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Hedges is the intellectual and is I think wiser; but I like how Dore pushes him on the practicalities – like, yes, what about a third party?  Hedges dodged that question, or did I miss something?

i.e., to keep ICU beds from overflowing. They won’t necessarily protect you from getting the virus, or prevent you from transmitting it once you have it. That’s why, until most people are vaccinated or have acquired antibodies by getting the disease, we should still mask and socially distance, to reduce the spread to grandmas & other vulnerable…[Read more]

The problem is that the Fed’s been flowing geysers of cash into Wall St. while Congressional actions and inaction have been steadily strangling Main St.  $2k checks would even things up a little bit, and it’s likely to do more for the real economy than the trillions pumped into Wall T; but both are expenses that must eventually be paid on way or another.

too.  No one who actually does their homework could believe that.

at https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/December-2020-CIB-Report.pdf , does not seem to be there now.

understates it in many ways, including the subtle and targeted psychological manipulation involved.

there should at least have been some kind of hearing, instead of letting legislators decide based on what they think they already know.  I don’t like the precedent this sets.

to GOP lawmakers who encouraged the insurrection.

He thinks he can come back from anything, and so far, he’s been right.

Per a Michael Moore video uploaded back on Jan. 9, posters were plastered all over the capitols.

@gzeush, omigod I needed that; thanks!

there need to be consequences for anyone who broke the law, including Trump.

I’ve also seen conflicting reports re- whether impeachment would bar him from running again; if so, it’s worthwhile on that ground.

That said, I also believe that we should be making every effort to build bridges to those Trump supporters who did not break the law, and…[Read more]

failure of agencies to share info?

But also, who is “a source,” and why can’t they be named?

so I don’t have to spend an hour to get the gist?

he told them to march; he did not tell them to be violent.  (I haven’t researched this, but this is what I’ve seen so far.)  So although I do think this must demonstrate his unfitness even to many die-hard supporters, the legal case against him boils down to, he should have known that his supporters would commit crimes even though he didn’t e…[Read more]

That said… this looks like it was shot before Trump’s speech?

@ThouArtThat!  It’s been pretty obvious from the way things have gone that over the last several decades, more than one corporate player has been intentionally acting in the ways recommended in the Powell memo – but I’d never heard much about the memo.  Just downloaded it; glad to know about it!

@Pam2!

or do they have to be used like a (trackable) credit card?

I’m aggravated too not to have heard any news of this – for all I know, I already threw it out.

>:(