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Part of the reason I remain optimistic is that overreach is a major accelerator in radicalization for people who would otherwise tune out. The Boston Massacre happened six years before the colonies would call for Revolution. Bleeding Kansas preceded the Civil War. People react when threatened.

I call this the Confederacy Paradox. They separated from the Union explicitly to avoid the abolition of slavery, something that wasn’t even on the table! But by leaving the Union, they ensured a political backlash against slavery that would aim to dismantle it as the core of the rebellion.

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Don Moynihan

Here is a gift link to the article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If Trump Winswww.nytimes.com Donald Trump and his closest allies are planning a radical reshaping of American government. Here are some of the policy stakes if he regains power in 2025.

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Reposting every day until he's gone. presswatchers.org/2024/06/will...

Will Lewis must go. The Washington Post publisher’s actions cast doubt on his newsroom’s credibility. | Press Watchpresswatchers.org Publishers are not supposed to interfere with their newsrooms’ coverage of issues in which they have a personal conflict of interest. Lewis crossed the line.

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i think the best way to understand the supreme court's conduct in trump v. united states is as an explicit effort to intervene in the 2024 election on behalf of the former president. it is a gross abuse of power on par with dred scott and deserves to be met with sanction from the elected branches.

My thoughts on the oral argument and what the Court is likely to do:

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a good reminder that when conservatives talk about "limited government," they do not mean that the state in all of its forms should be limited in how it touches individuals, they mean that the national state should not interfere with the overbearing and tyrannical use of local political authority

If Texas SB4 goes into effect, the Texas Dept of Public Safety now claims they'll only use it to arrest migrants they see crossing the Rio Grande and won't make arrests in the state’s interior, per a top DPS official. Of course, the law as written contains no such restrictions.

Under new immigration law, DPS plans to arrest only migrants seen crossing Rio Grandewww.dallasnews.com If the state's new immigration law goes into effect, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers would arrest only migrants seen crossing the Rio Grande – and...

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Some thoughts on the mugshot talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-m...

The Mugshot - And Trump's Long Hard Battle to Finally Get Arrestedtalkingpointsmemo.com How did we get here? How did we not get here? By...

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“This study offers strong evidence that COVID-19 is a systemic disease that affects multiple organs rather than strictly an upper respiratory illness. ‘The continued dysfunction we observed in organs other than the lungs suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction could be causing long-term damage’”

SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondria in heart, other organs, study finds https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sars-cov-2-can-damage-mitochondrion-heart-other-organs-study-finds The most important health news, in one place, at canadahealthwatch.ca

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