Above: Republicans long for the idealic past (a myth) of 1950s Americana – at the height of state-sponsored Jim Crow racial segregation, before the Libs gave us the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Some Republicans even long for the idealic past of 1850s … Read more
Garnell Whitfield, Jr., whose mother was killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., testified at a Senate hearing on domestic terrorism and called on lawmakers to do something to combat the “cancer of White Supremacy.” The Arizona Mirror reports, ‘My mom’s life mattered’: Son of Black shooting victim urges Congress to act: The son … Read more
Peter Thiel’s new right puppet, Blake Masters Blames Gun Violence on ‘Black People, Frankly’ (The Daily Beast): Tech investor and Arizona Republican Senate hopeful Blake Masters acknowledges that the United States has a gun violence problem. But he also has a theory about why there’s a problem—it’s “Black people, frankly.” Masters boiled the issue down … Read more
Update to Days After A Massacre Of Fourth Graders, Arizona Senate Republicans Kill Democratic Attempt For A Background Checks Bill. Fernanda Santos writes in an op-ed at the Washington Post, What the Arizona GOP’s response to Uvalde reveals: Republican legislators in Arizona have offered more than thoughts and prayers to the innocent victims massacred in … Read more
Frank Schaeffer is the son of theologian and author Francis Schaeffer, and working with his father as a young man, was responsible for laying the foundation of the radical Christian Right movement. In 2007 Schaeffer published his autobiography, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and … Read more