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solarbirdState Rep. Zooey Zephyr said – correctly – during the Republican Montana Legislature’s debates over their anti-trans-healthcare bill that people voting for it would have “blood on your hands.” This is, again, the truth, and she was saying this in context of youth suicide. They’re now moving to censure or expel her. We don’t know which yet. You might know by the time you see this post. They’re probably using the peaceful (if loud) protest against the Speaker of the House refusing to let her speak on the floor as an excuse (story also at the AP wire feed) since they’ve been trying for days to gin up some way to pretend there’s been violence. (There hasn’t.)
(Wednesday afternoon eta: They’ve moved to semi-expel her. She’s not allowed be on the floor or speak. She can vote remotely but that’s it. This is no doubt to avoid the Tennessee re-appointment issue.)
Republicans do not share or cede power, or care about their own hypocrisy. They can call LGBT people existential threats to civilisation and call for our eradication and it’s just fine; we say the truth about what they’re doing, and they move to expunge us further.
Russian propagandists continue to be pissed off that their best friend in American media, Tucker Carlson, got fired. He’s being offered jobs in Russia, to be a sort of Lord Haw-Haw of the Ukrainian conflict and global fascist movement.
Vice has a rather substantive article on how the American conspiracy-theory movement (QAnon et al) are all converging on trans people being the root of all evil. This is predictable enough but will be no less virulent, violent, and dangerous for that. It’s what you get when you have the American fundamentalist movement – now pretty much entirely Christian Nationalists – gaining power, in part via their support from and alliance with Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
Talking of conspiracy theorists, the anti-vaccination movement leader in charge of DeSantis’s Republican Florida Department of Health has been caught editing studies to remove evidence against his batshit theories and add material that supports them. This is how they work and what they do – again, decades of fundamentalists doing this – and they can do it with a clear conscience because they truly believe that the definition of truth isn’t empirical observed reality but is instead received knowledge, a.k.a. What God Said, a.k.a. what they want to be true.
Republicans in the Indiana Senate are looking for a way to get their book back back into legislation – the one that creates felony charges for librarians. The latest update I have is from a few days ago, but as far as I know, it’s current.
LawDork has the details: Missouri’s appointed attorney general sued over anti-trans “emergency” rule. Hearing Wednesday, rule goes into effect Thursday unless enjoindered.
The anti-fascist research organization Task Force Butler is engaged in a major effort against an explicitly Nazi organisation working to terrorise ethnic/racial minorities and LGBT people, all with the goal of establishing a white ethno-state. Rolling Stone has coverage.
Bud Light has bowed to fascist pressure and suspended two executives involved in sponsoring two posts by a trans influencer on Instagram. Yes, that’s bad, and you shouldn’t drink it any more. Sure, because it’s shit, but also, because of this. Meanwhile in corporate news, Gizmodo asks its readers “keep your memories, kill your nostalgia“ regarding HBO Max’s new TV series involving noted anti-trans activist and multi-millionaire J.K. Rowling.
Jay Rosen talks about how rightist media engages in “verification in reverse,” a process he describes with Rachael Maddow. It’s basically about taking things not well established (vaccination, and so on) and instil doubt into it. The doubts you’re installing don’t have to have any relationship to reality; it’s just that the doubt gets introduced, and that lets you fuel a movement which is immune to reality. It’s an extremely fascist – and fundamentalist – way of working against reality.
Thomas isn’t the only bribe-taking Supreme Court Justice; looks like Gorsuch has been on the take as well, also via unreported property sales to people who have cases before the court, just as with Thomas.
Assume no Republican will give a single solitary fuck, because really, they won’t. Making women with a non-viable pregnancy riddled with cancer out in a parking lot until she actually starts dying before they’ll help her? That’s who they are, and it’s a sickness.
Strangely – even bizarrely – I don’t have anything on Twitter today! But I do have something on BlueSky, which says that it’s not going to ban hate groups, it’s just going to label them. Supposedly to make them “easier to block.” So once again, BlueSky’s founders will be making a social network safe for Nazi terrorism.
Don’t be on Twitter, but don’t go to BlueSky either.
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