Michael Airhart
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Cómo "Sound of Freedom" (Sonida de la Libertad) tergiversa su tema y por qué la película es tan seductora: Este es el punto exacto donde se encuentran un problema legítimo y una peligrosa teoría de la conspiración.
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What the political spectrum looks like: We can't escape political decay when we misunderstand its progression.
Source: Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Ideas Beyond Borders
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So many bad #Seventies #TV shows have been rebooted, but a remake of "Love American Style" -- complete with 1971 clothing, hairstyles, and a parody of the culture -- would be amazing!
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#Trump repeatedly rejected otherwise sound advice from his attorneys while seeking the counsel of Tom Fitton, the head of #JudicialWatch, a right-wing activist organization. Despite the name of his group, Fitton has no formal legal background whatsoever.
Fitton lied to Trump, telling him he could keep #classified documents.
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Right-wing billionaire John C. Malone effectively controls #CNN now. And he is reportedly pleased with the Trump town hall: CNN is promoting #KaitlynCollins as a result of her performance as moderator. (She has a history of spewing unfounded conspiracy theories for The Daily Caller.)
With Fox News facing numerous lawsuits, the Murdochs could sell Fox News to Malone for the right price.
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@mane My teenage app was a #SmithCorona electric #typewriter :-( although in college I sometimes borrowed a #TRS80 or an #AppleII.
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Post-COVID #urban #retail neighborhoods are struggling, but red-state cruelty is already making these blue communities increasingly attractive to #GenerationZ and #GenerationAlpha.
"What #SanFrancisco has in its favor is a physical setting that few cities can match, coupled with the promise of individual #freedom that has drawn waves of smart, #creative people who didn’t see that option in the places they hailed from."
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#Dominion Voting Systems alleges that #OneAmericaNews, #newsmax, #sidneypowell, #rudygiuliani, #mikelindell and #Overstock founder #PatrickByrne maliciously lied about the company and the 2020 election.
https://www.rawstory.com/dominion-voting-v-fox-news-2659935431
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#JeffSharlet about the transformation of Democrats into #MAGAs:
Something about Trump in 2016 gave her license to indulge in that which she had been resisting her whole life. She was deep in debt. It gave her the license to say, instead of trying to be a better person, what if I indulge myself? ... She described it as a liberation. She felt free, giving in to her worst impulses. And I saw that play out again and again in the lives of people who you wouldn’t expect."
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#JeffSharlet about the transformation of some Democrats into #MAGA:
"The next stage of that... a gospel of conspiracies, but what Trump calls the deep state, this is sort of an appealing, the idea that you have this inside track of knowledge.
"And then we come to martyrdom, the victimization of white grievance, which is the current that pulls white supremacy along." ...
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What pulls so many people like #AshliBabbitt from supporting Obama to supporting #MAGA #fascism?
#JeffSharlet: Recognize that it’s not so much about any particular issue, but rather it is an aesthetic, as fascism is, but also a #theology. And that’s why I said the #prosperitygospel is — it comes from #evangelicals, from the idea that God wants you to be rich. #trump's golden plane is evidence of God’s intention.
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A new U.S. government report confirms that forced #detransition and #gendercritical denial of health care and freedom do serious medical and psychological harm to #transgender people.
https://medium.com/@mairhart/transition-is-not-conversion-therapy-2749756c7b14
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I worked for Christian magazine #Sojourners long ago, where #JimWallis was editor.
Today, Wallis calls the hatred of #transgender people for what it is: Antichrist.Thank you @charlotteclymer for your courageous leadership throughout this crisis for #humanrights.
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#JeffSharlet says #MAGA #conservatives constitute an "innocence cult" that views its white nationalism as eternal, holy, and pure. Domestic terrorist Ashli Babbitt is refashioned as a meek martyr, and her critics become worthy of revenge.
