収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Tesla Truck bursts into flame in front of Trump Towers Hotel in Las Vegas

eta: well shit, it got less funny – people actually got hurt. 🙁

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Hmm, EVs starting to win over truckers. That’s definitely good. From the Washington Post:

For truckers driving EVs, there’s no going back
By Shannon Osaka – January 18, 2024

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[T]he drivers operating them say they love driving electric. Marty Boots, a 66-year-old driver for Schneider in South El Monte, Calif., appreciates the lightness and the smoothness of his Freightliner eCascadia semi-truck. “Diesel was like a college wrestler,” he said. “And the electric is like a ballet dancer.”


Boots, who also trains other drivers on how to optimize the battery in the electric truck, said some drivers were hesitant when first trying out the technology. But once they try it, he said, most are sold. “You get back into diesel and it’s like, ‘What’s wrong with this thing?’” he said. “Why is it making so much noise? Why is it so hard to steer?”

“Everyone who has had an EV has no aspirations to go back to diesel at this point,” said Khari Burton, who drives an electric Volvo VNR in the Los Angeles area for transport company IMC. “We talk about it and it’s all positivity. I really enjoy the smoothness … and just the quietness as well.”

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A set of topics with too few parts to make a post. How do we do this?

Big oil ‘fully owned the villain role’ in 2023, the hottest year ever recorded writes The Guardian, citing abandoning climate pledges and going back in big on carbon fuels expansion again. It’s hard to be surprised, and I’m not, and we’ve seen indications of it all over the place, including from this story: Opec rails against fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 in leaked letters.

Of course they’re not going to shut down. That’s not how they work, and it never has been, and it won’t become how they work. They’ll pull every lever they have to keep dumping carbon into the atmosphere forever, the planet be damned.

Related: automotive tyres are incredibly polluting, far moreso than anyone realises.

Here’s a bit of good news: Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Risk. What the headline leaves out – critically – is it really is More Boosters More Better, and in very important ways. Every additional booster is another big round in reduction of your risk of getting Long Covid, and we now have this from many studies, the largest of which is half a million people.

You don’t get better than that. Get your boosters.

I’m sure you know how much I go off on Twitter – how it’s been turned into X, a fascist propaganda and disinformation machine which will be used against the republic in the 2024 election.

What Substack has done is different, but only so different: Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content. (Here’s the original post about it from the co-founder.) Yes, they’ll not just not remove literal Nazis, and yes, they’ll pay them. The small difference is that they’re not actively promoting them, but they do get algorithmic boosts, so the difference is very, very small indeed, but combined with statements that explicitly unlike X Twitter, they’ll remove calls for violence and the like.

(If you missed it, yes, Twitter allows targeting individuals for violence and groups for persecution now.)

I think from a disinformation standpoint that this is marginally less harmful. I can tell you I’m not boosting Substack posts anymore and in fact haven’t visited the site since they made this announcement. But this is the sort of thing that even letting Twitter stagger along this long encourages, and it’s the sort of thing I said you’d see, and, well, here we are.

This is weird and still kind of unresolved, though we do have denials from manufacturers now: Marketing Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio to Target Ads on Their Podcast. I linked to their original pages a few weeks ago, they straight up said they were listening in on people and could target ads based on what people were saying in the privacy of their own homes. Ars Technica describes the claims as “exaggerated” but you know they’ll do it if they can.

Mailchimp went to Pineapple Street Studios – with whom they’ve worked before many times on projects – to work on another project, and included a big surprise with the contract:

Absolutely no union workers. No one who is part of a union can be involved in any of the work.

When Pineapple Street said no, Mailchimp pulled all its existing work as well. But while it appears to be legal, you can still now put Mailchimp into the “union-busting motherfuckers” bin.

I sure hope so: CEOs will finally admit next year that return-to-office mandates didn’t move the productivity needle, future of work experts predict.

Relatedly, anyone need a highly qualified but full-time-remote SDET? Anna’s still looking for a job but remote work has been real thin on the ground and she and needs one bad.

And that’s all I’ve got this time! See you tomorrow, with longer topics.

