Some More News: How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity

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Hi. Today we’re looking at how the Religious Right became the Religious Right, and wonder if there’s a space in leftism for Christianity.

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Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Erik Barnes
Edited by John Conway
Produced by Jonathan Harris
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:18 – Why People Are Leaving The Church
07:50 – Does “He Get Us”?
11:57 - Christian Nationalism
17:42 - Segregation and the Religious Right
22:53 - Evangelicals Get Involved In Politics
26:04 - The Right Discovers Abortion
29:20 - Bedtime For Bonzo
38:42 - Bible Study
47:50 - Being Leftist and Christian?

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121 comments
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:03:28am

From downstairs…..

re: #211 Targetpractice

They moan about how nobody but them seems to give a damn about Biden mixing up words anymore, totally ignorant of the reality that nobody gives a shit when his opponent is on criminal trial with a very real possibility of being convicted before summer.

Leads to a good question: If the NY jury comes back with a guilty verdict, do you think FNC will report it? Or, more likely, how much effort will they make to downplay it?

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:08:38am

re: #1 Dr Lizardo

From downstairs…..

Leads to a good question: If the NY jury comes back with a guilty verdict, do you think FNC will report it? Or, more likely, how much effort will they make to downplay it?

It will really depend upon what time of day the verdict is read, but I suspect there will be a delay between their reaction and the other stations. But expect the mood to be downright funereal, with a general attitude that the jury has “killed” America by convicting him and that the country cannot hope to recover.

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:08:57am

re: #1 Dr Lizardo

From downstairs…..

Leads to a good question: If the NY jury comes back with a guilty verdict, do you think FNC will report it? Or, more likely, how much effort will they make to downplay it?

Of course they will report it, and then they will have on an endless stream of legal analysts to tell their viewers how wrong it was, how corrupt Judge Merchan was, how D.A. Bragg was being controlled by Collangelo, and how it was impossible to get an impartial jury in NYC and the case should have been moved upstate etc. etc.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:09:33am

re: #209 Targetpractice

The image of housewives and school kids charging machine guns with sharpened sticks. Old men expected to take down tanks with “anti-tank” weapons that consisted of little more than a stand-off mine on the end of a stick. “Sweep and clear” missions in schools and hospitals.

And if you think that’s horrific, imagine what would be going on in the North when the Soviets (eventually) made landfall. Dropping arty on buildings instead of spending time and manpower to clear them. Meeting human waves with tanks and flamethrowers. And we already know from their behavior in Berlin how they treat any persons of the fairer sex they manage to take prisoner.

If you ever listen to interviews with Japanese folks from the time period immediately post-war, it absolutely amazed them that after years of brutality and horrors visited upon their would-be subjects, their countrymen were met with such pity and support from the American occupiers that the country was largely rebuilt within a decade.

And regardless of what you may think about him, you gotta give McArthur credit for his post war Japanese occupation policy.

Someone in our family may still have dinnerware labeled “made in occupied japan.”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:10:31am

re: #3 danarchy

Of course they will report it, and then they will have on an endless stream of legal analysts to tell their viewers how wrong it was, how corrupt Judge Merchan was, how D.A. Bragg was being controlled by Collangelo, and how it was impossible to get n impartial jury n NYC and the case should have been moved upstate etc. etc.

Expect also a lot of whinging about “two tiers of justice,” the inevitable “President Biden killed the investigation into HunterBidenBurismaGate,” probably even some more “BUTTER EMAILS,” as well. But especially hammering on the “two tiers of justice” because that’s a thing they hear liberals say, and so they have lots of sound bites to try to catch people in “gotchas.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:11:39am

re: #2 Targetpractice

It will really depend upon what time of day the verdict is read, but I suspect there will be a delay between their reaction and the other stations. But expect the mood to be downright funereal, with a general attitude that the jury has “killed” America by convicting him and that the country cannot hope to recover.

Now that would be quite the sight to behold. FNC pundits set to maximum saltiness.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:11:40am

re: #4 BeenHereAwhile

I have some made in occupied Japan Noritake china from my folks.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:12:38am

re: #6 Dr Lizardo

And people may wonder how they could get any saltier.

