Information Wars

The violence inside us projects into the world, and as we move further into the information age, the wars get recast.

Consider:

If you're going to the World Cup in Qatar, you have to download an app that tracks your every move, and can takeover your phone. (tweet)

Iran is angry that other countries are supporting the rebellion of women. (CNN)

There's a right wing candidate in NYC that got money sent from Colorado. (Daily News)

The dark money of the rich flows into the party that supports their agendas. (NPR)

Wikipedia is constantly re-edited to rewrite the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Gizmodo) (Study)

They're predicting social media chaos before the midterms. (Times of Israel)

With the upcoming midterm elections, we have a choice about democracy, versus a more authoritarian and anti-democratic route. Secular progressive or regressive traditional imprint of a Christian majority. We can support a historically good president, or spin things to destroy his universal goods. We can maintain the rights of women over their bodies, or we can allow for the control of women's bodies. It's really quite a stark and dire election.

I know every election plays the histrionic tunes of life versus death, black and white, but it's hard for me not to see it with this one.

I think the conservative and progressive dialectic is important in American and I want my conservative friends to vote, but I don't think conservatives should vote for some of these Republican candidates or anti-democratic policies.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

The case for Harris

Motley Kamuka Blog endorses Kamala Harris. In general, Trump just wants to lower taxes on the rich, and do nothing, sell whatever influence he can to line his pockets. Apparently the emoluments clause in the constitution has no teeth. Harris has a set of ideas about policy that are fairly middle of the road. In most countries she's would be seen as a centrist. Spin about her radical agendas are exaggerated. I'm not sure how he got past " grab them by the pussy ", but he did and here we are. Women: Obviously the idea of giving women pregnancy tests at the borders of the state, and then if they come back and don't have a baby, they go to jail, isn't really what most women want. Pick Harris. I understand if you think abortion is murder, maybe you've been told that by the Catholic church, which has the same ideal of Buddhism that you don't kill--so follow your religion for yourself. Not everyone is Christian or Buddhist or even has a religion. Women are ...

AOC

Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

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