“Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.”
“If you want the most telling data pt on #corporate#America’s lack of enthusiasm for #Trump, look where they are #investing…. Not a single Fortune 100 chief exec has donated to the candidate so far this year, which indicates a major break from overwhelming business & #executive support for #Republican presidential candidates dating back over a century, to the days of Taft & stretching through Coolidge & the Bushes, all of whom had dozens of major company heads donating to their campaigns.
#GOESU, which will be renamed #GOES19 once it reaches orbit, will capture these same critical #weather observations as its predecessors, eventually replacing an existing weather #satellite overseeing the #AtlanticOcean, Central, South & North #America.
US military is sending large number of troops and military equipments to Jordanian and occupied Syrian bases in anticipation of the planned #Netanyahu attack against Lebanon.
#US, #UK, #France and possibly #Italy will actively participate in defending Israel while Israel will have free hands in their attacks against any targets in #Lebanon and #Syria.
“US troop numbers in Jordan surge to record high amid Gaza war: US troop levels in Jordan have soared 20 percent since an Iraqi militia attacked a remote base inside the country”
#Trump appointed 3 #conservative#SCOTUS justices during his 2017-21 presidency, leading to a change in the court's balance that sparked the #abortion ruling in 2022.
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos by Ken Wilber, 2024
A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory—by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.
2 killed and 8 wounded in a mass shooting outside a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas
So far in 2024:
232 mass shootings
669 children under 18 murdered
1,827 children under 18 injured
7,905 deaths related to guns including 315 murder/suicides
It has had notables like musician & pastor Sean Feucht, who participated in a 2019 WH prayer session for #Trump & is leading prayer rallies at state capitol bldgs across the country.…This yr’s event included DavidBarton, whose org, WallBuilders, teaches K12 #students about #America’s supposed #Christian origins; JurgenMathesius, a SanDiego pastor at #FarRight Awaken #Church, …a stop on #MikeFlynn’s ReAwaken America tour; & JentezenFranklin, a televangelist who spoke at 2022 PrayVoteStand Summit…
The #US Constitution states that the President: "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the #Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur". ⏩
Women’s reproductive rights, contraception, LGBTQ rights, IVF, now this:
The Christian right is coming for divorce next - Vox
“Conservative commentators and lawmakers are calling for an end to no-fault divorce, arguing that it has harmed men and even destroyed the fabric of society.” https://apple.news/AZrx9yMTiQiaZJGSvy9X9Tg
In this “superb” new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire.
Read #QuinnNorton about #whiteness:
"The great thing about the divide-and-conquer of creating white-skin #privilege is that you don’t have to give people thusly bought off anything more, and American power structures didn’t. In places with black #slavery, the whites suffered terribly.
"There is a simple truth to American history for the majority of people who have ever been American: the worse the black experience, the worse everyone else’s experience, including whites. Driving down (or eliminating) black #wages, while always agreeable to whites, drove white pay lower than their European counterparts for most of our history."
"It is to the political benefit of the existing system to keep whites, especially poor whites with little more than their whiteness to be proud of. It makes for a predictable political group. Whites thus managed will vote and flock to issues as reliably as tides."