Gil Withdrawing security protection from subordinates-turned-critics now targeted by the Iranian regime for their public former roles in pursuing anti-Iranian policy during the first term. Halting refugee flights for refugees targeted by the Taliban regime swept back into power with the sudden withdrawal of American troops at the end of the first term. Do you sense … Read more
“I see the rot more clearly than I see the healthy tissue.” The healthy tissue is there The image of the Creator yearning to breathe free, to come through in realization in human society That logos of love is ever present Promote that image always in all ways and it will emerge
I know many people who voted for the current POTUS. Family, friends, colleagues. All for a variety of different reasons, all supporting this piece of POTUS agenda but not that piece, or vice versa, or whatever. Not that they’d ever give full-throated support for fascism. Or maybe they would. I don’t know, even people we … Read more
The POTUS executive orders and other executive actions from the past week show two things: 1) Project 2025 is absolutely a dominant force in this second term. Many policies and key personnel are being determined by a white nationalist / Christian fundamentalist agenda that is being implemented without any meaningful resistance (or signs of awareness) … Read more
Morning musing (extremely controversial, yes, but read the whole thing carefully): I don’t follow the news cycle religiously or play the partisan political game/culture war currently strangling American political discourse. I mostly follow the news at a distance, do my research when necessary, and form an opinion from the highest vantage point I can reach. … Read more
Surprise surprise Musk followed up his dogwhistle at the inauguration with more White Supremacist Twitter content. Holocaust jokes, this time. Greenblatt and ADL condemned his Nazi BS, btw. 🤷
Among many other things, Elon Musk is a white supremacist and a white collar fascist. There will be so many times to call him out, with incontrovertible receipts, over the coming weeks and months, that coming hard at the ADL for not immediately throwing the book at him for what could easily be shrugged off … Read more
“Somehow the story of yesterday end up being “what was that gesture?” and not “all the J6 insurrectionists were pardoned.” I know we like to fight about signification, but there’s nothing to interpret when a felon wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt gets pardoned.” h/t David Zvi Kalman Keep your eye on the ball.
Re: ADL’s response – I mean, what are you gonna do, call Elon Musk a Nazi on Inauguration Day? Who knows what Musk meant to do – we saw what we saw. But you gotta know when to have a little grace, and I don’t see why the ADL should’ve responded differently.
The afternoon light poured through the window like the universe’s shrug—a lukewarm reminder that existence was still ongoing. A ginger cat, who had once declared himself the ruler of a forgotten kingdom in a dream, lay sprawled across two humans. The humans, wrapped in layers of blankets and millennial ennui, were half-asleep but fully awake … Read more