Foreign Policy
Trump Is Guilty of Pandemicide
6 min · · History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemic’s deadly third wave. · Shared by 79, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Craig Spencer MD MPH, Xeorge Xonway, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Jason Stanley, Christina, Alejandro Dominguez, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️, ❤️ Umair
Fast Company
Ben & Jerry’s CEO: To move forward, America must be honest about our racist past—and fix it
3 min · · Business leaders can help the country heal by supporting H.R. 40 and starting the process of reparations for Black Americans. · Shared by 27, including Philanthropy News Digest, Luminous Kaleidoscope
The New York Times
Opinion | Ancient Rome Has an Urgent Warning for Us
6 min · · The era of the Antonine Plague offers a reminder of what a powerful force nature has been throughout human history. · Shared by 117, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Larry Brilliant 💛💙, Carrie Brown, Matthias Lampe, Massimo Pigliucci, Stowe Boyd
The Guardian
Facebook condemned in UK and US for 'attempt to bully democracy'
4 min · · Legislators side with Australians in row seen as test case for global regulators · Shared by 42, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, luis antónio santos, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Stig Ørskov
The Guardian
How far right uses video games and tech to lure and radicalise teenage recruits
6 min · · After a 13-year-old was sentenced last week, a young victim of radicalisation talks about how white supremacists target children · Shared by 66, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Dr. Alec Couros
United Nations
Stand against antisemitism with the ‘utmost determination’
4 min · · The world must stand with the “utmost determination against antisemitism”, the Chancellor of German told the UN’s annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony on Wednesday. · Shared by 9, including Luminous Kaleidoscope
New York Magazine
Watch Arresting New Videos From the Capitol Riot Played at the Impeachment
3 min · · On Wednesday, Democrats unveiled arresting new videos of the insurrection in the first day of House impeachment managers’ opening arguments. · Shared by 5, including Luminous Kaleidoscope
The Independent
Amanda Gorman praised for ‘uplifting’ Super Bowl performance
1 min · · Gorman performed virtually in a pale blue rhinestone-embellished coat · Shared by 5, including Luminous Kaleidoscope
instagram.com
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The New York Times
77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election
20+ min · · Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of… · Shared by 157, including Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Jeff Zeleny, Jay Rosen, Carrie Brown, Trey Tweets Into the Void, soraya roberts, Mathew Ingram, Deborah Blum, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, David CisMan, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, David Frum, William Gibson, Esther Schindler, Anne Thompson, ExApologist, Michael (मुकेश), Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, David Boaz, luis antónio santos
CNN
Two of Trump's impeachment defense attorneys leave team less than two weeks before trial
2 min · · With a little more than a week before his impeachment trial is set to begin, President Trump's legal team is in tumult. · Shared by 88, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Gregg Caruso, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Elizabeth Picciuto, Jeff Zeleny, Kara Swisher, Brian Stelter, Steve Markowitz, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, David V. Johnson, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
Guardian US
'It's endemic': state-level Republican groups lead party's drift to extremism
9 min · · Despite national failures at the ballot box, radicalised state parties are fighting for Trump’s election lies and defending QAnon followers · Shared by 13, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Carla Gentry 🎶
The Guardian
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years
4 min · · The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian · Shared by 205, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, W. Blake Gray, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Xeorge Xonway, luis antónio santos, Hugh Howey, Christopher Lauer™, Matthias Lampe, Paulo Gaspar, Angie Hobbs, Mike Butcher, Thomas Power, Carla Gentry 🎶, Steve Silberman, TonyParisi.eth
Pew Research Fact Tank
Even before Capitol riot, most people in Germany, France and the UK had concerns about U.S. political system
3 min · · Majorities in all three countries said in a fall 2020 survey that the U.S. system needs either major changes or to be completely reformed. · Shared by 31, including Luminous Kaleidoscope
The New York Times
Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny
11+ min · · A number of members of Congress have links to organizations and movements that played a role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. · Shared by 37, including Sally Kohn, Kevin M. Kruse, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Mkay, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Michael Shermer
CNN
Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs
9 min · · Adapted from "TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump," by Jeffrey Toobin. Copyright © 2020. Available from Doubleday. · Shared by 22, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, George J Huba PhD