A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/26/a-police-state-coming-to-a-town-near-you/
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its…
#Politics #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericanRevolution #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #JamesMadison #NaturalLawTheory #ThomasJefferson
#thomasJefferson
#politics #trump #oligarchs #fascism #greed #history #democracy #Autocracy #Kings #Poor #JamesMadion #ThomasJefferson #Quotes #alt
Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”
![Thom Hartman 6/24/25 Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot ““I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners],” he warned, the American citizenry would “become the dupes and instruments of ambition, or their poverty and independence will render them the mercenary instruments of wealth. In either case liberty will be subverted; in the first by a despotism growing out of anarchy, in the second, by an oligarchy founded on corruption.” - Father of the Constitution James Madison “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” - Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson [Thomas Jefferson] added with the warning that if we were ever to end up with an oligarchic government that was run, directly or indirectly, by wealthy predators who'd seized our government, America’s working people. “...that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for | can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/738/943/936/638/279/original/ff1feca9afc0abd4.jpeg)
Tacitus in the Colonies https://buff.ly/IvhSkq4 #history #FoundingFathers #historians #ThomasJefferson
#ThomasJefferson two #enemies of the #people #wisdom ⬇️
Trump’s Authoritarian Leap
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/12/trumps-authoritarian-leap/
If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage of protesters as an invasion, Andrew P. Napolitano asks whose freedoms are safe. By Andrew P. Napolitano The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Legal #Militarism #Protests #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #1878PosseComitatusAct #AndrewP.Napolitano #CaliforniaNationalGuard #Federalism #LosAngelesIceRaidProtests #ThomasJefferson #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the US Congress to resolve a sectional dispute between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. #History #ThomasJefferson #MissouriCompromise #AmericanCivilWar #HenryClay #Slavery #TallmadgeAmendment #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24005-en/
Word on the Street -
Literally, parked outside my door.
Yes, the #word / #words on #Truth & #Constitution -
Authored by Thomas Jefferson
Vijay Prashad: Punishing Haiti’s Liberation
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/13/vijay-prashad-punishing-haitis-liberation/
Ever since waging the first successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1804, the Caribbean nation that overthrew slavery has been hit with crippling debt, coups and foreign meddling. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On a stormy August night in 1791,…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #France #Haiti #History #HumanRights #IncomeInequality #Spain #U.s. #Abolition #AntiImperialism #CécileFatiman #Citibank #DuttyBoukman #DuvalierRegime #Frankétienne #FrenchRevolution #GeorgeWashington #HaitianRevolution #JeanBertrandAristide #JeanJacquesDessalines #MaximilienRobespierre #NapoleonBonaparte #PresidentJeanVilbrunGuillaumeSam #Slavery #ThomasJefferson #ToussaintLOuverture #VijayPrashad #ViscountOfRochambeau
“Determining that the actions of #WilliamBlount, a senator from #Tennessee, constituted a crime, #JohnAdams sent Blount's letter to the Senate, where it was presented on July 3, 1797, while Blount was out for a walk.
“When Blount returned, the clerk read the contents of the letter aloud as Blount stood in stunned silence. Vice President #ThomasJefferson asked Blount if he had written the letter.”
#American #history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blount
Hanging out with Tom on the way to work, who reminded me that he would "rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
He might not have much to say these days, being locked in bronze and all, but I'm onboard. 🚇🗽📜
@RiaResists @boor Thanks for the support. #ThomasJefferson was on to something when he took a #RazorBlade to the #KingJames and cut out all the #SuperNatural. The #JeffersonBible can be seen at #TheSmithsonian and purchased on #Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clFLBt4D27M
#HoChiMinh quoted #ThomasJefferson.
Could 54% of #American adults who read at below a 6th grade level articulate the rights and values of being a citizen of the ##AmericanRepublic?
Is there consensus on the #CommonWelfare of #WeThePeople?
A few favorite pics from our 2013 visit to Washington DC.
The first pic, of the Washington Monument, taken from across the Tidal Basin, looks like a postcard.. The lighting was just right.
The second is the Jefferson Memorial framed by the cherry blossoms.
The third features tourists enjoying DC's famous cherry blossom festival along the Potomic Park Tidal Basin.
The last photo is the Washington Monument peeking up through the cherry blowwoms. You can see the scafolding that was in place. The giant obelisk was being repaired after a rare earthquake hit the East Coast in 2011.
#CherryBlossoms #WashingtonDC #WashingtonMonument #JeffersonMemorial #ThrowbackThursday #ThrowbackThursdays #Potomic #DCTidalBasin #DC #USCapital #tourism #WashingtonChannel #PotomicPark #ThomasJeffersonMemorial #ThomasJefferson #GeorgeWashington #CherryBlossomFestival
The first pic, of the Washington Monument, taken from across the Tidal Basin, looks like a postcard.. The lighting was just right.
The second is the Jefferson Memorial framed by the cherry blossoms.
The third features tourists enjoying DC's famous cherry blossom festival along the Potomic Park Tidal Basin.
The last photo is the Washington Monument peeking up through the cherry blowwoms. You can see the scafolding that was in place. The giant obelisk was being repaired after a rare earthquake hit the East Coast in 2011.
#CherryBlossoms #WashingtonDC #WashingtonMonument #JeffersonMemorial #ThrowbackThursday #ThrowbackThursdays #Potomic #DCTidalBasin #DC #USCapital #tourism #WashingtonChannel #PotomicPark #ThomasJeffersonMemorial #ThomasJefferson #GeorgeWashington #CherryBlossomFestival
Here a new blog post for you, from Thomas Jefferson, in his less well known guise of fossil-hunter!
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/thomas-jefferson-megalonyx-jeffersoni/
#thomasjefferson #giantgroundsloth #scicomm
Stay #Woke, Fam
All of this blew my mind.
The opening of #ThomasJefferson’s 1822 letter to James Smith, rewritten in the style of a #TikTok influencer for a 6th grade audience.
I feel...an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
-- Thomas Jefferson
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasJefferson #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
Office chairs turn out to have a much longer history than I expected. The first known swivel chair for use in an office is credited to Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). It was altered over time to include a writing surface. #modernoffice #thomasjefferson #history #swivelchair
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