Notices tagged with violence

“His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, & he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens & mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a #perverse scene of #despair & #violence.”

She commended #RFKJr for “pulling himself out of illness & disease” but lamented “siblings & cousins who Bobby ENCOURAGED down the path of #SubstanceAbuse suffered #addiction, #illness, & #death…

#USpol #PublicHealth #NationalSecurity #Trump

"The thugs who broke cops’ bones, the creeps who used bear spray against the Republic’s defenders, the ones who express no remorse and say they’d do it all again, the ones judges warned about as at risk for reoffending if freed—they’re all walking free. And they’re walking free for one reason only: because they did it for Trump.

It’s a sad day for America. It deserves lasting infamy."

~ Walter Olson

#Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-obscene-jan-6-pardons-will

#Israel #TerroristState #Occupation #Violence #Westbank #Jenin #Palestine

https://aje.io/5wu2t8?update=3462623

Off With Their Heads!

#JDVance #Violence #Politics #SystematicApproach #Jan6

https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/22/off-with-their-heads/

A Line By Line #Analysis Of #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's Big #AntiTrans #ExecutiveOrder.

Trump released 70+ executive orders Monday. While orders on #immigration and #climate drew attention, his #antitrans order could have sweeping impacts.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps

Jessica Grose notes the compelling reasons many younger people are turning their backs on organized religion — she points, in particular, to the horror show of sexual abuse of minors and its coverup in the Catholic church.

But she laments the effects of this rejection of religious institutions for the following reasons:

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/religious-institutions-church.html

"As a secular, mildly observant Jew, I don’t feel strongly about whether other Americans attend religious services or believe in God. But I do care about the pervasive — and honestly, warranted — cynicism that young people have about religious institutions, because I think it is contributing to a more disconnected, careless and cruel society."

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
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"Religious institutions are certainly not the only potential avenue for meaning, purpose and value in society. But we can’t underestimate the power of their reach, even in an increasingly secular world. When they have epic moral failures, it affects all of us, because it makes everyone more suspicious of potentially welcoming communities."

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
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But the arrogance and violence and aggression of many people speaking out on social media these days against those who have religious convictions also tells us that atheism and anti-religious commitments do not necessarily yield more humane, tolerant, kind, non-violent behavior among those who have these commitments.

I find the militant dogmatism of some anti-religious people just as repulsive as I find the dogmatism of some religious people.

#religion #community #violence #cruelty
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I agree with Jessica Grose. Religious bodies can exercise great cruelty and do horrific injustice. I know this personally as someone who has worked for church institutions and experienced deplorable discrimination in them.

Religious people have much to learn from non-religious and anti-religious people including atheists. One can be a profoundly moral person and have no religious faith at all.

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
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Whether you're religious or anti-religious, if you want to convince me that you have something good to offer me and others, if you approach me with violence, aggression, hostility, and supercilious arrogance, I will tune you out.

Because the world is full of those things and those of us repulsed by them seek alternatives to them from anyone promising us good solutions, not echoes of them.

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
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"For now, however, it all seems insignificant beside the reality that the president of the United States has thrown himself fully behind political violence."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-time-for-wonkery

"Trump’s pardon of the J6 Terrorists is about encouraging future MAGA violence. … The pardoning of the Jan. 6 terrorists is all part of Trump’s plan to wield power by any means necessary."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-pardon-of-the-j6-terrorists

Dean Obeidallah quotes Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who tells him the goal of authoritarians is "to get people to see that violence is not negative." And:

“The pardons are about encouraging people to do more violence, thinking that they're not going to pay any consequences. That's actually the essence of authoritarianism and fascism: You arrange government so that you can be violent and corrupt and get away with it.”

#Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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“What brought Hitler to supreme power within a few months of being appointed Reich Chancellor was a combination of murderous political violence whose ruthlessness was beyond anything imagined by the world of conventional politics in Germany, and a propaganda offensive that violated every standard of truthfulness and decency."

#Hitler #EconomicElites #violence #disinformation #democracy
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~ Richard J. Evans, Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (NY: Random House, 2024), p. 100

"The extensive overlap between the aims of the anti-democratic elites, including business leaders and the military, and those of the Nazis, ensured that however the great the distaste of elites for the violence of the Nazis, they were willing to go along with their destruction of democracy.”

#Hitler #EconomicElites #disinformation #propaganda #violence #democracy
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~ Ibid.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653631/hitlers-people-by-richard-j-evans/

New Year's Eve in #Germany: 5 men kill themselves while mishandling #fireworks; hundreds incl. #children are injured, losing limbs & faces; police, firefighters & ambulance staff are attacked when responding to emergencies; hundreds are arrested. Happy 2025 with #death, #injuries & #violence!

"Stat of the day: Number of people killed in US gun violence in 2024 reaches 16,006 after Wisconsin school shooting."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #MakingAmericaGreatAgain #MAGA #EconomicElites #violence
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/17/first-thing-russian-general-killed-in-moscow-blast-as-ukraine-claims-responsibility

"America experienced another school shooting on Monday that killed two and wounded a half dozen people in Madison, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, the nation remained fixated on sightings of 'mystery' drones (and planes and stars mistaken for drones)."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #MakingAmericaGreatAgain #MAGA #EconomicElites #violence
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/drones-vs-guns

If schools were prepared for decades to become shooting galleries and everyone was told to suck it up: then a single shooting on the street has to feel acceptable too; the lack of shock should not be shocking.

“We have to deplore violence and then become curious about where it’s coming from.”

#violence #health #healthcare #USpol