New texts show Sean Hannity advising Trump on coup

 

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New text messages reveal Fox's Hannity advising Trump White House and seeking direction
Latest Mark Meadows text message dump confirms Sean Hannity's central role during the disgraced former president's coup attempt.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jamie Raskin dismantled Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House floor
The Maryland Democrat roasted MTG over her repeated failure to condemn Vladimir Putin and Russia or offer support for the people of Ukraine.

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Texas is abusing immigrants for a sick political stunt
United We Dream: Help United We Dream fight back against Governor Abbott and his racist agenda!

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Idaho Republican lawmaker found guilty of rape
State Supervisor Aaron von Ehlinger was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after failing to convince the jury that the sex was consensual.

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Judge shoots down Trump's desperate appeal, confirms charges and fine
New York state judge Arthur Engoron denied a request by the insurrectionist former president's legal team to purge a civil contempt of court ruling as well as the $10,000 a day fine that accompanies it.

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Knives out: Boebert and Greene spar as extremist caucus descends into civil war
They may appear to be united by insurrection and islamophobia in public, but a new report details how the two GOP divas detest each other behind the scenes, with a recent closed-door confrontation nearly escalating into a physical altercation.

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Biden administration challenges Alabama's vicious anti-trans law
The Justice Department formally challenged the law that criminalizes many gender-affirming healthcare for young transgender Alabamians.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene SINKS herself in court
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

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Greg Abbott turns to corwdfunding for his awful immigrant bussing stunt
In what amounts to a stark admission that his dog and pony show has completely failed, the white nationalist governor of Texas has set up a Go Fund Me-style donation website to pay for bussing immigrants out of the state.

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Millions of Americans' data searched by FBI in 2021
A "transparency report" compiled by the Director of National Intelligence reveals that up to 3.4 million warrantless searches related to Russia cybersecurity probes were conducted by the FBI last year.

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Michigan cop charged with brutally killing service dog and dumping carcass
Genesee County Corrections Deputy Jacob Wilkinson is charged with second-degree torturing or killing of an animal. 

A former Michigan corrections officer has been charged in the death of his service dog after he bound the canine, shot it three times and dumped the remains in a ditch last year, officials said.

Genesee County Corrections Deputy Jacob Wilkinson was fired last Friday after 42 days on the job, Sheriff Christopher R. Swanson said in a video press conference Wednesday.

Wilkinson allegedly killed the dog, named Habs, sometime between September and October because it "nipped at him" as he was cutting the canine's nails, according to the sheriff.

“And that guy … thought he had enough control over the dog that you’re not gonna do that. So he duct-taped the rear legs of the dog, duct-taped the front legs of the dog, duct-taped the muzzle,” Swanson said.

Wilkinson then allegedly dropped the dog's body in a nearby township, where it was discovered by road commission workers, and authorities were notified. Saginaw County Animal Care and Control Director Bonnie Kanicki told MLive.com that the county road employees reported finding the carcass on March 24 in a ditch near the intersection of West Freeland and Hackett roads in Tittabawassee Township. Swanson did not specify the date the dog was found.

A necropsy found that the dog was shot three times and that it had a microchip ID.

“They used the technology and they tracked that microchip to a resident of Saginaw County ... and they tracked that individual to be Jacob Wilkinson," Swanson said.

Wilkinson had helped train Habs, who was part of a blue star service training program in which inmates within the Michigan Department of Corrections help train service dogs to give to veterans and officers. At the time, Wilkinson was employed by the Michigan Department of Corrections, assigned to the Saginaw area, Swanson said. 

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes on Elon Musk on Twitter
The New York congresswoman refused to back down after the billionaire oligarch-in-waiting reacted to her initial tweet with a blatantly misogynistic reply.

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Georgia on my mind

Georgia grand jury to oversee probe of Trump's 2020 coup attempt

1/6 insurrectionist from Georgia flips on Oath Keepers, takes plea deal

New Georgia election map puts two Black suburbs into Marjorie Taylor Greene's district

Georgia president slams "laughable" Rand Paul for pushing Putin's propaganda

Augusta, Georgia Starbucks becomes first in state to unionize

What in the world?

