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Elon Musk Criticizes Lupita Nyong’o in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Elon Musk has again weighed in on Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey, this time agreeing…
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David Attenborough and Ireland: ‘He was so kind and charming. He joked about my lovely accent’ – The Irish Times
David Attenborough was hailed as a “global treasure” by Mary Robinson this week, as the natural history presenter…
#Ireland #IE #Europe #Europa #EU #christopher-osullivan #davidattenborough #ella-mcsweeney #foryou #gay-byrne #ireland #liz-bonnin #MaryRobinson #pat-kenny #TikTok #weekendreview #worldeconomicforum
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A Former ‘Doctor Who’ Star Will Only Return on One Condition, and the Internet Loves It
Former Ninth Doctor actor Christopher Eccleston reveals what would finally get him to return to the series... and fans want to see it happen.
#christopher-eccleston #doctor-who #russell-t.-davies #tv
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https://www.europesays.com/es/465765/ Hoy todos la recuerdan, pero la frase más famosa de ‘El Caballero Oscuro’ no fue escrita por Christopher Nolan #caballero #christopher #Cine #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #escrita #España #famosa #Film #frase #hoy #Movies #no #nolan #oscuro #pm #recuerdan #Spain
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Musical in Hamburg: Mit Vollgas „Zurück in die Zukunft“
Das Musical nach dem Filmklassiker mit Michael J. ist eine flotte Zeitreise in die 80er-Jahre. Bei der Pre…
#Hamburg #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Balken-Inbox #Berry #Christopher(Schauspieler) #Chuck #Fox #Germany #Grund-Stefan #hamburg #Huey #Lewis #Lloyd #MichaelJ.(Schauspieler) #Musicals #Robert #texttospeech #Zemeckis #ZurückindieZukunft
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https://www.europesays.com/at/60671/ Premiere: Mit Vollgas „Zurück in die Zukunft“ – WELT #AT #Austria #BalkenInbox #Berry #Christopher(Schauspieler) #Chuck #Cinema #Entertainment #Fox #GrundStefan #Huey #Kino #Lewis #Lloyd #MichaelJ(Schauspieler) #Movie #Musicals #Österreich #robert #texttospeech #Unterhaltung #Zemeckis #ZurückInDieZukunft
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https://www.europesays.com/es/446968/ El Superman de Christopher Reeve regresa con una figura de menos de 30€ muy fiel a la primera película #christopher #Cine #con #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #Film #Movies #reeve #regresa #Spain #Superman
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《科技冷戰新賽局》：DIU最大的成就，是向五角大廈證明了創新是有可能的
精選書摘 2026-01-07 20:00:00 CST
本書帶領讀者走入AI實驗室、無人機工廠與作戰指揮中心，甚至深入烏克蘭前線。透過第一手視角，揭開X小組如何在體制內突圍，在全球地緣政治日益動盪的局勢下，協助美軍重新奪回戰場主導權。
https://www.thenewslens.com/article/262992
#Palantir #Christopher Kirchhoff #五角大廈 #矽谷 #無人機 #Unit X #軍事 #國防科技 #地緣政治 #科技冷戰新賽局 #軍工產業 #國防創新實驗單位 #Defense Innovation Unit #Raj M. Shah #SpaceX #DIU #書摘導購 #Anduril #Shield AI #軍備競賽 -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/174115/ Pierce Brosnan and Estranged Son Christopher Reunite in London #Celebrities #christopher #DrugAddiction #Éire #Entertainment #HisSonChristopher #IE #Ireland #JamesBond #PierceBrosnan
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https://www.fogolf.com/1090336/christopher-luxon-hopeful-trump-will-take-up-his-nz-golf-offer/ Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer #Christopher #Donald #Golf #GolfNews #his #HOPEFUL #hoping #luxon #Minister #NZ #OFFER #president #prime #round #Take #Takes #trump #up #visit #will #Zealand
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https://www.fogolf.com/1090336/christopher-luxon-hopeful-trump-will-take-up-his-nz-golf-offer/ Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer #Christopher #Donald #Golf #GolfNews #his #HOPEFUL #hoping #luxon #Minister #NZ #OFFER #president #prime #round #Take #Takes #trump #up #visit #will #Zealand
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https://www.fogolf.com/1090336/christopher-luxon-hopeful-trump-will-take-up-his-nz-golf-offer/ Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer #Christopher #Donald #Golf #GolfNews #his #HOPEFUL #hoping #luxon #Minister #NZ #OFFER #president #prime #round #Take #Takes #trump #up #visit #will #Zealand
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https://www.fogolf.com/1090336/christopher-luxon-hopeful-trump-will-take-up-his-nz-golf-offer/ Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer #Christopher #Donald #Golf #GolfNews #his #HOPEFUL #hoping #luxon #Minister #NZ #OFFER #president #prime #round #Take #Takes #trump #up #visit #will #Zealand
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Christopher Luxon hopeful Trump will take up his NZ golf offer
Luxon said the informal nature of their talk was a positive. “That was a good meeting because he…
#NewsBeep #News #Golf #AU #Australia #christopher #Donald #his #hopeful #hoping #luxon #minister #nz #offer #president #prime #round #sports #take #takes #trump #up #visit #will #zealand
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‘Once you mess with your face you can’t get it back’ – The Irish Times
When Jamie Lee Curtis won the best-actress Oscar, in 2023, for Everything Everywhere All at Once, there was…
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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon meets China President Xi Jinping in Beijing https://www.byteseu.com/1121103/ #addressing #Beijing #China #Chinese #christopher #countrys #describing #downs #in #Jinping #local #luxon #meets #Minister #morning #NewZealand #NZ #president #prime #relationship #strains #them #this #time #ups #wasted: #when #with #Xi #zealand
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Over the past five years, the activist #Christopher #Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and assault
on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,
organizing effective campaigns against government offices, corporations and American universities.
