wdlindsy

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to random

"The FBI released new data last week showing that violent crime is down in America, but that hate crimes are up. This is completely at odds with right-wing narratives about the United States, which portrays surging violence in lawless 'Democrat-run' cities. Instead, the data show a different picture: violence is down, except against the very social groups that are targeted by right-wing tropes and the MAGA movement."

~ Brian Klaas

#violence #crime #HateCrimes

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-politics-of-the-pariah

wdlindsy, 10 months ago to random

“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to random

"The Washington Post and the New York Times both have done important reporting in recent days about what Donald Trump would be likely to do if he’s elected president again.

Because I think it’s so important for every American citizen to be fully aware of these revelations, I’m providing gift versions of three articles. This means you can read them without running into the Times or Post paywalls."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Republicans #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/taking-my-own-advice-about-covering

wdlindsy, 1 year ago to internet

"Everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?"

~ Arwa Mahdawi

#Twitter #Musk #journalists #media

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to random

Charles Blow, who grew up in northwest Louisiana as Mike Johnson did:

"He is from a part of the country where your nemesis will smile at you and promise to pray for you, where people will quickly submit that they 'love the sinner but hate the sin,' where one hand can hold a Bible while the other holds a shackle. He is from a place where people use religion to brand their hatred as love so that they act on it cheerfully and without guilt."

#MikeJohnson #evangelicals

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/opinion/speaker-mike-johnson-louisiana.html

wdlindsy, 3 months ago to random

Dan Rather notes that in Georgia Saturday, Trump mocked Biden's stutter, and the crowd roared with delight. He quotes John Hendrickson, a reporter who stutters:

“More than Trump’s ugly taunt, one thing stands out to me about these moments: the sound of Trump’s supporters laughing right along with him. This is a building block of Trumpism. The man at the top gives his followers permission to be the worst version of themselves."

#Trump #CrueltyIsthePoint

https://steady.substack.com/p/calling-out-a-would-be-bully-in-chief

wdlindsy, 4 months ago to random

David Pepper offers a cartoon from a reader named Kevin, commenting on the strong tendency of American culture to white out racism in the nation's past. He states,

"The sad truth is, so much history has already been whited out, long before Nikki Haley got into the business."

#racism #slavery #segregation #JimCrow #NikkiHaley

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/cartoon-tuesday-nik-haley-history

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to Montana

As Judd Legum reports, when Mika Westwolf,a 31-year old Indigenous woman, was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Montana in March, authorities asked if she was a drug user or alcoholic.

This weekend, white nationalist Sunny White, who has named her children Aryan and Nation, was charged with this killing. Turns out White is a heavy drug user whose car was stewn with drugs and drug paraphenalia.

#NativeAmericans #Montana #stereotypes #WhiteNationalists

https://popular.info/p/update-woman-charged-with-homicide

wdlindsy, 3 months ago to random

"Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

'Phonemic paraphasias' —the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.

Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes 'benefishes.' Renovations become 'renoversh.' Pivotal became 'pivobal.'"

~ Dr. John Gartner

#Trump #Biden #age #MentalDecline
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https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

wdlindsy, 2 months ago to journalism

"The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it."

~ Chris Quinn, editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer

#Trump #BigLie #disinformation #democracy #media

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to random

Lucian K. Truscott says that Trump is openly announcing his plan to build "camps" and round up undesirables to place in this camps if he's elected president, because he thinks this rhetoric will energize voters.

He notes that when Hitler became German chancellor, he began building concentration camps and rounding up the "vermin" who were infesting the clean, healthy German people.

#Trump #Hitler #ConcentrationCamps #vermin #fascism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-how-it-begins

wdlindsy, 3 months ago to privacy

"The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."

~ Elle Hardy

#evangelicals #surveillance #privacy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance

wdlindsy, 2 months ago to microsoft

Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum offer a list of 50 prominent corporations that have donated $23,273,400 to campaigns and PACs of election deniers since January 6, 2021. "Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft."

#Jan6 #insurrection #corporations #AT&T #Walmart #Microsoft

https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

wdlindsy, 9 months ago to random

"That big poll showing Trump and Biden are evenly matched? Trump helped pay for It. The Wall Street Journal poll is being cited in all the mainstream media outlets, with no caveat that Donald Trump’s Super PAC paid one of the pollsters."

~ Tori Otten

#Trump #WalStreetJournal #poll #MediaFail

https://newrepublic.com/post/175387/wsj-poll-showing-trump-biden-evenly-matched-trump-helped-pay

wdlindsy, 9 months ago to journalism

As Mark Sumner states, the media are intent on making Biden's age (he's THREE YEARS OLDER than Trump) the "but her emails meme" of the 2024 election cycle.

