They really shouldn’t have obscured their faces.
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It was, though. At the end, John Boy fished a Bible out of the pyre and asked the local German immigrants to read it to the assembled community, causing the minister to publicly announce his shame for his role in the book burning. This was the 1970s, so TV themes were not subtle; this was a good way to remind the audience that it’s better to know than to choose ignorance out of fear and/or hatred.
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Logcabin Republicans? Idiots? Oh, sorry, i repeat myself.
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Publishing (excerpts of) Mein Kampf in a newspaper is not a good thing, though! I disagree with the main message they were trying to convey in the first place. This is like these misguided ACLU cases on behalf of neo nazis’ freedom of speech.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-deloitte-retaliation/
Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which JD Vance, now the GOP vice-presidential nominee, criticized the then-president’s record.
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“This individual shared private personal messages on his own volition without the knowledge of Deloitte, which is a non-partisan firm,” the company said in a statement.
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INDIANAPOLIS — In a media call on Tuesday, U.S Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind) said that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage in a ruling that stretches back to Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
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Racist.
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Once again, whenever these people talk about “States’ Rights” it is always, always about the right to enact discriminatory and bigoted laws.
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I first read that as “Mike Braun (R-acist)”
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She* seems nice. A couple of those stickers are from places near where I live, which is disappointing but not surprising–Rochester can keep her! Lots of trucks and houses decked out like that 'round here–although I saw a truck recently with a Punisher sticker and a Harris sticker, which was interesting. I’ve seen more Confederate flags in rural upstate NY than I ever did growing up in (admittedly a progressive part of) NC.
*I assumed it was a guy at first, but the license plate reads “you got passed by a girl” so 
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jah I dont know; the show plays between 1933 and 1946, so its not that simple, I guess?
The news about Hurricane Milton is getting worse and worse. It reached Category 5, yesterday with sustained winds in excess of 175 mph, and the low pressure at its eye makes it one of the most powerful storms ever in the Atlantic. On Wednesday evening, this catastrophic storm may run smack into Scientology’s Florida headquarters, the Flag Land Base in Clearwater.
Professional ham hock, major Scientology donor, and prominent Donald Trump fan Grant Cardone chose this moment to follow on a suggestion by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wondered on social media if these powerful storms hitting Florida are somehow being controlled or sent purposely by either the government (Cardone), or a shadowy “they” (MTG).
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Classic Popper’s Paradox stuff there.
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https://meidasnews.com/news/eric-trump-is-now-a-deputy-sheriff
Eric Trump was just appointed as a Special Deputy Sheriff by St. Lucie (FL) County Sheriff Keith Pearson.
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Florida law does allow for the appointment of Special Deputies who fail to undergo rigorous police academy training and testing. It does, however, state that appointees must meet the minimum standards to be hired as a recruit-trainee. Perhaps most disturbing, Special Deputies are actually granted the power to arrest people under the same statute.
emphasis mine
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It’s so he can carry a firearm anywhere- well, most anywhere. If they enforce the regs.
Law Enforcement | Transportation Security Administration.
Flying Armed
Law enforcement officers must meet all federal qualifications to fly armed, unless otherwise authorized by TSA. Be a federal law enforcement officer or a full-time municipal, county, state, tribal or territorial law enforcement officer who is a direct government agency employee.
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If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation–backed coalition has crafted an agenda for a second Donald Trump term that encompasses some truly unsettling policy ideas, and the amount of negative attention it’s gotten from Democrats, celebrities, and even Trump himself has led its leaders to retreat from the spotlight.
The thing is, there’s a lesser-known organization that’s already been working for decades to reshape America into a Christian nation—and will keep doing so, regardless of who wins the presidential election in November. It keeps racking up wins at the Supreme Court: It’s the Alliance Defending Freedom, and it may be the country’s most sinister advocacy group that people have never heard of. The law firm, which is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, says its work “advances the God-given right to live and speak the Truth” and publicly describes itself as “the nation’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.” ADF reported more than $100 million in revenue in both 2021 and 2022.
The organization has already made great strides in implementing its far-right agenda through its work on behalf of Christian fundamentalist, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-abortion plaintiffs. It was integral to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, and now it’s waging war against protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The group’s CEO, Kristen Waggoner, has said she believes that the 2015 marriage equality ruling should be overturned as well.
ADF has also faced scrutiny for apparently manufacturing lawsuits involving Christian wedding vendors who object to same-sex marriage; one such case involving a website designer succeeded at the court in 2023 even though the plaintiff, Lorie Smith, had never designed wedding websites and a potential customer who contacted her turned out to be straight. ADF also seems to have invented a group from scratch to be the plaintiff in an ongoing case about an abortion drug. These actions aren’t illegal, but they are deeply unethical. The group is weaponizing the court system to remake laws despite no actual plaintiffs being harmed. (ADF did not respond to Slate’s multiple requests for comment, made by phone and email, nor did it respond to a detailed list of questions.)
By bringing lawsuits before friendly judges, ADF can shape American society to match its vision for the nation. The group’s individual cases may not appear all that connected, but when taken together, they paint a very clear picture. As Gillian Branstetter, a communications strategist at the ACLU, put it, ADF “is using the state to uphold the heterosexual, patriarchal nuclear family as the primary—if not the only—way of living one’s life.”
Here are 10 things we can conclude about ADF’s agenda, based on its lawsuits, model legislation, and comments to the press.
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John Oliver covered exactly this in a recent episode:
thanks, @anon61221983 for the John Oliver thread!
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Ugh, them.
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