FL Gov. Ron DeSantis’s sad trombone of a campaign was womp-womp-womping its way through Iowa last week and had planned to be in South Carolina today. But a racist terrorist attack in Jacksonville that killed three and a storm aiming at the state forced him off the trail and back to Tallahassee, according to WUSF: …
Post-racial America
Alabama G-ddamn.
(Following up on yesterday’s promise) I don’t wanna be the Black Reporter for Balloon Juice, but I think there’s unexpressed importance in the recent Alabama Asswhooping. For those unaware: When a Black riverboat worker asked some White people to obey the laws of the place he worked, they chose violence. A very racially-charged brawl ensued. …
Steam Release Open Thread: Tucker Carlson, Keeper of White Men Standards
NEW: Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’ @nytmike Jeremy Peters and me https://t.co/Jt2lnBqlcG — jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) May 3, 2023 The NYTimes, in full white gloves & silver platter mode, serving as media butler for Rupert Murdoch: … The text message came to the attention of Fox’s board of directors …
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Stochastic Terrorism Comes To Boston
Talking Points Memo reported yesterday on a series of bomb threats delivered to Tufts University. Tufts–which occupies the border region between Somerville and Medford, west and north of Cambridge and Boston, had, it seemed committed the sin of teaching about race and the concept and history of whiteness in the US. The first threat came …
(Insufficiently) Retro History: Rest in Power, Mr. Dick Gregory
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. Dick Gregory, one of a kind, died five years ago today. I found a draft of this post while doing clean-up for the Great Blog Merge, and …
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Fascism, Florida Style
I know I sound like a broken record (scratched CD, corrupted MP3, whatever), but Steve is 100% right here about the all-out push by every Murdoch outlet to make President DeSantis happen: Also: We should be boycotting the whole state. Every business. No vacations, no conventions. Not a dime until DeSantis is gone. — Steve …
OH Whoopi Goldberg NO
So, while The View team discussed the MAUS-banning school board, it turns out Whoopi Goldberg needs to be working thru her business: [Whoopi] Goldberg continued to assert that Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” was not racial. “What is it about?” Behar asked at one point. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about,” Goldberg …