AI6YR BenGothamist: Gunman storms stage at Wikipedia conference in Manhattan, no injuries reported
AP: In CDC attack, man fired 180 shots, breaking 150 windows
"...A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal opened fire late Friday, killing a police officer. No one at CDC was injured.
The shooter was stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a nearby pharmacy and opening fire late Friday afternoon..."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/in-cdc-attack-man-fired-180-shots-breaking-150-windows
Nate Cochrane
Kent PitmanThere's a great article up by @cwarzel in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.
ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.
(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)
https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d
#sociopathy #evil #fascism #escalation #asmr #radicalizing #StochasticTerror #StochasticTerrorism #weaponizing #USPolitics #politics
Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social)
I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/gleeful-cruelty-white-house-x-account/682234/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0fEulOousRZ7mgN3LeyPGbg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
SilkesterWhat the ACLU & Supreme Court got wrong is the deliberate #stochasticTerror attempt by #KKK in Ohio v Brandenburg & related cases: There's a line, that when there's a measurable link of violence against a group of people, whether it's PoCs or election workers in 2020 & the rhetoric of agitators, the buck stops. I agree the bar needs to be high, but Volksverhetzung (= hate speech against groups of people) is a threat to democracy + where the tolerance paradox applies.
#1stAmendment #Politics #Law
#1stAmendment #Politics #Law
#BruceSterling"Grandma, go set fire to a church and I'll give you some Trumpcoins," how could that scheme not work out #stochasticterror
If tfg were serious about declaring a shooting war on Canada, starting with a tariff war is a logical first step to build a pretext to invade. He could twist any tariff retaliation into a victimhood cry of Canada’s “unfairness”, banging drums for mindless followers to escalate. #StochasticTerror
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3tyrck4b52ae5fygjaaksfy/post/3lh5wjkp26k2y
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3tyrck4b52ae5fygjaaksfy/post/3lh5wjkp26k2y
Jackie Gardina@davidlnoll and Jon Michaels joined SideBar to discuss their new book Vigilante Nation. The books is an excellent distillation of the movement to use legal and extra-legal vigilantism to enforce right-wing, Christian Nationalist moral codes.
#stochasticterror #ChristianNationalism #uspol #vote #VoteBlue
The Return of Legal Vigilantism with David Noll and Jon Michaels - Legal Talk Network
David Noll and Jon Michaels, authors of Vigilante Nation, discuss the reemergence of state-supported vigilantism. Noll and Michaels explain the vigilante Discover insightful episodes on Legal Talk Network's portfolio of legal podcasts featuring in-depth interviews and discussions with leaders in legal technology and practice management. Stay updated with the latest trends and tips for enhancing your legal practice.
tinydoctorI'm sure there is no correlation whatsoever, but I can't resist pointing out the same day Trump makes his stochastic shout out "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" (Who will rid me of this troublesome popstar?), a potential assassin shows up in his bushes, not in Swift's shrubbery.
Joshua HollandPolitical scientists had long found that candidates who used explicit racial demagoguery paid a price for it at the polls. Hence the need for coded dog-whistles.
But after Obama's election, they found that that penalty had disappeared.
And here we are.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/yes-donald-trump-is-making-white-people-more-hateful/
#trump #jdvance #fascism #propaganda
#Election2024 #immigration
#StochasticTerror
