Above image: h/t Salon, Facebook played huge role in fueling Capitol riot, watchdogs say. (January 2021). CNN reports, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down: Facebook’s week just went from bad to worse. Facebook (FB), Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services. “We’re aware that some people … Read more
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more
Peter Wehner writes at The Atlantic, The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy: The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up … Read more
Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly, and falsely, accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, of presiding over a fraudulent election. This is having some interesting consequences in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections in January. The Daily Beast reports: Conservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to … Read more
The Washington Post summarized the size of Joe Biden’s decisive win: Biden received more votes – 77.3 million (so far) – than any other candidate for public office in American history. With the highest levels of turnout since 1900, he beat Trump by more than 5 million votes nationwide, and that number is expected to … Read more