Bye Felecia.

This is good. All the energy they spend to protect themselves is energy they’re not using to hurt America. The chances that any of these criminals will be held to account is low, but we can at least pull the break on their crimes.

At least he uses protection

The original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqWnF-HD1M (4:54)

In 1964, when she says “everybody knows about Mississippi” everyone would have known what she was talking about. Three young Freedom Riders (students traveling to the South to get black people registered to vote) were murdered by police in Philadelphia, MS and burred in an earthen damn.

President Johnson, pushing for the Civil Rights act at the time sent the FBI to investigate. Eventually, a snitch would lead the feds to the bodies, but during the search, they discovered 19 lynching victims unrelated to the case…Goddamn.

Simone debuted this song at Carnegie hall (this recording) and blew up her carrier in the process. The song was outlawed in several slave-holding States. (they said it was blasphemous, but it was the attack on White supremacy that aggravated them.)

There is a movie about this Called Mississippi Burning staring Gene Hackman and William Defoe.

between fear and love

Okay. But you’re not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here, like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can’t just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else.

This guy has a punchable face to rival Andy Dick.

This is a deescalation. The Macrons originally had planned to assassinate her. (1:44)

On the same day as the three executions, California Governor Gavin Newsom, widely seen as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, moved to commute the death sentences of all 548 people on the state’s death row to life without parole.

It’s hard to reconcile this sentence with the thesis of the article. I guess the title “Democrats are doing something about capital punishment where they have power and not where they don’t” isn’t as compelling. Gov. Newsom is no progressive, he’s a generic liberal and conventional Democrat. I would say that commuting those sentences was a clear statement of where Democrats are on the issue.

Besides, the pigs execute three Americans every day. I would argue that the people getting executed without due process should be the priority. https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

At some point in America, we all decided that gay people were OK. That’s the mainstream, that’s the norm. Bigots had to find a new target because they need an enemy and they need that enemy to be widely despised and feared.

At the same time, queer advocates and allies are pushing radical ideas like recognizing trans people as human. This aggravates people because trans people today occupy the space gay people had in in the 90s. They’re widely despised and loathed and are only represented in pop culture as a punchline. People would rather not think about them and they’re willing to legislate their comfort.

Speaking as a reformed bigot, I had a hard time with trans acceptance. Trans acceptance is not just changing how you think and feel about trans people, you have to challenge what you think you know about gender; you have to think of yourself and all humanity differently.

But people like me can come around. And I believe that one day relatively soon, trans acceptance will be normal and mainstream.

Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important “whiteness” is to the equation. Black Christians don’t do this shit.

The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.

It’s vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he’s just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.

This is not a signal that Trump is thinking of compromise. Chief of Staff is an incredibly powerful position. By controlling access to the president, they have more control over policy than most cabinet members.

This may be less so w/ Trump bc he’s such an undisciplined POTUS. But any power Miller gets will surely be used for wickedness.

The last time a Democrat held that seat? Also Strom Thurmond.

One of the biggest lessons from this election is that the trans crap failed, and failed big. Even the bigots can’t ignore that and I’ll bet the 2028 cycle will see many fewer ads about bathrooms and girls sports.

Israel’s influence in America is at an all time nadiar. Yet still, some people insist that Israel is still in charge. Their source? Israel’s own propaganda. This is why conspiracy people can’t be taken seriously.

John Oliver called Paxton “Jabba the slut”

For those who don’t know, Karl Rove called French a Nazi and pledged to vote for Rosenthal.

America punishing powerful men would be more unprecedented than anything else in this election. If Benedict Arnold hadn’t fled to England, they’d probably put statues of him up by now.

The reason is the war we lost.

ftfy