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Writer, educator, and concerned human from the mountains of Southern Appalachia.

I'm six years older than Joe Biden, and I just did months of performances on stage in London, 8x a week.

Age is a state of mind and body, and Joe is just fine, as am I. It's that other guy with the orange foundation who seems feebleminded and unhealthy.

Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?
I would very happily agree to a reinstatement of Godwin’s Law regarding Hitler references but first YOU M-FERS NEED TO STOP PRIVATELY COLLECTING HITLER MEMORABILIA TO SHOW TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE RACISTS AND/OR BELIEVE IN COUPS TO OVERTURN ELECTIONS.
@froomkin My favorite part is where they sit down to have coffee, the "All Lives Matter" "activist" asks the shop owner to alter the behavior of other people whom he doesn't know, then becomes irate when he don't humor the request. Then, when reached for comment, the "activist" blamed it on Sicilian heritage, which is *exceptionally* odd for a member of a crowd for whom forty years is supposedly "ancient history" with no bearing on the present. *Sigh*
Deeply troubling story that I think should make it clearer at the top that this about a bunch of racist, snowflake goons terrorizing a bakery and its young employees because they did a nice thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/03/10/red-truck-bakery-protests-warrenton/
A Va. bakery gave BLM activists free coffee. Then came the backlash.

Red Truck Bakery closed for three days after protesters harassed the shop, alleging it was catering to BLM activists but not those allied with All Lives Matter.

The Washington Post
On “Cancel Culture”
 
A deep dive into the narrative that America is experiencing an acute “free speech crisis” – and why it is so misleading.
 
A thread - based on my new Democracy Americana: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture
On “Cancel Culture”

A deep dive into the narrative that America is experiencing an acute “free speech crisis” – and why it is so misleading

Democracy Americana
A politician using state power to try to control what is taught in higher education - what would you say if you saw it in another country? https://twitter.com/jdmortenson/status/1628984073128448002?s=20
Julian Davis Mortenson on Twitter

“I tend to take claims like these with a grain of salt. But I just went line-by-line through the DeSantis education bill. And you guys, it’s *bananas*. A road map for wrecking one of our great state systems of higher education. 🧵 1/”

Twitter
@carnage4life We've devolved as a society to the point we seem to have a child's understanding of death

There really is no equivalent dynamics on the American left. It's not like the New Republic is worried that they're going to lose subscribers to Jacobin if they aren't mean enough about Pete Buttigieg or something.

Our pundit class is so used to taking seriously the non-existent slippery slope that supposedly leads directly from liberal policies to Venezuela, that we've largely ignored the slippery slope from conservatism to fascism that's been there the entire time. https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1172884870978080769?s=20

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places on Twitter

“These centrists look at Warren & see a Stalin in embryo, but they look at Donald Trump (and the white nationalists he's emboldened) and just see a standard Republican who maybe uses intemperate language. The centrists' dangerous slippery slope only ever leans left.”

Twitter

Ron DeSantis is requesting medical records of trans students

6 of 12 universities are confirmed to have complied with the request, regardless of HIPAA violations

If a liberal did anything similar, you’d head right wing media talking nonstop about their freedom being violated.

But for some reason, if you attack our at-risk communities or apply the word “woke” then fascism is a-ok.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights