In a healthy society this entire channel would be pulled off the air permanently and everyone involved prosecuted.
It's shouting "fire" in a crowded theater but on a national, even global, scale. It's worse than irresponsible, it's murderous.
606,000 dead of Covid in the US aren’t free to form their own conclusions and ideas, nor will be the next 606,000.

Deliberately lying to the public about matters of public safety isn’t protected speech.
This isn't a 1A issue.

If a major channel aping the news dedicated itself to the proposition that traffic lights were dangerous lies and that nobody should follow them, would we allow 600,000 corpses before shutting them down and prosecuting them? I hope not.

Same thing.
In fact, it's worse.

"Traffic lights" are a part of our shared reality because we all agree they are. Scientific fact is part of our shared reality whether we agree to it or not.

And traffic crashes don't mutate.

FOX News traffic in murderous propaganda.

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9 Jul
Reminder that before 1/6/21 at the national Capitol was 4/30/20 in Michigan.

This is a pattern, directly abetted by an anti-democracy authoritarian white supremacist Republican Party. They aren't done trying. If Republicans aren't stopped, they'll eventually succeed.
As a society, we desperately need to stop treating as extremist statements expressing the extremity of our danger.

We need to start treating the actual extreme danger as extremist, and take proper action to counter it.

We have a major party politically committed to downfall.
Downfall of representative government. Downfall of democracy. Downfall of the public commons on every level: schooling, parks, public health, housing, safety, environment. Downfall of science. Of knowable fact.

They'll get downfall, if they're allowed.
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“CRT is Orwellian and that’s why I think there should be constant video monitoring of teachers to be sure they don’t teach the badthink.”
“I hate ‘cancel culture’ in schools, which is why I think we should have nonstop video monitoring of teachers, so we can fire the ones who say the badthink to our white children.”
The anti-wokers have discovered these tweets, and I was going to invite them to remain insanely angry about the threat of hearing uncomfortable truths, but let me assure you they have got it *covered.*
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Abusers tend to cultivate enabling friends in order to lend themselves a veneer of innocence. I know…this is an inconvenient truth.
Our goal should not be tolerance. Our goal should be justice.

But even setting that aside, this framing misunderstands what tolerance is.
Tolerance isn’t friendship. Tolerance is the bare minimum of justice. It’s permitting people to exist as equals under the law even if you find their beliefs or very existence offensive.

On almost every metric, Republicans fail the test of tolerance.
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The Supreme Court's rulings systemically dismantling voting rights are constitutional negation. They present an argument for Biden and Congress to ignore an unlawful Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court is going to act as a confederate council for an authoritarian party that is negating our constitution, then as a body they have invalidated themselves; it's no longer the Supreme Court of the constitution but the unconstitutional Roberts Court.
It's the duty of those who swore an oath to protect the constitution to negate the unconstitutional Roberts Court and install a new one.

That's the framing I'd like to see used on the Sunday shows. Let's get real with it.
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Climate change is upon us and it is an existential emergency.

It requires an emergency footing response that is transformative, sweeping, and immediate.

We should abolish or replace any institution or entity that chooses to stand between us and such a response.
For example: “But we can’t pass meaningful for climate reform because of the Senate” is an argument to abolish the Senate, not an argument to stop pursuing climate reform.
Realize that whatever reason one would give for not passing immediate radical sweeping climate change policy is an argument for abolishing, purging, removing or replacing that thing.
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It’s totally expected but still the effortless speed with which conservatives flip from “we aren’t allowed to say anything anymore!!” to “here are all the things you’re literally not allowed to say” is always breathtaking.
“We’re being censored by woke cancel culture! We’re afraid to say what we actually think!—also here is our new law forbidding mention of the following topics in public schools.”
lol, literally a laundry list of things these "woke cancel culture is coming for my free speech" warriors want to not allow to be said
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