> The gun-and-ammo industry boasted $16 billion in revenue for 2015. Gun stores — from brick-and-mortar shops to online retailers – had $3.1 billion in revenue that same year. The industry as a whole claimed responsibility for nearly $50 billion in “economic activity” in 2015 alone. That represents a fair number of jobs, but here is the number that really goes boom: $229 billion. That’s the annual cost of fatal and non-fatal gun violence in this country,..
https://tomdispatch.com/frida-berrigan-guns-for-tots/
#ShootingCosts #uspol #TomDispatch

> ... mayhem committed by toddlers (or perhaps they should be thought of as American lone wolf cubs). Toddler shootings range from the two year old who killed his mother in a Walmart in Idaho with the gun she was packing in her purse as 2014 ended to the three year old who discovered a gun in a purse in an Albuquerque motel room in February and wounded his father and pregnant mother with a single shot...
https://tomdispatch.com/engelhardt-armed-violence-in-the-homeland/
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> Even as the suspect – and any information about their motivations or political leanings – remained at large and unknown, incendiary rhetoric from major political commentators spread rapidly online, blaming leftist violence for Kirk’s death. Many called for swift retribution in the form of an aggressive crackdown against their political enemies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-shooting-death-trump-reaction
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Dive into fresh takes on political chaos from Batocchio's latest roundup! Unpacking strategies against Trump and dissecting GOP shifts, @TalkingPointsMemo urges targeted resistance while @Driftglass critiques David Brooks’ role in normalizing extremism. Also, right-wing violence's rise and cracks in GOP unity emerge. Full insights at https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/mikes-blog-round-7. Hats off to Batocchio for this compelling analysis. #Batocchio #TalkingPointsMemo #Driftglass #DavidBrooks #TomDispatch #MAGAmovement #RFKJr #Wonkette #PoliticalAnalysis #CrooksandLiars

> His wife might never have found him if it weren’t for a photo someone sent her from an article about more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants dispatched to CECOT in El Salvador at the same time. His face wasn’t visible, but she recognized him from two scars on his shaved head and some of his personal (but not gang-related) tattoos. She was well aware of CECOT’s reputation as a brutal mega-prison, a site of organized physical and psychological torture.
https://tomdispatch.com/everything-old-is-new-again/
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> ..begin.. by giving less attention to Trump’s executive orders —.. defined by a law professor as “just press releases with nicer stationery” — and more attention to the effects of his policies that get enacted. And while his ruminations may bear noting, they could appear, not in headlines, but.. page 11 (or its.. equivalent), which is where the #BostonGlobe relegated its report of the local 100,000-strong #HandsOff! protest.
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
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> “No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!” I also copied down some of the homemade signs they were carrying. (Making such signs definitely seems to be a sign of the times.)
> Here are just a few that caught my eye: “Resist like it’s 1938 Germany”; “Deport Trump, not Students”; “Trump to planet: Drop Dead”.. “Turd Reich”; “MAGA is a death cult”; “Think while it’s still legal”; “Is there a vaccine for stupidity?”; “3rd term, Sing-Sing”; “No more Dogey Business”;
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
#TomDispatch #ProtestPosters #uspol #usmedia

1Q84 ?Q0Q4? 村上春樹はまだ米国にいるかな？最近の状況について何か発言、　何か書いているのかな？
> "[We].. remember.. scenes from.. Orwell’s.. 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,”
https://tomdispatch.com/fortress-america/
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