The solution to gun violence apparently is *checks notes* to live each day like you might have to shoot your friends, coworkers, and neighbors.
Where could such rampant paranoia possibly go wrong?
Moments ago,
@PastorMikeStone
told
@freedomsbride
— just outside the
#SBC21
convention hall — that she was “doing harm” to the denomination. As she walked away in tears, pastors and messengers came up to shake his hand and wish him luck tomorrow.
Mike Stone is not telling the truth here.
@freedomsbride
was in tears well before he left. He stayed shaking hands for a few moments as she walked away crying. He also refused to talk to me about anything at the time and I have posted that audio.
This is completely inaccurate.
Again this is a total fabrication. The actual organizers of the caravans have repeatedly said — including to Fox News’ own reporters here! — that the caravan is only going to Mexico City.
The “Mother of All Caravans” (a bullshit term meant to inject fear) isn’t coming to the US.
When I tried to talk to Stone, he took his wife by the arm, saying he couldn't talk as he was going to pick up his kid -- saying he only does interviews through a private booking firm.
@freedomsbride
was handing out copies of survivors' joint statement:
The Atlanta shooter went to an evangelical “sex addiction” rehab at a facility that has also specialized in gay “conversion” therapy — less than a mile from Young’s Asian Massage. My latest on HopeQuest Ministries with
@spulliam
.
@chrislhayes
@Taniel
Of course, but cracking heads in public, charging folks with terrorism — it shows who is listened to and who isn’t.
@micahinATL
wrote a pretty solid primer on all the more technical contributing factors and history which is worth reading:
Having a “Right Wing Death Squads” patch does not necessarily mean one is a ‘white supremacist.’ It usually means one is a fan of the fascist ‘death squads’ of Pinochet.
It’s almost as if the specter of fascism is international and not solely fixated on American racial politics.
@chrislhayes
@Taniel
There are many reasons, but playing to the massive tax base of rich folks in Buckhead (who have threatened to secede) is another factor.
The thinking from the council is if they go more “law & order” the Buckhead-types will be less liable to leave.
It’s almost as if Latin America has a long history of fascism all its own that doesn’t require references to Klansmen, gringo neo-Nazis, or ‘white supremacy.’
Fascism that is not ‘white supeemacist’ is still, you know, fascism.
@MrTooDamnChris
I have no idea. The video has been getting passed around for at least a day, and I’m unclear when it was originally taken.
The earliest posting I’ve found is from an anonymous rightwing Brazilian page yesterday, but there is no indication when it was filmed or who filmed it.
Going to say it again: There are tons of great environment, science, campaign, and civil rights reporters covering these things.
There are also people who cover the White House and they covered Kanye because he was at the White House.
It’s called a division of labor.
How any serious journalist or news outlet could cover this Kanye West nonsense instead of climate change, voter suppression in Georgia or any number of issues that actually matter and not this fucking bullshit pr stunt by a narcissistic pop star I’ll never know. Shameful.
For the better part of the past year, I’ve been investigating the rise of violent Nazi groups in America.
This deep dive into the murder of Blaze Bernstein is the first in a series I’m writing on the rise of Nazi terror in the West. Please read.
Just leaving the Atlanta forest after a lovely Purim celebration, featuring a folk retelling of the Book of Esther, primarily led by queer Jewish forest defenders.
Chag Purim to all who celebrate.
#StopCopCity
@swordsjew
Yes and no.
Yes, antipathy towards Zelensky has a vile antisemitic tenor to it. (Also, lots of antisemites and white nationalists support Putin.)
No, in that support for Putin already existed among wannabe authoritarians separate from the invasion.
Call, write, and otherwise tell your congressman that you want C-SPAN to continue controlling the cameras in the House, regardless of who the Speaker is.
Together we can have the cinematic congressional record we deserve!
Just want to point out in the midst of all this horrible reporting on KH that I spent two years documenting thousands of disappearances carried out by the group—to which they admitted to me on the record—but not one editor gave a fuck enough to publish the work.
@ArielleLAngel
Shockingly only tied for the most disgusting thing Tablet published today. (Check out the “Palestinian Empire” article by some fuckwit named Lee Smith.)
Trump blames Obama for Putin's annexation of Crimea:
Reporter: "That was President Putin..."
Trump: "That was during President Obama's regime."
Reporter: "But that was President Putin who annexed Crimea."
Trump: "No, that was under President Obama..."
@ZackKopplin
Sure. A world where an “objective”, removed liberal arrogance is treated as the only way to get at “truth.”
Like the characters in Garland’s Civil War, they legitimately think they are cool and their methods are the only way to “truthfully” record history.
@tea_and_hugs
@paul_posts
Spencer was empathetic and gave its character great interiority. In Blonde, as Schrader, Dominik seems to have “a gleeful need to jump on Monroe’s cadaver for a romp.”
Dominik has publicly said he had no respect for Monroe or her legacy and blamed her for her own abuse.
There were only about 1,000 Gazan Christians left in the Strip when this war began, all in a single Gaza City neighborhood.
Hundreds have been sheltering in this church. It’s unclear as yet how many died in this IDF strike.
This whole community is at risk of being wiped out.
No, I would say, definitionally, when a person who is not in power is convicted of thirty-four felony counts by a jury of his peers that is, definitionally, not an insurrection.
It’s a conviction.
This man is dean of Utah’s congressional delegation.
@DrKarimWafa
@itsdeenasaur
Just to clarify here — St. Porphyrius is a large complex. The front hall was hit by a strike last month, but the church was not “destroyed.” The a monastery and main building are still standing and sheltering hundreds.
