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  1. @BuckRogers1965 @jaykuo Counterpoint: #StatuesOfLimitations #FiniteResources #ProsecutorialDiscretion #Unfettered #PardonAuthority ; #Trump has even attempted to pardon a Colorado election official, convicted on state charges, who allowed illegal access to voting machines to his partisans — contrary to most characterizations of his pardon authority. He has not acknowledged to my knowledge that he may not #pardon himself, so I expect him to attempt to do so rather than the Nixon-Ford shuffle of the previous most disgraceful US President.

  2. @BuckRogers1965 @jaykuo Counterpoint: #StatuesOfLimitations #FiniteResources #ProsecutorialDiscretion #Unfettered #PardonAuthority ; #Trump has even attempted to pardon a Colorado election official, convicted on state charges, who allowed illegal access to voting machines to his partisans — contrary to most characterizations of his pardon authority. He has not acknowledged to my knowledge that he may not #pardon himself, so I expect him to attempt to do so rather than the Nixon-Ford shuffle of the previous most disgraceful US President.

  3. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
    But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
    💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
    🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
    🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
    🔸politicians "free to incite rebellion",
    🔸corporations "free to pollute", and more.
    How did we get here?
    Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
    In ♦️The Road to Freedom♦️, Nobel prize winner #Joseph E. #Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic #system and the political #ideology that created it,
    laying bare their twinned #failure.
    👉“Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the #financial crisis, the #opioid crisis, and the crisis of #inequality.
    While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth,
    wages for most people have stagnated.
    Free and #unfettered #markets have #exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike.
    Such failures have fed #populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another.
    As they grow in strength, 🔥these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.🔥
    wwnorton.com/books/97813240743

  4. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
    But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
    💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
    🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
    🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
    🔸politicians "free to incite rebellion",
    🔸corporations "free to pollute", and more.
    How did we get here?
    Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
    In ♦️The Road to Freedom♦️, Nobel prize winner #Joseph E. #Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic #system and the political #ideology that created it,
    laying bare their twinned #failure.
    👉“Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the #financial crisis, the #opioid crisis, and the crisis of #inequality.
    While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth,
    wages for most people have stagnated.
    Free and #unfettered #markets have #exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike.
    Such failures have fed #populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another.
    As they grow in strength, 🔥these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.🔥
    wwnorton.com/books/97813240743

  5. This includes #location #data from #smartphones that can be used to #track millions of #Americans. The advisers warn that the amount of data the #government can #access exceeds #constitutional traditions and #social expectations. They say the government must appreciate that #unfettered access to this data can quickly increase its own #power to peer into #private #lives to levels that exceed constitutional traditions.

  6. This includes #location #data from #smartphones that can be used to #track millions of #Americans. The advisers warn that the amount of data the #government can #access exceeds #constitutional traditions and #social expectations. They say the government must appreciate that #unfettered access to this data can quickly increase its own #power to peer into #private #lives to levels that exceed constitutional traditions.