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Anthony Fauci has faithfully served the American people under seven presidents of both parties. He is everything Donald Trump and his sociopathic sycophants despise: he is intelligent, educated, principled, and compassionate.
johnpavlovitz.com/2021/10/25/t

I'm sure everyone has started seeing the evangelicals and the GQP, former and present, starting to subtly toss tfg away. What everyone should also realize is that they aren't tossing him aside because he's a monster, the rape allegations, the antisemitic bs, the racism, the homophobia, the blatant lying about a pandemic and causing untold numbers of deaths, the stealing documents, the grifting, none of it. It's cause he's LOSING. It's cause they know they'll lose with him.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Big Business lobbying of Congress has been out of control since the 1970s, when a consumer-protections bill was defeated after a small number of paid-off Democrats defected.

Afterward, House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass) said β€œI have never seen such extensive lobbying.”

That was in the wake of the 1971 "Powell memo," a blueprint for corporate domination of American democracy, which prompted the corporatists to move to DC from NY.

The left needs to organize better. Infighting hasn't worked.

@EelGM - I also agree with climate activist's goals, BUT
1) Destruction is counterproductive, it turns people off and makes climate activism appear to be an antisocial movement.
2) There is collateral damage to innocent people. (I'm not thinking of Picassos, but of blocking traffic and having patients in ambulances die in the traffic backup)

The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law on Thursday joined the law schools at Yale and Harvard in withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report's influential law school rankings.
Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said in a message to students that the rankings penalize schools whose graduates pursue public interest careers and advanced degrees, while rewarding spending that drives up tuition.
reuters.com/world/us/berkeley-

: -weary residents in 's southeast were urged to remain on high alert for major . Relentless rain over three days has wreaked havoc across New South Wales, cutting off entire rural towns, some in the wheatbelt region, for the second time this month and leading to rooftop evacuations of hundreds.
reuters.com/business/environme

United States regulators approved a plan to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat in what will be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward. aje.io/bi0lvv via @AJEnglish

What next, petrol on a Picasso? Threatening art is no answer to the ! Attacks on art have become a headline-hogging obsession with a hideous escalating logic. The nastier the treatment of a famous masterpiece, the bigger the media coverage.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

A host of Hollywood & sports celebrities including Larry David & Tom Brady were named as defendants in a class-action lawsuit against exchange ... their celebrity status made them culpable for promoting the firm’s failed business.
apnews.com/article/entertainme

If you are +, a woman, use prescription medicine, don't enjoy prison, or have morals, don't travel to .
[and yes, , , on many other countries are worse than Qatar.]

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