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Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦🗽

Let me ask it this way: if Red Don isn't a #Russian agent, why is he trying so hard to destroy the #Constitution and our #democratic institutions? He's done more damage to this country in 2 months than the #Soviets managed to accomplish in the entire #ColdWar.

He's #Putin's wet dream, his bitch, his stooge. With all the evidence of coordination with #Russia from his first campaign and term, the conclusion seems obvious: #President Fragile Ego Tinyhands is Putin's puppet.

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Nonilex

But we don’t live there anymore. We live in a country where the fed govt allies itself w/Russian & South American #dictators while taking sides against #democratic #allies. A country that threatens its neighbors w/annexation. A country that views the #GenevaConventions as namby-pamby suggestions that only apply to suckers & losers. A country that uses #SecretPolice.

And perhaps most importantly, a country where the regime no longer abides by rulings from the existing #legal system.

#law#Trump
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

"…clear indication that leaders from disparate factions of #Democratic party are increasingly willing to put aside ideological differences in favor of a more … confrontational approach to the second #Trump administration. And it’s a sign that Democratic #voters will perhaps be less driven this midterm cycle by the ideological purity tests that have gripped the party in the past, looking instead for leaders who they view as fighting against Trump."

Screw #virtueSignaling

thebulwark.com/p/some-weird-al

The Bulwark · Some Weird Alliances Are Breaking Out Among DemocratsBy Lauren Egan
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal

The resistance needs a morale boost. But its importance goes beyond that
publicnotice.co/p/crawford-sch

" #ElonMusk, has poured money into the #election...

As #Musk rampages through the federal govt & #Trump attempts to terrorize his opponents into silence... the public, the #media, the #GOP, & the #Democratic Party itself all need to be forcefully reminded that Trump is vulnerable, widely disliked, & can be defeated"

Headline and photo with caption. Headline: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal The resistance needs a morale boost. But its importance goes beyond that. by Aaron Rupar and Noah Berlatsky Mar 25, 2025 Photo: A woman in a blue jacket talks into a microphone in front of a bunch of signs that read, "Susan Crawford for Justice" Caption: Susan Crawford, a Dane County circuit court judge and the liberal candidate for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, campaigns on Sunday. (Scott Olson/Getty)
#USPol#Wisconsin#News
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Terry Hunter☑️🌈⭐✌🏼✌🏿✌🏻✌🏽

#DEMOCRATIC #SENATORS have got to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk!

#CONGRESSIONAL #DEMOCRATS must #SUBPOENAELONMUSK!

#DEMS must hold their own public probes of #ElonMusk #Musk #DOGE in front of cameras, even if the hearings are in a broom closet at the #US #Capitol!

#SheldonWhitehouse #AmyKlobuchar #DickDurbin #ChrisCoons #ChuckSchummer and #TammyDuckworth, to name a few, have been talking tough for years while slow walking #USA into #FASCISM hand in hand with #Republicans.

The #DemocraticParty had #4YEARS to #PROBE #JaredKushner and #IvankaTrump and the #2BILLION #Kushner and #Trump illegally acquired from #SaudiArabia yet they did #NOTHING!

#SENATE DEMOCRATS #FAILED to hold even #1HEARING on #DonaldTrump #Trump #CRIMES WHILE IN OFFICE!

The #FAIL of #JoeBiden and #MerrickGarland's #DOJ is matched only by the #FAILURE of #SENATEDEMOCRATS!

DEM SENATORS have proven they care more about maintaining the #StatusQuo than #Justice and #Liberty for #All.

#SUBPOENAMUSK!

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The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism

“Almost every major Trump action is intentionally #illegal. Trump is gambling that the US #democratic system is too broken to stop him. He assumes, to borrow a phrase: ‘All we’ve got to do is kick the door in and the whole edifice will come crumbling down.’ Testing hour is here.” - David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W Bush

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

In the foreground capitalized "AUTHORITARIANISM" In the background a raised fist with spikes emanating from it
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News & Opinions

The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism

“Almost every major Trump action is intentionally #illegal. Trump is gambling that the US #democratic system is too broken to stop him. He assumes, to borrow a phrase: ‘All we’ve got to do is kick the door in and the whole edifice will come crumbling down.’ Testing hour is here.” - David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W Bush

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

In the foreground capitalized "AUTHORITARIANISM" In the background a raised fist with spikes emanating from it
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Daniel Dvorkin

"Peer review is the worst method of safeguarding scientific integrity, except for all those other methods that have been tried from time to time." As Churchill might have said if he'd been a scientist rather than a politician.

From a conversation with a friend: theconversation.com/peer-revie

There are a lot of flaws in #peerreview as it's generally done now, and people working to improve it. But what's the alternative to the concept itself? We know what general public #commentary on #science looks like, and politicians shoehorning science into their #ideologies, and science for #profit without checks on validity ... they're all awful.

None of them can be completely avoided either, any more than the potent combination of authoritarianism and stupidity which is always trying to infect #democratic forms of #government. (Just to choose a random example.) And in fact there *should* be input into science from outside the field, because it doesn't exist in a vacuum any more than defense or education or business or religion or any other large-scale area of human endeavour.

But if there's a better way to keep science more or less on track, I'll be damned if I know what it is. The only people qualified to judge the work of scientists—not the big-picture priorities, and not the utility of the results, but the nitty-gritty of the work itself—are other people knowledgeable in the same line of work, and I don't see that changing. Same as any other job, really.

Like I said above, there are proposals for addressing peer review's flaws, and I'll be happy to expound on that if anyone likes.

The ConversationPeer review is meant to prevent scientific misconduct. But it has its own problemsThe peer review process is central to science – but it can be easily manipulated. Improving it is vital to uphold research integrity.
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ >>Please don't try to shift blame from #Democratic Party Leaders to the electorate who put their trust in these leaders.

#HitAndRun by @jenzi who thinks it is the #Democratic electorate's fault that they elected #Schumer so that he could do #Trump's dirty work by voting for #Republican agenda that #GOP didn't even seek his input on.

Is it also the electorate's fault that #Garland only went after foot soldiers because #Biden explicitly kneecapped him from seriously investigating Trump for J6?

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