What a human can endure

Sumiteru Taniguchi, who fought to abolish nuclear weapons after Nagasaki, dead at 88 - World - CBC News

Joe Biden lays it down

'We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation'

Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.

You, [I], and the citizens of this country carry a special burden in 2017. We have to do what our president has not. We have to uphold America’s values. We have to do what he will not. We have to defend our Constitution. We have to remember our kids are watching. We have to show the world America is still a beacon of light.

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"I am The Law." The Law is an ass

Laurence Tribe on Twitter:

T just sent lots of messages: to F & M, to Mueller, to all POC & LGBTQ, to GOP, to Pentagon all Americans: I AM THE LAW. Get used to it.

Retweeting Beau Willimon:

It was a message - on the same day that Mueller's grand jury issued subpoenas for Flynn & Manafort - that they should hold the line...

Beware: Trump may use the alt-right to turn himself into the center - The Washington Post

Beware: Trump may use the alt-right to turn himself into the center - The Washington Post:

Remember, along with group violence, individual acts are very useful to Trump: He can “crack down” on the violence, he can call for more police, he can present himself as the candidate of law and order. The more chaos, the stronger he will seem.

Now that Jobbik is Hungary’s second-largest political party, Fidesz positions itself as the center. Here’s the paradox: “Vote for us or else you get the far-right” is an argument that the farthest-right ruling party in Europe uses to win elections.

Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border | Ars Technica

We will protect your civil liberties by curtailing them. Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border | Ars Technica:

"This is a surveillance bill in pretty weak disguise. And it won't be limited to immigrants," Alvaro Bedoya, a law professor at Georgetown University, told Ars. "It would pave the way for more face scans of American citizens at airports. It would aggressively deploy drones at the 'border,' but [it] doesn't mention that DHS interprets its authority to operate at the 'border' to extend to any area within 100 miles of the actual legal border."

In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored

This is just one arresting statement from a worrying essay. Harry Leslie Smith | Opinion | The Guardian:

It is as foolish for Americans to believe that their generals will save them from Trump as it was for liberal Germans to believe the military would protect the nation from Hitler’s excesses.