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aprossi

House impeaches Trump for 'incitement of insurrection' - CNNPolitics - 2 views

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  • House impeaches Trump for 'incitement of insurrection'
  • The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President's role inciting last week's riot at the US Capitol.
  • The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach Trump
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  • Ten Republicans, including the House's No. 3 Republican, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, joined all Democrats to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection."
  • "We know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country,"
  • "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," Cheney said.
  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that Trump "bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters,"
  • In the Senate, McConnell is not planning to bring the Senate back for a trial before January 19, meaning the trial won't begin until Trump is out of office and Biden has been sworn in.
  • Pence sent a letter Tuesday saying he would not seek to invoke the 25th Amendment as Democrats had urged, and Trump is not considering resigning.
  • After the House vote, Trump released a video statement calling for calm as the threat of new riots -- which Trump said he'd been briefed on by the Secret Servic
aprossi

US Capitol riot: Military Joint Chiefs condemn 'sedition and insurrection' - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Military Joint Chiefs condemn 'sedition and insurrection' at US Capitol as federal and local officials scramble to ensure security
  • America's most senior military leaders condemned the violent invasion of the US Capitol last week and reminded service members of their obligation to support and defend the Constitution and reject extremism
  • President Donald Trump's supporters.
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  • inconsistent with the rule of law
  • violence,
  • 50 states are preparing for possible violence
  • The House is expected to vote Wednesday on Trump's second impeachment,
  • Lawmakers, deeply shaken by the hours of violence last week
  • particularly the militia extremists among them -- is "scary."
  • "everybody will be fully prepared"
  • military leaders felt it was important to make a statement given the gravity of events surrounding the inauguration
  • 'No place for extremism'
  • DC National Guard is also providing additional training to service members
  • "There is no place for extremism in the militar
  • "The Capitol grounds outside and inside are essentially a crime scene,"
ilanaprincilus06

Trump Impeached By House Over Capitol Insurrection : House Impeachment Vote: Live Updat... - 0 views

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Trump Impeachment House of Representatives

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  • The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for "high crimes and misdemeanors" — specifically, for inciting an insurrection against the federal government at the U.S. Capitol.
  • Trump has now become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.
  • Ten Republicans broke party ranks to vote in favor of impeachment
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  • The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump
  • "Today in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States,"
  • If the Senate votes to convict Trump — an outcome that is far from certain — he likely would be barred from holding any federal office again.
  • "President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government, threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government
ilanaprincilus06

President Trump Impeached: 4 Ways Washington Has Changed : NPR - 0 views

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US Capitol Trump Impeachment

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  • The House of Representatives approved one article of impeachment Wednesday against President Trump for "incitement of insurrection," with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in a 232-197 vote.
  • But Washington and the country are still reeling from the images of the attack.
  • Now he has a distinction in the history books that no president wants — the first to be impeached twice.
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  • He also is the president who has had the most members of his own party vote for impeachment.
  • but the split among congressional Republicans about the future of the party is accelerating after the events of last week, and it's happening in real time.
  • "I think every day that goes by, there's going to be people regretting their 'no' vote as more information comes out."
  • She never spoke on the House floor and made it known she thought it was a vote of conscience, but her vote could potentially cost her spot at the leadership table.
  • Biden's allies openly worried about what starting the impeachment train moving would mean for the incoming president's ability to secure Senate confirmation for his Cabinet nominees and press for top priorities like coronavirus relief.
  • "Impeachment now is like a primal scream,"
  • The symbol for democracy used to be a frequent tourist attraction pre-pandemic for school groups learning about the country's founders and history. Now, it has a new image of what can happen when political rhetoric ignites supporters to turn on their opponents.
  • Although members praised law enforcement, and there are amazing stories of those who fought off the mob, the serious security failures have many lawmakers questioning the leadership of the force
  • Members rarely socialized with members of another party. The level of trust has really changed in the past week.
  • Some Democrats are already pledging not to work with Republicans who voted in favor of challenging the election results.
ilanaprincilus06

