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reACTIONary's JournalCapitulating to the right won't end the judicial wars
... Conservatives have brilliantly used the abortion question to distract attention from the core of their activist agenda. It involves dismantling regulation, gutting civil rights laws, narrowing voting rights enforcement giving moneyed interests free rein in our politics, strengthening corporate power, weakening unions, undercutting antitrust laws — and, now, tearing apart the Affordable Care Act.
Conservatives would much rather talk about abortion than any of these other questions. Why? Because they don’t want the public to hear about issues related to democracy and economic justice on which the right takes the unpopular side. What they can’t win in Congress, they want to win through the courts. That is the dirty secret of conservative judicial activism that McConnell and his friends would love to keep under wraps
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/capitulating-to-the-right-wont-end-the-judicial-wars/2020/09/23/5402f378-fdd5-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
Hospital where activists say ICE detainees were subjected to hysterectomies says just two were perfo
Source: Washington Post
A hospital in rural Georgia where a physician has been accused of performing a large number of hysterectomies on immigrant detainees said its records show that just two women in immigration custody have been referred to the hospital for the procedure since 2017.....
Heath Clark, an attorney for ERH Healthcare, which operates the Irwin County Hospital.... said hospital records show that Wooten’s claims are “demonstrably false.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/ice-detainee-hysterectomies-hospital/2020/09/22/aaf2ca7e-fcfd-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html
50 Years of Blaming Milton Friedman. Here's Another Idea.
Critics have been fighting ever since to get corporations to acknowledge broader responsibilities. It’s the wrong battle. Instead of redefining the role of the corporation, we need to redefine the role of the state....
Government remains the most powerful means to express our collective will. The necessary solution is to create stronger incentives for good behavior and laws against bad behavior....
Government also needs to do more to support economic growth. Friedman’s negative vision of government has helped to obscure the ways the public sector can help the private sector, for example by investing in education, infrastructure and research....
Corporations have a valuable role to play in American society, and they contribute primarily by trying to make money. Friedman’s narrow point is mostly correct. The missing part is the role of government in ensuring that those profits do not come at the expense of society....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/milton-friedman-essay.html
Melania and Me
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was part of the Trumps’ inner circle — until she wasn’t. Her memoir is a cautionary tale.
Yep, You are that sucker.
DHS official whose office compiled 'intelligence reports' on journalists and protesters has been rem
Source: Washington Post
A senior Department of Homeland Security official whose office compiled “intelligence reports” about journalists and protesters in Portland, Ore., has been removed from his job, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Brian Murphy, the acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position elsewhere in the department, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-official-whose-office-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-journalists-and-protesters-has-been-removed-from-his-job/2020/08/01/f01247be-d3ff-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar
Democracy Dies in Darkness
OAC Has Nothing on John Lewis !
Deep State Mapping Project!!1!
Shared on a skeptics mail list - I don't know if this is parody, unintentional self parody, or .... REAL 
I'm sure it belongs only in the lounge.
https://deepstatemappingproject.com/
Robert E. Lee High in Virginia Will Be Renamed for John Lewis, District Says
Source: New York Times
“The name on the school building is something each student had to walk under, and you want that name to be someone they can aspire to be,” ..... “That person should be someone that a student can embody.”...
She has imagined returning to school and seeing Mr. Lewis’s name on the front of the building. “The feeling of knowing I go to John R. Lewis High is amazing,”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/us/robert-e-lee-high-school-john-lewis.html
A man confused by confusion ...
WaPo reports...
Confederate generals are what make us and our history the greatest nation in the world?
Either
Or 
Or 
not sure.
A Chinese soccer legend has called for the downfall of the Communist Party in shock videos
Source: CNN
A retired Chinese soccer star has openly called for the downfall of China's ruling Communist Party... Hao Haidong, 50, was a household name among millions of soccer fans in China in the 1990s and 2000s..
Hao read out in Chinese a manifesto of the "Federal State of New China," a government proposed by Guo as an alternative to the Chinese Communist regime. "The Communist Party's totalitarian rule in China has caused horrific atrocities against humanity," he said, denouncing the party as a "terrorist organization" that has "trampled over democracy, violated the rule of law and dishonored lawful agreements.... I think the Chinese Communist Party should be kicked out of humanity. The ghost of Communism should no longer be allowed to drift in this world. This is what I've concluded after 50 years of living."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/asia/chinese-soccer-star-intl-hnk/index.html
This soccer player has balls.
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