This is the current president threatening a university’s funding because students refused to have a violent racist and sexist (milo yiannopoulos) on their campus, this is unacceptable.
The Senate voted, 49 to 43, strictly on party lines, to uphold the ruling that Warren violated rules of debate. Warren is now forbidden from speaking during the remainder of the debate on the nomination of Sessions.
“I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate,” Warren said after McConnell’s motion.
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Talmud
“Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof” (Justice, Justice you shall pursue) - Torah
“If you were there and the Romans or Babylonians were about to destroy Jerusalem, and you had the power to something about it, would you sit and mourn and cry? Or would you turn world upside down to change history? So, what is stopping you? Overturn the world today!” - R"Menachem Mendel Scheerson
“there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest” - Elie Wiesel
“the status of those who observe oppression and remain silent is equal to the status of those who commit the oppression themselves”- Ibn Ezra
I’ll take “horrifying phrases of late stage capitalist dystopia” for 400 Alex
Reclassification as a felony means… *VOTING RIGHTS MAY BE STRIPPED* for those who are convicted.
This is not an oversight. This is the *point*.
because fuck the first amendment
Minorities will definitely be targeted disproportionately for this. Some black teenager’s gonna end up in prison for holding a sign, watch.
This is what I’ve been saying. Everybody is like “Okay, y’all we really have to show up for the 2018 midterm elections!” and like, that’s great in theory but…we might not be able to? It might be too late?
Trump raised a lot of eyebrows by elevating his chief strategist Stephen Bannon to a permanent seat on the National Security Council.
Democrats, though, apparently weren’t the only ones stunned by the move. Among the people caught unaware was one Donald J. Trump.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Trump hadn’t realized what he did when he signed the 2,100-word executive memorandum that elevated Bannon to the NSC.
“Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council.”
Read that again: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was “not fully briefed” on a document he signed, a document that carries the force of law. Read more