Poll On Capitol Riot: Majority Of Americans Blame Trump : NPR - 0 views

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  • Almost 6 in 10 Americans said they blame President Trump for the violent insurrection that took place Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol
  • and half believe social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter — which have banned him from their platforms — should not continue to restrict Trump after Wednesday.
  • Eight in 10 Republicans disagree that Trump is to blame for the violence, don't believe social media companies should continue restrictions on him and don't trust that results of the 2020 election were accurate.
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  • To date, Trump has still not conceded, even after the House impeached him for a second time Wednesday.
  • Overall, 58% said Trump is to blame either a "great deal" or a "good amount" for the violence at the Capitol, while 40% said "not much" or "not at all."
  • When it comes to trusting that the results of the election are accurate, 60% said they do, while 38% said they don't.
  • As with most things in the Trump presidency, there's a big split between whites with college degrees and those without — 67% of whites with degrees trust the results, while 50% of whites without do not.
  • By a 50%-43% margin, Americans do not think social media companies should continue to restrict Trump's use of their platforms beyond his term as president.
  • There are 1,012 registered voters in the survey. Where they are mentioned, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
clairemann

Many QAnon followers report having mental health diagnoses - 0 views

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  • QAnon is often viewed as a group associated with conspiracy, terrorism and radical action, such as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. But radical extremism and terror may not be the real concern from this group.
  • I noticed that QAnon followers are different from the radicals I usually study in one key way: They are far more likely to have serious mental illnesses.
  • I found that many QAnon followers revealed – in their own words on social media or in interviews – a wide range of mental health diagnoses, including bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and addiction.
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  • 68% reported they had received mental health diagnoses. The conditions they revealed included post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia and Munchausen syndrome by proxy
  • Research has long revealed connections between psychological problems and beliefs in conspiracy theories. For example, anxiety increases conspiratorial thinking, as do social isolation and loneliness.
clairemann

Civics education isn't boosting youth voting or volunteerism - 1 views

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  • After the insurrection, the impeachment, the trial and ongoing partisanship in 2021, many Americans are looking to civics education as a source of hope, according to George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy, which reports that “Nearly all Americans (97%) agree that public schools should be teaching civics.”
  • But my research shows that states that require civics courses do not necessarily have better test scores, more youth voting or young people volunteering at higher rates than other states. And there may be a connection to QAnon support as well.
  • Unfortunately, though, my research has found that civics education isn’t making the grade. In states that require students to take a civics course, young voters have slightly lower average voting rates – 29.9% – than states without such a requirement – 31.9%.
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  • Washington, D.C., and 39 states – including California, Iowa and South Carolina – have a civics class requirement. These same places also have lower percentages of youth volunteer rates – 22.7%
  • But I was dismayed to find that states without such a requirement had higher rates of volunteerism among younger people – an average of 24.4% – than among those states with a community service mandate – 21.3%.
  • States with lower levels of youth volunteering, youth voting and youth civics test scores are also more likely to have QAnon sympathizers active in politics, or politicians who oppose criticism of QAnon.
aprossi

Joe Biden receives second dose of coronavirus vaccine on camera - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Biden receives second dose of coronavirus vaccine on camera
  • Joe Biden
  • received the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccin
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  • reassure the country of the safety of the vaccines.
  • Delaware
  • get the entire Covid operation up and running,
  • US Capitol, which was stormed and breached by supporters of President Donald Trump
  • impeach President Donald Trump
  • incitement of insurrection
  • "That's my hope and expectation,
  • refusing to take masks
  • irresponsible,
  • listen to public health experts
  • to stop the spread of the virus.
  • 50 million Americans in his first 100 days.
  • n 374,500 Americans have died
  • cases are rapidly climbing across the country.
  • encouraged Americans to receive one as soon as it becomes available to them.
  • requires two doses administered several weeks apart in order to reach nearly 95% efficacy.
  • 9 million people have received a first dose
  • adults, ages 75 and older, and "frontline essential workers,"
  • Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received the first dose
  • Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff, Harris' husband, have also both received the first doses
  • 100 million Covid-19 vaccine shots
  • Mike Pence was administered the first dose
  • President was likely to get his shot once it was recommended by his medical team.
  • Trump's treatment for Covid-19 included the monoclonal antibody cocktail made by Regeneron.
ilanaprincilus06

World Leaders React To Pro-Trump Extremists Storming U.S. Capitol : Insurrection At The... - 0 views

