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Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

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A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Wild idea, but it just might work!

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The corruption of the Supreme Court is America’s biggest failure as a country

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Sure, but very few people outside the small circle of Imperium readers and professional “far right watchers” knew about this. 99% of Americans had no idea who Carto was or what he believed in.

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Screenshot from facebook today.

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He was pretty secretive & tried to stay out of the public eye. Journalists like Jack Anderson outed him as a Nazi in the late 60s, but it didn't really seem to stick. The Liberty Lobby was still active in DC into the 80s, testifying on the Hill regularly, and only occasionally would it be a problem.

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The basic messaging of The Spotlight ca. 1980s is virtually indistinguishable from that of Newsmax or Infowars today. The details have changed, but the conspiratorial message is the same. In the 1980s The Spotlight's owner created audio content that could be heard on ~400 AM radio stations.

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Back in the 80s a major vector for this religio-political, right wing populist con game was The Spotlight, a publication with a circulation ~3X the size of National Review's and which was run by a semi-closeted neo-Nazi named Willis Carto.

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The Long Con | Rick Perlstein Mitt Romney lies to be loved.

I try to project the bulk of my anger about this dynamic at the perpetrators of this con--super-rich cynical a-holes like Carlson and Brand who are laughing all the way to the bank. Anyway, this dynamic has been in place for a while now. This article is from 2012. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...

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There's long been a type of savvy, conservative-coded con man who's especially adept at siphoning the money of AARP-eligible suburban and rural white Christians into their own, city slicker pockets. But the link between the grift and the right wing politics has rarely been as tight as it is today.

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I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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Am I reading this correctly that you just called me "you people" in the context of recommending what sort of messaging will or won't work for Democrats?

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A DOJ hellbent on tracking down and prosecuting the Trump associates who cashed in on insider information would rack up approval ratings that would rival Girl Scout Cookies. And then if those clawed back funds went toward subsidizing health care? A Republican wouldn't get elected for 50 years.

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Videos of the property of these white collar criminals being confiscated and arrest videos of the men who victimized the women in the Epstein files would provide ideal social media content for a future Democratic administration...the flip side to the sadistic ICE sizzle reels produced by this one.

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“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

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📌NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totaling $113 million.

This is something called a "good news" story.

I'd die without NPR, I really would.

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That poor restaurant owner just couldn’t cover the overhead.

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Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

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Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

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This detail provoked an involuntary eyebrow raise on my part.

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Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

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Ted Cruz quote tweet says:
"Tucker Carlson has turned into a deranged, Leftist psycho. Who loves sharia." 

original Tucker Carlson Network tweet:
"The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.

Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth go defeat the Antichrist. that's why Donald Trump's painting..."

Ted Cruz quote tweet says: "Tucker Carlson has turned into a deranged, Leftist psycho. Who loves sharia." original Tucker Carlson Network tweet: "The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth go defeat the Antichrist. that's why Donald Trump's painting..."

imagine trying to sustain a serious intellectual culture in the midst of this

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Walter Huss Knew That if Fascism Ever Came to America, it would happen via the hostile takeover of a major political party On American Fascism's parasitic relationship to "The Party of Lincoln"

Here's the longer piece from which that screenshot comes. It took a white Christian nationalist named Walter Huss 18 years of diligent work to eventually get elected chair of the OR GOP in 1978. He was deposed within a year, but the movement he built kept going. rightlandia.ghost.io/walter-huss-...

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If you think Musk would ever actually support economically progressive policies, I have a bridge in Kansas to sell you

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I'll share just one more story to give a flavor of the Husses "hostile takeover" tactics. In 1976, a woman who was a moderate GOP precinct captain from Clackamas county got an alarmed phone call from a friend telling her that she had to go to the county executive committee meeting that night. "Ugh, why?" she thought. "Those meetings are soooo boring and I was planning on just relaxing at home and watching TV." But she honored her friend's request and attended the meeting. There was a sense of urgency around this usually mundane event because Huss's far right forces had rented several school busses to bring precinct captains from all over the county to vote as a block for a right wing coup to take over the county organization. My informant remembered looking out the window of the room where they were meeting and seeing the convoy of busses pull in. Huss's forces easily won, and immediately following the vote that replaced the former county chair with some new right winger who was entirely unknown to most of the county's old line Republicans, the new chair immediately asked everyone to bow their heads to pray. No new business was discussed. No votes were held. There was no discussion of policy or political strategy. There was just an offering to God, and then back on to the school busses to head home. My informant remembered being taken aback that the new chair would ask everyone to say a Christian prayer at a political meeting. She'd never witnessed anything like that before and didn't want to be rude, but also felt like it would be inappropriate to join in. She left wondering what the hell had just happened.

I'll share just one more story to give a flavor of the Husses "hostile takeover" tactics. In 1976, a woman who was a moderate GOP precinct captain from Clackamas county got an alarmed phone call from a friend telling her that she had to go to the county executive committee meeting that night. "Ugh, why?" she thought. "Those meetings are soooo boring and I was planning on just relaxing at home and watching TV." But she honored her friend's request and attended the meeting. There was a sense of urgency around this usually mundane event because Huss's far right forces had rented several school busses to bring precinct captains from all over the county to vote as a block for a right wing coup to take over the county organization. My informant remembered looking out the window of the room where they were meeting and seeing the convoy of busses pull in. Huss's forces easily won, and immediately following the vote that replaced the former county chair with some new right winger who was entirely unknown to most of the county's old line Republicans, the new chair immediately asked everyone to bow their heads to pray. No new business was discussed. No votes were held. There was no discussion of policy or political strategy. There was just an offering to God, and then back on to the school busses to head home. My informant remembered being taken aback that the new chair would ask everyone to say a Christian prayer at a political meeting. She'd never witnessed anything like that before and didn't want to be rude, but also felt like it would be inappropriate to join in. She left wondering what the hell had just happened.

The Oregon Republican Party used to believe in religious pluralism, but in the late 1970s a grassroots Christian Nationalist insurgency slowly took over the party apparatus and moved it rightward. This story from 1976 is indicative of what this hostile takeover looked like to a normie Republican.

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The Oregon GOP gubernatorial debate last night was pretty uneventful, but it's notable that the event opened with a Christian prayer..."what do Oregon Republicans do when we get together? We pray." FWIW, Oregon is one of the *least* churched states in the country. www.youtube.com/live/GHlnu68...

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Yeah, but the chances that Musk would actually support such a policy in reality are nil. He'd call it communism.

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I know this might sound controversial, but words like "apartheid" and "communism" have meanings that one can look up in the dictionary. When rich and powerful people use emotionally charged words to try to shape rather than make sense of reality, that's called "Orwellian authoritarianism."

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Racist billionaires will invent brain breaking phantoms to be terrified of like "the woke mind virus" before taking a couple minutes to introspect about how their familial legacy of hysterical racism has broken their brains.

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