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No. Really. This isn’t the Turning Point conference where he flirted with it several months ago but was very clearly working in a joking way, this is very recent and he’s not obviously joking at all. He’s using it to push the idea that the truth is unknowable, an idea that fascist movements use to cement belief in the great leader, however.

That, and that he believes in guns, that guns are real.

Here’s the clip. You can play it for yourself.

You got any relatives who were into Tucker Carlson? Let ’em know. This is who he is, and so maybe this isn’t the only thing he’s a complete nutbag clown about.

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Fascists are now killing over Pride flags in California.

This is the kind of thing they want when they call for queer “eradication” from “public society.” Yeah, that guy specifically called for it against trans people but please make people get this through their heads: the people they’re talking to don’t distinguish and don’t give a fuck about the differences.

It’s all of us.

The murdered woman was heterosexual. A shop owner. Married. With children.

And some fucking fascist or fascist dupe who went in on their “all queers are pedos” lies killed her for flying a pride flag.

Also in California, anti-gay activist and school board president Sonja Shaw has been linked to lobbyists who support state executions for gays.

They’re also calling in bomb threats to libraries, like these made in the Chicago area, both sending bomb-threats to synagogues and trying to SWAT them, and doxxing Grand Jury members because it’s all the wsame people doing the same kinds of deadly violence and wanting as much of it as they can make, because they want to kill as many of us as they can.

And yeah. It is that simple.

Now, onto other items.

This is who Ron DeSantis is putting into Florida schools: PragerU co-host once condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and branded himself a white nationalist. DeSantis also seemed to be very, very friendly to the “alternate electors” sedition back in 2020, in the run-up to January 6th, and despite running for president, doesn’t like democracy very much what with all his overturning of election results.

Oh, and his state law enforcement appear to be targeting a journalist for embarrassing Fox News. This hasn’t had the coverage of the newspaper raid in Kansas, but it’s worth tracking.

I noticed this snippet in an article about Ron DeSantis’s political campaign, and thought it was worth pulling out:

If a [focus-group] moderator said that the COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, seventy per cent of the Republicans surveyed would agree. But, if the moderator said that Trump’s COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, the source said, seventy per cent would disagree.

You can call this “not a cult” all you want to, but it’s still a cult. The problem is it won’t go away even if Trump does. He’s revived fascism as a political movement – with help from his best buddy in the world Putin – and we’ll be dealing with that for a while. See also, Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to defend Proud Boys leader in social media post.

And if we’re going to talk about social media, let’s talk about Twitter:

1. The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies
2. Far too many of Musk’s followers and Twitter’s users appear fake; advertisers may never return
3. X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising (that’s what it took: losing money)
4. Musk still wants to remove the ability to block other users on Twitter, leaving only mute. So your stalker can still piss all over your tweets, and while you won’t see them, everyone else still will. Isn’t that great?
5. The bigger problem is that Jack Dorsey is cheerleading this, so expect something similar on BlueSky.

Right then. It’s late and I need to charge through the rest.

FIDE, the international chess federation, has banned trans people from international chess, with a special emphasis on revoking titles for trans women. Germany is refusing to participate in this. Charlotte Clymer has some ideas why.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld – who really loathes and despises women – goes on sexist rant, suggests crimes would ‘disappear’ if women went away.

More GOP “lawfare” against the press: GOP Lawmaker Sues Newspaper For Reporting That He Allegedly Called Boy A Gay Slur. Meanwhile, looks like Vice has been blocking news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, after their recently signed deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group.

Scientific American: The danger of the racist and antisemitic claims re Covid spread by RFK Jr.

Remember last time, a Trump judge requiring Southwest pilots to take training from an anti-LGBT Christian legal group? That’s on hold, at least for the moment.

It’s all looting, all the time: the Trump judge who ruled for restrictions against an abortion pill? Looks like he got paid off by the people trying to get him to ban the abortion pill.

And let’s close with something good. No, let’s close with three somethings, all of which are basically good:

1. Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1
2. Judge blocks Georgia’s ban on hormone therapy for transgender minors
3. New app helps US teens read books banned in school (yes, another one)

Welcome to the work week, folks. It’s Monday. Enjoy?