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  • The spectacle transfixed people around the globe.
  • "The enemies of democracy will be delighted at these terrible images from Washington DC."
  • Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms.
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  • "A basic rule of democracy is that after elections there are winners and losers," Merkel said. "Both have their part to play with decency and responsibility so that democracy itself remains secure.
  • "Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress," Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain tweeted. "The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power."
  • He noted that for generations, American democracy has inspired millions of people, including him.
  • I have no doubt that American democracy will prevail — it always has."
  • "Everyone saw what a populist did to his country and damaged his country's reputation in the international arena."
  • "While people in Palestine & in many other places in the world are struggling to achieve democracy, there are those in the US who are actively sabotaging theirs,"
edencottone

Trump's disastrous end to his shocking presidency - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • President Donald Trump is leaving America in a vortex of violence, sickness and death and more internally estranged than it has been for 150 years.
  • Hospitals are swamped and medical workers are shattered amid a faltering rollout of the vaccine supposed to end the crisis.
  • It took 200 years for the country to rack up its first two presidential impeachments.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      made history but in a bad way. This president is deserving of the 2 impeachments
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  • Trump's malfeasance has led the country down that awful, divisive path twice in just more than a year.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      though this line is opinionated I agree
  • The city Trump has called home for four years is being turned into an armed camp incongruous with the mood of joy and renewal that pulsates through most inaugurations.
  • In a symbol of a democracy under siege, the people's buildings -- the White House and the US Capitol -- are caged behind ugly iron and cement barriers.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      a threat to our democracy
  • eight days
  • unintended irony, Biden's team has picked "America United"
  • It is becoming ever more obvious that the horrific scenes on Capitol Hill on Wednesday were not a one-off.
  • In a chilling new warning, the FBI revealed the possible next stage in this now nationwide wave of radicalization, saying armed protests were planned at state Capitols in all 50 states between January 16 and Inauguration Day, January 20.
  • Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was shocked by the magnitude of the bureau's intelligence on possible new violence.
  • "I don't think in the entire scope of my career working counter terrorism issues for many, many years, I don't think I ever saw a bulletin go out that concerned armed protest activity in 50 states in a three- or four-day period,"
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      we are in uncharted territory
  • he was not afraid of taking the oath of office outside next week
  • So far, after a massive domestic terror attack on the citadel of US democracy, there has been no major public briefing by any major federal law enforcement agency or the White House, an omission that fosters a sense of an absent government
  • By contrast, senior officials from the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration worked closely together in the Situation Room on January 20, 2009, when there was concern about the authenticity of terror threat to the inauguration.
  • current atmosphere of fear and wild political insurrection
  • Momentum towards impeachment is now all but unstoppable
  • hinted at the insincerity of the Republican approach.
  • With a few exceptions, Republicans -- who indulged and in many cases supported Trump's blatantly false claims of electoral fraud for weeks -- have responded to the uproar over last week's Capitol attack by complaining that by pushing impeachment, Democrats are fracturing national unity.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      good that they now acknowledge however should have been done much earlier
  • His comment eerily recalled the rationalizations of Republicans who declined to convict Trump in his first impeachment trial after he tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the election to damage Biden.
  • "Face the Nation."
  • has emerged from many dark periods since the Civil War
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      we can do it again
  • Trump has not appeared in public for days.
  • The virus is meanwhile running rampant. Eleven states and Washington, DC, just recorded their highest 7-day average of new cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic began. For the first time, the country is averaging over 3,000 deaths from the pandemic per day.
  • hopes that the nation could soon turn a corner are being tempered by the glitches in the vaccine roll out.
jmfinizio

Trump finishes with worst first term approval rating ever - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 33%, while his disapproval is at 60%.
  • 38% approval rating and 59% disapproval rating.
  • It turns out that the insurrection at the US Capitol last week did exactly that.
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  • Heading into January, Trump had a 44% approval rating to 53% disapproval rating. That was not significantly different from his 45% approval rating going into the election.
  • It means Trump will be the first president in the polling era to end his first term with an approval of below 40%
  • He has certainly made Republican lawmakers less leery of distancing themselves from him.
  • Before Trump, the previous lowest approval rating for a president at the end of his term belonged to Jimmy Carter. He remains the only president besides Trump to finish his first term with an approval rating below 50%.
  • He did not try to reach out to Democrats, nor did he try to achieve non-partisan or bipartisan goals in his final two months.
  • What we do know is that Trump may have thought he could escape the post-election period without damage. He thought wrong.
mshilling1

Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together : NPR - 0 views

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  • In a matter of hours on Jan. 6, the Republican Party went from shrugging off its loss of the White House to a party in crisis.
  • making President Trump the first president since Herbert Hoover whose party lost the White House, the House and the Senate in one term.
  • Now, Trump leaves office as the only president to be impeached twice, and the House vote against Trump over the Capitol insurrection marked the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.
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  • I don't know how you bring these people together.
  • "This isn't their Republican Party anymore," the president's son said. "This is Donald Trump's Republican Party."
  • He thinks the big divide is between authoritarians and those who believe in democracy.
  • It's a fundamental belief in whether or not you want to continue the American experiment.
  • You have a segment of American society that does not accept the election outcome and is going to continue to speak up, is going to continue to agitate. And that's going to make this a very unstable period for months and perhaps even years."
  • That means a long, unstable period not just for the Republican Party, but for the American political system as a whole.
  • Annie says it wasn't that long ago that she could talk politics with her mom without things getting heated. But when the pandemic started, she says their conversations were peppered with conspiracies.
  • And what I found were stories, mostly from family members of people who have gotten wrapped up in political conspiracy theories like QAnon. And many are adult children who say they can't really have a civil conversation with their parents anymore and that it wasn't always this way.
  • It kind of seems normal at first. And then all of a sudden, something will just be out of the blue that just seems so far from anything that could be true.
  • UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: She's spending 16 to 18 hours a day consuming this. CORNISH: And the result of all this is a detachment from the facts.
  • Q's stories range from false notions about COVID to a cabal running the U.S. government to the claim there's a secret world of satanic pedophiles. But what's relevant here is that this culminates in a belief that President Trump is a kind of savior figure, which leads to the next phase for these families - a breakdown.
  • Because these belief systems are not about the information within them, but about the identity and the emotions that are appealed to through them, the only thing that can actually combat them effectively are loving, trusting, emotional connections.
  • Do not mock. Do not use snark. All of the, you know, Twitter posts where people make fun of the crazy QAnon supporters, all that does is further reinforce their sense that they are disrespected and maligned.
  • No. 2 - using scientific evidence, argumentation, etc., that comes through the very institutions that they have been told not to trust, that is going to backfire because now they think that you are the dupe because you trust these institutions, etc.
mshilling1

Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone? : NPR - 0 views

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  • Eight in 10 Republicans disagree that Trump is to blame for the violence, don't believe social media companies should continue restrictions on him and don't trust that results of the 2020 election were accurate.
  • Trump whipped up his supporters, repeating a false claim that he has made over and over in the weeks since Nov. 3: "We won this election, and we won it by a landslide," he insisted. "This was not a close election!"
  • That's despite no evidence of widespread fraud and Trump's own administration saying the election was the "most secure in American history."
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  • "The degree to which it becomes corrosive is in direct proportion to the number of people who say it."
  • Trump has continued to claim falsely that the election was stolen and rigged, repeating that message to tens of millions of his followers. That was amplified by conservative media in the lead-up to the violence Jan. 6
  • Almost all Democrats (92%) trust the results, as do a majority of independents (56%). But just 1 in 5 (20%) of Republicans do; a whopping 78% do not.
  • By a 50%-43% margin, Americans do not think social media companies should continue to restrict Trump's use of their platforms beyond his term as president.
adonahue011

How Joe Biden was Donald Trump's kryptonite - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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      adonahue011 on 17 Jan 21
       
      This is very interesting to me because I think much of Donald Trumps campaigns have been about manipulation.
  • Some of the lowest points for Trump over the last two years revolved around Biden.
    • adonahue011
      adonahue011 on 17 Jan 21
       
      Offending an ego, how that connects to our brain and us being sensitive beings.
  • Biden had merely announced he was running for president earlier that year.
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  • What perhaps Trump didn't realize was that he was playing right into Biden's hands. His efforts seem to prove an important point for Biden
    • adonahue011
      adonahue011 on 17 Jan 21
       
      Many times Trump did not even notice he was in many ways helping Biden, intuitively.
  • Democrats got the message Trump was sending and nominated Biden.
  • Trump was impeached a second time after an insurrection that he incited last week over outrage of the 2020 election results.
  • During the transition period, Biden has been actively planning his presidency and not spending too much time publicly worrying about Trump's false claims of voter fraud.
  • Trump it seems, couldn't stand not to be the center of attention, which is unusual for an outgoing president.
    • adonahue011
      adonahue011 on 17 Jan 21
       
