After the 2020 election all these restrictions started being passed by the mostly Republican legislatures. What has happened in the last few years? Haven’t they been challenged in courts and found to be a violation of free speech? All these ‘agenda’ laws got passed and analysis shows that they don’t meet the criteria of serving
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My interpretation of his discussion is that Trump and the rest of the Republican party who have supported him have ripped apart the fabric of American Democracy and it will never be repaired. This 12 minute interview by Judy Woodruff is to me an exceedingly important assessment of the horrible state of American democracy –
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The climate science deniers use the open records laws and FOIA requests to generate misinformation and corrupt the findings of the scientists and researchers. Quote: “”Bad-faith open records requests damage science in many ways, from discouraging frank conversations to providing opportunities for hostile actors to misconstrue phrases, including scientific jargon, and use these to mislead
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Quotes: “” James Hansen & The Sounds Of Silence Hansen’s words fell on deaf ears. His warnings spawned a movement populated by opportunists, know-nothings, charlatans, and committed climate deniers like that consummate jackass James Inhofe, a senator who once brought a snowball into the well of the Senate to “prove” that climate change was a
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Robert Reich explains why Trump is more than an authoritarian; he’s a fascist. Short YouTube video
Article in NPR focuses on Trump’s use of lies, history, persecution by the press, fascism. Quote: “” “The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be
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Sen. Whitehouse lectures about how bad it’s going to get.
This scenario is hard to grasp and understand: the plans Trump had to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, if they had succeeded, would have caused nationwide protests for ignoring the will of the people, and resulted in another massacre much, much worse than the Kent State Massacre of 1970. It would have been a coup
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BTC recaps Trump’s violation of the judge’s pretrial orders. 8 min video, some of Glen Kirschner’s information. 😡👍👍
Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,
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