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:15:35am

They are already preparing their viewers for it. I saw some panel where their analyst was saying he fully expected a conviction, but that it would be overturned on appeal but by then the Democrats would already have gotten what they wanted out of the prosecution.

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austin_blue  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:17:17am

re: #5 Nerdy Fish

Expect also a lot of whinging about “two tiers of justice,” the inevitable “President Biden killed the investigation into HunterBidenBurismaGate,” probably even some more “BUTTER EMAILS,” as well. But especially hammering on the “two tiers of justice” because that’s a thing they hear liberals say, and so they have lots of sound bites to try to catch people in “gotchas.”

Barber’s Adagio for Strings will be playing 24/7 for a week or so.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:17:43am

re: #8 jaunte

And people may wonder how they could get any saltier.

Oh, I can tell you.

Biden wins by a comfortable margin, the Democrats take back the House, by a miracle hold the Senate, and flip a couple of states on Election Day.

The shouty FNC newsfaces would be so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:17:49am

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

This is a long-standing pattern for Cotton, who enjoys issuing calls for violence that linger on the edge of plausible deniability when it comes to which groups, exactly, are appropriate targets for lethal force. During the George Floyd protests of 2020, Cotton demanded that the U.S. military be sent in with orders to give “no quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters,” insisting unconvincingly in a later New York Times op-ed that he was not conflating peaceful protesters with rioters.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:22:13am

re: #9 danarchy

They are already preparing their viewers for it. I saw some panel where their analyst was saying he fully expected a conviction, but that it would be overturned on appeal but by then the Democrats would already have gotten what they wanted out of the prosecution.

Overturned on appeal? On what grounds? I will remind you, appeals courts don’t directly overturn jury verdicts. They send things back to trial courts to be retried (or dismissed) based on procedural or evidential defects. Unless the analyst’s contention is that this is a rigged show trial with a predetermined outcome, then show us the procedural defect that would get Trump a new trial, or dismiss a conviction in the existing trial.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:22:41am

On topic anecdote:
Over the course of my design management career the most troublesome, unpleasant, uncooperative designers, on top of being only marginal creative contributors, were the professed Christians.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:24:26am

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

Adam Serwer is one of the very few mainstream US pundits who hasn’t crawled up his own ass.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:24:40am

re: #9 danarchy

They are already preparing their viewers for it. I saw some panel where their analyst was saying he fully expected a conviction, but that it would be overturned on appeal but by then the Democrats would already have gotten what they wanted out of the prosecution.

From what I’m seeing and hearing, they seem to be spending most of their time playing him as a political prisoner and arguing that the very act of putting him on trial signals that we’re on the very of collapse as a nation. But as we move on in the trial and closer to a verdict, I expect to start hearing talk about how the jury will surely acquit him because it’s so obvious he’s innocent and an acquittal would be such a huge “loss” for Biden.

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:26:01am

re: #13 Nerdy Fish

Overturned on appeal? On what grounds? I will remind you, appeals courts don’t directly overturn jury verdicts. They send things back to trial courts to be retried (or dismissed) based on procedural or evidential defects. Unless the analyst’s contention is that this is a rigged show trial with a predetermined outcome, then show us the procedural defect that would get Trump a new trial, or dismiss a conviction in the existing trial.

They have the same understanding of the judicial system that the tinpot dictator wannabe does, which is if you don’t like a trial verdict then you can just get it overturned on appeal and if you can’t then the system was always “rigged” against you.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:29:08am

re: #17 Targetpractice

They have the same understanding of the judicial system that the tinpot dictator wannabe does, which is if you don’t like a trial verdict then you can just get it overturned on appeal and if you can’t then the system was always “rigged” against you.

Maybe these idiots should’ve gone to the insurrection at the Capitol, they’d have a lot better view of the judicial system then.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:31:51am

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart.

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:36:13am

re: #19 mmmirele

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart.

