https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/neil-gorsuch-nondelegation-bagley-mortenson.html
I should save this so I can come back and finish reading it (ha!) some day.
Well, this is interesting. I think the statement “the Methodist Church has appointed a trail chaplain” isn’t quite correct, though. It’s one particular annual conference (Holston, which basically covers a chunk of the southern Appalachian Mountains, which the AT happens to run right through the middle of). But who knows where the funding comes from (if any), which is kind of the real tell.
(https://app.robly.com/archive?id=f4b105b9244a9af5216a8b4f126ff58d&v=true)
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/did-you-kill-anyone
An accurate assessment; this does seem like a worthwhile read.
(The following excerpt wasn’t the point of the thing, but I loved the savagery of this putdown.)
«In a complicated labyrinth of sophisticated consumer desires, taste is a substitute for wisdom. Taste – with all of its moral weightlessness and novel detachment – can’t actually have much significance outside of a six-story walkup. It can only exist stranded on islands in Brooklyn and Silver Lake and Austin. Shipwrecked from tradition and denuded of intimacy with the larger culture it feeds off of. However sophisticated it might be or however eloquently it’s expressed, it has to exist within a narrow matrix of familiar cultural references. Sun Ra. Alan Partridge. Zizek. The Hairpin. Zadie Smith. Walter Benjamin. Tin Tin. Kraftwerk. The same books in the same neat artistic stacks on the same IKEA shelves. The same music echoing through the same sleek minimalist apartments, quarter-filled with the same mid-century modern furniture. And all this isn’t to say that a mind-numbing conformity doesn’t exist among other American people in other American places, but that a tribe which coalesces around the glib spirit of intellectual novelty, desperate for an empty individuation, inevitably becomes spiritually anemic. Worse, those in it begin to see their spiritual suffering as a strange sort of victory.»
Reading the news this morning and I keep hearing in my head, “… a Republic, if you can keep it.”
21-year old white Baptist PK who “loves God and guns” kills 8 women (6 Asian) in massage parlors in Atlanta. And Twitter goes bonkers over (among other things) whether that makes him a terrorist and how terrible we are, as a nation, for not equating them.
Utah trying to pass a law to… filter porn on mobile devices? I’m not reading it.
Nigh 50% of people supporting an ancient parliamentary device used to perpetuate racist laws and STREAMLINED recently to make it more efficient (the modern filibuster).
«Texas Monthly:
Some on Wall Street Profited off Texas Blackouts. In a Private Call, a Top Regulator Pledged He Would Try to Protect Their Windfall.»
«CNN:
US intelligence report says Russia attempted to interfere in 2020 election with goal of ‘denigrating’ Biden and helping Trump»
Governors of two states under pressure to resign, basically as Republican ploys (undemocratic, obviously). One of those governors may very well wind up appointing a replacement for a Senator on her last legs, which could flip the Senate back to Republican control.
A former president claiming the Supreme Court didn’t have the courage to OVERTURN (his word) a national election. In a phone interview on a TV news network dedicated to pushing propaganda for one political party.
And state legislatures across the country writing laws to restrict voting rights.
So, yes, “a Republic, if you can keep it.”
https://twitter.com/FaheemYounus/status/1371777691792371712?s=20
Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) Tweeted: People seeking 0 risk vaccines don’t understand medicine. Aspirin kills >3000 ppl/yr. In US, >100,000 people died of drug reactions just in 1994. We compare risk of treatment vs. the risk of disease Risk of ANY vaccine is NOTHING compared to COVID https://t.co/9N5RiMicx8
Will Yun Lee (@WillYunLee) Tweeted: Love seeing light shining on light #KellyMarieTran @therebeccasun https://t.co/aUUfK5JMkt https://twitter.com/WillYunLee/status/1367666894979833856?s=20
Fun read.
https://twitter.com/rollwthepunches/status/1370211503207559177?s=20
Good thread.
Hell on Wheels🔥♿🔥 (@rollwthepunches) Tweeted: What the Disabled Community offered the world this past year:
▪️best ways to stay connected w/ friends and family from home
▪️hacks to stay productive while working remotely
▪️tools to manage (and cope w/) health anxiety
▪️honest, raw conversations about death or hospitalization
Good thread (https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1370380680132186112?s=20):
rubio’s support here basically seems like a one-off for this particular group of workers against this particular company
https://news.yahoo.com/marco-rubio-sides-alabama-warehouse-120848054.html
this does not sound like someone who believes labor needs a greater share of economic and political power.
“unrelated pension bailout” is how rubio describes a provision that would save retirement funds for millions of the workers rubio claims to support
honestly this all strikes me as too clever by half
lmao this dude literally just co-sponsored a national right to work law
Originally tweeted by b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) on March 12, 2021.
Huh. WordPress coolness I hadn’t noticed until now:
Neet!
What i love here is “a Fox cable show host” is as close as they come to naming said host.
https://www.axios.com/hawley-gop-cash-cost-insurrection-aabd9f44-5017-4350-9873-2d0aa7f282de.html
Populist, nativist* American politics are absolutely not going away.
«fundraising numbers show the GOP grassroots is still firmly in Hawley’s camp.»
*Xenophobia: fear. Nativism: just plain selfishness.
Here, Read This 