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Jackson Banner's avatar

a Last Week Tonight style video in addition to the written article would be amazing! Easier to consume and clip, therefore spreads the news farther. But it’s so much information that it might be hard to be brief

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Ginger's avatar

To know the hands of 6 supremes have thrown the lives of 330,000,000 people away leaves me heartbroken

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Peter Tey's avatar

A litany of DERANGED Trump Syndrome

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Donald Auguston's avatar

Thank you, Mehdi. It's astonishing that week after week you have over 10 pages of crimes, lies, & stupidity from our White House - and we're not even through a full year. Give me strength! DA

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Deborah solleveld's avatar

Even though I just skim the list really, it exhausts me. Keeping it must be depressing.

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Christopher Farry's avatar

Land of the not so free, home to those who need to be brave to turn this around.

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Cheryl Anne's avatar

Thanks, as always, Medhi. I look forward to these weekly, blood pressure raising summaries but find them harder and harder to read. The sick, twisted fascist in the WH is more than deranged, he comes straight from Hell itself. How could millions of voters have been so stupid to, again, put this piece of scum back in office? It is beyond my comprehension. The corruption is mind-blowing to say the least. How are we ever going to stop this? We're not even a year in and look at all the damage he's done. We can't allow him to go forward or we'll never recover. Like I said last week, I have an old Beatle's song that keeps playing in my head, maybe it's time.

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Convencia's avatar

“Pregnant people” !!

ATM only women get pregnant

Otherwise great work!

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Jackson Banner's avatar

it’s inclusive language

ATM only someone who is ignorant or a bigot would take the time to leave a comment like this

great work on letting us know you fall into at least one of those categories!

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Convencia's avatar

When men start to nurture a baby in their womb for nine months and have gone through painful labour to deliver it, then I’ll be happy to use inclusive language. ATM it’s a biological fact that only women are able to do so.

I’m a woman who’s done that three times. If that makes me a bigot then so be it!

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Jackson Banner's avatar

What you're saying isn't fact. Biologically, female reproductive organs are what allows for child rearing. Being a woman is separate. Your unreasonable attachment to your belief and seemingly unreluctance to seek out or try to understand new information in the matter is what makes you a bigot. Btw, since it doesn't seem like you understand, being a bigot is a bad thing.

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Vedwin's avatar

Is there an acronym yet for people who deny that a trans man could carry a fetus to term?

Clearly the same bucket at TERFs. Same same but different.

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Convencia's avatar

Thank you so much for educating me. I truly didn’t know that female reproductive organs can be transferred into any other receptacle. Like a dustbin perhaps?

I must learn this new information that we’ve discovered after millions of years of existence.

So much to learn!

Much obliged to know I’m also a bigot because having a different ‘belief’ to yours makes me one.

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Jackson Banner's avatar

This isn't new, but it does seem like it's new to you, which would be fine if you weren't seemingly so unwilling to learn something new. Yes, there is a lot of stuff in the world to learn, more than you or I will learn in our lifetime. I'm still learning and won't stop learning new stuff even when it doesn't fit my preconceived notion of the world.

You admitted to and seemed fine with being a bigot, and it's not because you have a different belief. It's your unwillingness to stray from that belief when there is easily obtainable evidence that your belief is missing information, coupled with the harm it can contribute to.

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Lisa S's avatar

This Week In Democracy is such a great resource. Thank you 🙏🏼

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Vedwin's avatar

I can’t think of many humans more deserving of having their face eaten by leopards than Comey. It can both be a terrifyingly bad thing and yet lusciously delicious. Strange times indeed.

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Vedwin's avatar

Also, it’s nearly malpractice to mention Homan’s name without appending:

“He was appointed by President Barack Obama as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013.”

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