American Politics from 2019 on

[Sean Hayden]

—psychos

[L'Emmerdeur]

Banning bad books at the Naval Academy library.

'Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?'

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.

Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.

Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.

“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser.

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.

The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say.

Political appointees in the Department of the Navy’s leadership decided which books to remove. A look at the list showed that antiracists were targeted, laying bare the contradictions in the assault on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

[Brian Peacock]

It's about time that somebody addressed the US government workers' horrible persecution of Christians. If your coworkers are guilty of bias against Christians, report them!

'State tells employees to report on one another for "anti-Christian bias"'

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.

Trump Jesus owns God. Pictures at eleven.

[JimC]

Anti-Christian bias could include not being interested in religion...

[Sean Hayden]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

[Tero]

I think they should just start the presidential campaign. AOC for president. She will be over 38 or 39 the election year. There is nothing else for them to do now.

keithedwards
2h
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
https://www.threads.net/@keithedwards/p ... ZBadrXxTuA
same rally
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... os-angeles

[JimC]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

[Cunt]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

Some creepy old guy on the TV (Steven Fry) once pointed out that all the best liberal democracies had monarchies. I think the US is one of the few exceptions, and they still have the Kennedys.

[pErvinalia]

US certainly isn't a liberal democracy now.

[Brian Peacock]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

Yeah, it's not uncommon for people to say, "I'm not religious - I'm CofE!"

[Tero]

tiiaaurora
2h
On my checklist of "When will Americans finally do something" we reached "Concentration Camps" and honestly there are not many points left anymore.

tara_stoddard
4m
it’s going to take a major economic downturn for most to start caring. Too many are either tuned out or spoon fed GOP talking points through Fox. Until it hits them personally we’re in this alone.

[Tero]

Musk and Melania

Back when Musk and Melania showed up, we were still a nation of immigrants and we welcomed their contributions to our economy and culture, from tacos to academic research. Now not so much, as students get ambushed and detained for having political views that Trump doesn’t like. That’s unconstitutional, and they are legal residents, but why should he care, right?

The administration has already admitted that deporting Abrego Garcia was an error, and Bloomberg reports that roughly 90 percent of the 200-plus men Trump deported to CECOT have no U.S. criminal records. But Trump is no newcomer to ruining lives. It’s what he does.

The guy who pardoned the January 6th rioters was never going to be President Due Process. In fact, unless it benefits him and people who genuflect to him, Trump is allergic to due process. We’ve known that since 1989, at the height of the frenzy against the Central Park Five—teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park—when he ran an ad in several newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty. It was published May 1, 1989, barely ten days after the attack and months before the teens were tried and convicted.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-sh ... sk-melania

[Svartalf]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

Yeah, it's not uncommon for people to say, "I'm not religious - I'm CofE!"

Is funny how the official brand of chretinity has shrunk into near nothingness.

[Cunt]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

Yeah, it's not uncommon for people to say, "I'm not religious - I'm CofE!"

Is funny how the official brand of chretinity has shrunk into near nothingness.

I think Britain has a new flavour of religious chretinity. Didn't Vance say they were poised to be the first nuclear-capable Islamic state?

I know the Brits aren't allowed to say that, with their free speech status, but if you think the state religion is NOT Islam, try burning a book of each of the religious types, and note response by authorities.

[Brian Peacock]

Pure nonsense.