I’m 70 today. Feels like crossing a threshold into official old age. I’m cool with it. I’m publishing a new novel. Wrote a musical Xmas special due out later this year. Trace & I are launching a new movie riffing series. And I’m part of the new MST3K. Making things is my birthday present to myself.
All of the Republicans yelling at Fauci today for putting the public’s health at risk have spent a considerable amount of their professional lives ensuring that psychopaths can walk into a schoolroom with an easily obtained fully loaded weapon of war.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 106 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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How bad this is depends on how far they are willing to go. Are they willing to fabricate evidence to attack vaccines? My guess would be yes.
Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA
The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
George Pearkes@peark.es · last yr.Man *CDC PLANS STUDY INTO VACCINES AND AUTISM: REUTERS *CDC PLANS STUDY ON POTENTIAL AUTISIM-VACCINES CONNECTION: RTRS
And if you'd like to hear ways that talking, even when innocent, can really be detrimental then watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o...
Don't Talk to the Police
YouTube video by Regent University School of Law
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/8 But “I am going to talk to them to explain and clear this up” is insanity on the level of “I am going to douse myself with lighter fluid and set myself on fire to take care of these grass stains on my jeans.” SAY YOU DON’T WANT TO TALK AND YOU WANT A LAWYER, THEN SHUT YOUR MOUTH.
/6 They will bully you and try to coerce you and make you FEEL like maybe they will arrest you unless you talk. That’s because they are bad faith actors. DO NOT TRUST THEM. DO NOT TALK TO THEM.
/7 Moreover, to repeat, it is essential you actually say “I do not want to talk to you, I want to talk to a lawyer,” or words as close to that as possible. Thanks to “conservatives” on the Supreme Court they are allowed to coerce you into talking unless you use something close to those magic words.
/5 It is EXTREMELY unlikely that your invocation of your rights will be the tipping point in arresting or charging you. It is even more EXTREMELY unlikely that if they are prepared to arrest or charge that you talking will be the thing that stops them. THEY WANT YOU TO INCRIMINATE YOURSELF.
/4 “But if I refuse to talk will they arrest me or charge me?” That’s what they want you to think to coerce you into talking even against your interests. But it’s a stupid way to think about it. It’s the equivalent of “but if I wear a seat belt, what if I drive into a lake and am trapped?”
/3 Let me repeat that: “I don’t want to talk to you. I want to talk to a lawyer.” In all other respects, shut the fuck up. Don’t engage them. Don’t let them engage you. They are not trying to help you. They are not trying to “clear this up.” Shut. Your. Fucking. Mouth.
/2 Do not respond to the voicemail message, the email, the text, the card left on your door. Talk to a lawyer, or just don’t respond at all. If they reach you by phone, or confront you in person, you may say “I don’t want to talk to you. I want to talk to a lawyer.”
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1
Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows. First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract. /1
I want to tell you — you, the individual human being that is running this social media account — that you are a piece of shit. A Nazi new hire or a quisling leftover, you make the world a worse place and I wish you failure and suffering.
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
