Crash Course: Can't we get a nationwide gag order against Trump's violent threats?

The First Amendment wasn't meant to cover a public figure's dangerous, damaging lies. 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From Kirk Swearingen: We have laws about defamation of character, as Trump has discovered at great expense in the two lawsuits brought by Carroll, as well as about [witness tampering](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZmw1ZDI3anc1dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG9XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). But what can we do about a shameless, [coddled](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMXR6YWU5NG5vdS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) politician who not only regularly defames others but also encourages threats and violence against them with a smirk, using the cheap rhetorical tools of despots — including demonizing and dehumanizing so-called enemies — while leaving himself that tiny window of plausible deniability? [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNzE1M3NoNjkzeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbWY0NTJmNWRqcC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG9XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMXI4bnppYjlzYy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG9XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNDBxdHIxaXB1ci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG9XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveng1dzVianFpdy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG9XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Could Donald Trump cause a market collapse? It might really happen From Andrew Feinberg: My financial worries about fascism are both general and specific. I fear that the warping or destruction of institutions (the actual, rather than fictional, “weaponization” of the Justice Department, the elimination or decimation of the FBI and other key government agencies) will startle slumbering domestic and international investors awake, causing them to reallocate assets to cheaper, and now perhaps safer, global markets. Imagine if the Trump administration, peeved that a major corporation refuses to pledge allegiance to the leader, enacts policies that slash the company’s profits. The company’s stock would crater, as would investor confidence. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveGJlbTZoMWQ1OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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Geologists disagree if the Anthropocene exists or not Before you go ... Kurt Cobain and Me: The Gen X poster child and rock legend is my Gen Z hero, too Raised by Gen X parents like mine whose early adulthoods were largely defined by Nirvana and Cobain, his music became part of a [shared, familial identity](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn_43WP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdWpmeXlhM25xYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPThoaHdvaXI0cG8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZhDXCB1mYi40KFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) they could pass down to us. 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