Why America must remember 6 January as its Day of Infamy
Behavioural insights could be harnessed to pre-empt mob violence
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Cass R. Sunstein
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January the 6th, 2021, is a day that should live in infamy a day on which the fundamental institutions of the US were suddenly attacked. It will take a long time to understand fully why political passion crossed the line into an insurrection at the US Capitol, but social science research illuminates part of the picture. Long-standing feelings of rage, humiliation, racism and hatred did not explode spontaneously. They were fuelled and unleashed, above all by President Donald Trump. That’s what turned those feelings into action.
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Communist Party says: ‘Remove Trump now’ January 7, 2021 2:50 PM CDT By Communist Party USA
Trump s insurrectionary forces break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. | John Minchillo / AP
The following statement was issued by the Communist Party USA, Jan. 7, 2021.
Yesterday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol was nothing less than a white supremacist insurrection. Make no mistake it was organized by Trump himself, along with Giuliani, Bannon, and their big-business backers. Its goal was to disrupt Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote and overturn the November election. It was a criminal act of sedition and should be treated as such.
Records given to a University of Michigan library under a contract guaranteeing their privacy should not be subject to a public records request because they don t shed light on the university s operations, a UM lawyer told the Michigan Supreme Court Wednesday.
But a lawyer seeking access to the documents argued they do shed light on government operations. The university, he said, is attempting to have the Supreme Court create an exemption in Michigan s public records law where none exists and where the Legislature has declined to create one. This case has been pending for three years. . The Legislature knows how to change the law to support this and they just haven’t, lawyer Philip Ellison said. .This court can t create that exception; the Legislature has to.
Arizona State Rep Drafts Legislation to Fine Big Tech After ‘Stop the Steal’ Censorship
Twitter censored a number of accounts ahead of the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., including Arizona State Rep Mark Finchem (R), who is now drafting legislation to fine big tech companies that engage in censorship.
According to draft legislation provided to the National File, Fincham’s bill would issue online services with fines if they are engaged in “editing, deleting, delisting, blocking, censoring, or making it difficult or impossible for online users to locate and access uploaded content in a timely manner.”