On the new dark age of censorship: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-new-dark-age-of-censorship
Earlier: The GOP-controlled #Texas Lege passed a biennial state budget that will effectively halve the amount dedicated to its multi-billion-dollar #border security operations—from a proposed $6.5B down to about $3.4B. Still, that remains 4 times higher than the $800M that Texas budgeted prior to Operation Lone Star. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-quietly-downsizes-border-security-spending/
Are we sleepwalking into a war against Iran?
Maybe people have forgotten in the lead up to the disasterous war in Iraq it was widely recognized the war with Iran would be catastrophic. Iran is huge, 3x the size of Iraq. They have 1 million soldiers and much more heavily armed with relatively modern weapons. Also, there will be no coalition of the willing when it comes to Iran. It will be the US and Israel going it alone.
Keep 'em coming
Via NYT:
Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher — a prominent law firm that cut a deal with #Trump to avoid a potentially punishing executive order — announced that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Trump’s orders in court.
I just watched Alex Padilla get thrown to the floor and cuffed after trying to ask Noam a question at a presser.
The Senate is meant to be only second to the House of Representatives in power in our system of Democracy. They are fewer, older, and meant to be the wise body of the government, serving longer than presidents, and running less often than reps.
If you're waiting for the sign that things have gone too far, it's passing you by.
America is neither safe nor free.