The President's powers come from the Constitution and Congress. There's no third source.

If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

📌 Kudos Rachel Maddow for

breaking this down for us 🐥

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

#Bluefield #urbanphotography

#35mm #blackandwhite #redfilter urban industrial

#35mm #analog harbor-red