Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
As always, America is just tossing a grenade into a car parts store and hoping the blast somehow builds a working car.
The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity.
It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.
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One thing I am continually struck by, every goddam day, is just how stupid Republicans think Americans are (or need them to be, to stay in power) — just a daily firehose of easily disprovable lies. But somehow that doesn’t get covered or discussed as “condescension.”
“I moved on her like a bitch.”
A number of beauty pageant contestants of yesteryear are very familiar with this exact approach.
I admire Walz as a person and sympathize with his plight, but it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that by stepping down he is showing bullies that bullying works.
So…expect more of this.
[Naomi Wolf voice]
OH GOD, NO! LOOK WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO US!!!!!1!!!!
This shit is made up, actually
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Hearing it afresh in this episode, can we all just pause and reflect on how FUCKING DERANGED it is that the richest man in the world routinely and casually describes opposition to fascism and bigotry as a “MIND VIRUS” that has to be eradicated?
Like, that is some scary shit.
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
It was never about "free speech", it was always about controlling who got to speak and about what. They didn't like that the academy (for all it's failings) was teaching critical thinking or holding up a mirror to evaluate history through a critical lens.
I did click play and listen to a bit of it, and it is utterly hilarious the way she has all the brain-rot of the most dangerous dipshits on the planet but absolutely none of the charisma or salesmanship. Her voice just kind of sits there, like a slightly worn Dr Scholl insole kicked under the couch.
I needed someone to see this and the first person i thought of was @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
(Liz Truss has pivoted to video. And it’s going great.)
<Absolutely never stops laughing>
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James, can I request that you post Simon Marks’ appearances as standalone social media clips. He is one of the only clear-eyed observers who is treating the US situation with the solemnity and urgency it deserves. These clips would do a genuine service to Americans, and would be shared widely.
As Donald Trump’s father Fred’s dementia worsened, his family still let him pretend he was in charge of his real estate empire — coming into the office every day, shuffling around empty papers, his phone disconnected from the outside world.
I think about that a lot lately.
Quick note to all: THIS IS A.I.
It is not real.
Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem.
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
So wild that Vanity Fair cut ties with her for ethics breaches rather than her egregious writing.
