A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

Mientras estoy jugando al "AC Black flag resynced", me estoy leyendo "La República de los Piratas" de Colin Woodard.

So army regulation 190-55 states clearly that no recording device may be present at an execution, and no person under age 18 may witness it. The constitution bans cruel and inhumane punishment. What Hegseth wants to do is clearly illegal. Bureau of Prisons ban public executions. 1/2

For a guy who went to Yale Law School, he sure is stupid.

Thanks for coming out for it.

Note: (a) we tore down *Confederate* monuments; (b) the history he's surpassing is that of slavery, the Klan, etc; (c) the "countries" *plural* we inherit?; (d) Ancient Greece is "our own history" in the sense that the Confederacy looked to it as the model slave state: "democracy" for elite only.

It means they want to replace liberal democracy with the Classical Republicanism of Ancient Greece and Rome: where a tiny minority has the privilege (or "liberty") to practice democracy, and subjugation and slavery are the natural lot of the many. The "monuments" referenced are Confederate ones.

they did the thing

So why Alito behaving lawlessly?

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Autumn of the Patriarch. Enhanced Sundown Edition.

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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