This attitude separates us from each other and denies our common humanity. It is the abrupt authoritarian rant wasting lives and resources that crippled US–AID. ❤️‍🩹

❤️‍🩹 This attitude & the latitude it provided authoritarian governance was behind the fiscally prudent and humanitarian aid provided by US–AID. Congressional oversight was silent as people died; federal resources lost.
Ending our human-need agency in such a wasteful and chaotic manner was a crime.

What was true of the rich young ruler is true of our current moment: Apartheid theology works to ensure the barns of the rich remain overflowing as our neighbors go hungry, writes Adam Joyce.
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They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen.
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Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s. Well-intentioned Democrats have attempted to shut down these clinics by going after them for false advertising.

But this method is poised to backfire spectacularly.

Too much corporate effort is directed towards buying up competitors, or protecting legacy processes and products….

“The solution is not anti-business rhetoric but pro-competition policy.”

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😎 We need real Congressional oversight to reel in the lies, misinformation, grift and extortion.
Plus there is no way our founders thought it was ok for the chief executive to act in this present authoritarian manner or beyond an effective check on these illegal and improper acts.

Wholey Moley ! Southern Crossroads American roots music Wednesday 1000-to-Noon on the lively Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org if in a Pleasant Prairie. Zak gives us a new insight into the music that we know as the Blues.

With our cut backs in science and forecasting we seem to be going the other direction.

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Too much corporate effort is directed towards buying up competitors, or protecting legacy processes and products….

“The solution is not anti-business rhetoric but pro-competition policy.”

www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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“Border Patrol agents, along with other federal agents, conducted a military-style immigration raid of an apartment complex in Chicago. Video showed agents indiscriminately bursting through doors. ‘All the evidence suggests egregious violations of rights…’”

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Fighting corruption is not some wonky distraction from defending democracy; it's a core part of it. ICYMI @davidsirota.com:

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

Michael Mann & Peter Hotez have faced threats for confronting disinfo– and they’re fighting back

“We choose to do battle against the forces of darkness, fighting back against a malevolent movement...that uses antiscientific disinformation as its preferred weapon.”

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🚨 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said on Saturday that the Trump administration plans to deploy 300 National Guard troops to Chicago over his objections, calling the move “outrageous and un-American.”

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