“A Texas entrepreneur is bringing back the woolly mammoth. Well, sort of.”
“This bears repeating: Judicial supremacy is an institutional arrangement brought to cultural ascendancy by white people who wanted to undo Reconstruction and the rise of organized labor that had followed. And that makes sense, as judicial supremacy can harness the power of an entrenched minority and use that power to undermine the more democratic legislative branch.”
“But the most important thing the hearings can do — given that, if someone tries to steal the next election, they won’t do it precisely the way Trump and his allies tried in 2020 — is to shift our gaze forward: They can highlight continuing vulnerabilities in our electoral system and propose ways to fix them, before it is too late.”
“But there is another subtext informing this European reaction, one which Friedman studiously sidesteps: the reality that the commitments of the United States can no longer be counted on to defend Europe, thanks in large part to the memory of Donald Trump’s administration—specifically Trump’s peculiar sycophancy towards Putin and the Russian Federation.”
“Kim Phúc and Nick Ut on “Napalm Girl,” 50 years later.”
“Now, a little more than five years later, 25 percent of Republicans identify as believers of the Pizzagate successor QAnon, and the far right’s capacity for street violence has grown. At the same time, where once most elected Republican officials would at least nominally distance themselves from Pizzagate-pushers out on the fringe, that wall has largely eroded.”
“The Warning About Trump That JFK Never Got to Deliver”.
“The hearings in Congress provide an opportunity for the public to see Christian nationalism for what it is.”
“You might’ve forgotten about rapper Kanye West’s bizarre ties to ex-President Donald Trump’s election steal scheme – but investigators in Georgia apparently haven’t.”
“So Reiter’s new projection is that there are at least 100 American drivers veering their cars into buildings each day, or 36,500 a year, and that’s the low bound. The revised figure corresponds to 16,000 Americans injured in car-on-building crashes each year, he believes, and more than 2,500 people killed.”
“After signing a pledge opposing anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation last spring, companies like AT&T, Amazon, Pfizer, and CVS Health gave thousands of dollars to the campaign efforts of lawmakers who had been backing such bills, according to a recent analysis from Data for Progress, a left-leaning polling firm.”
RIP, Internet Explorer, put out to pasture after 26 years.
“A new Florida law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks with some exceptions violates religious freedom rights of Jews in addition to the state constitution’s privacy protections, a synagogue claims in a lawsuit.”
“It is difficult to imagine a more humiliating conclusion to this sad chapter in Wisconsin history for those in the state pushing Trump’s Big Lie. The lawyers who were supposed to find evidence of fraud have destroyed their professional careers. The GOP politicians who supported this bogus audit are in contempt of court. And no one has produced an iota of evidence to suggest that Democrats stole the election. While attempting to discredit Joe Biden’s victory, Wisconsin Republicans have only bolstered its legitimacy.”
“It has been nearly 48 hours since a water line broke in Odessa, leaving the entire city without water amid a dayslong heat wave and bringing the community’s daily lives to a screeching halt. The West Texas city has about 112,000 residents, but the water outage included parts outside the city limits, bringing the number of people affected closer to 165,000, officials have said.”
WHITE-ERGO-BAD HOGWASH HISTORICISM
Re: “This bears repeating: Judicial supremacy is an institutional arrangement brought to cultural ascendancy by white people who wanted to undo Reconstruction and the rise of organized labor that had followed.”
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The power of judicial review was established in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, and that one was decided in 1803. The Civil War came later.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Marbury-v-Madison/Impact
Re: “ascendancy by white people” after Reconstruction?
How had them white framer folks not already established the U.S.A. after the Revolution and the unsatisfactory short-term experiment with the Articles of Confederation?
And what’s with *cultural* ascendency, as distinguished from political?
So they spoke English, which is more ascendant than ever. Whether “white” or not, postcolonial or otherwise, it’s eminently useful worldwide as the lingua franca and language of commerce. Ditto for Spanish (white or brown, if that makes any sense; it doesn’t) continentally speaking.
Yes judicial review was established, but the courts were used after Reconstruction for racist purpose, see: Plessy v. Ferguson, in which rock solid principles and the constitution were bypassed by the concept of “separate but equal,” which is not found anyplace in the constitution, or Declaration of Independence.
The Supreme Court invented it to rationalize the illiberal beliefs of society. Once again, society is finding ways to reinterpret principles to suit the times: “We’re all in this together,” “Your mask protects me,” “Free speech is a threat to democracy,” “it’s not coercion if you voluntarily get the vaccine to avoid the consequences of making the wrong choice.”
Internet Explorer still works, for now, but without updates, browsers start to lose their functionality. I don’t know why they are always making new browsers, which are not as good as the old ones. I still like Netscape but it doesn’t work anymore.