Suicide epidemic hits Russia's oligarchy after Ukraine Invasion

UN says 3,000 Europe bound refugees killed or gone missing in 2021

Russia ramps up nuclear saber rattling as invasion of Ukraine bogs down

Explosion at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people

Kim Jong Un says North Korea could use nuclear weapons preemptively

Ballet dancers flee Russia in droves after Ukraine invasion

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New artificial pump promises to cure heart disease

Atlanta beekeeper leads rescue of thousands of stranded bees

Self-taught nun builds mini-hydroelectric plant in Congo

Poll numbers show GOP's war on CRT not resonating with parents

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Bert Wolfe

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Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it.

President Abraham Lincoln, Letter to AG Hodges, April 4, 1864

There is much controversy presently over the censoring of President Donald Trump on various social media outlets. What is beyond dispute is that at a rally on January 6, 2021 Donald Trump incited the riot that subsequently occurred on Capitol Hill while the Congress was fulfilling its constitutional duty to count and certify the Electoral College votes for the new presidential administration that will begin on January 20, 2021. The riot and the bloodshed and mayhem associated with it temporarily disrupted the counting and certification of the Electoral College votes. Congress, to its credit, came back and completed its constitutional duty, finished counting the electoral votes and certified Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the incoming President-elect and Vice President-elect, respectively.

President Abraham Lincoln was highly criticized for occasionally acting in a blatantly unconstitutional manner at various times during the American Civil War. As an attorney, President Lincoln revered the US Constitution, but he revered the continued survival of the Union even more. As President Lincoln explained in his letter to AG Hodges, ensuring the survival of the nation in the midst of the greatest crisis America ever faced required occasionally violating the letter of the US Constitution. By doing so, President Lincoln observed the larger spirit and intention of the US Constitution: to promote the survival and thriving of the United States of America as a successful, going nation-state.

President Trump, on January 6, 2021, clearly violated his oath of office to preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States, and by so doing, put the preservation of the the rule of law and the Constitution under grave threat from an angry, riotous mob he deliberately incited and sent to Capitol Hill to assault the Congress in the performance of its constitutional duty.

At this point in time, President Trump clearly needed to have his access to social media restricted in order to help preserve the rule of law and ensure a smooth, seamless transition of power on January 20, 2021. While seemingly a violation of Trump’s First Amendment rights under the US Constitution, as President Lincoln so wisely observed during the Civil War, it is occasionally necessary to sacrifice a limb in order to save the body. No one sacrifices the body to save a limb.

 Rebecca Solnit wrote:

“The middle ground is not halfway between Nazis and antiracists. The reasonable position is not a compromise between rapists and feminists, slaveowners and abolitionists, Natives and General Crook. The truth is not midway between the liar and the truthteller. That has to be a factor in all those calls for reaching out and unity. The murderer and his intended victim don’t have to agree on what’s right. The people who were harmed don’t have to reach out to those who did the harming. The people who told the truth don’t need to make liars feel better about themselves or what they said. Those who were targeted by this war don’t have to do all the peacemaking. If reaching out and finding unity is good, the haters and liars can go find some olive branches and apologies and do the work to leave their will to destroy the rest of us behind. Then it begins. The party of hate never had a mandate; they lost the popular vote last time and this time; they may think of themselves as the real American and the gatekeepers but we don’t have to, and we don’t have to enter their gates or play by their rules. We don’t have to hate them either, but we don’t have to protect them from the consequences of their choices or sell out our principles for their comfort. When you stand on the ground of truth and justice, let others find their way to you. If you stand firm, many will in the end. Not everyone will; that does not change what truth and justice are.”

Well funded and organized effort since 1950s by corporate oligarchs (ALEC, Koch) in coalition with racists (see Brown vs Board of Education 1955) and religious zealots, to demonize and cripple democratic government so they can avoid regulation which protects us from them, buy and control government, evade taxation, take all the money, hijack our military and do whatever they want (see: Feudalism, Fascism).