Example 2, from Mark Jacob at www.stopthepresses.news: Jacob, a former newspaperman, observes that most mainstream news media goes out of its way NOT to report the most obvious and important fact of our time.
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Example 1, from Paul Campos at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social: Campos, a law professor, points out that SCOTUS is making a mockery of the traditional approach to professing the law.

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“The Republicans are insane, you can’t negotiate with them, but you have to pretend this isn’t true if you’re the Democratic leadership, …

“Now at some point this won’t make any sense any more and I suspect we’re reaching that point quite rapidly.”

Nut graf: “My point here is that politics at this moment in this country consists necessarily in part in pretending that things are still roughly “normal,” because that’s the pragmatic thing to do to a certain extent, even though it’s pretending.

How long before there is a mass MAGA movement to get rid of seatbelt laws, since traffic fatalities have been declining over so many years?