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Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College, shares a humorous and mind-bending story from Imam #alGhazali about the possession of spiritual knowledge and voluntary poverty, for the holy month of #Ramadan
https://woke.tips/imam-al-ghazali-and-the-thief-eab2daceecce
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CW: Poll of Republican trust in Fox News
Sixty percent of #Republicans effectively say in a #Quinnipiac #poll that they want #FoxNews to lie to them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/15/trump-fox-news-dominion-defamation-lawsuit/
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The #prolife movement is killing mothers along with their #unborn
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-denied-abortions-to-these-women-when-their-lives-were-in-danger-now-theyre-suing-the-state/ -
Rev. Sam Holland of Plymouth Congregational #UnitedChurchOfChrist testifies today against #NewHampshire #HB619, which she says would censor doctors, alienate the families of transgender people, harm people of faith, and uphold unethical #conversiontherapy.
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The Rev. Sara E. Marean, Associate Conference Minister for the #UnitedChurchofChrist, testifies in favor of #transgender people as equal in God's sight.
Marean opposes #NewHampshire House Bill 619, which would censor doctors and persecute the families of transgender people.
Marean celebrates families that affirm the gender diversity of their children.
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Mathew Shurka, #BornPerfect campaign co-founder at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, testifies today against #NewHampshire House Bill 619, which would legalize #conversiontherapy against #LGBTQ youth, censor doctors, and harm #transgender youths and their parents.
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The purpose of laws against #transgender people and their families is to #segregate America -- driving blue people out of #redstates, and censoring anyone who isn't red.
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#Nebraska family practice physician Dr. Alex Dworak testifies today in favor of legislation to prohibit #conversiontherapy by licensed professionals against #LGBTQ minors: Medical malpractice is not protected free speech.
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#Exgay ministry leader John Smid counseled Aaron Aupperle in two long and traumatic rounds of #conversiontherapy. Smid later repudiated conversion therapy. Smid is now openly #LGBTQ. Aupperle testified today in #Nebraska to ban conversion therapy.
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#Nationalism is idolatry. "Christian #patriot" is an oxymoron.
And these #redoubt Americans who form shadow nations among us celebrate violence, disease, censorship, and the death of liberals as "God's will."
This is self-worship. This is #megalomania and #narcissism.
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So a USB hub (not Thunderbolt) and an Ethernet adapter are essential.
I am grateful to all the #t2linux volunteer developers. I finally have Fedora working natively on my legacy Intel-based Mac.
I merely suggest that devs be more conscious and/or transparent going forward, about the need for Ethernet, external keyboard, external mouse, and non-Thunderbolt USB hub.
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Despite claiming that it opposes #conversiontherapy, #FocusOnTheFamily is an international leader of efforts to impose conversion therapy through harsh laws and through relentless harassment of families by their churches.
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What #FocusOnTheFamily does is worse than #conversiontherapy.
It uses relentless shame and blame to silence gay and lesbian people; make them deny their orientation; and make them live their lives alone without companionship.
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“While most Americans today embrace #pluralism and reject this anti-democratic claim, majorities of white evangelical Protestants and Republicans remain animated by this vision of a white Christian America.”
-- #PRRI and #BrookingsInstitution
#christiannationalism #whitenationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/09/prri-poll-christian-nationalism/
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Forget the future
Just let it go
If I ever hurt you
I never planned it that way
Until tomorrow live for today-- From "The Crying Game" #Soundtrack (1993)
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For most of us, life with Barbara Walters BEGAN when she became Today Show co-host at age 45.
Before that, Walters fought a long and lesser-seen rise through TV journalism.
Barbara Walters made life after 40 count!
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CW: Old computer nostalgia
My first experience with a computer was typing out simple #BASIC commands, line by line, on a dumb #teleprinter -- no display monitor. This gadget was connected to a plain old telephone line, which dialed a local switchboard, which connected (at $2 per minute) to a Digital #PDP11 #minicomputer.
If you made a typo, backspacing was verboten. There was no whiteout option. And you certainly could not cursor up and down a scroll of dot-matrix paper.
Ah, memories.