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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia ([link removed]) [1782]
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February 19, 2025
Trump's Takeover of the Kennedy Center ([link removed])
President Trump is cleaning house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. Upset over some of the center’s performances and possibly miffed over the fact that three honorees in 2017 didn’t want to meet with him, Trump fired Biden-appointed board members and others, criticized the center’s programming, and, amazingly, has appointed himself as the new chairman of ...
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