This exhortation for women to have as many babies as they can possibly have is a huge part of the Great Replacement Theory. And don’t ever kid yourself — by that they mean the great “dark” Replacement Theory. It’s white women who they want breeding like rabbits. (See: Viktor Orban) This is the intersection of racism, xenophobia and misogyny. Anti-birth control and abortion as a way of forcing the white majority to have very large families so as not to be “out-bred” by the people of color. It’s really not all that complicated. Here is an example of how that idea is being mainstreamed: The Deseret News is under fire for promoting an op-ed that praised Tucker Carlson’s views, even after The New York Times unveiled what appears to be a racist text message he sent after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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IN memory of her late sister Mel, Raleigh Coffee and Eats owner Dianne Knobloch will host a Biggest Morning Tea event in support of the work of the Cancer Council. On Tuesday 16 May, Mel’s High Tea will be a fine affair, serving up at 10am. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...
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MUM’S the word at the upcoming Made with Love Market on Sunday 7 May from 9am-2pm on the Level 1 Carpark at Park Beach Plaza. Curated to tick all the boxes when it comes to buying a gift; the market supports handmade, has an array of unique and special wares for mum, and keeps it...
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CITY of Coffs Harbour’s Living Lightly program is funding three free workshops in May. The first workshop offered by the Nana Glen Food Collective (NGFC) is ‘Basic Home Herbal Remedies’, to be facilitated by Coramba homestead owner Jodie Nancarrow on Saturday 6 May, which booked out quickly. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...
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IN delivering her account of life at Pete’s Place, as guest speaker at Coffs Harbour Lions Club’s recent meeting, manager Anna Scott’s tale stirred the listeners to want to help. Pete’s Place is the drop-in centre for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness, located within Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre. Advertise with News of The...
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DI WOODS, former manager at the Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre, has been named the 2023 Coffs Harbour Electorate Local Woman of the Year Award, an honour that recognises the significant support she has given to the local community. This is an award program that recognises one woman from every electorate in NSW. Advertise with News...
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TICKETS for the Coffs Youth Climate Alliance (CYCA) concert at the Botanic Gardens last Friday April 28 sold out quickly. The youth-led event featured six primarily youth bands, with all proceeds donated to support the Alliance’s activities in advocating for climate action and combating homelessness in the local community. Advertise with News of The Area...
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Hoping Clarence and Ginni read Politico and see my latest cartoon there.
Refusing to adequately react to the ongoing epidemic of gun violence? There’s an app for that!My latest in today’s Los Angeles Times:
I think we’ve all had our eyes opened about the dangers of letting this extremist GOP take over state houses. They’re building a farm team for national politics and it’s scary as hell. Just take a look at Florida if you want to feel the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Howie Klein sent this out to Blue America members this morning. And In The Process Help Your Favorite Candidate Win $1,000 From Blue America We’ll get into the contest in a second; I just want to make sure that you know that the Virginia legislative elections are this year, 2023, not next year like most elections. We’re trying to flip the House of Delegates blue and expand the narrow Democratic lead in the state Senate. Blue America has identified 5 crucial progressive races for this contest, 2 for Senate seats and 3 for House seats.
Is unsorting America even possible? Bill Bishop’s “The Big Sort,” considered Americans’ tendency to self-segregate into communities “with people who live, think, and vote like we do.” There are also economic consequences to that. Inequality follows. American society has “become less random” as it has “become more unequal,” observes Princeton sociologist Dalton Conley. He offers a quirky thought experiment in The New Yorker on how, had we the will, we might tackle inequality resulting from geography and the birth lottery. His answer to the problem that “when rich people are asked to pay more in taxes, or to send their children to school with poorer kids, they tend to move,” is a lottery of another sort. But is inequality a problem for most Americans? Or do they see inequality as “the way things are.” Meritocracy, the prosperity gospel, and royalist sentiment argue vigorously for the status quo. Whatever. Conley’s is a thought experiment: The core issue is that our social contract is based on place: we make decisions and fund our government in a fundamentally local way.
The Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement Party or ‘MSI’) was founded in 1946 on ‘the assumption that fascism was not a parenthesis in Italian history, a twenty-year aberration, but a movement, a set of ideas and values, that survived military defeat,’ according to its founder Giorgio Almirante. Like Almirante, most of MSI’s leaders were […]
“the price of freedom”? “For years now, after one massacre or another,” writes Heather Cox Richardson this mourning, “I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority.” A minority that, like Bill O’Reilly, considers daily slaughter “the price of freedom.” None of that was normal until about the time Ronald Reagan and Movement Conservatism arrived in full. Fueled by National Rifle Association money, the right twisted the Second Amendment into an “unfettered right to own and carry weapons.” They’ve turned America into a place Old West residents of Tombstone and Dodge City would not recognize. At least eight dead and nine injured at a suburban Dallas, Texas outlet mall (Washington Post): Six of the eight people killed were found dead at the scene. At least nine people injured in the shootingwere taken to hospitals by the local fire department, Allen Fire Chief Jon Boyd said.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, S.W.A.T., Yellowjackets, Always Sunny, WWE Backlash, James Gunn/Superman, Justified, and more!
Local election results across England have largely come in, and with them, the inevitable spin, gloss, and damage control has begun. Early indications show a low turnout, Conservative voters staying at home, and a general lack of enthusiasm and engagement across the board. As a local Labour candidate for the Crewe South ward of Cheshire […]
Dems’ are settling on the same playbook: shifting right, crushing a primary, and hoping demoralized voters are repulsed by the GOP.
Companies like Evolv sell multimillion-dollar AI-powered gun detection systems to schools nationwide, but weapons still slip through.
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. [You can watch the Foucault-Chomsky debate mentioned in the video here]
Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi),
the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and
lead developer of Mastodon-the-software,
got some people worried
about the outsized
influence Mastodon (the software project and the
non-profit) has on the rest of the Fediverse.
Good. We should be worried.
Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The
biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000
active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole Fediverse, on a
single instance. Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often
identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that
Fediverse is a much broader
system comprised of a much more diverse software.
The 49th Seattle International Film Festival (May 11-21) opens next week, featuring 264 shorts, docs, and narrative films from 74 countries. As always, the looming question is – where to begin? I’ve found the trick to navigating festivals is developing a 6th sense for films in your wheelhouse (so I embrace my OCD and channel it like a cinematic dowser). (deep breath) Let’s dive in. This year’s Opening Night Gala selection is Past Lives (USA/Korea), the latest offering from A24 (Ex Machina, Ladybird, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once, et.al.). Billed as “a heartrending modern romance”, the drama was written and directed by Celine Song, who will be attending and participating in a Q&A following the screening. Always with the personal drama: Dean Kavanagh’s Hole in the Head (Ireland) is a character study about a mute projectionist who uses the tools of his trade as a conduit for coming to terms with long-repressed memories. Adolfo (Mexico, U.S.
“I don’t think we’ve spoken enough about what Black women have had to endure here,” said Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx, a Gardner ally.
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