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History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.
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A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.
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The new ombusdman at CBS will "receive and evaluate claims of bias in the network’s journalism and report on them to the corporation’s president," writes @sulliview.bsky.social
That task — reviewing bias complaints — seems designed to rev up the culture war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was a public editor at the New York Times, handling complaints from the public. That is a better path than CBS’s one
'Moral rot': Veteran says America is becoming 'a greed-driven empire' under Trump
www.alternet.org/trump-greed/...
In an article published in Salon Sunday, retired U.S. Air Force officer and historian William J. Astore argued that under President Donald Trump, America has lost its moral compass and become a milita...
Former Trump surgeon general says "people are going to die" after RFK Jr. halts some mRNA vaccine research
www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-trum...
Adams, who served as surgeon general during the first Trump administration, said Kennedy's assertions about the efficacy of mRNA vaccines are "simply not true."
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
The Dworkin Report: Zelensky Stands Strong Against Trump and Putin—Plus a big protest in Ohio, Vance booed in Indiana, and more Scott Dworkin substack.com/home/post/p-...
Plus a big protest in Ohio, Vance booed in Indiana, and more
Steady: The World’s Greatest Showoff Good thing P.T. Barnum didn’t live to see Trump—Dan Rather and Team Steady substack.com/home/post/p-...
Good thing P.T. Barnum didn’t live to see Trump
Trump’s Chaos Is Growing. So Is The Opposition.; We Don’t Back Down. Not Now. Not Ever.—Scott Dworkin substack.com/home/post/p-...
We Don’t Back Down. Not Now. Not Ever.
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