It doesn't make any sense to me that we'd let others' religious beliefs limit what we do or how we do it.
#atheism #religion #secularism #freedom
https://www.atheistrev.com/2023/11/why-should-their-religious-beliefs.html
#jacksmith and his meeting with #trump's lawyers.
A silent stink eye.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/13/book-trump-lawyers-meeting-jack-smith-00126681
More than a dozen experts across the political spectrum agreed that Trump would try to use the DOJ to torpedo his criminal cases if elected.
"There's zero doubt," ex-Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb told @dsamuelsohn.
His latest, @themessenger 🔽
https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-second-term-agenda-doj-criminal-cases-georgia-new-york
@boelder @lednabwm @MasterMischief @marcas @avi917 @nosmaharba
Again, back to where I started, if you're trying others that your belief is correct without proof and that everyone else is belief is wrong, you're proselytizing, and that's what religions do.
@MugsysRapSheet @nosmaharba @lednabwm @MasterMischief @avi917 No, it's clear what you're saying. It's a preacher's banality, in the same category as "Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve", "If we're descended from apes, why are there still apes?", or for that matter "America is a republic not a democracy".
One can't really argue with such vacuities. At best, one can point out that the person uttering them is embarrassing themselves. But then if they could understand that, they'd be halfway to a cure.
@AlliFlowers Oh come on, anyone can see actually telling the truth is not a Biblical value.
New Florida censorship law sparks ban of around 300 books
"Once again we see a Florida school district erring on the side of extreme caution while navigating vague legislation" - PEN America.
#books #BannedBooks #BookBan #FreeSpeech #Censorship
https://howtobe247.com/new-florida-censorship-law-sparks-ban-of-around-300-books/
"The man [Joe Manchin] knows how to time his sabotage. Two days after the Democrats have a big night across the country, he walks away, virtually handing the Republicans a Senate seat. The man could harsh Pollyanna's mellow."
~ Charles Pierce
#Manchin #Democrats #centrist #OilandGas #AllabouttheMoney #traitor
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45795317/joe-manchin-to-leave-senate/
Trump and his manipulators and apparatchiks aren't even pretending to hide their goals for a fascist America.
It's been obvious for years now, and you should read/watch this brilliant analysis of a video shown prominently at the Jan. 6 insurrection. (I missed it when it was published, but it's still very much worth looking at.)
https://www.justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/
Meanwhile, Big Journalism mostly resists noticing, much less doing anything about, the emergency we face. Time is short.
@selzero
Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, DRC, Myanmar, Ukraine, Gaza, and I'm definitely missing out some other conflicts... (Kashmir/Chhattisgarh - India, Baluchistan - Pakistan, and more...) Things are not well in the world right now. Question is, what to do about it... I don't want to be too pessimistic, but I am a bit pessimistic and very saddened.
'Surprise': Tim Scott Dropped Out Of Presidential Race Reportedly Without Telling His Campaign Staff
A Weissmann:
To be filed under: If you say I am a dictator, I will crush you like a dictator👇🏼
P Baker: Spox denies #Trump rhetoric echoes dictators like Hitler, Mussolini & declares those who say it does will find "their entire existence will be crushed when Trump returns to WH"
Emptywheel:
I bet 1 of reasons why [Stephen Miller] keeps RTing NYT story is bc NYT did him a solid by using good fascist image of Trump backlit rather than, say, showing what kids in concentration camps look like
@eniko I agree, wear a mask. I’m 70, for any large group of people, say entering a grocery store, mask on. COVID along with Flu and other vaccines in themselves, don’t prevent infection, but overall they do minimize the impact on the individual and society to help keep us up and running. #AntiVaxers seem to operate on right wing conspiracy theories.
Based on the track record of Humanity to date, I’m far from convinced we have anything approaching #TheRightStuff. 🤔
@AlliFlowers @MugsysRapSheet @lednabwm @marcas @avi917 @nosmaharba cult of the gurgling sink.
Faculty position in Black Speculative Writing, Vancouver CA
please boost for visibility! and if there are other Black community hashtags I don't know, please add.
Potential graduate students: when you send me email enquiring about graduate studies with me, and your email contains a sentence along the lines of "I am particularly intrigued by your publication <Paper Title>", but don't say what intrigues you, then I know you haven't read it.
I get several of these emails a day, so I know you're using a standard template.
OTOH: If you do tell me something you found interesting about one of my papers, I'll (usually) reply.
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