The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people. RE:

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Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social)

Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.

Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.

Blood libel is the classic antisemitic monstrously false claim that Jews use the blood of Christian children, and has been an excuse for pogroms and persecution for more than a thousand years. Cynical, dishonest, and dishonorable people try to redefine it as “criticizing Israel’s policies.” RE:

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Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social)

I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé ...

Or at least the sticky-futoned creeps, waifu-pillowed shut-ins, unemployed tiki marchers, restraining order collectors, and incel reply-guys who make up Twitter these days have spoken. RE:

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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)

Looks like Musk has found a name for his new political party: The America Party

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence. RE:

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents Q: So you're ok w/a...

Well, I mean, in a way he’s following him https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreigpcjyl4qskrfsh3yrrce2hjpki3ivaoiy2szfxge3biwofkadoz4

My wife mildly annoyed me so I am reading her the this-fight-is-what-real-masculinity-looks-like tweets

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1 https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreidcuvlnqq5vey3csizsajbxktxneerqsk72k3e32chhiilu2aicte

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

NYT Tomorrow: The assertion in our recent article that black people are more prone to violence was not a racial or genetic stereotype, but based on the reported experiences of six LAPD officers we surveyed at their retirement homes in Idaho