«Putin’s famed propaganda system has always been less about ginning up enthusiasm and more about spreading doubt and uncertainty, proliferating so many versions of “the truth” that people feel lost and turn to an authoritarian leader to guide them through the murkiness. »
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-riot-evangelical-christian-church_n_6274069be4b03ca8363ebb2c
«I just want to find a place where the Democrats and Republicans alike agree on the same laws of the universe.»
https://resourcegeneration.org/
Here’s the beginning of a rabbit hole that seems entirely worthwhile (check out the “Resources” links, especially that “download the toolkit” bit, since the rest of the site seems pretty broken).
#racism #socialjustice
And the beat goes on:
Has NOTHING to do with the expense of educating immigrant kids.
According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are 133,000 or so school-aged kids of unauthorized immigrants in Texas. Out of 5.4 million kids in school. So that’s less than 3%.
This is (one of the reasons why) we love Ukraine so much:
«”If you are left alone for only a very little longer—perhaps another four or five of your centuries—you will have discovered the phase drive for yourselves.”
“We will have?” Sir George blinked in astonishment at the thought.
“That is our belief. And it is also what makes your species so dangerous to the Federation. Compared to any human institution, the Federation is immensely old and stable—which is another way of saying ‘static’—and possessed of an ironbound bureaucracy and customary usages.”»
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So… I only have 8 followers who aren’t bots or SEO scammers, so this won’t make an impact, but… the supreme court and the right aren’t coming for women’s rights. That’s a side effect. The real goal is racism and not having to send white kids to school with Black kids, where they might learn Black people are humans, too. It’s a smoke screen, always has been, and will continue to be so. Watch for further rulings from this same court on charter schools, separate-but-equal, etc. The right has their conservative court in place because the center-left only ever focused on the person at the top (the presidency). They still are, with criticisms of Obama, and probably Clinton, if I keep reading.
The time has come for me to start unfollowing people who retweet tweets dumping on Obama or calling for restructuring the court or overriding the filibuster NOW, when the horse has left the building. That time has long past, and those “solutions” are useless poses. Those folks have nothing to add to the conversation.
(What it’s time for is grass roots engagement, both persuasion and GOTV. *Both.*)
«From the “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” files, Ukraine edition:
“The German invasion of Poland was undertaken on the logic that Poland did not, had not, and could not exist as a sovereign state. Soldiers taken prisoner could be shot, since the Polish army could not really have existed as such.”
Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth (p. 105).
“Bombing civilians was a tactic that Europeans generally saw as legitimate when used in colonial possessions; it was now applied in Europe itself.” (ibid)
Syria says hi.»
I wonder how the New Yorker will write about the stolen John Deëre tractor story.
Conservative publication I’m not a fan of, but… Gen. Mark Hertling:
«War stories are parables, and like much of military life, they’re sometimes about finding purpose—even profundity—in the mundane.»
https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/putin-the-planner/
This seems obvious:
«If Putin’s meticulous planning fails, and he perhaps has to settle for seizing just the Donbas region, it will mean another failure on his part to solve the Ukraine problem. … This means that at some time in the future he would again seek to bring Ukraine to heel.»
Here, Read This 