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darcyknightley

Oh how I miss you!

Chicks on the side.

Some say that the white morph of the Grey Goshawk are the only raptors with pure-white plumage in the world (nonalbino). (Source)

ouchpouchsaywhat

Well, damn.

Bolshoi Academy student, Stanislava Postnova.

from her ig.

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Stanislava Postnova (Bolshoi Ballet Academy)

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Anastasia Guschina Анастасия Гусчина, The Bolshoi Ballet Academy

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Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after his release by the Red Army

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How sad.

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(Source)

pandasennin

My one weakness…KITTENS!

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Aww. Baby kitty cat.

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Jeff Bridges photographed by Bruce Weber, 1976.

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F4U “Corsair” fighter “loses” the tail during an emergency landing on the “Shangri-La” aircraft carrier

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Denzel Washington in Glory (1989).

Dir: Edward Zwick

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Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law

The “rule of law” distinguishes democracies from dictatorships. It’s based on three fundamental principles. Trump is violating every one of them.

The first principle is that no person is above the law, not even a president. Which means a president cannot stop an investigation into his alleged illegal acts.

Yet Trump has done everything he can to stop the Mueller investigation, even making Matthew Whitaker acting Attorney General – whose only distinction to date has been loud and public condemnation of that investigation.

The second principle is that a president cannot prosecute political opponents. Decisions about whom to prosecute for alleged criminal wrongdoing must be made by prosecutors who are independent of politics.

Yet Trump has repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to bring charges against Hillary Clinton, his 2016 rival, for using a private email server when she was Secretary of State, in alleged violation of the Presidential Records Act.

The third principle is that a president must be respectful of the independence of the judiciary. Yet Trump has openly ridiculed judges who disagree with him in order to fuel public distrust of them.

He recently referred to the judge who halted Trump’s plan for refusing to consider asylum applications an “Obama judge,” and railed against the entire ninth circuit in which that judge serves.

John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, condemned Trump’s attack. “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges,” Roberts said. An “independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”

Almost a half-century ago, I watched as another president violated these three basic principles of the rule of law, although not as blatantly as Trump. The nation rose up in outrage against Richard Nixon, who resigned before Congress impeached him.

The question is whether this generation of Americans will have the strength and wisdom to do the same.

monica-found

Sounds like you’re describing President Obama.

honeylemony

Highland cattle calves are shorter than most, but still rock the show!

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Cuties.

ongovernment71

“Did I say "republic?” By God, yes, I said “republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.”

Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969) American journalist, writer Source: New York Journal American of January 25th and 26th, 1951, under the titles “Upholds Republic of U.S. Against Phony Democracy” and “Democracy in the U.S. Branded Meaningless.”