Notices by Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social), page 5

It's as if our press just can't process a threat as grave as Trump. They no longer have the skills or backing from their top editors to grapple with such a grand-scale horror as the death of our democracy. So they've shrunk the issues down to a size they feel comfortable with: Shaming an old man.

Ex-fucking-actly. No notes.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

American Democracy [1776-2024]. The killers are still at large. Eulogy by Justice Sotomayor.

It's too bad the 2nd Amendment dudes who swore they'd be the undauntable defenders of our democracy against attack by a brutal monarch turned out to be too busy denouncing rainbow plushies at Target.

How the Republican thugs, grifters, and crooks on the Roberts Court declared themselves victorious over expertise itself in one of the most dangerous and shamefully corrupt decisions in Supreme Court history. [gift link] https://wapo.st/3VBMZi0

NY Times calls for felon and rapist who brags about building camps for immigrants, sold top-secret documents to our enemies, promoted quack treatments as Americans died, and daydreams about dating his daughter to drop out of the race "for the good of the country." HAHAHA J/K IT'S THE OTHER DUDE

Here's Rupert Murdoch getting his usual fawning society-page coverage describing him as an "incorrigible romantic," rather than as "One of the most evil men alive, up to his neck in blood, responsible for the corrosion of democracies worldwide and the spread of medical misinformation that has killed millions." https://ca.style.yahoo.com/news/rupert-murdoch-marries-fifth-wife-121924735.html

Trump ally Jeff Durbin is so radically pro-life - MAGA-style, baby! - he vows to put any woman seeking an abortion into the electric chair. Or gas. Or lethal injection. After all, he can't slit all those women's throats himself. https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/C8m9AXyB0Xs

The number of people in my timeline in different networks saying they just got COVID for the first time is absolutely overwhelming. For the love of God, wear a mask in indoor spaces; it's the least we can do for one another.

In a move so douchey even his critics didn't expect it, twisted, hollowed-out GOP freak Ron DeSantis vetoes all arts grants previously approved by state legislators. Remember, IF YOU HATE THE ARTS, VOTE REPUBLICAN. [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/ron-desantis-veto-arts-funding-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.YsxU.ytPMGyrnWTt5&smid=url-share

Bezos to the newsroom. Who could have predicted that putting billionaires in control of essential sources of information like Twitter and @washingtonpost would result in a tsunami of right-wing enshittification on the verge of the most fraught election in US history?

Miserable closet case evangelical Paul Pressler, who helped push the GOP into extreme bigotry while raping kids for decades, has died. I wish I believed in Hell. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/15/paul-pressler-dead-southern-baptist-convention/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social

This AP tweet is an instant candidate for the Museum of American Fascism. Carve it in stone and put it over the entrance. It should be an enduring source of burning shame and embarrassment for the entire organization, as well as a warning to other media.

The Alitos have unmasked themselves as one of the freakiest and most sinister couples in American history. They're like the love children of Hunter Thompson and William Burroughs.

Insurrectionist Samuel Alito vows to remake America into a Christian theocracy using his powers as a Supreme Court justice, and says no "compromise" is possible with people who don't want to live in a Christian theocracy. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-justice-recording-tape-battle-1235036470/

The "failure" comment makes sense in context, b/c Graham is saying Hitler should have been stopped sooner. But that underlines the fact that this simpering hypocrite is one of the most shameless and opportunistic apologists for the aspiring American Hitler. Now it's people like Trump and Graham who must be stopped. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7_8sgegp9M

Stop dunking on Melania. She's gonna need a ton of sex with horse-hung bodybuilders to get through this difficult period.

Happy 120th birthday in emptiness to Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, where I was a Zen student. Here he is in the early 1960s, teaching Sunday school at Sokoji, the sole Soto Zen temple in SF at the time. [via cuke.com]

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." - Suzuki-roshi

My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh.