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"I give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake." My favorite scene from the St. Thomas More biopic "A Man for All Seasons." Cut down due process today and you, not they, will be consumed by the coming wind of lawlessness. youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...
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"I give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake." My favorite scene from the St. Thomas More biopic "A Man for All Seasons." Cut down due process today and you, not they, will be consumed by the coming wind of lawlessness. youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...
The feds are out of control @maddow.msnbc.com @gtconway.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Brilliant job by Harvard to update its homepage today showing the breadth of good accomplished with federal research dollars. www.harvard.edu
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Woke: Going to college and maybe being a doctor or accountant or scientist or something America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch
MacCALLUM: Will American workers make shirts and garments for the same--? Obviously the labor costs are so much cheaper overseas in those places CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
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Today. Find the location nearest you and join everyone.
If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com
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The Boston #HandsOff organizers are killing it. Handsoff2025.com
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The bad news is that Chuck Schumer is not up for re-election until 2028. The good news is that he can resign right now—in fact, he should do that twice.
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This is the essence of it. You can do any and all of this stuff by passing laws. They're not because they lack the votes. So all of this is illegitimate and frankly illegal. I'll go one step further and say there should not be a senate filibuster. You should be able to do any and all of this by ...
One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/
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C.S. Lewis in @theatlantic.com in 1959 with one of my favorite essays, about the efficacy of prayer. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Now being run by RFKjr acolyte. Seem to be applying brakes hard on all cancer and other medical research.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Members of Team Trump (i.e. the NFL and Robert Kraft) are going after BlueSky. www.boston.com/sports/new-e...
Rev. Budde's call to Trump for mercy struck me as very similar to Oskar Schindler's plea to Amon Goeth to view "power" as an instrument of mercy, not abuse. The Nazi comparisons are seemingly endless--and justified--with this new administration. Hitler is the model. youtu.be/UMdsW5iAFRE?...
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She's braver than essentially the entire Democratic Party and the entire media industry
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Zuckerberg Will Host a Party for Trump’s Inauguration www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
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