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Dolly Parton’s Greatest Legacy Was Her Giving
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On Tuesday, Dolly Parton’s family announced the death of the beloved country music icon, a woman whose career spanned so many decades and so many disciplines, who wrote so many unforgettable songs and inspired so many people through her j…
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Heidi Overton and the Overton Window
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Last week, President Trump posted to Truth Social his plan to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (The Contrarian covered the departure of her predecessor, Dr. Marty Makary, when he was pushed out in May.)
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I've been thinking about why just about everybody, including me, is gushing about Dolly Parton. It actually makes perfect sense. In a world where empathy is derided and treated as weakness, she never ceased to demonstrate empathy. There were no excluded groups. She didn't make negative noise. She was almost literally a "breath of fresh air" right up to the end of her life. This is incredibly rare and so desperately needed.
Protection of this election is not only a matter for attorneys. Gil Duran has just published a book: The Nerd Reich -- which, with more than ample evidence, draws a parallel between many of the excessively wealthy tech bros and the desire to replace democracy with an autocracy of themselves. You should expect John Roberts to continue to make partisan decisions, even with lawsuits following the election. Recall that the Supreme Court under Roberts former boss at the DOJ and mentor decided to stop the recount in Florida giving Bush the presidency by 537 votes. The only remedy is for there to be a rate of Democratic registration and turnout comparable to Lyndon Johnson's defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964. It is up to us.