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Mary's avatar

I realize it is heard to keep breathing when reading all of this. My body wants to hold its breath. Thank you for your life giving perspective.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

A hard news road to hoe

today, David especially

USAID child death

numbers. Thank you for

turning over the dirt.

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Scott Gilbert's avatar

The Harshest of Bottom Lines: Trump's reign as the biggest mass murderer in the history of America expands his number of deaths to be approaching two million. He's responsible for at least 1,100,000 deaths here because of his horrible handling of the covid epidemic, and ending USAID and other agencies has already begun killing hundreds of thousands of people abroad.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

So sad

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Neural Foundry's avatar

Superb roundup capturing the sheer volume and velocity of boundary violations happening simultaenously. The Jack Smith subpoena detail is particularly telling: his willingness to testify but only publicly speaks to the transparency stakes when closed-door questioning could easily be misrepresented or selectively leaked. The DOJ pressure on Judge Cannon to keep Volume II sealed permantly creates an asymmetry where the public gets Smith's prosecution narrative but not the full evidentiary record on the documents case. This whole dynamic ilustrates how procedural choices about visibility and access are becoming the new frontline for accountability.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Smith is free to release his final report any time he wants. He should have done it 18 months ago. It’s too late now but better late than never I guess. Also Congress has no way to enforce subpoenas, he could simply tell them to pound sand.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

GOPers "encouraging" tRump's fav judge, Aileen Cannon, to bury the second volume of Jack Smith's investigation(s) into the stolen docs. case..."encouraging" — LOL! — "there's that nomination for an appellate court opening right here, Judge, so do the 'right' thing, OK?...wink-wink, nudge-nudge".

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mugseyfromdownunder's avatar

Maybe not so-o-o- off topic but herewith a cranky op ed column from Oz for you and your readers:

https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/hyperwealthy-pedophilic-genocidal-dickweeds-versus-the-rest-of-humanity/

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