“… Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in bright midafternoon light, where politicians fall back on familiarities & make faint offers to authoritarians & say a firm & final no—and then wake up a few days later & say, Well, maybe this time, it might all work out, and look at the other side! …”
A new book on Hitler’s rise to power examines how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
The NY state apple harvest season is in full gear. Workers are out in the apple orchards on a daily basis climbing up and down ladders to fill these huge bins so we can enjoy this sweet fruit. #WeFeedYou
Reminder: the former president is a traitor
"To say that such men hate women would almost be an understatement: they don’t think about women enough to hate us. To them, we are little more than props in their quest for petty little gratifications – nothing more than tools they can use to sate their egos and get what they want..."
I wrote about a new Senate report into the FBI’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, and how the Trump White House worked to cover up sexual assault so that they could help ban abortion. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The bureau shamefully allowed itself to be used as a prop in political theater, orchestrated by the Trump administration
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Heading into the weekend with 🥃 shots 🥃! Not that kind of shots. But maybe that kind of shots later? 😂
EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer The decision comes after our investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptable.
The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptabl...
I hope that I am lucky to have and to be this kind of friend!
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