When we think about the Maldives, we do well to leave conventional wisdom behind.
From Reuters: The Maldivian president and ministers held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago’s existence.
That’s thinking outside the boardroom/box, to be sure.
Then you have this young virtuoso guitarist, playing his instrument with a unique insouciance.
Re: the meme here, wait a second.
An authoritarian regime really is illegally invading a democratic republic and slaughtering its civilians. A bunch of people really are trying to overthrow the U.S. government. Anti-vaxxers really are making it harder to control the pandemic, and people are suffering agonizing deaths as a result. Climate change really is ruining our planet. (more…)
From his Wikipedia page:
John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is a former attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution ultimately resulted in a reduced sentence.
All I can say here is that it’s not too late for a new John Dean to emerge; in fact, it will be rather surprising if one doesn’t, for two different reasons:
The worst crime that Nixon committed was obstruction of justice. Here, we’re talking about treason, which, until recently, resulted in the death penalty. Once this comes to head, it’s hard to imagine that top Trump aides won’t flip.
Nixon was not a good person, but he wasn’t a criminal sociopath either, nor was he a traitor to his country. For many of these people, loyalty to Trump wasn’t something they took on willingly, but because it was forced upon them; some of them may regard testifying against him as a good deed.
Most Americans are concerned that there will be no justice for the true architects of the January 6th insurrection.
From what I have been reading recently, that seems highly unlikely; it seems more probable that people fail to understand the enormity of the task associated with developing solid cases against people like Bannon, Eastman, Navarro, Meadows, and Trump.
The federal judge’s order here appears to be an important step in moving this all forward.
Insofar as it’s a purveyor of massive amounts of misinformation on dozens of different subjects, Fox News is one of the most destructive forces active in the United States.
Since the beginning of Russia’s troop build-up on the Ukrainian border and ultimate invasion, Tucker Carlson has been forwarding propaganda to the effect that Putin’s actions have been entirely legitimate.
The most recent, that Ukraine is manufacturing biological weaponry, has been thoroughly debunked, but that has done absolutely zero to curb the blast of these lies.
The idea expressed at left is a good one, but it’s very clear that a) Thomas’s wife is a proponent of illegally overturning the 2020 presidential election, and b) he himself voted to impede the investigation into this matter.
Is there any reason that he shouldn’t be removed immediately?
Here’s a post that is inspired purely by this fabulous piece of art.
Life is so strange now, isn’t it? The wife of a Supreme Court justice attempts to overthrow the U.S. government, and the justice himself tries to cover it up.
If this were the premise of a TV show, it wouldn’t get made because it was too far-fetched.
Seriously? The annual income he derives from selling “survival” products to hateful morons, according to a biographer, is ~$50 million, or 191,780 per weekday.
If this judge wants to represent himself as an agent of truth and justice, why on Earth doesn’t he simply arrest the slimeball and hold him in jail?
This report from ABC News.
Is that before or after he is impeached, removed, criminally charged, convicted and incarcerated for the corrupt acts he’s already committed?
Chris Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut, reminds us of a younger Bernie Sanders, in that he is simply a good, honest human being who represents the interests of the people of the United States.
Unfortunately, most of what we read from him, like the piece below, makes us angry. Congress has so much power and commonly uses it to obstruct opponents’ progress. 
