https://theintercept.com/2021/06/04/georgia-racism-education-schools/

Triggered snowflake parents demand safe space upon discovering “facts don’t care about [their] feelings.” I could have sworn the confederacy worship was simply about “not erasing History.”

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/censorship-facebook-instagram-twitter-india-palestine-colombia

The thing about social media censorship is it almost always only goes one way.

https://www.dailyposter.com/everythings-bigger-in-texas-even-the-hypocrisy/

Not sure how this squares with the GOP trying to rebrand itself as the party of the working man, but I’m sure someone here can enlighten us.

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/17/chevron-steven-donziger-trial/

I’ve been following this poor guy’s case for a few years. He’s being railroaded by a private prosecutor and a hand-selected judge for the crime of winning a class action lawsuit against Chevron.

Restaurant labor shortages show little sign of going economywide: Policymakers must not rein in stimulus or unemployment benefits

As usual, the Right is letting itself be duped into tilting at windmills.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/israeli-occupation-palenstine-jerusalem-violence-police-brutality-apartheid-state

Speaking of things we shouldn’t be funding…

https://newrepublic.com/article/156032/diversity-training-isnt-enough-pamela-newkirk-robin-diangelo-books-reviews

Since “White Fragility” was specifically mentioned a few days ago, here is a good left critique of this particular cottage industry.

Hillary Clinton Hanged at GITMO

I would have thought this would be a bigger story. Surprised we didn’t hear about this.

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/25/capitol-riot-militant-right-counterterrorism/

In which the foot soldiers of empire slowly begin to perceive the arc of Foucault’s boomerang.

Something recently occurred to me and I think it might be beneficial to redefine the two intractable sides here. We all saw the same thing: a cop knelt on a face-down, handcuffed man for almost nine minutes despite his pleas that he couldn’t breath, until he did in fact stop breathing, lost control of his bladder, and died face-down in the street in a puddle of his own piss…

Continue reading “My attempt to distill the opinions on the Floyd incident.” →