Us vs. Them on steroids What drove our disloyal opposition to reject democracy for autocracy and authoritarian strongmen? Amanda Marcotte interviews Jared Yates Sexton whose new book, “The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis,” plumbs the depths of the Grand Old Personality disorder crowd. Growing up as he did in “a really problematic, radicalized environment” makes QAnon and other eschatological beliefs quite familar. “When you take a look at these ideas and these conspiracy theories, one of the things you start to realize is if you believe these things, if these actually build the world around you or the way that you interact with politics or even your neighbors or your day-to-day life, you’re living in literal terror,” Sexton tells Salon. “And when you feel that way, when you believe that you’re in the middle of a supernatural battle, you literally will do anything in order to protect yourself and the people around you.” It’s Us vs. Them on steroids.
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Perhaps you should look into this? Via salon: A human rights organization founded by slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi is calling on Congress and the Justice Department to investigate former President Donald Trump’s business deals with a controversial golf company owned by the Saudi Arabian government and controlled by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman. Nonprofit Democracy for the Arab World Now said LIV Golf, a tournament franchise and PGA Golf rival, paid Trump-owned golf resorts “unknown millions of dollars” to host events.
DeSantis is going to go through some things.
"It's out of science fiction. How are they going to guess who’s going to be disruptive?” one leading campaigner asked Byline Times
Parlamentares que defenderam ou minimizaram terrorismo em Brasília editaram e apagaram posts para esconder apoio aos atos de 8 de janeiro.
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This piece by Peter Drier sums it up for those guys who want to appropriate King for their one single purpose: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was no moderate. Today, he is viewed as something of an American saint. His name adorns schools and street signs. His birthday January 15, 1929 – is observed as a national holiday on the third Monday of January each year. This year as in year’s past, Americans from across the political spectrum invoke King’s name to justify their beliefs and actions. But in his day, King was considered a dangerous troublemaker. Both Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson worried that King was being influenced by Communists. King was harassed by the FBI and vilified in the media. The establishment’s campaign to denigrate King worked. In August 1966 – as King was bringing his civil rights campaign to Northern cities to address poverty, slums, housing segregation and bank lending discrimination—the Gallup Poll found that 63% of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of King, compared with 33% who viewed him favorably. King called himself a democratic socialist.
Happy Martin Luther King Day to you. Or, if you come from a different faith tradition, happy Robert E. Lee’s birthday? Because this is a thing the state of Alabama apparently celebrates. I wish this was a joke, but it’s not: Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ Birthday are right around the corner. As noted in the original this surely proves there is no institutional racism, amirite?
There was a time when I would have been all over this story when it happened because I was documenting taser use around the country and the world. To me this use of electro-shock to put people into compliance is nothing short of torture and sometimes, summary execution. But I was told by some experts, and criticized by activists, who said that while the dangers of tasers are horrific they are nothing when compared to the horror of police shootings so I backed off my little crusade after the Michael Brown shooting. But it’s still happening, particularly to people with mental health issues which is just heartbreaking. And there are times, like this, when it is deadly force: Videos released this week of a teacher who died after Los Angeles police discharged a Taser on him at least six times on a Venice street raise serious concerns about the officers’ tactics, law enforcement experts who reviewed the tapes said. The LAPD’s actions have sparked alarms from community activists as well as Mayor Karen Bass and are now the subject of an internal investigation.
From the most powerful woman in the US Congress: That’s just beautiful.
The new generation of Villagers take their seats at the table Here’s how the super insider Punchbowl is reporting the news today: Happy Monday morning. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re only publishing the AM edition. We’ll be back to the regular schedule tomorrow. President Joe Biden’s split screen on Sunday was stark. Biden spoke at a memorial service for the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The high-profile speech came at the invitation of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), the senior pastor there. On what would’ve been MLK’s 94th birthday, and from King’s own pulpit, Biden warned that the United States is at an “inflection point,” with the future of democracy in peril. “We’re at what we would call an inflection point. One of those points in world history where what happens … in the next six or eight years is going to determine what the world looks like for the next 30 or 40 years. It happened after World War II.