The notion that the fall of Roe would matter less to people the further in time we get from Dobbs has always been absurd. People will always need abortions! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/u...
I'd never heard of the red summer of 1919 until it was covered on the BtB pod. I think we have a long tradition of forgetting times like those, and that is a big part of our nation's sickness. This piece explores this idea too www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/...
The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.
Even before the pandemic there was a spate of white supremacist mass murders that happened in random places — malls, places of worship, garlic festivals — that has never happened before or since. This was, in hindsight, one guy’s fault. Uncovered as he’s a coin flip away from power in a month.
The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.
it's like when CNET rushed to create fake "AI" journalists and badly automated clickbait, and then found it cost them MORE money in human editors to correct all the falsehoods and plagiarism than they were saving in the first place
Well yeah, but that's besides the point.
One of the long-term goals of the rich people bankrolling anti-immigrant and anti-refugee propaganda is to protect themselves from any call to disgorge a little of the profit they've made making the earth less livable.
If the old enviro saying "we have only one planet" never quite worked because it was easy to dismiss as too tritely kumbaya, Hurricane Helene offers a more immediate other side of the coin: There's nowhere left to run.
If you think a climate disaster can’t destroy your town, I have a submerged bridge to sell you.