      What does this say about his mental state?
  • Trump got about 70% of the news mentions.
  • The end result of all of this is that Biden goes into his administration this week with the vast majority of voters approving of Biden's handling of the transition.
  • Trump's political career seemed to be impermeable. That was until Trump ran into President-elect Joe Biden.
  • Biden proved to be Trump's kryptonite and helped himself tremendously by doing something very simple: allowing Trump to be Trump.
jmfinizio

California Rep. Lou Correa tests positive for Covid-19 - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Democratic Rep. Lou Correa of California said Saturday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration while isolating.
  • I look forward to working with the new administration to unite our country and help the millions of people devastated by the pandemic,
  • Correa had received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on December 19,
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  • The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says building immunity to Covid-19 "typically takes a few weeks" after vaccination and that it's possible a person could be infected before or after being vaccinated
  • CNN reported earlier this week that Correa was accosted by President Donald Trump supporters at Dulles International Airport following the Pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol.
aprossi

These 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday - CNNPolitics - 1 views

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  • These 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday
  • The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump
  • 10 House Republicans. That includes
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  • "incitement of insurrection."
  • Rep. Adam Kinzinger of IllinoisRep. Liz Cheney of WyomingRep. John Katko of New YorkRep. Fred Upton of MichiganRep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of WashingtonRep. Dan Newhouse of WashingtonRep. Peter Meijer of MichiganRep. Anthony Gonzalez of OhioRep. Tom Rice of South CarolinaRep. David Valadao of California
aprossi

Fauci says he worried Trump's disinfectant comment would make people 'start doing dange... - 0 views

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  • Fauci says he worried Trump's disinfectant comment would make people 'start doing dangerous and foolish things'
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said Monday evening he was extremely worried by former President Donald Trump's dangerous April suggestion that ingesting disinfectant could possibly be used to treat Covid-19.
  • He later falsely claimed he was being sarcastic and that he was prompting officials to look into the effect of disinfectant on hands -- not through ingestion or injection. But the comments prompted cleaning product companies and state health officials to issue warnings about the dangers of their ingestion.
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  • You're going to have people who hear that from the President and they're going to start doing dangerous and foolish thing
  • Fauci recalled Monday evening that Trump had been getting a mix of "good information and bad information" on the pandemic.
  • As a result of his willingness to openly refute Trump, Fauci has faced numerous threats to his personal safety -- something he says has given him a look at "the depth of the divisiveness" in the US.
  • This includes "somebody sending me an envelope with powder that explodes in my face to scare me and my family," Fauci said Monday. And while the substance turned out to be a harmless powder, Fauci explained, "My children were very, very distraught by that."
  • The US Capitol insurrection earlier this month, Fauci assessed, was that same divisiveness "in its ultimate."
anonymous

Trump's Twitter ban renews calls for tech law changes by many who don't get tech or the... - 1 views

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  • There is no way Wednesday's events could have happened without the convenience and ease afforded to white supremacists — and almost everyone else — by the openness of the modern consumer internet.
  • It's ironic, then, that the insurrection unfolded on the heels of President Donald Trump's continual efforts to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which makes it difficult to sue online platforms over the content they host (or don't) — or how they moderate it (or don't).
  • Section 230 is, of course, the rare law that is disliked by Republicans and Democrats. Biden hates it, having said: "I think social media should be more socially conscious in terms of what is important in terms of our democracy. ... Everything should not be about whether they can make a buck."
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  • It's one of the most consequential laws governing the internet, and it provided a crucial liability shield for technology companies for content they didn't themselves create, like comment threads.
  • and it has never even been updated to take into account any of the technological changes that have happened since.
  • What Rule 230 isn't (though it's often portrayed that way) is a bedrock for free speech protections: It's simply a rule that permits internet companies to moderate what other people put on their platforms — or not — without being on the hook legally for everything that happens to be there
  • There is an opportunity to use technology to protect people's ability to safely participate in democracy and enable a different America — the America we witnessed in Georgia on Tuesday — and a different world.
  • After Republicans lost the White House, the House and then the Senate, technology companies no longer feel pressure to cozy up to conservatives to keep their prerogatives.
  • But don't mistake the technology industry's lobbying points about free speech as being related to any real care for American democracy.
  • The major technology platforms enabling hate speech all have one thing in common with our 45th president: self-interest.
  • Freedom of speech is truly a value to cherish, but we cherish it through facilitating the expression of truth, not the unfettered right to spew lies and incite violence without consequence.
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