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I know, I know, last post, but I put that thing up and this shit happens:

Yesterday, Congress members revealed the results of a seven-month investigation into tax-filing companies. Lawmakers found that H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer “recklessly shared” potentially hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ sensitive personal and financial data with Google and [Facebook] “for years” in apparent violation of laws prohibiting tax preparers from sharing tax return information without customers’ consent.

And Facebook won’t say what they did with the data.

Remember who Mark Zuckerberg is.

He owns Facebook. He owns Instagram. He owns Threads. And he is not your friend.

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From Evan Urquhart: “the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are moving ahead with plans to force Catholic hospitals to refuse any sort of gender affirming care, which would include maintenance doses of hormone therapy for emergency patients.”

This is a particularly big deal given that in many cities, Catholic hospitals are the only hospitals. Also, it matters that paramedics have been known to refuse patient requests not to be taken to a Catholic hospital, even when a secularly-run hospital was only slightly further away.

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The big two:

1: If you missed it, Elon Musk threw anti-trans hate propaganda produced by a major anti-LGBT group in front of tens of millions of people to start Pride Month, and pledged to work towards jailing for life any therapist or doctor who helps trans children. I’ve been telling everyone for months that turning Twitter into a neofascist/alt-right propaganda and disinformation fountain was the point, and here we are. I raged over the weekend and I meant and I still mean every single word. If you’re still using Twitter after this, we are not friends.

2: Ohio Republicans have launched a special election for fucking August to make it harder for the citizens to overturn their asinine and evil anti-abortion-rights laws. The special election will have one (1) issue, which is whether to make following elections to overturn their bullshit have to pass with 60%, rather than 50%+1, of the vote. It’s called ruling from the minority and that’s what they do.

If you are in Ohio, get involved. If you aren’t in Ohio, send money, but also tell people who are in Ohio to get involved. This local shit matters, and it matters a lot.

And now, everything else.

Not suspicious at all: Showtime Pulls ‘Vice’ Episode on Ron DeSantis without explanation. You may recall testimony repeated here about his role in Bush’s torture regime.

Trans adults in Florida are scrambling in many cases to leave the state now that Republican Governor DeSantis’s new anti-LGBT bills have hit the ground, including discovering they no longer have health care and can’t get it. The Associated Press and The Hill have coverage.

The commission Marine Le Pen demanded as an investigation into allegations of Russian influence in and control over far-right parties like hers reports that Marine Le Pen’s party is hip deep in Russian influence, propaganda, and money. She’s pissed off and calling the commission she demanded a politicised witch-hunt.

Six Women Attempt to Oust a Trans Girl from Their Sorority after she was voted in by a majority of the sorority, and after their harassment campaign failed, they’re suing. “Artemis Langford has been targeted with dehumanizing, salacious stories and a right wing media frenzy, conceived of and promoted by six of her own Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters.” Rightist media have been slavering over this.

This kind of racist-as-fuck Republican property law goes back a long time and if there was such a thing as “shame” in the Republican Party, they’d be steeping in it, but there’s not. I mean, it even targets individuals with visas allowing them to live and work here long-term. It’s severely not okay.

The Progressive recognises the wave of anti-LGBT (particularly anti-trans) bills and laws as a coordinated national election strategy for 2024, and that’s certainly part of what it is. But it’s more than that; they absolutely do hate us – as one particular Florida Republican was honest enough to straight-up say so recently – and will make every single one of us illegal again if they can. But they are good enough to quote people from their leadership on the whole “trans is a wedge to break up the LGBT alliance” agenda:

At the Family Research Council’s 2017 Values Voter Summit, Meg Kilgannon of Concerned Parents and Educators of Fairfax County, Virginia, laid out a strategy for attacking LGBTQ+ rights by going after transgender people first: “The LGBT alliance is actually fragile, and the trans activists need the gay rights movement to help legitimize them,” Kilgannon said. “Gender identity on its own is just a bridge too far. If we separate the ‘T’ from the alphabet soup, we’ll have more success.” Kilgannon advised conservatives to do three things: Target health care for children first; avoid religious arguments; and avoid name-calling transgender people.

