The only thing you'll gain by not standing up to this is a boot on your neck.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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It's the same with a man like Trump as it is with a man like Putin.
America & Europe needs to understand what they're dealing with in either regard.
Appeasement cannot work. They'll simply snatch your olive branch and beat you with it.
It's just who and what they are, to their core. 🤷♂️
The brutal simplicity of it seems lost on many - I guess people just expect more complexity from them?
But there's nothing more. Not with men like this.
In my worst dreams I imagined it would take longer than this.
https://bsky.app/profile/jonhallin.bsky.social/post/3lkygj2ny522g
Democracy and freedom is being lost right now, it's happening right now!
George Orwell, 1984