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The Atlantic has a scare piece today that includes : "The conservative majority on the Supreme Court today is similarly blinded by a commitment to liberty" and blames the party formed to abolish Slavery for Slavery, the party that most voted for civil rights for the lack thereof, the party that did not write the Jim Crow laws for those laws.

History isn't so clean that every bad thing was done by "them" and this log article is a long partisan misrepresentation of history.

WaPo reports : presidential admin tracked 20 AP phone lines to track leaks... "The president said press freedoms must be balanced against the protection of U.S. personnel overseas."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

@rnitsch
I think this is the second story this week of a scientific study being banned because it didn't align with ideology. They even label the studies as pseudoscience merely because it disagrees with their agenda. So "science" has come to mean things that advance a specific agenda, if they sound scientific.

the administration prosecuted leakers, shutout the media, and used lie-detectors on staffers, criticized by NYT Washington correspondent as "the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered"

This was the Obama admin.

It's increasingly seeming as if the problems brought with Trump aren't problems (just hysteria for news viewership) or weren't brought with Trump.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/flashback-obama-prosecuted-staff-leakers-gave-lie-detector-tests-paranoid

https://www.christiandailyreporter.com/cdrcomic-twitter-now.html

@thehill Obama invites Trump to play game of "I started it, NO I STARTED IT!"; Trump accepts. #rephrasethenews

Where are the grown ups?

@thehill
Low wage earners get wage increase under admin that the must be overthrown. #rephrasethenews

@thehill Obama takes credit for 99 year recovery #rephrasethenews

"A rise is wages has been a major missing element of a more than nine-year economic recovery, confounding economists."

@thehill
Nike believes in profit and sacrifices nothing but extracts cash from consumers with Kaepernick deal by making them feel virtuous. #rephrasethenews