Hey, wide world of social media, is there more to McCook, Nebraska than one museum and a Walmart? I’m 100% serious, I’m planning on spending four nights here as part of a grand train trip through the middle of America. What should I not miss? Or should I just walk into a bar and announce “HEY I’M AN EAST COAST LIBERAL WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT THIS PLACE?”

Got me doing some googling.

Cathy Gellis (@CathyGellis) Tweeted: @ThePaperSoldier @AOC I’ll criticize Israel. But I’m not going to use the warped lies of anti-Semites to do it. And that’s what @AOC did. She has access to quality information. And an enormous platform to amplify it. Yet instead she’s only amplifying discredited garbage that fosters ant-Jewish hate. https://twitter.com/CathyGellis/status/1393944207044145155?s=20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/27/israel-report-apartheid/

«“If we keep controlling the whole area from the Mediterranean to the river Jordan where some 13 million people are living … if only one entity reigned over this whole area, named Israel,” former prime minister Ehud Barak said in 2017, “it would become inevitably … either non-Jewish or nondemocratic.”»

«Human Rights Watch is not arguing that Israel is an “apartheid state.”»

Some old articles:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/05/unforgiven/306776/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/05/will-israel-live-to-100/303896/

https://www.carolinaforward.org/blog/keeping-you-in-the-dark

New bill that nobody cares about, SB636, moving through NC state legislature

«ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, has been pushing “donor privacy” for a number of years.»

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/12/gop-civil-war-dont-bet-on-it-487192

We really are sliding into minority rule in this country.

«In Congress, and at the grassroots, the dominance of Donald Trump over the party is more or less total.»

It’s not Trump that’s dominating the party, it’s Trump VOTERS, and there’s a difference.

«What we’re seeing isn’t a civil war. It’s a purge, and there’s every reason to believe it will work.»

….

«Yes, there are those within the party who will resist: Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, blue state governors like Larry Hogan, former GOP Chair Michael Steele, who has been effectively divorced from the party for years. As nominal Republicans, they will win a significant share of coverage in the New York Times, and on CNN and MSNBC. But the idea that they represent one side of a major split within the Republican Party is a fantasy.

As a body, that party has embraced notions about the political process that would have seemed the stuff of parody a decade ago.»

https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1392450161788456962?s=20

The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) Tweeted: The fact that Republicans are saying Liz Cheney “doesn’t represent their values” because she told the truth sums up the GOP perfectly.

https://twitter.com/sandbarsays/status/1392318913787084805?s=20

Hmm. (This picture, not the tweet.)

🅂🄰🄽🄳🄱🄰🅁.🅂🄰🅈🅂.🅃🄷🄸🄽🄶🅂 (@sandbarsays) Tweeted: @citizen_xoxo @DavidDTSS Sorry that happened to you. It’s a messed up world. https://t.co/sKxc4ir4s2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/10/britains-labour-party-just-collapsed-blue-collar-england-democrats-should-consider-themselves-warned/

Smoke on the horizon.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-05-03/what-to-do-about-needle-phobia-covid-19-vaccination

Good man:

«Having faced his fear, does Curran have advice for others who are afraid?

“Nothing helps,” he said. “It’s awful. From someone who has the same phobia, it sucks. Nothing helps. You just have to do it.”»