Steven BeschlossKindness matters.
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Joanne FreemanWords matter.
In the pre-Civil War Congress, people called dangerous words “missiles.”
North and South, they pleaded with each other not to throw missiles before a national audience in Congress.
Words enrage, motivate, intimidate.
They matter.
ESPECIALLY spoken by people with power.
Don’t dismiss verbal attacks on Black, gay, trans, Jewish or ANY people as mere rhetoric.
They’re invitations.
We see this almost every day.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.
Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
Brendan FischerIn Citizens United, the conservative justices asserted that political money can only be regulated to prevent corruption, and that "Ingratiation and access...are not corruption."
Some have speculated that the justices were naive and didn't get how politics really works.
But this story suggests the opposite: that some justices are politicians in robes who are perfectly comfortable with a system wherein the wealthy and well-connected can buy both access and influence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/us/supreme-court-leak-abortion-roe-wade.html
Benjamin WittesOk, from now on, I’m here—except when I need to use Twitter for some reason or other (Spaces, SMO promotion, etc.)
These will cross-post to Twitter, but I’m going work principally out of here and Substack. Greetings, all.
These will cross-post to Twitter, but I’m going work principally out of here and Substack. Greetings, all.
I just realized that I have not yet received a “we’re not a democracy” message on #mastodon yet.
Of course, now I’ve jinxed it.
But for the record, our Constitution created a democratic republic. Our government is SUPPOSED to be democratic. Whether (anti-democratic) folks like it or not.
Supreme Court leaks.
They have a history.
Sigh.
Given the hard evidence that Justice Alito leaked the Hobby Lobby decision to his friends before it’s publication, how do we know the Hobbs decision wasn’t also deliberately leaked?
GOP now controls the House. Where is their investigation?
Wendy SiegelmanGarland names special counsel for Trump Mar-a-Lago, 2020 election probes
Jack Smith, currently a war crimes prosecutor at The Hague, tapped to handle politically sensitive Trump cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/18/justice-trump-garland-special-counsel/