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“Attacks”

Yeah people wanting the money you promised to pay them

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:36:37am
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austin_blue  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:36:50am

re: #14 jaunte

On topic anecdote:
Over the course of my design management career the most troublesome, unpleasant, uncooperative designers, on top of being only marginal creative contributors, were the professed Christians.

Hard-core Fundies are *not* conceited. They are *convinced* in their faith.

It’s the old “the Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it” argument. Must be nice to believe in a world without a trace of nuance.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:37:28am

re: #19 mmmirele

“De-banking?”

Why do de banks not want to do de business with SMOTI?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:38:44am

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I recommend Rick Perlstein.

Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series

Basically, the manifesto is an argument, dressed up in the raiment of morality, about power: Andreessen and people like him should get to make decisions to reorder life as we know it without interference from anyone else. Which will be quite relevant to know for the saga ahead, once you see the style of moral judgment this most powerful of human actors displays behind closed doors.

…

I brought up the ordinary comforts of kinship, friendship, craft, memory, legend, lore, skills passed down across generations, and other benefits that small towns provide: things that make human beings human beings. I pointed out that there must be something in the kind of places he grew up in worth preserving. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life …

And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.

“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

I’m taking the liberty of putting it in quotation marks, though I can’t be sure those were his exact words. Marc, if you’re reading, feel free to get in touch and refresh my memory. Maybe he said “quiescent,” or “docile,” or maybe “powerless.” Something, certainly, along those lines.

He was joking, sort of; but he was serious—definitely. “Kidding on the square,” jokes like those are called. All that talk about human potential and morality, and this man afire to reorder life as we know it jokingly welcomes chemical enslavement of those he grew up with, for the sin of not being as clever and ambitious as he.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:39:11am

re: #22 austin_blue

They were certainly people convinced their talents were not in need of improvement.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:40:28am
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danarchy  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:43:43am

re: #17 Targetpractice

They have the same understanding of the judicial system that the tinpot dictator wannabe does, which is if you don’t like a trial verdict then you can just get it overturned on appeal and if you can’t then the system was always “rigged” against you.

There are real questions of law around this case, it isn’t nearly as cut and dry as some make it seem. Here is an article from a year ago and most of the stuff in it is still open questions.

vox.com

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dat_said  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:50:06am

Brag time

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:51:41am

BREAKING: Justice Samuel Alito hospitalized with finger sprain as a result of repeatedly making air quotes to say “life of the mother”

— Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T18:44:11.675Z

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:52:19am

It says something truly profound about the blinkered view of the American pundit class that they only way they can understand a real war is through their own worn culture war framings.

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T10:52:18.171Z

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:53:18am

@gregsargent.bsky.social

This can’t be happening. New Quinnipiac poll finds 60% of voters see the hush money charges against Trump as serious. This includes 60% of independents and 55% of non-college whites (one of Trump’s best demographics):

Why can’t it be happening?

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 11:54:53am

bsky.app

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:00:38pm

Breaking: Gateway Pundit

I believe I speak for all of us when I say…

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:01:46pm

re: #19 mmmirele

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart.

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I know Shaye and Ruby have an action going against SMOTI and I hope they find a way to put that scumbag on Skid Row.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:02:02pm

re: #32 jaunte

Those troopers are standing on one of the walkways of the south mall at UT Austin.
The clock tower is behind the photographer.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:03:06pm

And the hits just keep on coming!

Trump, Giuliani and Meadows revealed as ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in MI investigation

One of the investigators in the Michigan attorney general’s ongoing criminal probe into the Mitten State’s Republican “fake electors” announced a major revelation during a court hearing on Wednesday.

ABC News reported that during a preliminary hearing in the state’s investigation into 16 Republicans who allegedly submitted falsified documents stating that they were presidential electors following the 2020 presidential election, the identities of several “unindicted co-conspirators” were made public. Howard Shock, who is a special agent in Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office, said that several high-profile GOP leaders were part of the alleged conspiracy to overturn Michigan’s election results.

alternet.org

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:04:00pm

re: #33 (((Archangel1)))

Why do feel that, coming from Dim Jim Hoft, that “de-banking” is merely a shorthand expression for “banks refusing to countenance limitless overdrafts?”

