Beginning with the astroturfed cancel culture moral panic that followed #MeToo, RWers have advanced a number of similar campaigns to steadily increase the social stigma attached to simply *calling* someone a bigot, to the point that doing so is now roughly equivalent to actually *being* a bigot.
BREAKING: Chicago voters are blocking the doors to AIPACs Chicago HQ, after AIPAC staff refused to answer their questions.
AIPAC and its billionaire backers have funneled over $20 million through dark money SuperPACs trying to buy Chicago elections.
No AIPAC. No war.
"Illinois" "Suburban Chicago" โ look just skip to the chase and say this was in Rosemont, aka the tiny personal fiefdom of one very lucky, very evil family:
Like itโs genuinely weird to not have more of a โthe president of the United States does not understand basic shitโ conversation going on
Conservatives: Government doesn't work! Elect me & I'll prove it!
Saying you'd been at war with a country for 47 years is kind of the opposite of an explanation for why you decided to up and assassinate their leadership right now
It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians Iโd grown up with werenโt the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.
For a long time, I feared that if I didnโt keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community Iโd ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ communityโs official line. โGender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,โ the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.
Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!
I donโt even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.
There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.
Every generation is told this time the threat is uniquely urgent, diplomacy has uniquely failed. And every time, it's civilians who pay the price while the imperialists who launched the strikes call it liberation. It should go without saying that you do not liberate people by bombing their schools.
one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you
Congress must immediately pass a War Powers Resolution to halt U.S. involvement in this illegal war before it escalates further. The American people want peace and diplomacy, not another endless war.
this is one of those things that drives me insane because if it was true you would not be able to credibly deny that it was true. "people you know" is a large enough population to be pretty sure a quarter of the population hasn't been permanently disabled
Why anti-Zionism can't properly be treated as antisemitism for purposes of federal civil rights law, in ~ 2 minutes
the lyndon b johnson campaignโs โin your guts you know heโs nutsโ response to barry goldwaterโs โin your heart you know heโs rightโ in the 1964 presidential election. all timer imo
What a great shot!
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
i simply do not think the "2016 and 2024 prove america will never elect a woman" people in the QTs are expressing a savvy political wisdom as much as they are expressing cope
The โWhere are the protests?โ lament after Trumpโs inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.
Springfield, too, has been given new life by immigrants. A once-thriving manufacturing hub, its fortunes so collapsed that in 2012 it was regularly called the unhappiest city in America. In 2014, seeking to stem population decline, the city launched its โWelcome Springfieldโ campaign to attract immigrants. Haitians, many of whom had been given T.P.S. status after a devastating 2010 earthquake, responded. As new manufacturing jobs were created in the city, more immigrants followed. Many Haitians who settled in Springfield had children. The city stopped shrinking; in 2023, there was a tiny population increase.
On Sunday evening, Rose Goute, a Haitian restaurant, was almost deserted. โPeople stay home,โ said Jean Philistin, a 50-year-old who was there picking up takeout. โPeople are scared.โ He said he was less frightened than many others because he became a citizen a few years ago, though he wasnโt sure how much that would matter. โThe worst thing is, since youโve got an accent, or since youโre Black, they can stop you for no reason.โ Philistin had been a civil engineer back in Haiti and now worked refurbishing houses. He has two teenage children, both born in America. โI donโt know why they hate my community,โ he said sadly.
MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
โIf I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again โ this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.โ www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministryโs casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that theyโre the ones who are alone."
it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