@haseemuzzaman
@tomgara
Yeah, that’s the earliest posting I can find, but I don’t think that’s the source. It was sent to me via Whatsapp by a friend who was texted it, etc.
It has been getting passed around for the past day or so. Would love to know who took this and which Publix it was.
@ZackKopplin
My god. His reading lists are the exact same as 65 year-old stuffy magazine writers.
Nothing too challenging or of serious academic heft. Echo chamber stuff.
@brookshansen247
@PastorMikeStone
Yeah. Not a word of this is true. He is even placing me there during the conversation, claiming I lied — I have explicitly states that I came up after I saw her leaving in tears, and he refused to comment.
An update on this: I have just finished a draft and sent it to my editor. Apologies for the delay — I was up until 1 AM reporting.
I had to send detailed requests for comment to multiple people involved in the convo. (To answer your Q: No,
@PastorMikeStone
has not responded.)
@ZackKopplin
It’s not about any of that. The actual conflict is really ancillary to the film’s arguments. If go in looking for an epic about the specifics of a war, you’ll be disappointed.
It’s about the raw production of violent images and “news.”
@brdwaybound91
@RationalDis
@KrangTNelson
Hi. I'd really appreciate if people would stop using me as a talking point. I wasn't "used." I was a child interested in politics.
There's a happy medium between trumpeting children as political pundits and turning their childhood into a slur against them.
This is incorrect.
The new wall is not on the border, but several dozen feet inland. Under the Roosevelt Easement it is illegal to build within 60 ft of the border. From the aerial footage We Build the Wall published this morning, it's clear they know this, but continue to lie.
NEW: "We Build the Wall," a nonprofit founded by Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage and headed by Steve Bannon, built a mile-long section of border wall near El Paso — secretly, on private land — over the Memorial Day weekend by
@melissarossi199
This is surreal.
Mexico’s president attempts to convince legendary journalist Jorge Ramos, that while there is more violence in Mexico than any time “since the Revolution” actually it’s not that bad because of some metric of incremental change his admin has settled on.
@MuslimFBScout
@ellehardy
@tammigaw
Yes, because no one has been talking about rape, sexual assault, and harassment in the United States. That’s a thing that gets “swept under the rug.” 🙃
That’s some absolute clown shit, man.
(The piece is at something like 5,000 words presently — 1,000 of which is a detailed recounting of Stone confronting Hannah-Kate. I will let you all know as soon as I have a publishing time-frame on this.)
@passingbybye
@ajaltamimi
(One can make a fine argument about the way Shi’a have been racialized — and “Rafidi” is certainly a term meant to otherize, exclude, and draw social boundaries — but the sociohistorical context is different and it’s silly to pretend it’s not.)
@ZackKopplin
The larger issue is that he tweets like the kind of “serious journalist” he wishes to be.
Which is to say, there are lots of people who aren’t 19 who have given him commissions who would comfortably tweet the same shit.
@passingbybye
@ajaltamimi
There’s an interesting discussion to be had on the fracturing of Arab nationalism post-panArabism, and how some contemporary theopolitical mvmts, use religious identity (in part) to define “national membership,” but that’s different than “it’s like a white guy saying the n-word.”
@ZackKopplin
It’s a rather good portrayal of the sickness of contemporary journalism. Though the film itself doesn’t seem to know that at several points.
@passingbybye
@ajaltamimi
Yeah. As I said, it is an awful terms with lots of baggage.
“Rafidi” is not a product of a trans-Atlantic chattel slave trade and has its roots in religious violence rather than the strictly racial.
There are substantive differences.
@VonkLevi
@imbobswaget
Someone on this hellsite made a good point the other day that this is a direct descendant of Tumblr TV blogging back in the day — where the image of middling television was frozen and mediocre dialogue became memefied in photograph.
I’m inclined to agree. Tumblrification.
@VonkLevi
What’s really intriguing (read: appalling) is the schizophrenic language. “A schism of writers,” is what she suggests as a collective noun.
Isolating that signifier, jumping between other isolated signifiers (“an unkindness”, “a murder”) to reach a foregone conclusion.
I wish someone would sponsor me to go this year. It is going to be a fucking banger year for the fest, mark my words. One of the best lineups in some time…
@saintsoftness
@_ryanruby_
Let’s slow down. It’s cool he made a protest song, but the flow is corny and the beat is weak.
This won’t have the staying power of “Ohio,” it’s just the first mainstream protest song out there — but let’s not pretend Macklemore is, musically, any less cheesy. lol
@JennMGreenberg
@PastorMikeStone
@freedomsbride
I gave her napkins from a concession stand. She texted a friend to help. When I returned a bit later Ed Stetzer, Griffin, and some others were there too. She is safe now.
And she is far stronger than I.
@ajaltamimi
While certainly an offensive term with a fucked history, I do not think “Rafidite” carries the same connotations as the n-word does, Aymenn.
Let’s not conflate all hateful terms at the expense of their specific sociohistorical baggage.
Just your friendly reminder that using the families of people killed by immigrants as political props was popularized by a group called the Remembrance Project.
(Trump appeared with members of RP. They spoke at the RNC.)
They're funded by a white nationalist named John Tanton.
Christian Nationalist oligarch Konstantin Malofeev has already dubbed Dugina a “martyr for Christ” in a statement. Below he also fantasizes about renaming a Kyiv street after her.
Malofeev owns Tsargrad, a nationalist TV channel set up by former Fox producer Jack Hanick.
Noted sex pest Matt Gaetz — leader of the obstructionist caucus currently preventing Kevin McCarthy from becoming House Speaker — just voted for “Donald John Trump” for Speaker.
What an utter buffoon.