In the process, Mr. Rufo has become an influential voice in the ear of the Trump administration as it turns his strategy into a wide-ranging government crackdown on higher education.
Michael Barbaro speaks to Mr. Rufo about how far his agenda will go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Over the past five years, the activist #Christopher #Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and assault
on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,
organizing effective campaigns against government offices, corporations and American universities.
In the process, Mr. Rufo has become an influential voice in the ear of the Trump administration as it turns his strategy into a wide-ranging government crackdown on higher education.
Michael Barbaro speaks to Mr. Rufo about how far his agenda will go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Over the past five years, the activist #Christopher #Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and assault
on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,
organizing effective campaigns against government offices, corporations and American universities.
In the process, Mr. Rufo has become an influential voice in the ear of the Trump administration as it turns his strategy into a wide-ranging government crackdown on higher education.
Michael Barbaro speaks to Mr. Rufo about how far his agenda will go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Over the past five years, the activist #Christopher #Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and assault
on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,
organizing effective campaigns against government offices, corporations and American universities.
In the process, Mr. Rufo has become an influential voice in the ear of the Trump administration as it turns his strategy into a wide-ranging government crackdown on higher education.
Michael Barbaro speaks to Mr. Rufo about how far his agenda will go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Over the past five years, the activist #Christopher #Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and assault
on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,
organizing effective campaigns against government offices, corporations and American universities.
In the process, Mr. Rufo has become an influential voice in the ear of the Trump administration as it turns his strategy into a wide-ranging government crackdown on higher education.
Michael Barbaro speaks to Mr. Rufo about how far his agenda will go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly,
the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.
They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as #RAGE (for “retire all government employees”).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them.
They should bring Congress to heel,
in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers.And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.
Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House,
Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.
Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin,
“You’re essentially advocating for someone to
– age-old move
– gain power lawfully through an election,
and then exercise it unlawfully”,
adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded:
“It wouldn’t be unlawful,”
adding:
“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued:
“You’d actually have a mandate to do this.Where would that mandate come from?
It would come from basically running on it, saying,
‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves,
and effectively ran on these promises.Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.
Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists
like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff,
and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January,
“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.Later expanding on the idea with
💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with
someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.
While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets,
commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC,
with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect
JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like #Christopher #Rufo
have identified universities as primary ideological enemies,
with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair:
“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left
and turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program,
a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast.That’s the universities.”
-- Jason Wilson
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In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly,
the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.
They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as #RAGE (for “retire all government employees”).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them.
They should bring Congress to heel,
in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers.And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.
Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House,
Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.
Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin,
“You’re essentially advocating for someone to
– age-old move
– gain power lawfully through an election,
and then exercise it unlawfully”,
adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded:
“It wouldn’t be unlawful,”
adding:
“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued:
“You’d actually have a mandate to do this.Where would that mandate come from?
It would come from basically running on it, saying,
‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves,
and effectively ran on these promises.Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.
Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists
like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff,
and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January,
“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.Later expanding on the idea with
💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with
someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.
While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets,
commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC,
with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect
JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like #Christopher #Rufo
have identified universities as primary ideological enemies,
with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair:
“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left
and turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program,
a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast.That’s the universities.”
-- Jason Wilson
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In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly,
the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.
They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as #RAGE (for “retire all government employees”).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them.
They should bring Congress to heel,
in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers.And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.
Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House,
Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.
Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin,
“You’re essentially advocating for someone to
– age-old move
– gain power lawfully through an election,
and then exercise it unlawfully”,
adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded:
“It wouldn’t be unlawful,”
adding:
“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued:
“You’d actually have a mandate to do this.Where would that mandate come from?
It would come from basically running on it, saying,
‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves,
and effectively ran on these promises.Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.
Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists
like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff,
and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January,
“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.Later expanding on the idea with
💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with
someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.
While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets,
commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC,
with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect
JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like #Christopher #Rufo
have identified universities as primary ideological enemies,
with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair:
“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left
and turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program,
a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast.That’s the universities.”
-- Jason Wilson
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In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly,
the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.
They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as #RAGE (for “retire all government employees”).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them.
They should bring Congress to heel,
in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers.And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.
Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House,
Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.
Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin,
“You’re essentially advocating for someone to
– age-old move
– gain power lawfully through an election,
and then exercise it unlawfully”,
adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded:
“It wouldn’t be unlawful,”
adding:
“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued:
“You’d actually have a mandate to do this.Where would that mandate come from?
It would come from basically running on it, saying,
‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves,
and effectively ran on these promises.Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.
Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists
like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff,
and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January,
“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.Later expanding on the idea with
💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with
someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.
While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets,
commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC,
with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect
JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like #Christopher #Rufo
have identified universities as primary ideological enemies,
with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair:
“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left
and turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program,
a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast.That’s the universities.”
-- Jason Wilson
-
In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly,
the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.
They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as #RAGE (for “retire all government employees”).
They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them.
They should bring Congress to heel,
in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers.And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.
Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House,
Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.
Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin,
“You’re essentially advocating for someone to
– age-old move
– gain power lawfully through an election,
and then exercise it unlawfully”,
adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded:
“It wouldn’t be unlawful,”
adding:
“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued:
“You’d actually have a mandate to do this.Where would that mandate come from?
It would come from basically running on it, saying,
‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves,
and effectively ran on these promises.Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.
Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists
like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff,
and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January,
“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.Later expanding on the idea with
💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with
someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.
While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets,
commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC,
with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect
JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like #Christopher #Rufo
have identified universities as primary ideological enemies,
with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair:
“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left
and turn them against the left.
We need like a de-Baathification program,
a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast.That’s the universities.”
-- Jason Wilson
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Right-wing provocateur #Christopher #Rufo could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for #higher #education, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars,
from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio
—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as
“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education,
who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”
To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”
Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,
including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”
The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty.
One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include
ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business”
and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left
—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools -
Right-wing provocateur #Christopher #Rufo could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for #higher #education, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars,
from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio
—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as
“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education,
who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”
To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”
Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,
including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”
The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty.
One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include
ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business”
and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left
—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools -
Right-wing provocateur #Christopher #Rufo could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for #higher #education, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars,
from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio
—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as
“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education,
who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”
To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”
Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,
including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”
The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty.
One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include
ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business”
and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left
—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools -
Right-wing provocateur #Christopher #Rufo could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for #higher #education, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars,
from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio
—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as
“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education,
who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”
To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”
Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,
including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”
The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty.
One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include
ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business”
and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left
—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools -
Right-wing provocateur #Christopher #Rufo could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for #higher #education, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars,
from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio
—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as
“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education,
who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”
To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”
Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,
including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”
The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty.
One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include
ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business”
and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left
—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools -
#David #Shulkin, whom Trump had appointed to head the V.A.,
made multiple visits to Palm Beach to consult with the troika that officials came to call “the Mar-a-Lago crowd.”“There probably weren’t too many times I met with the President when he didn’t say,
‘What’s happening with Ike?’ ”
Shulkin once said.When Perlmutter visited Washington, Shulkin told me,
“I would get a call
—‘Could you come over to the White House?
Mr. Perlmutter’s here with the President.’ ”Shulkin was fired by Trump, in March of 2018, amid a controversy over an expensive trip to Europe that Shulkin had taken at taxpayers’ expense.
Within hours, he went public with accusations that the story had been hyped by Trump political appointees who were intent on privatizing many of the V.A.’s services.
Shulkin told me that he never fully understood why Perlmutter,
who had not served in the U.S. military or even visited a V.A. hospital until Shulkin took him to one,
had been given such power over the agency.He described Perlmutter as “a private-sector guy” whom Trump admired as a self-made man,
someone who “had started with very little and built empires.”The problem, as Shulkin saw it, was that Perlmutter had little idea of what he was doing.
“Because he never worked in government, he didn’t understand government,” Shulkin told me.
“Part of my role was always trying to translate
—‘That isn’t the way we could do things in this organization.’ ”Perlmutter, however, has remained close to Trump.
