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Liberty University Fined $14 Million for Clery Violations
Evangelicals, man.
I mean, how loathsome do you have to be to be fined in the millions for enabling rapists? In the name of Christ, even?
Judge them by their acts, not their hollow words.
Oh, yeah. The university is trying to pass itself off as the victim. As conservatives do.
Supreme Court Rules Trump Stays on Colorado Ballot
The thumb is on the scale.
If you picked a third of the Supreme Court, it will allow you to run for re-election even if you committed insurrection.
Democracy likely died no later than when the Court threw the 2000 election, but it certainly didn’t need the assault it received today.
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy
The most unholy among us want to create a Christian version of Iran.
But you probably already knew that.
One Michigan voters view
“NATO is a bulwark against Russian aggression and he was ready to walk out of that. There are other ways he treated the people of Muslim religious background. His dirty mouth. I think he’s pretty much an asshole, to quote a phrase, and it’s terrifying to me, at 80, to think that he would be one of the last presidents.”
“He could decimate social programs that I’ve been committed to and worked on for a very long time, and so there’s a whole variety, as well as his personal way of dealing with people and the world.”
The Voters Willing to Abandon Biden Over Gaza – The Daily
Oh, look, Muslims for Trump.
Yeah, I know, they aren’t *for* Trump, but they are willing to violate their own personal safety to rage quit the Democratic party.
Smart.
UAW president Shawn Fain on labor’s comeback: “This is what happens when workers get power”
A look at the mind behind last year’s – successful – UAW strikes. May he have continues success.
U.S. Army restores honor to Black soldiers hanged in Jim Crow-era South
Part of uncovering and addressing the sins of the past is to learn never to do it again. Which is what folks who don’t want to look at the darkness refuse to get.
In this case, the Army is trying.
The Zinn project has covered this…of course.
Oklahoma senator calls LGBTQ+ people “filth” while commenting on death of Nex Benedict
It hurts my heart to know that a place I lived is so full of hate.
They killed a kid, who didn’t report the attack, knowing full well no one would do anything about it.
I have seen racism in that state, but I never thought the system was gonna kill me over it. At least that was the case 20 years ago.
Certainly Oklahoma has had it rough with their public image recently. The Watchmen TV show brought back the sins of the Tulsa race massacre. Killers of the Flower Moon, both the book and movie, tells oh how jealous white folks executed natives who had the oil rights – and money – they dearly craved.
I bring these up because Oklahoma didn’t *need* to show it had hate in its heart. We already knew that. But they apparently wanted to double down. Kill a kid, then cover it up. Shame.
The science of IVF: What to know about Alabama’s ‘extrauterine children’ ruling
It used to be that conservatives found IVF to be evil, and that the children that resulted from it were not even human.
I still believe they believe that. That group of children includes my son. So, you know, when I say this hits personally, I mean it.
That said, they have now created a mythology to punish women and their families by making an embryo a child in the eyes of the law in Alabama. It is meant to muddy the waters, hurt those they do not see as people, and to exert control.
If we ran this country based on facts instead of myths, we wouldn’t be in this place. We would not have judges gleefully harming people for wanting a family.
But we do not live in such a place. The law is used to hurt. The law is used to hate.