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Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
wild that an entire country can just collapse because of gender
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.
A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
One time, for the sake of just having my pronouns listed, Chris posted me and my entire staffs photos and emails to all of his followers to be chastised and have death threats lobbed at us.
So please, tell me again, writers of the Atlantic, how this isn’t a system he used from the jump.
I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again. Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The right-wing activist is learning from his enemies—and changing the rules of the culture war.
“He argued with civility.” www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
He argued with civility. It's a start.
One of Tilly’s key arguments in Politics of Collective Violence is that there’s no such thing as “a” civil war. What we call civil wars are aggregations of lots of different kinds of violence, at different scales, and involving different dynamics.
This was common in Iraq too. We once responded to a tip, raided the suspected house, then learned the occupant was guilty only of building a balcony that allowed him to see into his neighbor's back yard.
The neighbor had informed on him, hoping American soldiers would arrest him. We left.
Oh it's antisemitic alright. That some Israel advocates go along with it because they find it convenient doesn't change that fact.
For the benefit of any future employers, I would like to point out that I wrote this about Charlie Kirk's antisemitic and white supremacist credentials long before he was murdered. bsky.app/profile/bung...
In an interview with Charlie Kirk, America's most prominent proponent of the white nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory. forward.com/fast-forward...
In interview with Charlie Kirk, Leo Terrell said he wants equal protection for whites and Christians in addition to "Blacks, browns, yellow."
After Cox vetoed an anti-trans bill, and cited the high suicide rate among trans youth.
That msnbc guy got fired for saying these words
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
That part of Utah is called "Dixie" because it's the south of the state, but also because the original settlers were hardcore racists who thought Utah territory should have joined the Confederacy.
Once again, a quick post here led to an hour of writing it up as a full piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Here it is:
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
