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Jack Smith promised to act “expeditiously.” With the top criminal target demanding the “termination” of the Constitution to take back power, he’s essentially begging the special counsel to act faster.

So wait... the standard-bearer of the Republican Party has called for the "termination" of the Constitution, but it's progressives who don't believe in the rule of law?

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She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

More about her: https://www.holocaust.cz/databaze-obeti/obet/78694-kamila-bondyova/

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Republicans are against being "woke"

But what does "woke" mean?

Ryan Newman, Ron DeSantis’ General Counsel, defined it in court last week.

Woke is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," Newman says.

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Politico put it this way:

"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."

This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?

Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.

#journalism

Elon Musk seems to think it’s ok to allow white supremacists and Nazis on Twitter as long as they aren’t tweeting overt hate speech, but the problem with that is that it inherently sends a message that their ideas are worthy of consideration — even though we know the endpoint of those ideas is violence, death, and ultimately genocide. Those ideas are not, in fact, worthy of consideration. 2/

Now seems like a good time to talk about how far-right extremists are using the Overton Window theory to force their ideas into the mainstream. The premise here is that today’s fringe ideas/beliefs can become tomorrow’s normal by shifting the boundaries of acceptable discourse. You do that by introducing people to more & more extreme ideas, so everything else seems reasonable in comparison.

eg, when “praising Hitler” becomes the comparison point, low-key bigotry suddenly doesn’t seem so bad. 1/

yes yes #Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv during the siege and has visited the front lines multiple times, but did you know he's also brave enough to pet a cat's belly while he talks to world leaders? #Caturday (#Photoshopped, hopefully that's obvious.) (By me.)

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Trump saying that the Constitution must be terminated so he can be reinstated as president is the most authoritarian thing ever said by an American political candidate. STOP calling today’s GOP ‘conservative.’ They are fascists. https://youtu.be/-yrD9gbsJiE