"the past nine days as the most wantonly self-destructive for the #UnitedStates in my long life time.

This has seemed in a way worse than the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Or of the multiple horrific assassinations of the 1960s. Those previous tragedies were things done to America. Now the people at the controls have taken every hard-earned lesson about #war and #peace and set it ablaze."
https://fallows.substack.com/p/the-arrogance-of-ignorance

#DonaldTrump #Trump #Israel #GOP #Iran #Politics #News #US #USA

"The #cruelty isn’t incidental, it’s intentional. This is how brutal dictatorships treat people, not democracies. And who stands against the administration? It’s not #Congress, where #Republican Senators are lining up to confirm Trump’s new, not even marginally competent nominee to be #DHS Secretary. It’s up to the federal district judges now.

#Courts around the country are no longer willing to give this #Justice Dept the benefit of the doubt."
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/no-more-benefit-of-the-doubt

#Trump #News #US #USA

"On Tuesday in #Texas, Democratic voters in #Dallas & Williamson Counties, Texas, had their work cut out for them if they wanted to vote. They had to figure out, on the day of, where their polling places were. That’s because the local Republican parties backed out of the years-long tradition of holding joint primaries, and that information wasn’t communicated widely. One voter reported showing up at his polling place & being sent somewhere else"
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/last-night-in-texas-we-saw-the-future

#News #US #USA #America