Mark Frost

@markfrost.bsky.social

Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

James Talarico on Tx THC ban: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed & eating edibles bc politicians in Austin say so— We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst”

James Talarico speaking to crowd in Texas

“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

"Voluntary ignorance is a condition of surrendering your will to another through sublation. With knowledge comes agency, guilt, responsibility, and an obligation to act. This is the real practice of democracy, not just voting."

Some people have fully accepted the idea that the public ought to be forbidden the information we need to govern ourselves. This allows them to remain infantilized and abdicate responsibility for self-governance. The frantic insistence that the patriarch knows best has a lot of echoes of the Pandora’s Box, Garden of Eden, type of strictures against women obtaining knowledge, for the same reason. Voluntary ignorance is a condition of surrendering your will to another through sublation. With knowledge comes agency, guilt, responsibility, and an obligation to act. This is the real practice of democracy, not just voting.

In a Democratic administration, it would be treated as a scandal that a staffer used the government's top epidemiologist as her personal physician in a time of national crisis. But in this administration it gets the extra infuriating angle of then stabbing him in the back for political expediency.

Dr. Fauci’s Private Diary Says He Frequently Consoled MAGA Mouthpiece Katie Miller During Her COVID-Era Pregnancy

Entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary that were released by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last week suggest he had a close relationship with Katie Miller during the first year of the COVID-19 pandem...

people.com