#Biden has granted preventive pardons to his close relatives and to various individuals opposed by #Trump, who commented, "It is disgraceful. Many are guilty of MAJOR CRIMES!" Trump, just sworn in, has rushed to repeal 78 laws enacted in recent years by the outgoing president
Rather than a story reflecting what is often described as a model of democracy, this feels more like a sequel to The Godfather
This was precisely the kind of narrative Coppola aimed to depict in his films!
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“…Although foreign leaders are not normally invited to presidential inaugurations, far-right foreign leaders President Javier Milei of Argentina and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni were there, along with a close ally of Chinese president Xi Jinping…”

Heather Cox Richardson

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Mother Nature has spoken.

I am not sure if this is a good day for America.

Ich bin nicht sicher, ob dies ein guter Tag für Amerika ist.

Regarding Musk's Nazi salute.
Of course you'll be told that that wasn't what it was; that's how this thing works.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
-- Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
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An important reminder today:

“Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

#mlk #mlkday #inaugurationday

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/letter-from-a-birmingham-jail/552461/ via @TheAtlantic