Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Are we witnessing the death of american democracy?
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Survey: 59% of Republicans Now Think College Is Bad for America
Republicans and right-leaning independents have turned rapidly against higher ed.
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My father is probably one of these people and blames education on my and my brother's political beliefs. Two engineering degrees and I never had a single professor mention politics. All that math and critical thinking must have made us liberal.Survey: 59% of Republicans Now Think College Is Bad for America
Republicans and right-leaning independents have turned rapidly against higher ed.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.
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Tyranny of the minority.
www.salon.com
Think Trump's Electoral College win was a fluke? Think again
Republicans likely to win 65 percent of close elections where they lose the popular vote, according to new analysis
www.salon.com
More proof that the Republicans are not playing the same game as the Democrats.
Not sure if this goes here or in the republican party thread... maybe both?
www.nytimes.com
Opinion | The Education of Fanatical Centrists (Published 2019)
Will they finally admit what the G.O.P. has become?
The LeFt IS toO ExtREmE!Not sure if this goes here or in the republican party thread... maybe both?
Opinion | The Education of Fanatical Centrists (Published 2019)
Will they finally admit what the G.O.P. has become?
Russian Secret Weapon Against U.S. 2020 Election Revealed In New Cyberwarfare Report
A terrifying new report maps out Russia's full cyberwarfare ecosystem, an attack structure designed to be “almost impossible” to defend against.
www.forbes.com
Huh....
www.salon.com
America isn't "polarized": Republicans have lost their damn minds
Mainstream media loves the "both sides" narrative. But the real problem is that the GOP has snapped the tether
www.salon.com
Do-nothing Democrats!
www.axios.com
Rep. Jeffries: 250 House-passed bills are in Mitch McConnell's "legislative graveyard"
McConnell has called himself the "grim reaper" of progressive policies.
www.axios.com
Mark Zuckerberg had a secret dinner with Trump in October, and he really doesn't want to share what they talked about
Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about his private October dinner with President Donald Trump for the first time, but he didn't share much.
www.businessinsider.com
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.
Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security
The network’s furthering of lies from foreign adversaries and flagrant disregard for the truth have gotten downright dangerous.
It's sad that this is news... the term fourth estate has been around for a long time I'd imagine. [goes to check Wikipedia - holy shit, it's been in use since 1787!] I find the WaPo's slogan captures it neatly, and is particularly sagacious: "Democracy Dies in Darkness"Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security
The network’s furthering of lies from foreign adversaries and flagrant disregard for the truth have gotten downright dangerous.www.wired.com
I find it horrifying that WaPo's story on the "Afghanistan papers" appears to be getting no traction. What should be pulitzer winning, absolute fucking bomb shell of a story will disappear just like the Panama Papers story.
Interesting times.
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A reminder that this happened:
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The rise of an American theocracy looks like it is on-track.
www.theguardian.com
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www.salon.com
'He was sent to us': at church rally, evangelicals worship God and Trump
Friday’s rally recognized Trump’s need to retain the loyalty of the evangelical voting bloc that propelled him to victory in 2016
www.theguardian.com
Opinion | Bill Barr Thinks America Is Going to Hell (Published 2019)
And he’s on a mission to use the “authority” of the executive branch to stop it.
Bill Barr, warrior for theocracy: Why didn't we know about this?
The attorney general has gradually revealed his terrifying agenda: Who knew, and why was this concealed so long?
www.salon.com
Semi-related:The rise of an American theocracy looks like it is on-track.
'He was sent to us': at church rally, evangelicals worship God and Trump
Friday’s rally recognized Trump’s need to retain the loyalty of the evangelical voting bloc that propelled him to victory in 2016
Opinion | Bill Barr Thinks America Is Going to Hell (Published 2019)
And he’s on a mission to use the “authority” of the executive branch to stop it.
Bill Barr, warrior for theocracy: Why didn't we know about this?
The attorney general has gradually revealed his terrifying agenda: Who knew, and why was this concealed so long?
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
www.theguardian.com
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died
Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.
Probable trump thread x-post, but this seems more appropriate.
www.opensecrets.org
Senators overseeing impeachment trial got campaign cash from Trump legal team members
Trump impeachment defense team members Ken Starr and Robert Ray gave large campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year.
www.opensecrets.org
They Know Trump Did It. They Just Don’t Care. | Washington Monthly
The only thing Republicans can hope for now is that the public will stop paying attention.
washingtonmonthly.com
mmmmmmmmm.......hmmmmmm.......They Know Trump Did It. They Just Don’t Care. | Washington Monthly
The only thing Republicans can hope for now is that the public will stop paying attention.
They Know Trump Did It. They Just Don’t Care. | Washington Monthly
The only thing Republicans can hope for now is that the public will stop paying attention.
Same with Republican voters. Party over country, conscious and reason.
Even for the farmers and workers that are getting screwed by him. Better to have a rich white man put his boot on your neck than to be led by brown skin or someone with boobs.
You misspelled "southern strategy".
“I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
I spent a few hours yesterday or so trying to follow the evolution of this sickness. It goes back further than I thought and never seems to go away. We deserve to become extinct.
Republicans are spreading voter fraud disinformation in an election they're not even running in.
"Stop this misinformation campaign immediately," says Iowa's secretary of state, a Republican.
www.motherjones.com
Why yes, yes it is.
www.bbc.com
Trump impeachment trial: Is US politics beyond the point of repair?
The new decade in American politics has started with a hangover that keeps on getting worse, says Nick Bryant.
www.bbc.com
time to arm ourselves?
www.rollingstone.com
DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people "indefinitely" in addition to other powers.
www.rollingstone.com
Step 1: eliminate mail in ballots during the tail end of a viral pandemic
www.businessinsider.com
The coronavirus outbreak could shut down the post office in less than 3 months, lawmakers say
Any disruption to the US Postal Service could also hamper efforts for Americans to vote by mail in the November election.
www.businessinsider.com
Step 2: Further consolidate wealth and power into the hands of fewer, who mostly already hold it
www.theguardian.com
'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich have turned pandemic into profit
As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth
www.theguardian.com
Step 2: Further consolidate wealth and power into the hands of fewer, who mostly already hold it
'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich have turned pandemic into profit
As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth
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Of our tax money.