YouTube is dropping its ban on election-denialism for the 2024 elections. What could possibly go wrong? The Navy removed its Pride Month posts from their Instagram and Twitter accounts and won’t say why, but I think we all know.

Now, the states:

Arizona cops harassed and made two official visits to a Democrat for their anti-Trump signs, in a county loaded with Trumpists. Yes, this is political intimidation by police.

California media are ignoring the nature of the violent far-right protests at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood. VPS Reports have video.

Republican Texas joined most other Republican states at banning youth trans health care. Obviously, this was expected, and is part of their national campaign of cruelty. Remember, like they said right above: peel one letter off at a time, split the coalition, go after us all. Straight-acting white cisgendered gay men, you are not an exception. Don’t pretend you are.

And to close, here’s “those same old psychotically evil fucktarts,” with their new hit, “why care about saving the world, since the afterlife is real?”

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When Republicans tell you they want a dictator, believe them. See also, “At all levels of public office, threats now come with the job.” This is about forcing anyone not a fascist out of the mechanics of civil and political work, and is absolutely part of a fascist agenda.

“DeSantis says he’ll consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump,” The Hill reported, showing that DeSantis is just as much in the “sedition is good, actually” Republican bed as everyone else in the GOP. But it’s one of many reasons President DeSantis would be somewhere past “disaster” in the damage-to-country race.

Scientific American has had to come out with an out-and-out anti-DeSantis opinion piece, now, prompted by – well, everything, but particularly his anti-science agenda against public health in general (COVID-19 and vaccination in specific), climate change, and LGBTQ people.

Pride London have decided to dedicate 2023 campaign to defending trans people: ‘We stand with you.’ The TERF movements in the UK have been well-connected with US Christian authoritarians, particularly through the Heritage Foundation but not just, for many years, trying strategies and trading ideas – but you know all that if you’ve been reading me for long. Relevantly, Channel 4 have come out with an expose on the toxic culture at the EHRC, which started shoving trans people out of and under the bus as the Tories started changing out staff.

Some of that would be relevant here, I mean, for oh so many reasons:

Trans people in particular but also LGBT people in general are having to build “do not travel” lists again, for the first time since 2003 since the Supreme Court ruled you couldn’t just make us illegal. Will the new court overturn their own 2003 decision? Thomas in particular explicitly wants to do that.

Top trans care doctor leaves Texas as lawmakers pass bans, just as reproductive health doctors are fleeing anti-abortion states like Idaho.

“Conservatives are making Pride merch ‘toxic.’ Their real goal is much worse,” says MSNBC.”Conservatives are making Pride merch ‘toxic.’ Their real goal is much worse,” says MSNBC. This column actually lists some of the actions taken by rightists to threaten Target – knocking over displays, threatening employees, posting violent videos. Target’s response – taking some merch down – will only make these actions worse by rewarding it. See also Target’s surrender to MAGA rage shows how anti-wokeness really works, see also What Target Needs to Understand, and NBC News’s broader coverage of other similar political attacks.

JD Vance is, of course, supporting the violent threats.

Austin Pharmacist Denies Trans Man Testosterone Prescription means we already have individual practitioners refusing health care. She said he didn’t like the injection method but he wasn’t going to be doing any of that, she just didn’t want to hand over the guy’s testosterone. Also she repeatedly misgenders him, so there you are.

A lawyer is in deep trouble for using ChatGPT for court filings, and then, upon having it discovered that it cited several cases that do not in fact exist, using ChatGPT to make fake cases to uphold the citations. This will get worse for a while, though really, I don’t think text is the big bad case. I think forged images, voice, and video are. But it’s not just lawyers; a judge has admitted to using it to write an opinion.

CNN may have given Donkeyballs Donald a little 2016 rerun, but it also looks like they shot what was left of their audience credibility right in the head. Ratings are down hard.

Republican representative Glenn Grothman wants more ‘white guys’ in Biden’s judicial nominees. Just straight up saying it.

Two stories on disinformation being spread by Nextdoor, the Church Lady of social networks, showing that anything that can be used for disinformation will be used for disinformation purposes. KUOW has the story on events locally here on Mercer Island; The Atlantic has their version of the story as well.

