Since when has the fasces bookended the podium in the House chambers?
The fasces were axes carried by Lictors, a caste within the Roman Empire that served as both body guard and executioner. On paper, Tribunes were elected from among the people to act as a check on laws passed by the patricians.
If memory serves, on paper, the Tribunes could veto any Roman law, and if they were interrupted, censored and prevented from executing their obligations to the people, the Lictors would execute whomever censored or interrupted them . . .
According to "aspiring physician" Edward Nirenberg, "The collective conclusion from our understanding of these biological process is that a naked mRNA in the cytosol has no potential to end up in a cellular compartment that contains our own DNA . . ."
@jbarro@elonmusk is a fascist who pumps money into cryptocurrency, which is only valuable to Capitalists looking to expand into the domestic terrorism market. Crypto is also at least partially responsible for the genocide of Uighers and is accelerating global warming.
@jbarro@elonmusk SpaceX is #SpaceKaren's bid to raid the public coffers, which our government is all to happy to forfeit to a private enterprise, Tesla, which has never and will never end the War on Nature or help Earth heal.
@jbarro@elonmusk@elonmusk also bends over regularly for Donald Trump & Co., and he repeatedly lied about the severity of the pandemic and the danger posed by COVID.
Every minute of the documentary "Notturno" is alternately trauma-triggering depressing or infused with sublime beauty. You know a doc is top-notch when it shows rather than instructs.
This documentary confronts the rot at the heart of it all head-on.
If humanity perishes, leaving only a cosmic record of shame, it will be because we deserve it.
@DavidCornDC Many of us have been aware of Trump's danger to the American people for some time, and tho he successfully tamped down the Mueller Report, it clearly paints a portrait of coordination between Trump, his campaign and Russia.
@DavidCornDC I feel like we've known this, and we certainly know that he attempted a coup of the government. I feel like a lot of people are unconsciously dissociating that memory. It happened. We know all of this. When are we going to do something about it?
@DavidCornDC Jefferson Davis received two years in prison. TWO YEARS!!! How many people died in the Civil War? As far as I'm concerned, Trump is at least that guilty . . . but Jefferson Davis deserved FAR MORE than two years!