@stevemistler please give a look to the NON-partisan constitutional issues regarding immigrant detention in Maine emailed to you at [email protected]. Thank you.
@Cleverfiles I understood I could choose between similar photos. Yet the app did not offer me that option. How do I activate the option to make my own choices between similar photos?
Among the least likeable of human beings are bullies, and those who toady to them. Trump – Putin’s Poodle – manages to combine both: his arrogant bullying of Zelensky, in the service of his barfworthy toadying to the Russian bully.
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When it comes to improving life for the working class in this country, what do I hear? “No, no, no, we can’t afford it.”
But when it comes to the military-industrial complex? “Yes, yes, yes” – with almost no debate.
Congress needs to get its priorities straight.
Last year, Coca-Cola spent $327 million on advertising in the U.S. while it raked in $9.5 billion in profits.
Not one of their ads will tell you that a 20oz bottle of Coke contains more than 15 teaspoons of sugar.
It’s time to take on the greed of the food & beverage industry.
Elon Musk is right.
The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.
Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.
That must change.
Bernie Sanders attacked the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died on this day one year ago, in a presidential debate in 2016. As many seem to finally be admitting lately, Bernie was right. “I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend.”
This time of year, I am always reminded of the Thanksgiving scene painted by one of my favorite artists, Norman Rockwell. Many people don’t know this, but Rockwell actually lived for a time in Arlington, Vermont, and painted some of his most well-known pieces there, including his “Four Freedoms.” He even used many of his Vermont neighbors as models and inspiration in his work.
Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1943. They were paintings that reflected the vision that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt articulated in his 1941 State of the Union speech: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
In that speech Roosevelt stated:
“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
“The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
“The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
“The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
“That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.”
In my view, Roosevelt’s vision from 1941 remains relevant today.
On behalf of Jane, my children, and my grandkids, let me take this opportunity to wish everybody a very happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.
BREAKING: Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski just made a bold move, declaring she won’t support any of President Trump’s nominees unless they undergo full FBI vetting. This marks a significant development and could have major implications for the administration’s agenda.
When facing what is perhaps the most deadly -- and potentially irreversible -- crisis in human history, you want to make a moronic malicious criminal President of the United States.
Intellect, compassion, and a call to honor not criminality. In the tradition of Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Obama, choose Kamala. Choose the high road and basic decency, not a malicious crime spree.
@olgakhazan Impressed by your piece, but Ketamine's widely understood as dangerous. MDMA? rejected. What's the negative scientific evidence about LSD and mushrooms? I saw little to specifically refute their science-based positive results.
@rickperlstein Thank you for writing with an evidence-based approach about Jimmy Carter. Of late, I'd get the impression that Ted Kennedy had no one within the Democratic Party urging him to run, and that Carter was a genius at working with Congress.