The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.
It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.
*repeated hair tearing-out noise*
Tags: Donald Trump · Jamelle Bouie · politics · usa
Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer. I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
Police urged people in Overasselt to stay indoors after one person died and 34 were arrested
Authorities have arrested 34 people, including French, Belgian and Algerian nationals, after a person died in a pre-dawn shootout in a Dutch village reportedly linked to a notorious drug lord.
Police urged people in Overasselt, near the German border, to stay indoors with doors and windows shut in case further suspects were on the loose.
Continue reading...Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old vice-president at the bank, was killed in Tuesday stabbing in New York City, officials say
A corporate vice-president at Bank of America was killed in a stabbing in New York City’s Times Square, the second-biggest US lending bank said on Tuesday about a random incident that took place in broad daylight in the bustling heart of Manhattan.
The incident had brought the streets of the crowded area to a halt on Monday as emergency vehicles swarmed between the skyscrapers.
Continue reading...bpanneman has added a photo to the pool:
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BertvB posted a photo:
A striking and razor-sharp profile portrait of a male Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis), captured during an evening session at De Valk Roofvogels in Lunteren, Netherlands.