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Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."

When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.

"Ahhhh, he got me again!"

And that problem's downstream from letting college become insanely expensive. Can't justify a life of debt if the degree doesn't deliver a better job.

Oh fiddlesticks

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Trump's people just reenacting the Comfortably Numb scene from The Wall. Shooting him up with stimulants and sending him out to give a racist rant.

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:

Great piece and very heartening. Speaking as someone who desperately wants UBI to work and only worries about all the landlords raising rents in response. Maybe I'm not optimistic enough.

17 Key Variables That Determine UBI’s Inflationary Impact Will universal basic income cause inflation? Will the prices of everything rise? I get asked that all the time. Here's the deal about UBI and inflation: it all depends. Can UBI be inflationary? Sure,...

Great recent article on the variables involved by @scottsantens.com
www.scottsantens.com/17-key-varia....

Accountability, Justice, and Narrative Why Trump Officials Can’t be Allowed to Get Away with it a Second Time

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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Accusing Jordan Silverman A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

Re-upping this piece once more because it was a long time in the making. But also because after he was wrongly accused by media outlets, law firms, and politicians, Silverman deserves to have as many people read about his vindication as possible.

Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Remarkable, and fortunate, that these morons fail to understand the the strategy of fascists as they embrace the ideology. No attempt to actually capture society and infiltrate non-state institutions.

Certain we already live in a fascist state and the gestapo are coming any day now but also has a lawyer on standby because surely the law will protect him when they come.

Who Went Nazi? The More Things Change…

It's remarkable how disturbingly well it lines up.

I'm deeply depressed that I thought this was plausible for the first couple sentences. I'm also deeply embarrassed that I knew what this was referencing by the second paragraph. I need to log off for a while.

- Oh no, a shark attack

-That's definitely a shark but it isn't attacking yet, so we should remain calm and get everyone out of the water

- So you think sharks don't exist, is that it?

"C'mon Trump. Bet you can't issue an executive order that I can't find a way to justify"

- Roberts

Absolutely. First time hearing your character's voice coming from somewhere else after the consciousness "transfer" is truly disturbing

It's not the one where he gets super smart. I think it's later in the series and involves Barclay seeing worn-creatures while he's in the teleporter

Great game!

And isn't there a Barclay episode where he's afraid of the teleporter and he's depicted as fully conscious during the process? That would suggest the latter interpretation.