#unfettered — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unfettered, aggregated by home.social.
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John Fetterman Punched Us in the Mouth
On May 10, 2022, I published an article on this page under the headline "John Fetterman Will Punch You in the Mouth!" I meant it as tribute. I called him "what a Democrat used to be," a man "of the land, against the elite power, for the common good," and I welcomed him into my invented fraternity of "Big Uglies," the large, plain, unpressed men who do the country's heavy carrying. The year before, on my Human Meme podcast, in an episode called "The Great White Bridge as Throughline," I had floated him as a future Democratic President, with Keisha Lance Bottoms standing as his second. I believed the hoodie. I believed the shorts, the goatee, the 6'8" frame, the tattooed forearms, the whole costume of the steel-town avenger who, I assured you, "suffers no fools." Four years later I am here to take it back, in public, at length, because the recantation is owed, and because the autopsy of my error teaches more than the error did. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/05/john-fetterman-punched-us-in-the-mouth/
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John Fetterman Punched Us in the Mouth
On May 10, 2022, I published an article on this page under the headline "John Fetterman Will Punch You in the Mouth!" I meant it as tribute. I called him "what a Democrat used to be," a man "of the land, against the elite power, for the common good," and I welcomed him into my invented fraternity of "Big Uglies," the large, plain, unpressed men who do the country's heavy carrying. The year before, on my Human Meme podcast, in an episode called "The Great White Bridge as Throughline," I had floated him as a future Democratic President, with Keisha Lance Bottoms standing as his second. I believed the hoodie. I believed the shorts, the goatee, the 6'8" frame, the tattooed forearms, the whole costume of the steel-town avenger who, I assured you, "suffers no fools." Four years later I am here to take it back, in public, at length, because the recantation is owed, and because the autopsy of my error teaches more than the error did. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/05/john-fetterman-punched-us-in-the-mouth/
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@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.
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@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.
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Not only is the #felon #grifting the #US, this #CorruptAdminstration is #stealing from our #allies. #criminal #government running #unfettered.
#impeach #corruptGOP #CorruptToTheCore #opposeGOP #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #SaveTheRepublic #USAID #USPolitics
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-european-allies-trying-pry-113723842.html
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#VicePresident #KamalaHarris hasn’t sat for #interviews. I don’t blame her.
It would be #insane to #subject yourself to #unfettered #questions by an #industry that doesn’t seem to know how to handle #interviews with true #journalistic #integrity and #practices. Why beat your head against a wall you know is made of #Propaganda and #Disinformation?
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#VicePresident #KamalaHarris hasn’t sat for #interviews. I don’t blame her.
It would be #insane to #subject yourself to #unfettered #questions by an #industry that doesn’t seem to know how to handle #interviews with true #journalistic #integrity and #practices. Why beat your head against a wall you know is made of #Propaganda and #Disinformation?
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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.🔥
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324074373 -
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.🔥
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324074373 -
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.
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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.
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'"Oh c'est la vie, maybe something's wrong with me, but at least I'm free."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDPW_g2AhAU
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Note the words & the #meaning here - #RupertMurdoch says #Fox stars #endorsed #lies about 2020. He #chose #not to #StopThem. We did and do not have a #choice - the #lies were and continue to be piled upon us and #distributed, #littered across media, #unfettered. Is this case not resonating at all - BAU. #Facts not #Lies https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud Murdoch under oath stated #FoxNews #hosts #MariaBartiromo #JeaninePirro, #LouDobbs #SeanHannity pushed #FalseClaims of #ElectoralFraud.
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Note the words & the #meaning here - #RupertMurdoch says #Fox stars #endorsed #lies about 2020. He #chose #not to #StopThem. We did and do not have a #choice - the #lies were and continue to be piled upon us and #distributed, #littered across media, #unfettered. Is this case not resonating at all - BAU. #Facts not #Lies https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud Murdoch under oath stated #FoxNews #hosts #MariaBartiromo #JeaninePirro, #LouDobbs #SeanHannity pushed #FalseClaims of #ElectoralFraud.