This is an amazing hike not for the faint of heart. To get onto the canyon trail you have to grip the sides of a slick rock wall and climb down, hoping you don't slip and plunge to your death. Worth it though!
More Little Grand Canyon
More Little Grand Canyon
Southern Illinois. On the left a faded "caverns" advertisement on an old barn roof; these are all over Missouri too
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Yes, this is unusual. But it’s unsurprising when the previous POTUS (aka Individual One), his indicted-and-pardoned team, and his criminal transnational backers still wield tremendous power — and other officials use any excuse possible to avoid holding them accountable.
Trump was not an aberration but a culmination of decades of corruption and elite criminal impunity. He rose through a dark network and exploited Americans' material pain. Dems have so far done little to alleviate either crisis, and worse, they show little interest in doing so.
If Dems and other officials do not hold the perperators of past admin crimes accountable *and* tackle the structural issues that made the US vulnerable to mafia state rule, all the Biden admin will be is a brief interlude between aspiring autocracy and entrenched autocracy.
"The filibuster gives the Democrats a way to avoid accountability for their own actions and leadership. As long as it take 60 votes to do anything in the Senate, they have an excuse." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"'We need 60 votes' is the most common excuse the Dems use for things failing to get done. Removing the filibuster will take that excuse off the table. They won’t be able to say it’s the GOP’s fault." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Getting rid of the fig leaf excuse of the filibuster will be very healthy for our democratic process because we will be able to see which representatives will actually stand up for the principles they claim to believe in." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"All it takes to changes the Senate rules is a vote of the majority of Senators. That’s 50 Senators plus the VP, which is exactly what the Democrats have now. The Democrats could kill the filibuster tomorrow." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"If Biden wants to have a successful administration and the Democrats want to deliver the results that were made on the campaign trail, they have to face up to the fact that filibuster reform is a necessity." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Most of the Democratic caucus feels the urgency of filibuster reform. Voting rights will be the issue that brings it to a head. If the Dems do not pass voting rights, any good the Biden admin does will be quickly undone." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"The framers wanted a Senate to counterbalance the rough-and-tumble House. But the Senate that we have today has become far more of a generator of gridlock than the framers ever intended." -- Adam Jentleson on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Madison thought that giving Delaware the same representation as Virginia was injustice. He certainly would think that California, which has 70 times more people than the smallest state, getting the same number of Senators is injustice." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"The Senate was designed to amplify the elite. The forces who have desired to oppress black Americans throughout history took that Senate and made it amplify the Southern white planter elite specifically. That's how we got the filibuster." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Alongside the Chuck Todd Industrial Complex, you've got the Legal Fantasy Cosplay on cable news where lawyers and former prosecutors tantalize people with justice that never comes." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Cy Vance is also teasing people with the promise of justice, despite his long history of streamlining elite criminal impunity and letting (among others) Epstein, Weinstein, Ivanka, Don Jr, and Manafort off the hook." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"People are hyping that Vance hired a lawyer with a history of prosecuting the mafia decades ago, but Mueller did that too. And what did it lead to? Nothing. It didn't matter. What matters is how brave people are going to be *right now*." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"The pandemic was preventable. Trump knew early how bad it was and admitted to downplaying it. He, Kushner, and others not only failed to stop it, but deliberately withheld aid and leveraged a deadly virus as a weapon." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"The Trump admin turned protecting oneself from the virus into a culture war. Nurses reported patients dying in denial. Trump incited the mass murder of Americans just like he incited the attack on our Capitol." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Trump is a mass murderer, and the GOP continues to embrace him. Some of the GOP leaders act like they're in a hostage situation to protect shreds of credibility, but they're not. They chose to be the party of Trump." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…