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Heather Delaney Reese: Trump’s desperate plan to destroy our country from the inside
… The Trump administration had begun scrubbing prosecution records tied to the people who attacked our Capitol, including one involving a man accused of assaulting police officers during the Capitol attack who was also facing child solicitation charges.
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They were proud to erase the public record. Proud to help rewrite the history of January 6th. Proud to scrub information connected to people who violently attacked police officers defending the Capitol. And even after being reminded of the allegations tied to the solicitation of a child, they still said they were “proud.”
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… The prosecution of people who attacked the Capitol becomes “weaponization.” The men convicted by juries become the “persecuted.” And the public record of their crimes, the sentencing documents, the charges, the evidence, becomes “partisan propaganda.”
This is the whole project in three sentences. They are not denying what they did. They are renaming it. They are telling us that the record itself was the lie, and that erasing it is justice. That is the language every authoritarian movement eventually reaches for, the moment it stops fearing the truth and starts calling the truth the enemy.
And this was not just a single page removed. …
Jason Sattler: Yes, Elon Musk Did Buy the Election
David McAfee @ RawStory: Questions about Trump’s criminal liability arise as Mueller prosecutor sees immunity crack
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Ayelén Oliva @ BBC Mundo: “All those who have left are here”: why 1980 is a key year to understand the migration crisis that connects Central America and the U.S.
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Kelly Garino @ Daily Mail: Terrifying map reveals blast radius of chemical tank on the brink of exploding as thousands are ordered to flee their homes
A new map has revealed the potential blast radius of a chemical tank on the verge of exploding at a California aerospace facility.
More than 40,000 people have already evacuated the area around the city of Garden Grove after officials reported a toxic leak Thursday afternoon.
The 34,000-gallon tank at the GKN Aerospace facility contains methyl methacrylate (MMA), a highly flammable chemical used to make acrylic plastics.
(Kelly Garino @ Daily Mail more…)
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Paul Kedrosky: Memory Now Dominates AI Chip Costs
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Jennifer Rubin: Trump Is Frantically Searching for an Offramp From His Disastrous War
Times of London: Trump rows back on Iran deal, saying ‘time is on our side’
President had claimed plan was ‘largely agreed’ and would reopen the Strait of Hormuz — but his latest social media posts suggest work remains.
Ian Swanson @ Hill: Iran: Trump remarks on Strait of Hormuz ‘inconsistent with reality’
Maziar Motamedi @ Al Jazeera: Iran recounts historic battles in response to Trump’s talk of agreement
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Iranian officials have revived key moments in the nation’s history to drive forward a message of a David-versus-Goliath battle between the two sides, with the underdog ultimately victorious.
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