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:06:16pm
“…UT-Austin students demanding that the university divest from manufacturers supplying Israel weapons in its strikes on Gaza gathered outside the university’s Gregory Gym with plans to march to the South Lawn, where they said they would sit down throughout the day. More than 200 students* had gathered as of noon.

Authorities detained the protesters after telling students they could face criminal trespass charges if they didn’t disperse. One of the protesters was helping organize the event. An officer singled him out and told other officers he would be the first to be arrested.

After they were taken away, officers told the shrinking crowd that more arrests could happen if the students didn’t disperse.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/ut-austin-israel-hamas-war-palestine-student-arrests/

*Given the amount of space on the south mall at UT, this is a tiny number.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:07:38pm

I enjoy seeing Karma kick SMOTI in the ass.

Repeatedly.

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:07:48pm

re: #38 jaunte

*Given the amount of space on the south mall at UT, this is a tiny number.

At a school with more than 50000 students, not a particularly impressive number.

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:08:25pm

re: #33 (((Archangel1)))

Breaking: Gateway Pundit

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The pendant in me has to respond. What we call the first Amendment was actually the third one as passed by the Founders. The original 1st Amendment was about determining the size of the House. The 2nd passed by the Founders was about Congressional pay.

So the idea that the 1st Amendment was the most important to the Founders is a lie.

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b.d.  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:09:03pm

re: #35 jaunte

Those troopers are standing on one of the walkways of the south mall at UT Austin.
The clock tower is behind the photographer.

Texas State Troopers?

They should protest inside of an elementary school, the troopers would be too scared to go inside.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:09:21pm

At last, this fucking dishonest racist monster is facing some consequences for his vile actions.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T19:06:21.000Z

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:11:21pm

@lizdye.bsky.social

Explain to me like I’m five how TGP can declare bankruptcy in Florida.

(This is from the original defamation suit filed in MO state court.)

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cat-tikvah  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:11:21pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

And THAT was the end of my NYT subscription.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:12:19pm

re: #44 jaunte

@lizdye.bsky.social

Explain to me like I’m five how TGP can declare bankruptcy in Florida.

(This is from the original defamation suit filed in MO state court.)

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Because Loose Cannon.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:12:52pm

re: #46 Nerdy Fish

I get the attraction, but it seems to be a Missouri company.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:14:57pm

re: #47 jaunte

I get the attraction, but it seems to be a Missouri company.

Truth be told, there’s no logical reason they should be filing for bankruptcy in Florida. Literally the only reason I could think of that they would try this is because SDFL is where Loose Cannon sits, and maybe she wouldn’t send them back to Missouri if they drew her in the lottery.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:17:24pm

re: #31 jaunte

@gregsargent.bsky.social

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Why can’t it be happening?

I can’t tell you why it’s serious… For two weeks now the only image Americans have seen of Trump is outside a courtroom whining like a little bitch.

He’s basically Barbara Streisand-ing himself.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:18:29pm

re: #48 Nerdy Fish

Truth be told, there’s no logical reason they should be filing for bankruptcy in Florida. Literally the only reason I could think of that they would try this is because SDFL is where Loose Cannon sits, and maybe she wouldn’t send them back to Missouri if they drew her in the lottery.

So maybe they’re hoping that (any) judge in Florida will either take the case, or send Dim Jim and Slow Joe back to Misery to file in the correct jurisdiction; so as to buy them some more time to keep the mob of radical leftist haters creditors at bay?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:20:05pm

Also - I thought you couldn’t evade a defamation judgment by declaring bankruptcy.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:20:07pm

Susan Schorn in the midst of this Austin farce:

@susanschorn.bsky.social

UT keeps trying and failing to wall off the protesters; I was told to either “join the protesters” or leave. Just a complete failure to comprehend that these are students, it’s a class day, and everyone has to move around campus. The students haven’t tried to shut anything down. The cops are trying.

@susanschorn.bsky.social
Well guess I’m not getting back to my office.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:21:51pm

re: #44 jaunte

@lizdye.bsky.social

Explain to me like I’m five how TGP can declare bankruptcy in Florida.

