Feinstein, elected in 1992, was a vocal gun-control advocate who often sought common ground with Republicans, sometimes frustrating her more liberal colleagues
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a trailblazer in U.S. politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, dies at age 90
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Feinstein’s primary caregiver: Pelosi’s daughter
A quiet caretaking arrangement has raised questions about whether Nancy Pelosi has the ailing senator’s personal interests at heart.
Feinstein’s primary caregiver: Pelosi’s daughter
Video via Progressive Hub
Highlights Of Biden’s State Of The Union Address
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address to the nation last night. The Onion looks at the highlights of the president’s speech.
Highlights Of Biden’s State Of The Union Address
Feinstein
Lot of credit here goes to Katie Porter for breaking the barrier where no real leading California politician would dare challenge her. When it was clear to Feinstein’s backers, since I doubt she even really understands the situation at this point, that she was going to have to run in a real primary next year, they naturally backed away.
Also, Dianne Feinstein has been a terrible senator from Day 1. Literally any Democrat from California will be better.
CN Editor Named on Secret ‘Disinfo’ List
CN Editor Joe Lauria was one of 644 Twitter accounts that secretly formed part of Hamilton 68’s fake “dashboard” that wrongly influenced major media about alleged “Russian influence.”
CN Editor Named on Secret ‘Disinfo’ List
ADL’s penetration of the FBI & negative consequences for human rights activism
The ADL has been trying to liaise with the FBI by offering ADL investigators as informants, offering to exchange files to “avoid duplication of investigation” and “train” FBI and law enforcement personnel since the 1940s.
What have been the negative consequences for human rights activists?
IRmep presents findings from years of Freedom of Information Act filings at a number of relevant Washington, DC locations.
ADL files FBI “Civil Rights Threat” conflating white nationalists with pro-Palestinian charities
FOIA documents: Israel Lobby Archive
ADL’s penetration of the FBI & negative consequences for human rights activism
NY Times claim that Russia drove attacks on Linda Sarsour is nonsense
Did Russian government trolls really drive a pro-Israel, anti-Muslim campaign targeting Palestinian American Democratic Party activist Linda Sarsour?
NY Times claim that Russia drove attacks on Linda Sarsour is nonsense
H/T: Katie Halper
How Government Officials Bully Social Media Companies Into Censorship
A new Cato report sheds light on “jawboning,” or attempts by state actors “to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech.”
How Government Officials Bully Social Media Companies Into Censorship
Democrats Love Saying That AR-15s Should Only Be Used On Foreigners
Every time there’s a mass shooting in America with an AR-15, high-level Democrats line up to proclaim that those weapons should only ever be used to kill impoverished foreigners.
Democrats Love Saying That AR-15s Should Only Be Used On Foreigners
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Automatic Rifle vs Assault Rifle – Here’s the Difference
I would hope that veterans of war, like Tammy Duckworth and Pete Buttigeig, would know the difference between a semiautomatic rifle and an automatic rifle (which IS a weapon of war)! Of course, they’re being deceptive!
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
My personal notes:
Republicans will blame gun violence on mental health, psychiatric medications, or violent video games, yet they aren’t willing to support solutions, such as affordable healthcare, affordable prescriptions, or defund the military industrial complex! As for Democrats, all they will offer is banning guns!
Speaking of mental health, and psychiatric medications, Peace Labor May made some good points in her most recent YouTube video (you may have to turn your volume up).
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
In light of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’m re-posting a link to my left argument for gun rights from 2017. (One among many. See links at end of article)
Some points covered in the article:
The class concept of the state. It’s not a neutral arbiter to be trusted with a monopoly of armed power. “The concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other.”
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. Whatever strict gun-control regime is instituted, ruling-class families and institutions will still have all the guns they want.
But what about horrible mass shootings? Recognize that *gun homicides have declined even as gun ownership has increased,*. that mass shootings are a small portion of gun deaths in the US & a lousy index of the social problem of gun violence. But they do grab one’s attention.
For the full argument, go to the article:
The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
(Reprise)
Related (including some random archived links that I noticed were behind paywalls and/or 404):
A Marxist-Leninist response to Gun Control
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