Every day we are getting new details about the level of pre-planning for the 1/6 coup attempt and coordination by militia, elected officials, and law enforcement.
And every day Republicans are issuing coordinated fake outrage about metal detectors and losing followers online.
Coordinated fake outrage is a tool that has always worked for republicans before. Something bad happens and the Public recoils, Democrats criticize the people involved, republicans pretend outrage, the media covers both sides seriously, and we revert from consensus to divide.
But because each day the coup details get worse, it a not a playbook that’s currently working.
This tweet is enough evidence to end Shapiro's access to respectable publications. @politico published a vile bigot as if this kind of thing is just a matter of debate. Which I guess for that outlet's leaders it is.
@politico There's plenty more to be said about Shapiro, but it's not necessary. That tweet does it. And you're damn right @politico that it undermines the work your reporters are doing. It's a choice.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how Trump will look in 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years. Because I’m a medievalist, so that’s my habitual timeframe.
I think he won’t be seen as an aberration especially.
both times I have tested for covid I have used this method. I go on a website, click a few buttons, the next morning a tube arrives. I log on, spit into it as someone observes, seal it, then drop it off in a special bin at a ups store around the corner. Results in 48 hrs.
the whole process is 72 hrs or so, comparable in speed to nasal swab testing at a center.
huh. Vault health is a company that started for men to do penis-related medicine at home so they wouldn't have to go to a dr I guess? test fertility, etc. Well ... good for them.
Family members of disabled people in California qualify as 1A priority for vaccines. This is good. Let's get on that Minnesota (but also ... what about the disabled people themselves?).
So let's talk about Truth Commissions. They involve one thing - trying to establish the truth of what happened. They do not necessarily involve blanket amnesty, though often do in exchange for certain kinds of testimony.
There have been lots of truth commissions around the world, and I think people get caught up in the South African case that was trying to unpack and heal after decades of apartheid (the specific 20th century program) and generation of racist oppression. It's not the model here.
I argue for @GENmag that corruption in the Trump Admin is fractal - there's a big picture (Russia, Ukraine, Coup, Emoluments, Child Separation, Trump family graft), but zoom in and you'll find it replicated in tiny ways throughout.