(This is from the original defamation suit filed in MO state court.)

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I guess they’re judge shopping.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:22:34pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

Also - I thought you couldn’t evade a defamation judgment by declaring bankruptcy.

That’s what I thought, too.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:24:56pm

Maybe a transitory phenomenon, but having VERY slow loading/updating issues here (30 sec+)

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:28:18pm

@susanschorn.bsky.social

DPS rolling up Inner Campus Drive about half an hour ago. Big mistake to bring DPS in, IMO. Pres. Hartzell apparently distrusts UTPD as much as he distrusts his own students.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:29:03pm

Just got a text that the Arizona House votes to repeal the Civil War era abortion ban.

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austin_blue  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:29:46pm

re: #32 jaunte

bsky.app

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Oh, look! It’s Greg Abbot’s Goon Squad!

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Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:29:49pm

A bankrupt Jim Hoft might be the best news of the year so far. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving SOB.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:29:57pm

re: #56 Jay C

Maybe a transitory phenomenon, but having VERY slow loading/updating issues here (30 sec+)

Me too, until I reloaded the page. Does that count as transitory?

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:31:49pm

re: #59 austin_blue

I wonder if Hartzell even had a single thought about going out and listening to the protestors before hitting the panic button and calling in every police agency he could think of.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:35:55pm

re: #42 b.d.

Texas State Troopers?

They should protest inside of an elementary school, the troopers would be too scared to go inside.

Next active shooter drill: Have the 9 year olds make protest signs and chant together. That’ll bring the cops.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:37:37pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

Let’s try it now

OK, seems to be normal now. Tx.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:38:10pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

But if they chant too aggressively they’ll get teargassed…which might deter the shooter.

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austin_blue  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:38:20pm

re: #62 jaunte

I wonder if Hartzell even had a single thought about going out and listening to the protestors before hitting the panic button and calling in every police agency he could think of.

Abbot’s running this Del Rio Dogfight, make no mistake.

If his Goon Squad pounds a few kids into stains on the pavement, he’ll be as happy as any fascist dancing on a child’s grave.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:44:01pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

Also - I thought you couldn’t evade a defamation judgment by declaring bankruptcy.

You can’t, but it lets them discharge the rest of their debts, which should (ostensibly) free up money for them to pay the judgment. I wonder if it also ties the whole thing up in a legal kerfuffle, as they might be able to secure a stay of the judgment while bankruptcy proceedings play out. (Which makes you wonder if Trump may try that eventually, but his pride is too gargantuan to file for bankruptcy, I feel.)

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cat-tikvah  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:46:03pm

re: #54 No Malarkey!

SCOTUS to decide if it violates federal law for states to require ER doctors to wait until a pregnant woman is nearly dead before providing her with medical care. It’s going to be a close vote.

“Where Idaho may argue that is it providing medical care with lifesaving exceptions, it amounted to a potentially fatal game of semantics that increases the likelihood that places like Idaho become maternity care deserts.”
I expect an exodus of clinicians who care for women of reproductive age - ob/gyn, fertility specialists, emergency docs, who knows what else?

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:46:17pm

re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea

Coincidentally I was teargassed just a few yards from where today’s protest is happening. Back when students were angry that Nixon was secretly bombing Cambodia.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:46:23pm

❤️ That Dark Brandon!

Biden makes bleach joke about Trump’s hair

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:49:06pm

re: #69 jaunte

Coincidentally I was teargassed just a few yards from where today’s protest is happening. Back when students were angry that Nixon was secretly bombing Cambodia.

‘Coincidentally’ is doing some heavy lifting there.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:49:55pm

That was the day Austin PD discovered that tear gas runs downhill; it disrupted all the businesses along the Drag.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:51:19pm

re: #67 Nerdy Fish

…as they might be able to secure a stay of the judgment while bankruptcy proceedings play out. (Which makes you wonder if Trump may try that eventually, but his pride is too gargantuan to file for bankruptcy, I feel.)

