Bill Moyers, the legendary PBS journalist and White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson, died last week at age 91. His obituaries talked about his incredible life — born to a dirt farmer in Oklahoma, ordained a Baptist minister, present on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. But Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, who knew Moyers via his work with the Center for Investigative Reporting, says there's another story to tell. "Moyers knew Trump was not an aberration, but the logical extension of a problem that went back decades," she writes. "Corruption, he wrote me, is 'a condition beyond individual scandals — more a totality of governance, a philosophy that says democracy exists for us to take what we can while we can—to hell with the law, rules, norms and the country. It’s the crime family manifesto of the mafia, affixed to the civic life and public affairs of the nation.'"

How best to honor his integrity, intelligence and commitment to truth and good journalism? "The best — and only — way to pay tribute to him is to go out and do the work," Bauerlein concludes.

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Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi told Kaja Kallas that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing

Wang Yi categorically rejected accusations of financial or military support for Russia. He noted that if China were really helping Moscow, "the war would have ended long ago."

What China said was addressed not so much towards the EU as to the United States.
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Via Rupar:

It's just a fact that if a Dem president nominated a guy with this background to be Sec Def it would be a major scandal and controversy. But because GOP immorality is completely normalized at this point I would be shocked if it makes any difference. (The article is from 2018.)

The most scary fact I have read this week:

In the 2024 US presidential election one third of US voters did not vote.

It was literally a choice between a convicted felon with a fascist agenda and a law and order candidate who wanted to defend democracy — and still, every third US voter did not care.

Apathy is the first step to ending democracy.

"The world needs Russia, and the decisions of neither Washington nor Brussels alleged bosses in charge of others can change that." - Putin

The world might need Russian oil. But no one in the world really needs an unpredictable dictatorship with nuclear weapons.
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