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debsy's JournalChadwick Boseman Dies at 43
Source: Vanity Fair
Devastatingly, and almost unbelievably, Chadwick Boseman, the star of Marvel’s Black Panther, has died at the age of 43 after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.
Despite a life cut tragically short, Boseman amassed a tremendous filmography. His legacy might be summed up in one word: Pride. In addition to the fictional T'Challa, leader of utopian nation of Wakanda in the Marvel movies, he was known for his powerful, dignified, and humanizing portrayals of pioneering Black American leaders such as baseball great Jackie Robinson in 42; future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the legal drama Marshall, about one of his early cases as an NAACP attorney; and soul star James Brown in the musical biography Get On Up.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/chadwick-boseman-dies-black-panther
Terrible news.
'You Think Russia Ever Goes In and Gets Ukraine, or No?': The Wildest Things Trump Said...
Source: Vice News
WASHINGTON — President Trump was even more blunt, crass, and unfiltered during a private dinner in 2018 at the Trump Hotel than he normally is in public.
While the big standout of the meal was his demand to fire the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, his transactional approach to geopolitics, total lack of concern for helping America’s international allies, and openness to letting businessmen convince him to back specific policies that’d benefit them illustrates just how the leader of the free world operates behind closed doors.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xv7j/you-think-russia-ever-goes-in-and-gets-ukraine-or-no-the-wildest-things-trump-said-at-a-private-2018-dinner-revealed
Trump has never met Lev Parnas yet he talks to him a number of times during the dinner about Ukraine (including specifically about Marie Yovanovitch)and the marijuana industry. He is representing a few small interests at our expense. I'm sure we, as taxpayers, paid for that dinner.
Severe childhood deprivation reduces brain size, study finds
The findings are based on scans of young adults who were adopted as children into UK families from Romania’s orphanages that rose under the regime of the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Now experts say that despite the children having been adopted into loving, nurturing families in the early 1990s, the early neglect appears to have left its mark on their brain structures.
“I think the most striking finding is … that the effects on the brain have persisted,” said Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a co-author of the study from King’s College London, who added that the results showed neuroplasticity had limits.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/06/severe-childhood-deprivation-reduces-brain-size-study-finds|]
And the U.S. is doing the same thing to immigrant children.
'If You Are Wondering Who Benefits':
Weapons Makers See Stocks Surge as Trump Moves Closer to War With Iran
"Stocks for weapons manufacturers began to rise as soon as Soleimani was killed," said Rep. Ro Khanna.
[link:https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/04/if-you-are-wondering-who-benefits-weapons-makers-see-stocks-surge-trump-moves-closer|]
Weapons makers, oil producers... the worst for the planet in every single way that matters.
From Josh Jordan on Twitter: "This Donald Trump video on Iran..."
"This Donald Trump video on Iran is going to rip a hole right through the space/time continuum."
[link:https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1213091678514556928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2020%2F01%2F03%2Fbefore-qasem-soleimani-killing-trump-warned-of-iran-war-by-obama.html|]
Jesus Cristo.
Trump Pushes Out Tweet Naming Alleged Whistleblower
Source: Daily beast
On Thursday evening, Donald Trump pushed out on Twitter the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint led to the president’s impeachment.
Trump’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, retweeted a post by the re-election campaign’s official “war room” account that was aimed at the whistleblower’s attorney Mark Zaid. “It's pretty simple. The CIA ‘whistleblower’ is not a real whistleblower!” reads the tweet, which links to a Washington Examiner item. That piece, published Dec. 3, includes the alleged whistleblower’s name in the headline. The Daily Beast is declining to publish the name and has not independently verified the identity of the whistleblower.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pushes-out-tweet-naming-alleged-whistleblower
Far From the Front Lines, Javelin Missiles Go Unused in Ukraine
I have not heard or read this before. How did this go unmentioned throughout the public impeachment hearings??
[link:https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/far-from-the-front-lines-javelin-missiles-go-unused-in-ukraine/|]
Republicans have this sign posted behind them during impeachment hearings today
"0 - Days since Adam Schiff has followed house rules"
This is similar to a double-negative in that if there are 0 days since Adam Schiff has followed the house rules, today would be a day that he is following house rules!
Did they mean to say, "0 - Days Adam Schiff has followed house rules" ??
The Republican Party Is as Guilty as Trump
By Sonali Kolhatkar
But just two days later, the high-ranking senator stood by Trump as the president used the most vile language in reference to his impeachment, saying on Twitter, “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching.” In response, Graham said to reporters, “This is a lynching, in every sense.” He did not say, “This is a symbolic lynching,” or “In some sense, this is a lynching.” (Even those terms would have been unacceptable given the history of quintessentially American racist terror the word references). But Graham said, “in every sense,” this was a lynching of President Trump, implying that even in literal terms, Trump was, in his view, being strung up on a tree by a racist mob and murdered by hanging. Just as other high-ranking Republicans have done in the past, Graham went even further than Trump himself to defend him and his conduct. Are not all of Trump’s supporters as guilty of the president’s wrongdoing as he is?
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Trump got into office because Republicans allowed it, and he remains in office because Republicans continue to allow it. Until they openly declare war on his presidency, his ongoing assault on our democracy is just as much their fault as his. He remains in office at their whim. They are his enablers, the facilitators of his evil. The stink of Trump’s racist and misogynist hate, abject dishonesty and flagrant impunity over laws and the U.S. Constitution ought to follow every Trump supporter inside or outside government for the rest of their lives. The only way to save their soul from the complicity that history books will surely capture is to disavow him, and to do so now when it matters.
[link:https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-republican-party-is-as-guilty-as-trump/|]
Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It's time to say it out loud
Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It’s time to say it out loud
RawStory Commentary By David Masciotra, Salon
America has collapsed into a prone position, however, where the scoundrels are so brazen in their inhumanity, so bold in their indifference to suffering, and so barbaric in their refusal to compromise for the sake of their own country that only their own language can aptly describe them.
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Nationalism, according to Trump, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, purports to place “America First” in its policy orientation. Yet the lives of American citizens appear to rank last when dealing with the danger of gun violence and white extremism.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/donald-trump-and-the-republican-party-hate-america-its-time-to-say-it-out-loud/|]
It is long past time that this message is shouted from every rooftop and on every street and at every town hall held by any politician the entire country!
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