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When I first saw headlines about this story, I genuinely thought the media was just taking the bait while yet another Trump regime official "played stupid" under questioning, but seeing is believing; as this short Majority Report segment demonstrations, DHS Secretary (and former Governor of South Dakota) absolutely does not know what the Writ of Habeas Corpus is and what, or even whose rights it protects. Facing down questions during a Senate oversight committee hearing, the DHS Secretary responded to the simple question of "what is habeas corpus" with "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to" before being cut off by Senator (D-NH) Maggie Hassan, who provided the correct answer. The entire exchange, as well as Noem's responses to further questioning by Senator (D-NJ) Andy Kim have a bizarro-world quality to them that exposes Noem as a deeply unserious and untrustworthy person who absolutely should not be serving in the US government in any capacity whatsoever; I wouldn't trust this lady to run the Easter Egg Roll.

I would however like to note that the things Noem did say, or at least clearly had absorbed by repetition for propaganda purposes, were just as revealing as the things she didn't know and couldn't recite. Analyzing Noem's answers, it's very clear that she was making a propaganda argument to manufacture consent for suspending habeas corpus, and Donald Trump's presumed power to do so; even going so far as to push back against the clearly better informed and more legally knowledgeable Senators questioning her. Listening to the DHS Secretary, it's pretty easy to sketch a rough outline of Stephen Miller's plan to declare Trump can suspend habeas corpus without Congressional approval, under the presumption that said approval will be given retroactively because Abe Lincoln did so one time during the literal Civil War.

Of course none of the regime's arguments for this fascist bullshit are legally valid or make any sense at all. As we've discussed many times already here in this space, America is absolutely not being invaded, by narco-terrorist gangs or otherwise, and I think "we saw too many Mexican-looking people in our neighborhoods" doesn't represent an equivalent public safety "crisis" to that time Lincoln had to stop Confederate soldiers from pillaging Union territories when the South formally seceded and declared war on the US government. Despite this however, the Trump regime is currently working hard to make that argument and win the court of public opinion on this alarming subject for a reason; Kristi Noem might be an ignorant fool, but someone certainly fed her the talking points the administration wants to use to justify suspending habeas corpus, and that should concern us all

The Majority Report: Trump Team's Stunning Ignorance On Full Display During Noem's 'Habeas Corpus' Flop

youtube.com/watch?v=_aZH2dQcwy

Happy 160th anniversary of a bunch of murderous cowards finally giving up on the idea that they should own other human beings.

"The Battle of Appomattox Court House [...] was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant."

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en.wikipedia.orgBattle of Appomattox Court House - Wikipedia

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The witness tree

By the end of the afternoon on September 17, 1862, six hundred twenty men from New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia lay dead or wounded at a stone bridge spanning the Antietam Creek in southern Maryland.
The carnage came as the men from New York and Pennsylvania mounted three attempts to cross the bridge as the men from Georgia, arrayed in fortified positions on the opposing hill, fired down upon them.

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A fraught and ugly election period led to an attempted insurrection by anti-government conspirators, with the tacit and active encouragement of powerful men. We speak, of course, of the New York arson campaign in November 1864. Betsy Golden Kellem explains it all in this Atavist longread.

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#History @histodons #USPolitics #USCivilWar #AbrahamLincoln #Longreads

The Atavist Magazine · City on FireBy Betsy Golden Kellem

The Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, often simply referred to as the Battle Flag, infrequently as the Southern Cross, or (incorrectly) as the Confederate flag, was a flag flown by the forces of (who else?) the Confederate States of America's Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. It was later used to represent all of the Confederate forces, starting with its adoption as the symbol of the United Confederate Veterans. From there, it became recognized as a symbol of the Confederacy in general, and later the South, yet more generally. Today, the flag is popular with southerners and non-southerners alike, who claim the flag represents their "heritage" and doesn't have any racist connotations at all. It is also popular with admitted racists, white supremacists, and alt-righters, who don't even try to deny its racist connotations.

#RationalWiki #lostcauseofthesouth #uscivilwar #racism
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to lose the last best hope of earth

The Civil War would be long and it would cost more in lives than anyone could have imagined when it began in Charleston Harbor in April 1861.

By late 1862, that much was clear.

The September battle in the cornfields alongside Maryland’s Antietam Creek, which had spilled the blood of more than 22,000 men, had shocked the nation.

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Photo of the Day · Photo of the DayBy Brenda Elthon