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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Horace

But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, —
Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!)
Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down,
The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town.
 
                                        [At ille,
Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo),
Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, “Sunt quibus in Satira,” l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/14901/

WIST Quotations · Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, "Sunt quibus in Satira," l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsBut he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, -- Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!) Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down, The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town. [At ille, Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo), Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]…
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from John Adams

Obsta principiis, nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1775-02-06), “Novanglus,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/6069/

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→ How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis
thewalrus.ca/how-i-went-underc

“I think #accelerationism is the most dangerous and overlooked threat facing us today. […] [I]t has never had such a widespread following in the white #supremacist community. […] What they do believe is #society will eventually #collapse, either on its own or from a man-made event, and their goal is to speed that up by sowing #chaos and #political tensions. To accelerate it.”

The Walrus · How I Went Undercover to Expose America’s Nazis | The WalrusAccelerationist groups are in overdrive to establish a white ethno-state. As an FBI special agent, I infiltrated one
#Undercover#America#Nazis
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin’s move this month to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in support to #Columbia — which draws roughly a fifth of its operating revenues from Washington — represented a dire #threat to the university. The govt told Columbia it would consider restarting those grants & contracts only if the university agreed to a list of demands.

Last week, it fell to Dr. Armstrong to announce that Columbia had done so.

#education#law#USpol
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Nonilex

Unsurprisingly

#LawFirms refuse to represent #Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks

Trump issued yet another #ExecutiveOrder Tuesday sanctioning yet another #law firm, Jenner & Block. The result overall has been called an extraordinary #threat to #constitutional rights of #DueProcess & #legal representation & a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.

#RevengePolitics #CivilRights
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacksBy Michael Birnbaum
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Kim Perales

"JOHNSON leveled a new #threat at the judiciary:🚨ELIMINATING SPECIFIC COURTS.

"We do have authority over the fed courts -we can, we can eliminate an entire dist court.

"We have power, funding over the courts & all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures."
-J Sherman

Dershowitz argued Congress had another path: Article III only calls for a SC. Dist & Appeals courts are creations of Congress -not co-equal branches of govt.
-Patriot Pulse
#Lawless #Republicans #USPol

Trump:
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Kim Perales

"2 sources have told me that the Dept of VA payroll system (VATAS) has been🚨down since Fri. It's operating in 'Emergency Mode' only & will have to resort to straight time cards to get ppl their base pay on Fri. No explanation or timeline of when it will be back up again. Everyone is wondering what caused it to crash & none of my sources have ever heard of it doing so before."
-F Wellman

Sabotaging #SocialSecurity & #VA is an existential #threat.
#Cruelty is the pt.

#Resist #April5
#DOGE #USPol

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