichols #Racism #PoliceBrutality

Filed Under "This is Such a Sad, Sad Story aka WTF kind of headline is this Business Insider?

Goldman Sachs cut CEO David Solomon's pay by 30% in 2022. He made only $25 million.

https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-ceo-solomon-makes-25-million-after-pay-cut-2023-1