収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Fascists are now killing over Pride flags in California.

This is the kind of thing they want when they call for queer “eradication” from “public society.” Yeah, that guy specifically called for it against trans people but please make people get this through their heads: the people they’re talking to don’t distinguish and don’t give a fuck about the differences.

It’s all of us.

The murdered woman was heterosexual. A shop owner. Married. With children.

And some fucking fascist or fascist dupe who went in on their “all queers are pedos” lies killed her for flying a pride flag.

Also in California, anti-gay activist and school board president Sonja Shaw has been linked to lobbyists who support state executions for gays.

They’re also calling in bomb threats to libraries, like these made in the Chicago area, both sending bomb-threats to synagogues and trying to SWAT them, and doxxing Grand Jury members because it’s all the wsame people doing the same kinds of deadly violence and wanting as much of it as they can make, because they want to kill as many of us as they can.

And yeah. It is that simple.

Now, onto other items.

This is who Ron DeSantis is putting into Florida schools: PragerU co-host once condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and branded himself a white nationalist. DeSantis also seemed to be very, very friendly to the “alternate electors” sedition back in 2020, in the run-up to January 6th, and despite running for president, doesn’t like democracy very much what with all his overturning of election results.

Oh, and his state law enforcement appear to be targeting a journalist for embarrassing Fox News. This hasn’t had the coverage of the newspaper raid in Kansas, but it’s worth tracking.

I noticed this snippet in an article about Ron DeSantis’s political campaign, and thought it was worth pulling out:

If a [focus-group] moderator said that the COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, seventy per cent of the Republicans surveyed would agree. But, if the moderator said that Trump’s COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, the source said, seventy per cent would disagree.

You can call this “not a cult” all you want to, but it’s still a cult. The problem is it won’t go away even if Trump does. He’s revived fascism as a political movement – with help from his best buddy in the world Putin – and we’ll be dealing with that for a while. See also, Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to defend Proud Boys leader in social media post.

And if we’re going to talk about social media, let’s talk about Twitter:

1. The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies
2. Far too many of Musk’s followers and Twitter’s users appear fake; advertisers may never return
3. X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising (that’s what it took: losing money)
4. Musk still wants to remove the ability to block other users on Twitter, leaving only mute. So your stalker can still piss all over your tweets, and while you won’t see them, everyone else still will. Isn’t that great?
5. The bigger problem is that Jack Dorsey is cheerleading this, so expect something similar on BlueSky.

Right then. It’s late and I need to charge through the rest.

FIDE, the international chess federation, has banned trans people from international chess, with a special emphasis on revoking titles for trans women. Germany is refusing to participate in this. Charlotte Clymer has some ideas why.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld – who really loathes and despises women – goes on sexist rant, suggests crimes would ‘disappear’ if women went away.

More GOP “lawfare” against the press: GOP Lawmaker Sues Newspaper For Reporting That He Allegedly Called Boy A Gay Slur. Meanwhile, looks like Vice has been blocking news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, after their recently signed deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group.

Scientific American: The danger of the racist and antisemitic claims re Covid spread by RFK Jr.

Remember last time, a Trump judge requiring Southwest pilots to take training from an anti-LGBT Christian legal group? That’s on hold, at least for the moment.

It’s all looting, all the time: the Trump judge who ruled for restrictions against an abortion pill? Looks like he got paid off by the people trying to get him to ban the abortion pill.

And let’s close with something good. No, let’s close with three somethings, all of which are basically good:

1. Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1
2. Judge blocks Georgia’s ban on hormone therapy for transgender minors
3. New app helps US teens read books banned in school (yes, another one)

Welcome to the work week, folks. It’s Monday. Enjoy?

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