I think Macron assumes his signature look makes him appear contemplative and statesmanly. All I see is a scared little constipated schoolboy who knows full well he has royally screwed the pooch.
“Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution..." - Virchow
"From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, according to an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute...'All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase. Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states.' "
“My first thought when hearing Donald Trump said he saved the ACA was: Why was I arrested 17 times that summer protesting against gutting the ACA?” Woodward said. “I believe that the American people saved it, and I’m just grateful legislators listened to the American people.”
REPUBLICAN LIZ CHENEY ATTACKS TRUMP AND URGES PEOPLE TO VOTE HARRIS
' We see it on a daily basis – somebody who was willing to use violence in order to attempt to seize power, to stay in power, someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view, and we have to do everything possible to ensure that he’s not re-elected '.
#BosPoli#PSA's (please :boostRequest: if you have #Boston folks in your feed): 1) We still need poll-workers for the November election. See https://www.boston.gov/departments/election/how-apply-become-poll-worker. ngl it's likely to be a crazy busy election and we'll need all the help we can get. No experience necessary, and it's a paid gig. 2) I am once again begging you not do do write-in protest / joke votes. No one will ever see them except the poor poll-workers who have to stay late at the polls counting them. Be kind. #voting#elections
'The practices alleged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) closely match what my co-authors and I have identified in our new book...as having become standard practice in Russian attempts to influence international audiences.
Here are five key features of Russian information manipulation we identified, and which can help understand the latest election-meddling scandal.'
He’s not a ‘fascist’. He’s a fascist. Putting it in quotation is a choice, not an expression of pure journalism or whatever. Linguistically, there is no good reason to put the word fascist in quotes unless the intention is to downplay the threat of #fascism.
"Several pro-Western political and civic groups announced on Monday that they will start collecting next month signatures in support of their demands for a referendum on Armenia’s membership in the #EuropeanUnion. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his entourage have been toying with the idea of an EU membership bid amid increased tensions with #Russia..."
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift
“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”