neonazis, hate, news outlets standing up, venezuelan boats, ice vs mr potato head, annie dillard
blog post 101525
today i was grateful for getting together with friends...
tomorrow i am looking forward to sorting out my new lossless pocket music player...
i am wearing my new gathered smock dress, bare shouldered, warm fuzzy black speckled sweater over the top... i love the way i feel in this dress... i love the way i look in this outfit... something about how swishy, flowy fabric feels around my legs as i walk is so wonderful...
the nation continues to descend into chaos...
Today, Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo of Politico reported on 2,900 pages of messages exchanged on the messaging app Telegram between leaders of the hardline pro-Trump factions of Young Republican groups in New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. In the edgy messages, the leaders used racist themes and epithets freely and cheered slavery, rape, gas chambers, and torturing their opponents. They expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
One of them wrote to the others, “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked [for real for real].”
i truly don't understand human beings lusting after the death and destruction of nazi germany... they have screws loose... is it a mass psychosis?... wtf happens to a human being that they become such animals?...
i absolutely love that even fox news said no to this one...
Cracks are showing elsewhere in the administration’s picture of strength. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that media outlets agree they would not publish any material about the Defense Department—even if it were unclassified—unless it was explicitly authorized by department officials. He set a deadline of 5:00 tonight for them to sign an agreement or hand over their press badges.
Every major press outlet, including the Fox News Channel, refused, saying such a demand is an assault on the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
and then there are the venezuelan boats being blown out of the water...
Conservative lawyer George Conway posted: “That’s twenty-seven flat-out murders. That’s twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.”
is anyone taking them to court on this?... when will the hague get involved?... war crimes?... crimes against humanity...
my big worry is that this is a prelude to extrajudicial killings of us citizens in the united states...
absolutely love this...
The administration is attempting to paint immigrants as violent criminals and those opposed to their raids as terrorists. They are producing slick videos to make that point. But protesters have deprived them of photo opportunities by dressing in animal costumes. ICE agents staring down a giant frog and Mr. Potato Head don’t look very dominant.
a lovely post in the marginalian... an exerpted quote of annie dillard...
Annie Dillard on How to Live – The Marginalian
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you’re going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.
i pull my new noise canceling headphones off and realize how successfully they had buffered me from the cafe din... and how much better in mind and spirit i feel, at least in part due to the buffering of cacophony...