Ugly Joe

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Ugly JoeJan 19, 2023
Mx. Amadi LovelaceJan 19, 2023

Just a reminder that yesterday four Republicans in the West Virginia legislature introduced a bill that would make being openly trans in the presence of a minor child a felony punished by five years in prison.

There are 10 phases to a genocide. This puts the US at phase 6.

Ugly JoeJan 8, 2023
Show threadThomas ZimmerJan 7, 2023

On the second anniversary of an unprecedented, violent assault on democratic self-government, the same anti-democratic, anti-government forces managed to capture the House from within.

The insurrection ended in triumph.

Ugly JoeJan 2, 2023
Show threadSeth CotlarJan 2, 2023
In 1967, Ginni Thomas's mother protested an election held by the Republican Women's Clubs because she claimed the election had been "rigged" against her preferred candidate, Phyllis Schlafly. Lincoln Star, 27 May 1967. The apple apparently didn't fall too far from the tree.
Ugly JoeDec 21, 2022
Show threadThomas ZimmerDec 21, 2022
Losing this will hurt – it will hurt the attempts to finally make America live up to the promise of egalitarian multiracial pluralism, to become the democracy it never has been yet.
 
More here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent?CMP=twt_b-usopinion_c-us
Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

The Guardian
Ugly JoeDec 19, 2022
Jeff JarvisDec 19, 2022
"Women, of every age, of every condition, contract and retain a taste for novels.... [T]he depravity is universal. My sight is every-where offended by these foolish, yet dangerous, books.... I have actually seen mothers, in miserable garrets, crying for the imaginary distress of an heroine, while their children were crying for bread."
The Sylph, No. 5, Oct. 6, 1795
#MoralPanic
Ugly JoeDec 18, 2022
Matthew SheffieldDec 18, 2022
If you're thinking about signing up for Post as a way to avoid authoritarian moneybags, think again. It's owned in part by Marc Andreessen, one of Melon Husk's best friends.