the cruelty of hope | Gerry Canavan

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* Cory Doctorow: What is it that makes some people vulnerable to anti-vax messages?

I think it’s the trauma of living in a world where there is ample evidence that our truth-seeking exercises can’t be trusted. That’s a genuinely scary idea, because if the truth is open to the highest bidder, then we are facing a future of chaos and terror, where you can’t trust the food on your plate, the roof over your head, or the school your child attends.

Fake news is an instrument for measuring trauma, and the epistemological incoherence that trauma creates – the justifiable mistrust of the establishment that has nearly murdered our planet and that insists that making the richest among us much, much richer will benefit everyone, eventually.

* ‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out.

* Medievalism goes to war with itself.

* Milwaukee County absolutely determined to destroy itself.

* In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning? Welcome to the fastest-heating place on Earth.

* Amazon destruction accelerates 60% to one and a half soccer fields every minute. Bolsonaro is the greatest crisis on the planet right now and everyone has agreed to just let it happen.

* ‘Families belong together’: Hundreds gather in Milwaukee to protest migrant detention centers.

* Watchdog Slams ‘Overcrowding’ At DHS Detention Centers.

* Trump’s Apparent Decision to Drop the Citizenship Question Is the Biggest Legal Defeat of His Presidency.

* Another ICE detainee has died in custody.

* Whatever the merits of her criticism, when those in power are caught abusing that power in ways that are morally indefensible and politically unpopular, they will always seek to turn an argument about oppression into a dispute about manners.

* ‘Unprecedented in Our History’: One State Is on the Verge of Slashing Higher-Ed Funding, Leaving Public Colleges in a Panic. Alaska Governor’s “Unprecedented” Higher Education Cuts Could Shutter Entire Departments.

* Will Donald Trump’s Fourth of July Parade Break the Law?

* Must have absolutely broken their hearts: FBI claims it lost file on neo-Nazi website Stormfront ‘after a reasonable search.’

* The Single Most Reliable Recession Indicator of the Past 50 Years Has Officially Started Blaring.

* The madness of factchecking. The hits against Sanders this week are especially incredible even by factchecking’s already low standards.

* Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He’s From a ‘Good Family,’ Judge Says.

This is completely infuriating. This boy filmed himself raping her, called it rape in a text to friends, and the judge *still* decided it wasn't rape. https://t.co/WlLudz2t85

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) July 3, 2019

It’s an underdiscussed problem in America that some huge percentage of its judges are bug-nuts irrational and irresponsible, just wholly abusing their position to make up rules on the fly.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 3, 2019

* The Democrats Aren’t a Left-Wing Party — They Just Play One on TV. And a truly evergreen tweet.

The Democratic Party is essentially an elaborate set of psychological defense mechanisms for the American bourgeoisie

— Roger Bellin (@rogerbellin) July 13, 2016

At some point people will have to begin acknowledging that the role of Democrats is to keep the rabble from impeding the lucrative and murderous actions of the elite. This self-pleasing pretense that our leaders are forced to do nothing is pathetic.

— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) July 2, 2019

* We had our time. The world belongs to the humanzees now.

* Sympathy for the devil.

* Why did octopuses become smart?

* Couldn’t hurt.

* They say time is the fire in which we burn.

* At least Discovery season three starts filming in two weeks, which means I should be good and disappointed by the end of the year.