Musk Twitter and other awfulness:

Elon is quoting Nazis again, in this case, an anti-Semitic bit of commentary disguised as a Voltaire quote. Twitter to pull back from Europe’s disinformation crusade, meaning pulling back from the cooperative organisation working to fight disinformation. Since Musk Twitter is about intentionally spreading fash and alt-right disinformation and propaganda, this only makes sense.

Bluesky worked really hard to keep from banning a Nazi and their threats of violence, but even their best efforts apparently couldn’t stop the Nazi from getting blatant enough in their death threats that they couldn’t walk that line forever. Bluesky spends so much fucking time working to figure out how to keep fascists on its platform; it’s fucking appalling.

Florida:

Republican DeSantis is defending a Florida school’s decision to ban “The Hill We Climb,” the poem that Amanda Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration, from the elementary school library where it had been when challenged. Meanwhile, Daily Salinas – the woman who got it banned – is now apologising not for this, but for spreading around the Russian-forged anti-Semitic propaganda piece The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In case you were wondering what kind of people DeSantis supports.

To what should be the surprise of no one, she is one of the cult-like far-right Moms4Liberty crowd. Media have been suckered on this group like they’ve been suckered on so many fash and fash-adjacent groups over and over again, so you just have to assume they’ll be credulous morons until smacked around by readers.

Iowa:

Iowa now has Don’t Say Gay through sixth grade, thanks to Republican governor Kim Reynolds and the Republican legislature. There are no moderate Republicans.

Ohio:

Ohio’s Republican legislature passed a broad ban on abortion this session, and everyone knows there will be a popular initiative to overturn it. So, as Republicans have done in several other states, they’re trying to change the rules that a popular initiative requires 60% of the vote to pass, because Republicans don’t want to represent, they want to rule.

Washington State:

“A data scientist says she’s found evidence that Seattle police killings have worsened since the federal government began monitoring the department a decade ago, an analysis that was criticized by a federal monitor just before a critical decision on the future of that oversight.” No shit. All this oversight and retraining has been rejected by the police, and “police reform” is bullshit.

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Here’s a funding thread on Mastodon to help people get out of Florida, Missouri, and so on, to a sanctuary state. Most of them are using GoFundMe. I’m not the organiser and I haven’t vetted them all but I’ve thrown money at several anyway. These people are now actively in harm’s way, particularly in Florida but not just. Do what you feel you can with this information.

I’m assembling this the evening of May 4th. I’m thinking DeSantis might sign some bills on the 5th – possibly while I’m still asleep. Be on the lookout, particularly for SB 254, but really for all of them.

In 2016, corporate America reacted pretty strongly to anti-trans legislation and “bathroom bills.” It helped. This time around, they’re mostly staying quiet. The lack of press coverage isn’t helping with that, of course, since it’s all about publicity. But if you have any levers to pull on this? Now is the time to be pulling them.

Republican Florida has passed a fleet of anti-LGBT bills, including SB 254 (taking children away from trans-supportive parents and making gender-affirming care a felony), and their “bathroom bill” which bans trans people from bathroom facilities in all schools and universities, public buildings (owned, operated, or leased by the state), and as many other places as they could, making use of those facilities a misdemeanour. It also requires all affected entities to set up policies and disciplinary actions against people who violate the rule, and sets up a state reporting system for report any instances where this is not done. This functionally bars trans people from schools and government employment as well, except where separate facilities are provided. The third bill is the legislative expansion of “don’t say gay,” which formalises much of the full through-high-school ban on mentioning LGBT people in schools.

People are reporting SB254 as a “temporary” taking of custody because they’re reading a section title and not the actual law being referenced. It’s “temporary” in the sense that it’s “temporary” until a formal hearing can be called, at which point custody is assigned, and that doesn’t mean back to the parents. They absolutely can and will use this to take children from families permanently.

Here’s Law Dork’s analysis. He spends less time on 254 than the bathroom bills. I can kinda see why but holy fuck do not sleep on 254. Taking children from enemy groups to give them to others to raise is literally a form of genocide.