I tend to doubt that: Trump has declared bankruptcy (for various business entities) several times in the past,. IIRC: he would probably do it now just to throw a wrench into the works, and try to kill more time. And also because:
1. He can use his “forced bankruptcy” as a pity-party theme to fundraise from his loyal voter-base, i.e. grub more money from the rubes.
2. Donald has probably socked away enough under-the-table cash somewhere that even Chapter 11 wouldn’t likely impair his lifestyle (and grifting) particularly much.

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:54:21pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

❤️ That Dark Brandon!

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JUst beat me to it. It is brutal and the laughter is amazing.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:54:43pm

@coxitron.bsky.social
How many people do they anticipate needing to shoot?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:55:23pm

I guess Arizona House Republicans had a “change of heart” after looking at the polls!

Arizona House votes to repeal abortion ban, advancing issue to state Senate

washingtonpost.com

So what’s KKKrazy KKKari gonna say about that?????

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b.d.  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:56:11pm

re: #75 jaunte

@coxitron.bsky.social
How many people do they anticipate needing to shoot?

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All of them Katie.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:56:18pm

re: #75 jaunte

@coxitron.bsky.social
How many people do they anticipate needing to shoot?

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It’s Texas. Doesn’t your average meal team six dude walk around with that much ammo going to Subway?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:58:38pm

re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s Texas. Doesn’t your average meal team six dude walk around with that much ammo going to Subway?

And for much the same reason - they really, really hope today’s gonna be the day they’re gonna get to pop a cap in a few people’s ass.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 12:58:56pm

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.bsky.social

The first thing a lot of us in Texas probably think about when we see a lot of state troopers these days are the nearly 100 of them that stood by and let children die at an elementary school because they were too scared to do anything about a single shooter. It’s all fucking cosplay.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:00:23pm

re: #10 austin_blue

Barber’s Adagio for Strings will be playing 24/7 for a week or so.

Dunno if anyone has posted this:
(Didn’t read ahead)

Vienna Philharmonic – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Summer Night Concert 2019)

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:00:47pm

re: #80 jaunte

Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.bsky.social

Not ‘nearly 100’. Nearly 400.

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:01:10pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

❤️ That Dark Brandon!

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Video

Here is a different and little longer view.

youtube.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:02:21pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

I guess Arizona House Republicans had a “change of heart” after looking at the polls!

Arizona House votes to repeal abortion ban, advancing issue to state Senate

washingtonpost.com

So what’s KKKrazy KKKari gonna say about that?????

She already changed her tune once she realized it would harm her election chances.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:02:22pm

376.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:03:00pm

re: #85 wrenchwench

I think she wasn’t counting Border Patrol and local police, just State.

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:03:33pm

Powerful speech from the WH.

Message of Unity

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:04:33pm

re: #79 Nerdy Fish

And for much the same reason - they really, really hope today’s gonna be the day they’re gonna get to pop a cap in a few people’s ass.

Only if the opposition is unarmed. If the opposition is armed, they are terrified to take action.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:05:02pm

re: #86 jaunte

I think she wasn’t counting Border Patrol and local police, just State.

Border Patrol was 147, IIRC. And it took them half an hour to make the first move. Locals dropped the ball. BP picked it up, eventually.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:11:34pm

SICKENING…

It’s a ‘tragedy’ not to force rape victims to give birth: Kristi Noem

alternet.org

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:12:13pm

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social

the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:12:13pm

re: #46 Nerdy Fish

Because Loose Cannon.

She has no jurisdiction in Federal Bankruptcy courts.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:15:18pm

the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it

— Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T18:16:50.856Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:17:46pm

re: #14 jaunte

On topic anecdote:
Over the course of my design management career the most troublesome, unpleasant, uncooperative designers, on top of being only marginal creative contributors, were the professed Christians.

My co-workers know I am Christian, but I hardly ever mention it at work because it has no relevance to my job. The work expectations are the same no matter where you go to worship after hours.

