The same stories that justify #inequality and domination at the societal scale also justify #scapegoating inside the home.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/26/americas-mythstack-and-the-family-scapegoat/

AMERICA’S MYTHSTACK AND THE FAMILY SCAPEGOAT

America’s cultural myths do not stay at the national level. They filter downward into families, shaping how harm is assigned, how conflict is managed, and how one person becomes the container for t…

Survivor Literacy

Those of us who remember Section 28 don’t want to see its warped logic inflicted on another community, writes Kat Brown – and using my safety as an excuse to discriminate against trans people has got to stop

https://trib.al/XIJrYR8

#TransRights #TransLives #allyship #trans #LGBTQIA #scapegoating #Transphobia

Here’s why I’m one of the 100,000 women who’ve signed a petition in support of trans people

Those of us who remember Section 28 don’t want to see its warped logic inflicted on another community, writes Kat Brown – and using my safety as an excuse to discriminate against trans people has got to stop

The Independent

RE: https://famichiki.jp/@unseenjapan/116238798658293499

“Over the past 20 years… the raw number of criminal incidents involving foreigners has dropped by approximately 40 percent. Over the same period, the total foreign population in Japan nearly doubled, from 2.01 million to 3.95 million. This means that the current crime rate among foreigners is a quarter of its 20-year peak.”
#Japan #Foreigner #scapegoating

As warnings about AI “necromancy” circulate in Catholic discourse, Pagans once again appear as the unspoken cautionary tale. But the real ethical concern may not be communicating with the dead, but consent, authority, and imitation.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/opinion-necromancy-for-me-not-for-thee-ai-catholic-anxiety-and-the-pagan-scapegoat.html

#pagan #witchcraft #necromancy #ArtificialIntelligence #ancestorvenoration #catholicism #PopeLeoXIV #scapegoating

Opinion: Necromancy for Me, Not for Thee: AI, Catholic Anxiety, and the Pagan Scapegoat

As warnings about AI “necromancy” circulate in Catholic discourse, Pagans once again appear as the unspoken cautionary tale. But the real ethical concern may not be communicating with the dead, but consent, authority, and imitation.

The Wild Hunt
Daily Cat Memes to Challenge Narcissistic Abuse & Scapegoating
3/7/2026 AI Gaslighting
https://celestiaquixs.com/why-doeznt-iz-gets-to-haz-cheezeburger/
#CatMemes #LolCatStyle #NarcissisticAbuse #Scapegoating #Gaslighting
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/27/shabana-mahmood-stick-hardline-migration-policies-byelection-defeat. Sticking with right-wing #policies, & with the #politics of #scapegoating, #hate, #fear & #division, as opposed to those of #hope & #unity, won't do #Labour ANY good at all - quite the opposite! Those of us who have turned to the "extreme" (as #Starmer calls it) of @thegreenparty will see OUR politics prosper in the years ahead, @greenpartyzack, @ZackPolanski.
Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

The Guardian

"In SOTUs presidents rarely call out their predecessors by name. Four separate times Trump said that the country’s remaining problems all traced back to Joe Biden."

~ James Fallows

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #Biden #Democrats #retaliation
/7

https://fallows.substack.com/p/nasty-brutish-and-long

Nasty, Brutish, and Long.

Thomas Hobbes and Hieronymus Bosch, with insights on Tuesday night's spectacle.

Breaking the News

"The Wednesday night filing details claims by a transgender woman in a prison in North Carolina of 'a demeaning visual cavity search,' guards throwing her legal papers in 'a cell covered in feces,' and extended retaliatory detention in recent days."

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #trans
/6

"An alarming emergency motion filed on Wednesday night alleged 'flagrant violations' by the Trump administration of a federal court order that it not retaliate against witnesses who are providing information to the court in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s anti-trans prison policies."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #trans
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/trans-inmates-retaliation-contempt-motion

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order

Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

Law Dork