He and his wife gave $21 million to a super pac supporting Trump’s bid in 2020,
and, in 2024, they bankrolled a new pro-Trump super pac,
"Right for America",
donating another $25 million.By September, Right for America had raised some $70 million,
which it has spent on an advertising blitz this fall.The venture drew support from other longtime members of Mar-a-Lago,
including the Newsmax founder #Christopher #Ruddy, who gave $100,000,
and #Anthony #Lomangino, a South Florida waste-management mogul,
who donated $7.85 million.#Scott #Bessent, another hedge-fund executive often mentioned as a possible Trump Treasury Secretary,
also contributed $100,000.🆘 Perlmutter’s highly unusual role in the first Trump Administration appears to have become something of a template for outside influence in a second term.
In March, when #Elon #Musk met with Trump at Peltz’s house for breakfast,
they discussed a broad advisory gig for the tech billionaire on such matters as immigration and the economy
—“in the mold of the role” that Perlmutter had played at the V.A.,
according to the Wall Street Journal.By August, after publicly endorsing Trump,
Musk had fleshed out the idea.During a lengthy live-streamed conversation with Trump,
Musk suggested that a commission was needed to investigate how to rein in government spending.Such a panel, Musk posted on X, “would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”
Weeks later,
during a speech at the Economic Club of New York,
Trump formally announced his support for a
“government-efficiency commission”
that would
“conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”He proposed that Musk,
despite having received billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies for his ventures SpaceX and Tesla,
should chair the effort.Soon, Trump was calling Musk his future
“Secretary of Cost Cutting.”It sounded like a more ambitious version of a project that Trump had launched early in his Presidency,
when he named the billionaire investor #Carl #Icahn as a special adviser in charge of overhauling federal regulations.Icahn left the role less than a year later,
when an article in this magazine raised questions about potential conflicts of interest. -
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer #Steve #Sailer,
who has been described as a
💥“white supremacist” and a
💥“proponent of scientific racism”,
at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor,
❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution,
and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo.That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” #Richard #Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College
– like ♦️abolishing disciplines,
♦️removing bathroom signage
and ♦️denying professors tenure
– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty,
and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”,
many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “#reconquista”.JD #Vance, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “#aggressively #attack the universities in this country”.
Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.
In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that
an “African population explosion” is related to
a “primal African cult of fertility”.Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists”
with “Haitian #voodoo and Southern #hoodoo magic”.🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.
-
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer #Steve #Sailer,
who has been described as a
💥“white supremacist” and a
💥“proponent of scientific racism”,
at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor,
❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution,
and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo.That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” #Richard #Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College
– like ♦️abolishing disciplines,
♦️removing bathroom signage
and ♦️denying professors tenure
– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty,
and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”,
many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “#reconquista”.JD #Vance, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “#aggressively #attack the universities in this country”.
Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.
In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that
an “African population explosion” is related to
a “primal African cult of fertility”.Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists”
with “Haitian #voodoo and Southern #hoodoo magic”.🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.
-
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer #Steve #Sailer,
who has been described as a
💥“white supremacist” and a
💥“proponent of scientific racism”,
at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor,
❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution,
and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo.That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” #Richard #Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College
– like ♦️abolishing disciplines,
♦️removing bathroom signage
and ♦️denying professors tenure
– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty,
and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”,
many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “#reconquista”.JD #Vance, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “#aggressively #attack the universities in this country”.
Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.
In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that
an “African population explosion” is related to
a “primal African cult of fertility”.Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists”
with “Haitian #voodoo and Southern #hoodoo magic”.🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.
-
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer #Steve #Sailer,
who has been described as a
💥“white supremacist” and a
💥“proponent of scientific racism”,
at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor,
❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution,
and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo.That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” #Richard #Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College
– like ♦️abolishing disciplines,
♦️removing bathroom signage
and ♦️denying professors tenure
– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty,
and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”,
many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “#reconquista”.JD #Vance, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “#aggressively #attack the universities in this country”.
Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.
In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that
an “African population explosion” is related to
a “primal African cult of fertility”.Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists”
with “Haitian #voodoo and Southern #hoodoo magic”.🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.
-
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer #Steve #Sailer,
who has been described as a
💥“white supremacist” and a
💥“proponent of scientific racism”,
at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor,
❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution,
and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo.That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” #Richard #Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College
– like ♦️abolishing disciplines,
♦️removing bathroom signage
and ♦️denying professors tenure
– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty,
and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”,
many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “#reconquista”.JD #Vance, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “#aggressively #attack the universities in this country”.
Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.
In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that
an “African population explosion” is related to
a “primal African cult of fertility”.Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists”
with “Haitian #voodoo and Southern #hoodoo magic”.🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.
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With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
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