The headline on this article is really obscure. Let’s fix that: Republican Florida has just banned state and local governments from involvement in ecologically sustainable investment funds and mandated private lending investment in fossil fuels, private prisons, and firearms manufacturing.

It’s confusingly enough written that people are having a hard time parsing whether it bans sustainable investments entirely. This is a common feature of modern Republican legislation – write as broadly as you can and hope your personally-created court system will interpret it as broadly as possible. See also the “drag bans” which target trans people.

If anyone makes noises at you about Republicans and “economic freedom” please use this.

Also in Florida, “Protestors stage sit-in against DeSantis’ ‘right wing attempts to dismantle democracy.’” Good luck to them. If you’re able, find a group to work with, shut their shit down.

The Republican Missouri legislature – in a state which routinely passes progressive popular initiatives with 55% yes votes – is moving to require 57% (one bill) or 60% (another bill) majorities to pass initiatives. The intent is plain and obvious. The Republican Party is against the Republic.

Republican Montana’s ban on duly-elected Rep. Zooey Zephyr’s presence in the House has been rejected by a state judge, as requested by the state. She’s considering whether to appeal, but the case may be held as moot since the session ends very soon.

Also, Montana’s Republican governor signed a fleet of anti-abortion laws on Thursday, including a legislative attempt to reverse a Montana Supreme Court ruling that the state constitution’s privacy clause protects abortion access.

Republican Oklahoma is moving to ban all trans health care, children and adult, using the usual combination of straightforward illegality for trans children and technically-legal but actually-impossible for adults, banning all insurance coverage and the use of any medical facility that receives any state or federal funding, which means all of them.

Also, the Republican governor just vetoed state funding for their only PBS affiliate, because Clifford the Big Red Dog had an episode with lesbian characters, calling the existence of lesbian characters “sexualising our kids.”

They will make all of us illegal again if they can. Every single one.

In Montana, Rep. Zooey Zephyr and her girlfriend (LGBTQ+ activist and journalist Erin Reed) have BOTH been swatted this week. The fash are hoping the police kill them, obviously.

Republican Texas is now using state power to force doctors to file false reports about “abortion complications” or lose their licenses. This is to generate fake statistics, which will, in turn, be used for political purposes to further restrict reproductive rights.

This is a process the fundamentalist movement have used for decades. It and similar processes are behind every one of their fake “abortion is dangerous” lies. But now they have state power behind one of these efforts, and they’ll point to fake official data, and that’ll carry a lot more weight.

Republican Texas is also working through a bill allowing the Secretary of State to overturn elections in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County, “if 2 percent or more of the polling locations ran out of ballot paper for more than an hour.” More at the article.

Leonard Leo – head of the Federalist Society – secretly funnelled $100,000 to Clarence Thomas’ wife from a nonprofit in the months before that same non-profit filed an amicus brief in support of functionally overturning much of the Voting Rights Act, via Shelby County v. Holder. (WaPo gift link, no subscription required. Also, see the ProPublica story on another bribe: Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition. Rolling Stone has more on the long-time Harlan Crow/Clarence Thomas payoff story.

The US Supreme Court is fundamentally illegitimate.

Boing Boing reports on the fascists turning from banning books to ending public libraries entirely.

Sinclair Media, whose owner is a far-right authoritarian known for planting must-run propaganda in local news stories, has started cancelling local news entirely in favour of a nationally-produced half-hour “news” show that I think you can assume will be filled with more propaganda. So far this is only in smaller- and mid-sized markets. Given their financial problems overall, it’s possible this is as much cost-cutting as anything else, but we’ll see.

Activists in Atlanta, Georgia face unstated felony charges for distributing flyers that identified a cop they said was linked to the killing of a protester in the Atlanta forest. In case you’re wondering how police powers are being used right now.

The far-right “New Europe Observation” group had most of its accounts suspended on Facebook after it turned out to be a Chinese troll farm modelled after Russia’s Internet Research Agency.

Everyone talking about this is focusing on the “how white men fight” part when the real fascist element is his outrightly-stated thirst to see Trump supporters murder the anti-fascist kid they attacked. “I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.”

Tucker Carlson wants street murders.

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