• judge, jury, executioner & legislative, executive, judicial | POTUS tweet: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” [“Despite the lenient treatment he had received from sympathetic Weimar-era judges during his assault and treason trials, Hitler had claimed to want to annihilate the German judiciary and replace it with pure, National Socialist courts.” – The Nazi Judiciary a blog]

“Creeping Facism” – NewsCorpse

• Weaselnomics continued | “Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposal to raise the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 would harm the health of 65- and 66-year old adults as well as the financial health of the institutions that care for them.” – Jus+care (NOTE: This is from an email just received, “But, as Social Security Works’ very own Linda Benesch and Alex Lawson wrote on the Huffington Post, Ryan isn’t spinless, so much as he is an evil opportunist. Speaker Ryan thinks he can sneak the complete destruction of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security through Congress without oversight as the White House issues unconstitutional executive orders that suck up the public’s attention. Tell Speaker Ryan: We’re watching you, and when you come for our earned benefits, we will defeat you.”

Think it’s easy being an NFL quarterback? Here’s a really cool interactive piece from The Boston Globe: “40 Frantic Seconds – Think the time between plays of an NFL game is just a little break for the Patriots? Think again. Calling and executing a play in 40 seconds isn’t as simple as it looks.”

• “George Orwell never would have seen (this) coming” – An opinion column at Penn Live

• “‘Not on Our Watch’ — Veterans Promise ‘Boots on the Ground’ to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline – DAPL – The Free Thought Project