Supreme Court gives victory to transgender student who sued to use bathroom that corresponded to his gender identity - CNNPolitics
This was always about conservatives/the right/GOP and their march to remove the humanity and dignity of absolutely everyone except themselves.
"Tucker Carlson Tonight" host said Monday that the National Security Agency is "spying on him" and planned to leak his communications in efforts to cancel his show.
TUCKER CARLSON: It's not just political protesters the government is spying on, yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the US government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.
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Now, that's a shocking claim and ordinarily would be skeptical of it. It’s illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens. It's a crime. It's not a third-world country. Things like that should not happen in America. But unfortunately, they do happen, and in this case, they did happen. The whistleblower who is in a position to know repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There's no other possible source for that information, period.
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The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed an FOIA request of Freedom of Information Act request asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show. We did it mostly as a formality. We've also contacted the press office at both NSA and the FBI. We don't expect to hear much back. That's the way that usually goes.
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Only Congress can force transparency on the intelligence agencies and they should do that immediately. Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy. If they are doing it to us, and again, they are definitely doing it to us, they are almost certainly doing it to others. This is scary and we need to stop it right away.
Donald Rumsfeld (ἀνάξιος) died unpunished on Tuesday, June 29 2021. To paraphrase Mark Twain, it's a shame they allowed him to die a natural death.
The reality is that we need opposing views. We need people questioning the government. We need people viewing this from different vantage points, but not like it's a football game where there is a binary framing of every notion and there are two babies in bath water, and you are supposed to decide which one to throw out. And no, it isn't equivalent, but social reasoning is so repulsive to me. I have to just accept it because there is a reason football exists as it does. Humans want to belong to the team and hate the other, they want the arrogance and indulgence of social reasoning. I think it is going be humanity's undoing though. I think it kills us, need or no.
At various points in my life I felt a little hopeful about this politician or that, but am generally horrified whenever I get more information. And I'm definitely NOT constructing one of those "it's all equally bad" fallacies to condone Trump, whom I hate with a livid repulsion, but life is about continual disillusionment - different contexts, different degrees of it, but always it comes back to that.The thing I hate the most is suddenly deciding that the bad thing the guy you didn't vote for was doing is actually good because the guy you voted for is doing it.
See, for instance, the people who are horrified at the way the Trump administration went after whistleblowers, but defend Obama's actions towards Edward Snowden (the program he revealed was illegal, by the way).
Also see Biden on immigration policy.
Look folks, I don't know how to make things better, but I'm pretty sure looking the other way on these problems when one party does them isn't the answer. What is that supposed to accomplish?
At various points in my life I felt a little hopeful about this politician or that, but am generally horrified whenever I get more information. And I'm definitely NOT constructing one of those "it's all equally bad" fallacies to condone Trump, whom I hate with a livid repulsion, but life is about continual disillusionment - different contexts, different degrees of it, but always it comes back to that.
A global pandemic is a very complex event that even the epidemiologists and virologists are struggling to understand and predict. People respond to insecurity with certitude. It's why everyone knows "what's really going on". No, they don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter how many science articles I read. I still do not definitively understand the pandemic. Same is true for everyone else to varying degrees of the training and intelligence. Is it really so hard to admit that?
Between 1942 and 1945, Bruns used the method of "verschärfte Vernehmung" on 11 Norwegian citizens. This method involved the use of various implements of torture, cold baths and blows and kicks in the face and all over the body. Most of the prisoners suffered for a considerable time from the injuries received during those interrogations.
Great minds think alike: Verschärfte Vernehmung, sharpened/intensified/enhanced interrogation.