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An initiative (and/or a candidate) aiming at simple decency could have surprising legs. One that combined people who admit they will disagree strongly on policies (e.g. Mike Pence + AOC) but swear to speak for decency might flourish.

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Pence and AOC should start a Decency Caucus, acknowledging they will continue to disagree strongly on issues and policies, but join in calling out plainly indecent and sociopathic statements and acts.

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Buying into Left/Right discourse here is a disastrous mistake. The point is not that these agencies are "Left" it is that they provide safety and protection to vulnerable needy people. Forget Left/Right, the point is extraction from the have-nots by the haves. It's not agencies; it's clients.

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So can GOP Senators without testicles use Mens' Room? Citing ‘Biological Truth,’ Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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New, recent focus on air traffic control. Let's look at Diane Vaughan's (who revolutionized Safety thinking after Challenger launch) exhaustive study in recent "Dead Reckoning". The exact opposite of the Musk, Meta, et al. approach of "move fast, break things."

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I think that, say, Mike Pence and AOC (or Bernie) could agree to form a Decency Caucus, stating that they will disagree often and strongly on policy and ideology but agree---steadily and openly---on, e.g., lying about Ukraine starting a war....

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And let's note there is no effort at a learning review to discover why these happened and can happen again.

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www.democracydocket.com/opinion/pard...

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People are over-thinking Ukraine. For Trump Zelensky has to go because he wouldn't take the rat-out-Biden deal. If Ukraine goes with him (and Poland, and Estonia), well, so be it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Danielle Sassoon did what she was supposed to do, and I'm glad to see that recognized. But making simply following your oath(s) heroic and extrordinary tends to normalize collaboration. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Joseph Welch's "At long last have you no decency?" was widely thought to be the nail in Joseph McCarthy's coffin. At this point you start to wonder whether a Simple Decency caucus (call them The John Prine Democrats) might make headway, not policy-wonk professional advocates, spokesmen, specialists.

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I'd like to develop a line of "Wipe your chin, Vlad!' T-shirts. Investors?

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Keep in mind Oskar Schindler and the little girl in the red hat (coat in Spielberg's film). And not just the workers; the people the workers are serving. Time to reach the John Prine Democrats on the basis of simple human decency.

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In Gainesville, Texas

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Thomas Kenneally and Steven Spielberg understood the crucial importance of the girl in the red hat (coat in the movie) to Oskar Schindler. The only defense against Trump/Musk is to raise fears, make fears personal. More of these stories, every day....

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You'd think NYT could find space in these accounts to mention that Putin is a mass murderer and a retail murderer (e.g. Navalny) U.S. and Russia Pursue Partnership in a Head-Spinning Shift in Relations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Trump is entirely self-absorbed and if I were trying to influence Ukraine policy I would do everything possible to make it clear to him that he is being played for, and seen as a chump. Compare him to other chumps, line them up, tell the stories. Not just from world affairs; from NY real estate.

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Great! We''ll see those Trump audits at last! Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Granting practical anonymity to the subsurface people who made this decision confirms this as the safest path of least resistance. A little reporting on who? Saying "Vichy did x" doesn't work quite as well as pointing out the perps by name.

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Having taken my own advice and re-watched "The Sorrow and the Pity" this week this article resonates: official self-importance, personal sense of indispensability, "NEXT time, I'll...."https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/politics/justice-department-trump-eric-adams.html

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"The Sorrow and the Pity" Part III Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

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Yes. And it's not a wink; it's an exhortation. Pardoning Rod Blagojevich and dropping Eric Adams' case send the same message. "Grab with both hands!"

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However, a great day for previously ostracized brain worms.

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Apparently I failed to reach Susan Collins: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/profiles-i...

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Not content with attacking the society Franklin Roosevelt fostered Trump et al. are now going after Teddy Roosevelt and his conviction that "malefactors of great wealth."

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People used to think of Maine and think of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Thomas Reed, Margaret Chase Smith. Now, they think of Susan Collins.

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For decades GOP has profited from a general sense that "conservative" meant (or at least correlated with) Safety. Musk et al. threaten that winning formula. "Move fast and break things" is open to the same fear mongering that beat Goldwater with mushroom cloud ads.

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You wonder whether some story on "weaponized" prosecutions might mention that the law is SUPPOSED to be a weapon against criminal conduct.

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And what if this sound and fury is simply to create the misimpression of revenue (tariffs) and savings (gov't layoffs) that compensate for continued tax cuts, carried interest rules, etc?

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a/k/a profit centers

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Trump cannot operate in a world of laws and rules. This is not a preference; it is a disability. His courtiers understand this, and know the only welcome message they can bring Trump is "Tell the courts to fuck themselves." That's what they will do, and what he will do. Existential crisis coming.

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In Germany, the journalists are often the hosts and the politicians are the lucky visitors. www.cjr.org/analysis/ger...

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This will hasten the time for "Springtime for Hitler" to get that non-ironic production at last.

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It would be nice if Dems could encourage the media to treat Kleptocracy as a story. In single day, Adams case dropped, Blageovich pardoned, Foreign Corrupt Practices enabled, Consumer Protection Agencyy dismantled. Wealth being redistributed up with both hands. Play by the rules, you lose.

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You can beat Trump in the courts, and you can beat him at squash, but will one matter more than the other? Time NOW to work on public's sentiments about the crucial need to obey legal rulings. It's not a given.

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The fact that you will out-score Trump on the exam. (Congratulations!!!)) is not the club that frightens him; it is the goad that drives him.

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Time, right now, to stop gloating over trial court injunctions and remember Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia: "John Marshall has made his decision, let him enforce it." Then what?

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Laws and rules are a torment for Trump whose cognitive deficits have crippled him throughout life in a world of laws. He won't change. But the people supporting him should remember Sir Thomas More, in "A Man for All Seasons."

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Re-upping this here for a moment. Recognize Musk as a gift. You're a Dem. thinking of a race? Tie your opponent to Musk. Demand every GOP candidate give Musk a yes/no. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/elon-the-m...

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Mystery of the Day: Why isn't this woman in the Cabinet? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/n...

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About time for a Dan Ellsberg way down in DOJ or the courts to get that stolen documents report out to the public.

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