#loyalists — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness
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Hype for the Future 62P: Kings Landing, New Brunswick
Introduction Kings Landing is located west of the City of Fredericton in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. The historical significance of the United Empire Loyalist migrations, though also impacting the areas nearer Fredericton, Saint John, Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia), the Eastern Township of Québec, and numerous areas in both Northern and Southern Ontario, has largely been associated with the migrations from the New York area to the Province of New Brunswick and surrounding […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/hype-for-the-future-62p-kings-landing-new-brunswick/
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#Trump has stacked the #DOJ & the #Pentagon with personal #loyalists, & has tended to bypass the Office of Legal Counsel [#OLC] — the institution traditionally responsible for vetting the legality of executive actions. Although the standard guidelines & procedures for past #domestic deployments remain on the books, there is substantial reason to doubt that the civilian leadership will follow them.
#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #military #NationalGuard #Marines #LosAngeles #autocracy
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HT @steve_zeke
> its vast expansion of the Homeland Security budget, which will be used to build #ICE into a huge national army of #loyalists under Trump’s control... This is the Proud Boys, at national scale, with badges. It is a very dangerous prospect.
> [current] combined funding of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, and all other federal law enforcement is only half the size of the federal funding for immigration and border enforcement.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/building-the-american-brownshirts
#USpol #immigration #police #fascism #ACAB #ProudBoys #DHS #KristiNoem #ErikPrince #TrumpIsAFascist #Authoritarianism #USPol #Brownshirts #Nazis #ResistICE #ResistFascism #HSI
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The role, which is NOT subject to #Senate approval, is an important one. In it, Kyle Diamantas, 37, will be responsible for ensuring the safety of ~80% of the nation’s food supply. The already-overtaxed division is vital to #PublicHealth, responsible for everything from overseeing the complex manufacturing of #InfantFormula to responding to deadly bacterial #contamination & managing food supplies in the wake of hurricanes & floods.
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The 3 resignations are a rebuke to the #Trump admin, which has removed or transferred multiple senior #DOJ ofcls & fired dozens of prosecutors since Trump took office, while attempting to install #loyalists in key #law enforcement posts.
Last week, on her first day leading the department, AG #PamBondi demanded “zealous advocacy” of Trump’s agenda from the DOJ’s 10k lawyers, threatening #termination if they declined to sign a brief or appear in court because of their personal beliefs. -
The #EPA plans to demote career employees who oversee scientific #research, the #enforcement of #pollution laws, #HazardousWaste cleanup & the agency’s HR dept & replace them w/ #political appointees.
The move would give #Trump #loyalists more #influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by #nonpartisan #experts who have served across Republican & Democratic admins.
#science #climate #ClimateCrisis #law #USpol #TrumpCoup
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/climate/epa-demotes-career-employees-overseeing-science-enforcement-and-more.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
It would allow him to quickly install #loyalists in major positions w/o subjecting them to the risk of long-running & *intrusive* [extremely necessary] #FBI #BackgroundChecks, potentially increasing the risks of people w/problematic histories or ties to other nations being given influential White House roles. Such checks hung up clearances for a number of aides during #Trump’s presidency, including Trump’s son-in-law #JaredKushner & #BorisEpshteyn.