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silverdolphin  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:31:47pm

From the Biden-Harris HQ:

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piratedan  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:32:49pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

still has to go to the Senate.
blogforarizona.net

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Randall Gross  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:37:14pm

Since it’s the subtopic frame of the day.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young “Ohio”

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:41:49pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:51:23pm

re: #98 wrenchwench

Alligator lizard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:51:52pm

I still remember the Campus Crusaders for Christ going around the dorms and residences at the turn of the 70/80s telling us about how America is a Christian Nation as we were founded on Christian Principles.

I told them to fuck off with their theocracy back then as I would tell them now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:52:07pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

Alligator lizard.

IN THE AIR!!!

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:53:10pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

Alligator lizard.

Not its first tail, I think.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2024 • 1:53:54pm

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was dropping off a Doordash delivery in a trailer park a couple of weeks ago and there were some JWs next door.

This was about 7:30 PM. I almost said something to them, but decided that was not a fight I wanted to pick at that particular time.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:02:45pm

Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T21:00:32.570Z

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:07:13pm

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:10:29pm

re: #106 Dangerman

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What I left out

Tennessee Would Criminalize Helping Minors Get Abortions

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:12:01pm

I guess this is obvious but: the student demonstrators facing down state troopers at the University of Texas today are as Texan, and as integral a part of Texas, as the fascist cops and politicians here. In case anyone was going to try some “Fuck Texas let ‘em secede” shit today.

— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T20:24:15.957Z

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:13:38pm

re: #104 Randall Gross

Me like

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Play some funky music!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:14:45pm

Trump’s remarks about liberal Jews are not new, but the entire point of them is to say, antisemitism against liberal Jews does not count as antisemitism, and so it is morally acceptable to engage in it. From my book:

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2024-03-20T13:00:09.981Z

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:23:18pm

re: #107 Dangerman

What I left out

Tennessee Would Criminalize Helping Minors Get Abortions

While Ohio…

lawmakers voted Wednesday to criminalize marital rape in all situations, ending a years-long fight over a law that critics cast as archaic and harmful to survivors,” USA Today reports.

Link

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:25:40pm

Mastodon

alt text

At the General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the city of Slunj, where Rastoke is located, was declared the best tourist village in the world, thus leaving behind the competition of 260 other cities from 60 countries, and Croatia is thus classified as the best tourist village in the world. top destination. Since it is one of the most beautiful natural attractions in Croatia, we are not surprised by the flattering title. When deciding, UNWTO took into account as many as 9 categories - cultural and natural resources, promotion and preservation of cultural assets, economic sustainability, management, environmental sustainability, social sustainability, infrastructure and connectivity, tourism potential and development, and health and safety.

Continuation of it, from the link:

Rastoke itself has as many as 23 waterfalls, and the water is emerald green, and the locals believe that fairies live there. The ancient wooden houses, small canals and bridges over the bubbling water of this place make it a mecca for tourists from Croatia and other countries, and now we have another reason to visit them as part of the most beautiful village in the world!

Another paragraph precedes it at the link.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:26:35pm

re: #69 jaunte

Coincidentally I was teargassed just a few yards from where today’s protest is happening. Back when students were angry that Nixon was secretly bombing Cambodia.

You meant “secretly”, right? Because it wasn’t much of a secret.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:27:15pm

...

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:27:39pm

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:28:07pm
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nines09  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:29:44pm

spelling is an art….

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:34:15pm

re: #4 BeenHereAwhile

And regardless of what you may think about him, you gotta give McArthur credit for his post war Japanese occupation policy.

Someone in our family may still have dinnerware labeled “made in occupied japan.”

Some wonderful cameras and lenses have MIOJ stamped on them.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:37:46pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 24, 2024 • 2:49:15pm

re: #119 gocart mozart

It’s funny that Mike Johnson is still going through the motions of being a responsive politician, even though everyone knows the only people he listens to are the GOP donor class and the voices in his head.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 24, 2024 • 3:23:40pm

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still remember the Campus Crusaders for Christ going around the dorms and residences at the turn of the 70/80s telling us about how America is a Christian Nation as we were founded on Christian Principles.

I told them to fuck off with their theocracy back then as I would tell them now.

Endless shit from them at Pitt in the mid 70s along with their Pruneface Reagan in 76 crap!


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