nostr:npub1ya6h3ytgrep2q2x94fphmfvehjjk0k46avhm7z5rckr9mmmaqamq0lcpga Thank you for this information. Yes, we all know the pro-life shtick is BS. It's important to keep exposing them for that shtick, though, it seems to me. Having lived six years in Canada as a grad student, I'll take Canadian gun laws and the Canadian culture vis-a-vis gun control in a heartbeat over American laws and culture.
nostr:npub1ecxs6u4pmtqam74y8scdfkzanuxmeqv2x74c66wws7499kpl7kcs2m8f8a Indeed. Maybe he'll get a few cents for the bottles of hair dye he may also have to pawn to pay his bills?
nostr:npub1k7vuzljzvulgpe2d5ekzht8m7w4trfhmey3tl8tudcrvl59yxunsuue93r Excellent. I do admit that I think so often of the Nazi period as I look at what's unfolding in the US right now. I think, as I read Shirer's statement, too, of Hannah Arendt's observations about the banality of evil: these folks whose mugshots we're seeing are very little and in many ways very ordinary people whose narcisstic delusions of grandeur have led them to do dangerous and harmful things.
nostr:npub1drcfyzwlfku08h973sehg27trygtdsxxkhdg5ay9crly34slxjksr9s7v5 I very much hope you're right. I think he's gotten away with doing these things for so long that it almost seems unremarkable now, though it surely should be.
nostr:npub1gxtz8dz7ujqcy9hrnyhrykk6xujgpukgccvhpea7evhev7xzpsdqnej9na A good question to ask, and, yes, I'd like to see that.
nostr:npub1j5xwn3vhyftsuc4g0js2rdvzp4hfd3ec4tvtqkpc9r3xryc50jmqfef7hw It's nice that you're confident you can see The Truth in a photo or text just with your own naked eye, and that you have no need of insightful commentators and critics like Ruth Ben-Ghiat. As for me, I long ago learned to llisten to such insightful commentators/critics to help me see more in texts that I was previously inclined to see, with my callow assumptionsn that I see it all and see it clearly. I prefer to be educated.
“'I would like to remind these people that backwardness is useless,' Francis, 86, told a group of fellow Jesuits early this month in a meeting at World Youth Day celebrations in Lisbon. 'Doing this, you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith.'”
Reminder: the right-wing bloc controlling the Supreme Court is all Catholic but Gorsuch, who was raised Catholic. Court kingmaker Leonard Leo: Catholic.
#PopeFrancis #Catholics
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"The pope lamented the 'backwardness' of some American conservatives who he said insist on a narrow, outdated and unchanging vision. They refuse, he said, to accept the full breadth of the Church’s mission and the need for changes in doctrine over time."
~ Jason Horowitz and Ruth Graham
#PopeFrancis #Catholics
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world/europe/pope-francis-american-conservatives.html
"But at least his boss is starting to pitch in: After Trump refused Giuliani’s desperate requests to pay his legal bills, Trump agreed to host a $100,000-per-plate fundraiser on September 7 for his loyal henchman."
#Trump #Giuliani #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
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"Giuliani has paid almost $90,000 for Freeman’s and Moss’s attorneys fees and owes hundreds of thousands of in assorted legal fees and fines. More costs are expected to mount as he prepares for his defense in Georgia, in a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, and in a sexual-harassment case unrelated to his work with Trump."
~ Matt Stieb
Do the crime, you do the time.
#Trump #Giuliani #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
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Oliver Laughland reports on Rachel L. Swarns' book The 272, which focuses on the 272 enslaved people the Jesuits of Maryland and D.C. sold downriver to south Louisiana to fund Georgetown University. As he notes, Swarns forces us to think about what this historical event means by focusing on the history of a single enslaved family, the Mahoneys.
#slavery #Jesuits #Georgetown #family
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/georgetown-college-slavery-272-book-rachel-swarns
"Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson was prophetic when he titled his 2018 book 'Everything Trump Touches Dies.' Little did anyone know that would apply to Trump’s advisors and attorneys, the people who usually move on to great acclaim and financial reward after serving a president, in equal measure."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-ruling-in-peter-navarros-case
nostr:npub1j5xwn3vhyftsuc4g0js2rdvzp4hfd3ec4tvtqkpc9r3xryc50jmqfef7hw What you want to call "reading a lot into a shot" may, for many of us, just be seeing what's there.
Jamison Foser comments on the stunt of former clerks of Clarence Thomas signing a letter claiming that Thomas is not corrupt:
"More than 100 former Thomas clerks, many of them currently practicing law, some of whom are frequently involved in cases before the Supreme Court, just signed onto a public relations campaign on behalf of Thomas. In itself, that could create the impression they are in 'special position to influence; Thomas."
#ClarenceThomas #corruption
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https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/clarence-thomas-is-a-man-of-deep
"And if it turns out Thomas’s wife Ginni or longtime consigliere Mark Paoletta recruited those lawyers’ support … well, that would be a tough request to turn down if you’re lawyer whose career (and, no doubt, lavish compensation) owes a great deal to your relationship with a sitting Supreme Court justice."
#ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #corruption #SupremeCourt
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Jamison Foser comments on the stunt of former clerks of Clarence Thomas signing a letter claiming that Thomas is not corrupt:
"More than 100 former Thomas clerks, many of them currently practicing law, some of whom are frequently involved in cases before the Supreme Court, just signed onto a public relations campaign on behalf of Thomas. In itself, that could create the impression they are in 'special position to influence; Thomas."
#ClarenceThomas #corruption
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https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/clarence-thomas-is-a-man-of-deep
"Why is Trump so eager to get a Biden impeachment underway? Not to retaliate against the Democrats for impeaching him. It’s mainly to have Biden impeachment stories run at the same time as Trump trial stories. That way, Trump and his Republican enablers can deflect attention from the trials and confuse the public with arguments that Biden is even more guilty of something."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-bonkers-plan-to-impeach-biden
nostr:npub1mz6wd6kruze2wlp7pnql0z496f7lxk84nfwpxczucjg93gaaxjpsul2kwq You left this comment three times in one evening on different threads here. Stop trolling my feed or I will block you.
nostr:npub1mz6wd6kruze2wlp7pnql0z496f7lxk84nfwpxczucjg93gaaxjpsul2kwq Sorry, but I have no idea what "inalieable natural tight" actually is. Scientific information over many centuries has vastly increased our understanding of the process of conception and fetal development — and the imposed-by-fiat position of certain religionists that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception does not persuade a majority of us who pay attention to what science tells us.
Also: [Republican] House speaker Cameron Sexton silenced young Black Democratic representative Justin Jones for a day and today suggested the Republicans might make the rule silencing minority members permanent."
There's a pattern here, and it's not hard to see. Republicans want to shut up Black people and those who stand with them as they address issues of discrimination or — Florida — expect our schools to teach the truth about the past.
#Tennessee #Republicans #racism #democracy
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