Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
— Lysander Spooner, born in 1808
POINTS AND FIGURES: Social Media and Taking Risk. “Social media has bigger ramifications than just changing societal norms for the worse. It limits risk-taking. It limits innovation. It eliminates the will to discover and try. Social media makes everything public.”
A former City of Casey councillor accused of taking bribes from a property developer also received a quarter of a million dollars from the director of a Kuwaiti holding company, an anti-corruption inquiry has heard.
Former Casey mayor Sam Aziz received more than $250k after council land sale, IBAC told
Christianity Today op-ed: It’s Not Enough to Preach Racial Justice. We Have to Champion Policy Change., by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton; author, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope(2020)):
The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us to push past tweetable quotes and big talk to true Christlike love.
For a black boy growing up in Alabama trying to make sense of himself in a hostile world, Martin Luther King Jr. was my hero. Alongside a startingly pale Jesus, a picture of Martin hung beside photographs of my family. I knew Martin by sight. I could recognize the tenor of his voice
SO WHERE IS EVERYBODY? The Most Common Stars in Our Galaxy May Be More Habitable Than We Thought.
Alexey Navalny’s Fearless Return to RussiaMasha Gessen, The New Yorker. Navalny is having a moment (and I still insist that if [makes warding sign against evil] Putin poisoned him, he never would have been allowed to leave the country to go to a German hospital).
What the Navalny Arrest Means for Russia and the West The National Interest
Nearly 1 In 5 Defendants In Capitol Riot Cases Served In The Military