This is unbelievably horrifying

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Apparently at least one QAnoner was sincere enough to turn on Trump. Who knew it would be MTG?

I absolutely love how MTG seemingly doesn't believe there is dirt on Trump in the Epstein files but Trump CLEARLY believes there is.

Deporting people to give real Americans more room to live "Lebensraum," you might call it

We are seeing this all over Canada too. The housing crisis is because of immigration (esp international students) and greedy banks and developers instead of our deep fear that a 4 plex would ruin our segregated neighbourhood

“Overseeing the GOPs transformation into an ever more radical party, McConnell excused the party’s increasingly open bigotry. Now, faced with the monster he created, McConnell pleads ignorance.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...

"Carlson’s interview with Fuentes was full of Nazi fan service, with Fuentes railing against 'organized Jewry in America' and claiming that the fascist anti-immigrant crackdown in Chicago was not brutal enough." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...

"The DIMBY approach offered by nativists is not only about resource competition but also their vision of America as a pastoral idyll, a land of bounty meant to let every white American who wishes to live like a farmer-king." www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

Nobody born outside of the US could understand… *checks notes* …eating a bird.

“Paperwork” is an obnoxious and ironic tarring of immigrants who didn’t show up prior to our modern system like THE OVERWHELMING [WHITE] MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY. (Don’t start with slaves!) Whether you are Mayflower or Ellis Island (I’m both!), you sailed in without “paperwork.” So maybe STFU.

I spent last Thanksgiving with my boyfriend and his parents, and even though we ate delicious Korean food instead of turkey, the point of the holiday was met. We had a meal together and were thankful.

It's a particularly special combination of vile & inane to pitch this fit over Thanksgiving turkey in particular, a "classic American" food that, according to (made-up) American tradition, made its way into our diet when brought to a multicultural dinner as a gift from the non-white people.

I know these are dipshit Nazis barely worth regarding but it’s not LARPing - live action roleplaying - if you literally cook and eat a turkey on cook and eat a turkey day. There’s no roleplay. There’s no magic next step that makes it real. That’s the tradition!! These stupid fucking xenophobes!!

Ironically, cranberries are about the only "traditional" Thanksgiving dish whose roots can be traced to North America. Corn, squash, potatoes, even domesticated turkeys made their way to North America from South or Central America. www.si.edu/spotlight/th...

And it's also about patriarchal ownership of female sexuality - to store, barter, sell or consume.

Joel Webbon said a week ago in his podcast: “the fact that women are atrocious today. They are they are immodest. They're hoes. They're dumb. Like literally intellectually unintelligent. They are um shallow. They are deceitful. They are wicked. They are vile.” Lifted directly from the transcript

1000%

I think so frequently about how Mike Johnson took his daughter to a purity ball as he currently blocks the Epstein files

the thing about conservatives is that many of them are little tyrants who want to be big fishes in small ponds. they want authority to be a birthright rather than an accomplishment so they never have to compete on merit. we should, to be clear, mock them relentlessly for this.

I will tell you what "real America" is. It's going to a work-related dinner a month or two after your naturalization and the hostess - a "legacy American," DAR, descendant of Revolutionary War officers and presidential blood in her family - surprising you with a red/white/blue "Congratulations" cake

it was a great joy when i became close enough with the folks who owned the local chinese restaurant that they invited me to their Thanksgiving where they served amazing moo shu Turkey as the main (i brought sweet potato pie and got major kudos)

1. The notion that immigrants can’t acculturate into American Thanksgiving of all holidays is so inane that I assumed it must be a parody. 2) I miss the old schoolbook moral view of Thanksgiving as a peaceable neighborly feast where formerly suspicious Pilgrims and Indians could make friends.

The thing is this projection of adult sexuality onto young teens is already pervasive in our society in the form of purity culture. It’s just that purity culture frames it in a defensive posture, with that sexuality as something that must be resisted and denied. Both logics enable exploitation.

America is not full. But an array of right-wing activists and commentators want to deport tens of millions of people. For them, it’s not just about illegal immigration but the idea that not everyone can really become an American.

Calls himself a real American then puts the period outside of the quotation marks? Nice try.

Yes, some of that was about peer relationships, which is obviously substantially less creepy. But there was also a strong sense that these girls needed to cover up and behave chastely around *all of the men* of the church

Growing up in evangelical culture where girls this age were constantly told to cover up and where even swimming together (“mixed bathing” as it was called) was discouraged, the message was as pretty clear that any girl above ~12 was an object of sexual desires and desirability.

Purity culture is about *preserving* some sort of pristine sexual cleanliness, but it is the other side of the same coin as abuse. You have to accept the underlying premise that teenage girls are sexual objects that adults could desire.

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The thing is this projection of adult sexuality onto young teens is already pervasive in our society in the form of purity culture. It’s just that purity culture frames it in a defensive posture, with that sexuality as something that must be resisted and denied. Both logics enable exploitation.

Benny really is one of the worst people in a sea of truly terrible individuals

(2/3) In the sixth episode of the "Man Up" podcast, @milleridriss.bsky.social speaks with parenting expert, author, and @nytimes.com columnist Jessica Grose, who gives practical advice for parents, caregivers, and educators on navigating online spaces with their children.

(1/3) No generation has been as exposed to online hate and violent content than today’s young people.

It’s worth posting the full sketch youtu.be/AKE9W0O8bX8?...

Every Epstein email I've read today

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The thing about my Daily Beast tenure I'm proudest of? How we stayed on the Epstein story for years, when all of the uptown elites were rolling their eyes and telling us to go away.

And, here's Michael Wolff's take:

Oof. Here's the article that Ruemmler, former Obama White House counsel, dismissed: www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trum...

I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.

Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.

To all the weirdos defending Megyn Kelly: 15 year olds are underage, and that is statutory rape. Pretty simple

Here's Landon Thomas Jr characterizing Nashville-based economist Art Laffer as Jeffery Epstein's "old pal." Thomas is the NYT journalist who tipped Epstein off about ongoing investigations.

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

This is so goofy lol

The turkey one especially gets me, since the bird was unknown to Europeans before colonization.

Fascists and missing the point of movies that reject fascism. It's hard to think of a more iconic duo.

@aselrod.bsky.social had a good piece on this today. I had a similar conclusion after reading it today - policy in Canada is not as different as we might hope.