Friedman: Trump s Big Lie devoured GOP, endangers democracy
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
May 6, 2021
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Insurrectionists, inspired by President Donald Trump’s Big Lie of voter fraud, storm the Capitol. The threat to democracy persists.Kent Nishimura /TNS
President Joe Biden’s early success in getting Americans vaccinated, pushing out stimulus checks and generally calming the surface of American life has been a blessing for the country. But it’s also lulled many into thinking that Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, which propelled the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, would surely fade away and everything would return to normal. It hasn’t.
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Architectural Digest has named the University of Maine School of Law building in Portland one of the eight ugliest university buildings in the United States. Staff photo by Gregory Rec
The University of Maine School of Law has three former governors and four Maine Supreme Court justices among its alumni, but its dingy, off-white round, blocky home off Brighton Avenue in Portland is a real stinker, according to Architectural Digest.
“This university building may look like a futuristic version of the Roman Colosseum, but the only battles happening within these walls are with the bar exam,” the magazine wrote in a recent article declaring the building one of the eight ugliest university buildings in America.
“It’s hypocritical because she asks that of other people,” said Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “Although, I have some admiration that she chose not to throw her father under the bus in the interests of being ‘woke.’”
D’Alesandro, who served as Baltimore’s mayor from 1947 to 1959, headed a city that was rife with segregated housing and schools. He occupied the mayor’s office when the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The court ruled unconstitutional the idea of “separate but equal” facilities that allowed the segregation of schools.
Everyone should support the few reasonable Republicans left, such as Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney.
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A supporter of President Donald Trump wears a paper mask at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2018. Instead of Trumpâs Big Lie fading away, just the opposite is happening â first slowly and now quickly, writes New York Times opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman.
By Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times
  | May 5, 2021, 5:27 p.m.
President Joe Bidenâs early success in getting Americans vaccinated, pushing out stimulus checks and generally calming the surface of American life has been a blessing for the country. But itâs also lulled many into thinking that Donald Trumpâs Big Lie that the election was stolen, which propelled the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, would surely fade away and everything would return to normal. It hasnât.
The position of mayor and three Town Council seats are at stake in Sykesville. Stacy Link and incumbent Ian Shaw are running for mayor; incumbents Alan Grasley and Leo Keenan, and Elizabeth Guroff, Keith Mathis and Frank Robert are running for the council.