Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Thought Speech Police
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Bruce Schneier and John Penney argue that the actions of the Trump maladministration are having a chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of speech. Their article focuses on college campuses, but methinks it extends much further. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
Research suggests that surveillance, personal threats, uncertainty and abuse of power are key factors in doing so. The federal government has a clear and systematic pattern of employing these very mechanisms across a number of domains far beyond campuses.
They are evident in militarized raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and in journalists being arrested and indicted for reporting on protests. They are made clear in the long list of political enemies the Trump administration has investigated or threatened, including the Federal Reserve chairman. And they can also be seen in the weaponization of technology, including ramping up surveillance to target critics and protestors.
American Stasi 0
NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:
Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.
More mean for the sake of mean at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
UNC law professor Gene Nickol tells NC Republicans that, try as they might,
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Afterthought:
I think “racist agenda” would have been a more appropriate phrasing, but that’s just me.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports on DOJ attorneys fired by the Trump maladministration. A snippet:
The prosecutors fired were doing their jobs. That is, apparently, the problem.
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi 0
As far as I can tell, this is little more than KKK v. 2.0.
American Stasi 0
Retired ATF agent David Ziegler contrasts the behavior of Donald Trump’s secretive police with the standards he was expected to comply with when he was on active duty and issues a warning:
For those who believed, “It can’t happen here,” it already has.
Follow the link for his reasoing.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The NAACP has suggested that black student athletes to unite against the New Secesh, refusing to attend sports powerhouses (such as UGa., Alabama, FSU, etc.) in states that are attempting to gerrymander minority voters out of existence. Rick Stron discusses this.
(In the first two minutes, you can watch the New Secesh come out from under their hoods and show themselves. It’s pretty scary.)
Republican Thought Police 0
The Constitution may protect freedom of speech, but, in Texas, freedom of speech is apparently not street-legal.
American Stasi 0
Yet another persons held in an ICE detention center concentration camp tells his story.
Just read it, and, as you do, remind yourself that this is being done in the name of liberty and justice for all..
“The Stew of Aggrievement” 0
Sam and the crew argue that today’s Republican Party is all about the grievances, using a Republican congress person’s obnoxious response to a letter from a fourth grader as a springboard.
There’s a Price Tag on Prejudice 0
Farron runs the numbers.
All the News that Fits 0
David dissects the torrent of lies that a Fox News host is able to cram into a 41 second clip. (Short promo at the end.)
Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.
And, while we’re on the subject . . . .
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at Republicans’ flouting of the Constitutional mandate for separation of church and state.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper makes a strong case that Donald Trump has normalized nastiness.