Good rant. Bookmark this for later viewing with sound if you can’t right now.
@n0m0time 🔗 https://masto.ai/users/n0m0time/statuses/110154056360055826 – Youngblood channeling #MalcomX ✊🏾 #PearsonMalcomLutherKing #Tennessee #Tennessee3 #TennesseeThree #TennesseeFascists #TennesseeGOP #BlackMastodon
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/04/06/CoSocial
(keywords: coop co-op)
Resource: https://www.ccnc.coop/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/08/politics/ron-desantis-disney-florida-district-retaliation/index.html
«In addition to giving away oversight of Disney development, the outgoing board also agreed not to use any of Disney’s “fanciful characters” like Mickey Mouse – until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England,” according to a copy of the deal included in the February 8 meeting packet.
The reference to the British monarch is a contracting tactic known as the “royal lives clause,” intended to avoid rules against perpetual agreements. While relatively common legalese, its inclusion raised eyebrows. In the halls of the Florida Capitol, people have murmured “God save the king” to each other in passing, the GOP source said.»
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Hey, Reuters, I know you’re a good news outlet, but I’m not sure how relevant this detail, sitting here by itself with no further context, really is:
«The Republicans ousted Justin Pearson, 28, of Memphis, and Justin Jones, 27, from the Nashville area. Fellow Representative Gloria Johnson, 60, who joined them in the protest but unlike the other two refrained from using a megaphone, was spared.»
(The context, for future John wondering what past John was thinking, being the concept that the use of a bullhorn makes the difference between a right way and a wrong way to protest.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/06/tennessee-democrats-expulsion/
«Republicans in the House filed the resolutions Monday to oust Jones, Johnson and Pearson, saying the three lawmakers “did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor” to the House.»
Oh, THOSE three brought dishonor to the House. I see.
«Sinkers has pushed alternatives such as the Golden Moon Ex Gratia, a Génépi liqueur, and Faccia Brutto’s Centerbe. The store has a handwritten note on those bottles letting customers know they could work as substitutes and Mr. McDonald says sales for the alternatives have picked up. “In two years you’ll probably have eight companies trying to knock that recipe off,” he says.»
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chartreuse-craft-cocktails-liqueur-french-monks-4c07df33?st=pwsdvdekvnbygv0&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
«fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions»
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here?
https://truettseminary.baylor.edu/events-resources/conferences-lectures/racism-white-church
Oh, I see. They’re being expelled for not protesting in the right way. The picture makes it all clear.
«“What they did was try to hold up the people’s business on the House floor instead of doing it the way that they should have done it, which they have the means to do,” Sexton said. “They actually thought that they would be arrested. And so they decided that them being a victim was more important than focusing on the six victims from Monday. And that’s appalling.”
House leadership has never overridden a member’s election for simply violating House rules.»
Update: guess who didn’t get expelled?
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter
«It may be that Twitter is immortal after all.»
Along with the concept of a tipping point in Iraq.
And the fear/expectation that the U.S. can simply wipe out another country’s economy with sanctions.
It’s never that easy. We’re (almost) never that close to dramatic change.
All of this “we’re about to (blank)!” is just hogwash.
(Nevertheless, I’ve still moved off Twitter. Partly to Mastodon and partly just off.)
I see a lot of posts on Mastodon from people happily focusing on the win by Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal state supreme court justice. A LOT.
And, yes, that’s a great thing. Positive national implications.
And exactly one post about the ballot measures, which were also passed. Which inspired me to do a little googling.
https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_2023_ballot_measures
Wow, this seems pretty poisonous. Enshrining cash bail in the state constitution and making it harsher than before, if I understand correctly. Why is that necessary? How will it not disproportionately harm Black people in application? Was that just to drive conservative turnout up? Why did they pass?
https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/fast-facts-the-questions-on-wisconsins-spring-2023-ballot/
This just seems like Racism Without Racists, which is the title of a book by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (which I won’t link because three links is too many).
Here, Read This 