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Ultimately a demagogue like #trump cannot be defeated until the anti-intellectuals in his populist mob realize that they have been duped. The #hearings are a necessary exercise toward that end, but there's no way around the fact that we are in for a long wait.

TFG, like other dictators before him and contemporaneously, has benefited from a certain clownishness and absurdity that invites mockery, but also invites underestimation. When we're ridiculing TFG and Melania and Jared and Vanky and Eric and DonJr, and the whole circus, we may forget just how sinister and dangerous these people are. They're not really clowns; they just play them for TV. They're actually engaged in profoundly dangerous and destructive activities.

#hearings

how many men's rights activists does it take to change a lightbulb?

none, they still use gaslighting

The Ginni Thomas story is bigger than Clarence Thomas or his position on the Supreme Court.

It reveals what a lot of us have been trying to tell people. The antidemocratic authoritarianism wasn’t just Trump or a passing flirtation. The GOP and the Right Wing are riddled with it.

BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

This is huge.

Corporations are not and will never be people. Period. The American people should decide our elections.

That's why we support
@RepAdamSchiff
's constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/tell-congress-constitutional-amendment-overturn-citizens-united/index.html

@Juliab we smoked steelhead and black cod today. For a brief moment felt we were back home in the PNW.

Some good news on the C19 front.