I see there’s a raging “founders never intended” conversation this AM.
So...
1) There was no single “Founders view.” They disagreed on big things in big ways. A lot.
2) The constitutional amendment process exists because people assumed that there would be change.
Please stop.
This is a very big deal
In an update to their investigative report House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans have concluded that COVID-19 is the result of a lab leak by a “preponderance of the evidence”
https://t.co/KR5G7FPeyg
!!! Alert. Jan 6 defendant and accused OathKeeper conspirator Graydon Young tells judge he will plead guilty. And will cooperate with prosecutors and testify before grand jury
@mattzollerseitz I've always felt I had insight as to its meaning... To me, that delicate turn of phrase implies a choice of responding to something by raising a stink, or acting as if it never happened--real options that usually hinge on folk's relative power status.
I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than
Trump summons the rioters, riles them up, and a few days before Jan. 6th, he tells the acting Secretary of Defense to use military force to protect them if necessary.
The problem isn't lack of evidence.
The problem is that a major political party is immune to the truth.
@Can_Cincinnatus@thespybrief A few years ago, I was on a PhD track in history of science. I'd invested an embarrassing amt of time investigating postmodernism.
The hook for me? A lifetime of subjection to con artists invoking "reason" when the subtext was something more like "you ought to think as I say."
I don't want politics mixed in with my medical decisions. And when all of our news sources for Covid information have an agenda to spin us, you wind up with a badly misinformed population. #BreakingNews#ScaredStraight