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“The Republicans on the [Shelby County] commission didn’t show up to vote.”

How’s that for standing up for what you believe in?

Real profiles in courage, those Republicans. Yes sir!

“Are you mice or are you men? Well, squeak up!”

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A week ago, no one other than people who knew them directly personally knew who the Tennessee Three were. A week later the world knows who they are, and as Obi-Wan Kenobi said to Darth Vader as he delivered what he thought was the killing blow, "Now I shall be more powerful than you can possibly imagine." And they are. Today the governor was forced to issue an executive order establishing background checks for gun sales, and to ask his fellow Unreconstructed Confederates in the legislature to pass a "red flag" bill.

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How delightful to hear Jones and Baez sing those iconic civil rights songs together, passing on the torch from one generation to another. On the same plane? John Lewis must be smiling in heaven.

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'I have never been a big fan of hope. It’s a demanding emotion that insists on changing you. Hope pulls you out of yourself and into the world, forcing you to believe more is possible. Hate is a much less insistent master; it asks you only to loathe. It is quite happy to have you to itself and doesn’t ask you to go anywhere.'

'Growing up poor provided me with plenty of opportunities to wallow in that much less complex feeling. I hated drug dealers because I had addicts in my family. I knew they …

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Let's cut to the quick here: people have internalized the falsity that to be responsible means to spend less. Nope. To be responsible means to spend **the appropriate amount necessary** to adequately deal with the issue at hand. You get what you pay for. If something in your house needs repair, and it costs $100 to fix it properly, but you either refuse to fix it because you don't want to spend the money, or you only spend $50 and do a slipshod job, that is not being responsible. That is being …

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I do believe our problem is a revenue problem, not a spending problem. After over 40 years of tax cuts, too much really is not enough? It seems that way. And why should we buy into any plan from a party that openly supports a criminal plan, to subvert elections and our government? I will take Joe Biden over President Fraud, any day. He is decent, honest, knowledgeable and more effective than I had hoped.

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As always so informative. and tying all the threads together. It's democracy and the rule of law!

Thanks Heather for taking the time to truly inform us with the relevant facts and themes

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I find it astounding that Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema seems to understand the rule of law better than our current chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and several of his Republican colleagues.

I'm afraid we've got a bumpy road up ahead.

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Ms Cox Richardson,

You are among the very best writers on current events that I read on a daily basis. Your use of historical context is uniquely educational for me.

Now...I have a request of you: Will you communicate with your peers the idea of organizing a contemporary version of Dr. King's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  The issue set would be somewhat different:  Gun Control, Voter Access, Anti-Racism, A Woman's Right to Choose, Affordable Health Care, Diversity, Climate Change, et…

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Trump complained to Lindsay Graham “They are using the law as a weapon against me.”

Clearly he believes that law and justice don’t pertain to him. An orange suit would go well with his orangy complexion, perhaps with a splash of ketchup on the wall.

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Trump has been Putin's useful idiot for years, and too many Americans don't seem to know or care. We're at this point due to the many missed opportunities over decades at every level of the justice system to hold Trump accountable for cheating, lying, grifting, conning, etc- he's a veritable thesaurus of disgusting behavior. Let's stay vigilant and salute everyone who ensures the rule of law endures.