Jane Mayer reminds us: Thomas was only vote to block 1/6 from getting Trump's papers & Gini's texts

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24. Lots of little unethical hidings, shieldings and blockings lead to a national state of delusion.

No democracy can work this way. While we fuss about their 'character,' she and her husband are tools of the long term corporate establishment of power at all costs -- whether that power rubble-izes a country like Ukraine, or it slowly guts a judicial system in another Big Fossil nation. This is democracy in chains.

Meanwhile, 2 Centrigrade renders all life moot. And we are fighting each other, swirling downstream to drop, with all our descendants, into the "bad anthropocene" abyss.
Maybe we'll drop our arms, chemicals, nukes, look at Earth's reality in fear and wonder, knowing the arc bending toward justice is moot. Maybe many of us won't, and will fight other humans even as they are all annihilated.