I've said it before and will say it again: the media are a huge part of what's wrong with the US today and what's threatening the very existence of democracy. And I'm not talking just about the right-wing media as I say that.

#media #Biden #age #MediaFail

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/11/2192656/-Biden-s-age-is-the-but-her-emails-of-2024

wdlindsy, 1 month ago to Women

Mike Luckovich's cartoon commentary on the tragic situation women in "pro-life" solidly red states now face when it comes to healthcare needs and anti-abortion laws.

#abortion #Republicans #ProLife #women #healthcare

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/27/2237406/-Cartoon-Abortion-in-red-states

wdlindsy, 2 months ago to random

"NBC — and most of the press — have yet to accept the reality that this is not a normal election between a Republican and a Democrat. Donald Trump and his enablers represent an extraordinary threat to democracy. This industry, which prizes objectivity above all else, is incapable of accurately covering an election where one candidate is a normal politician and the other is a dishonest, corrupt insurrectionist."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#NBC #RonnaMcDaniel #Trump #normalization

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/nbc-proves-that-the-media-cant-save

wdlindsy, 6 months ago to Israel

"What I think we’re seeing among young American Jews is … that this is not a struggle of Jews against Palestinians; it’s a struggle of Jews and Palestinians and people of conscience from all around the world around a series of basic principles. The principle is that there has to be safety and freedom and decent lives for Palestinians, if there is ever going to be safety and decency and dignity for Israeli Jews, as well…."

~ Peter Beinart

#Israel #Palestinians #Jews

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/15/israel_gaza_peter_beinart

wdlindsy, 10 months ago to Texas

"The Texas abortion ban seems to have forced thousands upon thousands of women into unwanted pregnancies and births, reversed a nearly decade-long decline in infant mortality, and killed a lot of babies.

And, appallingly, according to CNN, 'Infant deaths caused by severe genetic and birth defects rose by 21.6%.'”

~ Jill Filipovic

#Texas #abortion #ProLife

https://jill.substack.com/p/texas-banned-abortion-more-babies

wdlindsy, 8 months ago to random

"Consider: Over the last several days, Donald Trump has called for the execution of one of the nation’s top generals, threatened prosecutors, mocked the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s elderly husband, and endorsed more extra-judicial killings.

For the most part, the media shrugged."

~ Charlie Sykes

#Trump #crime #violence #threats #retribution #MediaFail

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-media-mutes-trumps-crazy

wdlindsy, 8 months ago to anime_titties

"Right now, it feels like the world is on fire. Surveying the political chaos, the acts of terror, the war crimes, and the boiling over of long-simmering regional conflicts that befell the world these past few weeks, we find the distinctive gasoline of a single deranged arsonist: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He wants to burn it all down. Find me a conflict zone, and I’ll find you a Kremlin operative with a blowtorch."

~ Greg Olear

#Putin #violence #war #democracy

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/all-roads-lead-to-putin

wdlindsy, 7 months ago to random

Steven Beschloss asks readers what they hear when Mike Johnson tells us he has been "ordained" by God to be House Speaker — and what this portends for the future. Johnson announced in his first statements after being made Speaker that God had "ordained" him for this office.

I hear theocracy. And hubris. And self-righteous arrogance. And total lack of respect for democracy and the vibrant pluralism of American democracy.

#MikeJohnson #theocracy #ChristianNationalism

https://america.substack.com/p/what-do-you-hear-when-the-new-house/comments

wdlindsy, 8 months ago to climate

"It is not a coincidence that the same people seeking to wreck our democracy and thwart the will of the majority are the ones who deny the climate emergency. They thrive on disorientation and are threatened by resilience. They know that it is far too easy to break things, which is their only talent. They then use the cacophony of recrimination and finger-pointing to protect their power."

~ Dan Rather and Eliot Kirschner

#ClimateEmergency #Republicans #shutdown

https://steady.substack.com/p/what-is-happening

wdlindsy, 1 month ago to Russia

"Russia's one path to victory in Ukraine leads through minds and mouths in Washington, DC. Russian and Chinese propaganda therefore celebrates the inability of Congress to pass aid for Ukraine, and praises those who hinder the passage of such a bill. But the specific propaganda memes that China spreads (and some American leaders repeat) about the war are of Russian origin."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Russia #Ukraine #China #disinformation
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-warfare-and-congress

wdlindsy, 15 days ago to Texas

Paul Waldman asks,

"How'd you like to win an election with just 4% of the vote?"

"Under the GOP proposal [in Texas], a candidate could win a statewide race with just 4 percent of the vote."

#Texas #Republicans #democracy #MinorityRule
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-texas-gops-bonkers-attack-on