Laura Field asks what the hell has happened to the Claremont Institute, that right-wing think tank that used to pretend it was defending civility, civilization, against barbarians, emulating prudent and civil George Washingon.
As Daniel W. Drezner says, is is now “the poster child for the devolution of conservative thought.”
~ Katherine Stewart
#ClaremontInstitute #Republicans #Eastman #Trump #democracy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump
"Somewhere else will burn next, and another place will flood. We know this, but we tell ourselves stories to avoid changing. Catastrophe is always something that happens to our neighbors on the lower floors, not us."
~ A.R. Moxon
#CliimateChange #GlobalWarming #solidarity
“He is a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every other criminal defendant,” she said during the hearing.
She specifically noted that “inflammatory” comments about the case from the defendant would not be tolerated and will lead to efforts on her part to speed his trial as she wouldn’t want any potential jury to be influenced by his remarks.
~ Emine Yücel
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
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"It is abundantly clear by now that Dobbs, the outcome of 50 years of activism by anti-abortion groups and the conservative legal movement, has become a major electoral blow to anti-abortion forces and to the Republican Party."
~ Matt Ford
#Republicans #abortion #Ohio #democracy
https://newrepublic.com/article/174956/voters-stomping-anti-abortion-movement
"The GOP Is done with democracy. The party has one principle left: Power is only legitimate when it’s wielded by Republicans."
~ Todd Zwillich
#Republicans #democracy #authoritarianism
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjdzq/the-gop-is-done-with-democracy
"ProPublica has been able to confirm the following undisclosed junkets and gifts, all paid for by Thomas’s billionaire class friends:
38+ destination vacations
26 private jet flights
12 VIP passes to pro and college sporting events
2 stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica
1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club."
~ Jay Kuo
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/its-even-worse-than-we-thought-with
Sasha Abramsky reports on a battle underway in the small town of Dayton, Washington, where a small group is demanding that the library remove books from its shelves because they have religious and political objections to the books — and since the library refuses, they want to shut it down.
#BookBans #libraries #Washington #censorship #CultureWars #LGBTQ
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/libraries-book-banning/
As Jonny Williams reports, evangelicals intend to keep standing by their man, Trump. Nothing he's done or might do shakes their determination to deliver the White House to him. All their talk about morality as indispensable for elected officials — that was for Bill Clinton. Not for Trump.
Idols demand adulation, and evangelicals have a lot of that to give — when Trump is the person under consideration.
#Trump #evangelicals
The three viruses about which health officials are concerned when they speak of the pan-respiratory season coming up: flu, Covid, and RSV. There's now a vaccine for the latter for older folks, a flu shot is recommended prior to the end of October, and a new Covid booster for those 65+ and who are at risk will be available this fall.
#Covid #flu #RSV #vaccines #antivaxxers
"We are very, very concerned about the upcoming pan-respiratory season," Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, said in a briefing Wednesday, according to CNN.
A big reason for that concern? Americans who fail to get vaccines either because they believe the lies that the anti-vaxxers tell, or because they have become complacent."
~ Teresa Hanafin
#Covid #Flu #RSV #vaccines #antivaxxers
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nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 Yes, was meaning to reference the quoted speaker, not you.
nostr:npub1smmzpp6tncrt6jsk33wpchxswp4lh0yhsvwz5h09hcc80aw8r97snzpm4m Thanks — since you addressed "you," I thought you might think that I held that view, and just wanted to be sure. I appreciate your comment.
nostr:npub1nhl70v5cfj50j9wcu0kvgswqkqmehpew3vprqflz8was7p5zeh0s5sjdt0 Much has been written about this. Among many other resources, I'd recommend Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, Long Southern Strategy, and Jason Sokol, There Goes My Everything.
nostr:npub1fv3jpj8grlyg4ya8zqheylq40tpsjyr2m4vhclm6sj6vfusnx6aq90797u nostr:npub1nhl70v5cfj50j9wcu0kvgswqkqmehpew3vprqflz8was7p5zeh0s5sjdt0 Yes, and those charter schools are often owned by right-wing multi-billionaires who want to control their curriculum, and are operated by churches. Not a formula for sound education.
nostr:npub1ysn55dtftqdnjpg8m30hnczucdf83c2w2hvtq30zzkx6zv9anrlq9vvp9m Yep. And I have to wonder how she ended up being the presiding judge. We're told there was some kind of loittery and it just landed on her, but I'm not sure I entirely believe that.
nostr:npub19ecj9zpqxlpvd2e375mh6xdm6q6rv327ps74xycyasx0ghdpp2vspgfxlk Part of the answer in the US context (I can't speak, of course) for the UK, is that one of our two major political parties has deliberately undermined public education for some time now, and has done all it can to produce citizens who are undereducated and dumbed down, because low-information voters with low education levels tend to favor that political party. This political choice has had seriously negative consequences for the US.
nostr:npub1satslgjc336dc7ykjq696flhm06juz736ssdlvxdgzm0elvjec8sce8vnx Sorry I didn't understand. Yes, we've failed to heed one warning after another re: climate change. I suppose we could throw our hands up now and say that we'll never see positive action, but I don't think we can afford that kind of cynicism.
nostr:npub1k9qecpkl6vwxjhtelyxhkuejfld0zey9d7tru0cljk9allusr55sk3j0yn Yes, I wonder that, too. I think beyond a shadow of a doubt she takes advice from more than one of her ideological colleagues.