The ongoing coup.

These insurrectionists should already have been subjected to document preservation demands, subpoenas for documents and testimony, interrogations, seizures of digital equipment, Congressional questioning and more. Because nothing has been done, they get to do TV stunts like this. https://t.co/rX4yvr8o8n

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 29, 2021

This preposterous stunt is in many respects far more sinister than it seems. These are high-profile leaders of a domestic insurgency storming the federal facility where the domestic terrorists they lead are being held—and filming the storming to incite other domestic terrorists.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 29, 2021

So when leaders of a domestic insurgency counterfactually broadcast that far-right domestic terrorists are being mistreated—knowingly doing so in the context of

I watched some longer clips from the January 6 hearing yesterday. Emotionally grueling, and necessary.… Read the rest

Mo is angrynotangry about those smutty little bikini pants at the Olympics.

Support Jesus and Mo on Patreon… Read the rest

Tucker Carlson is now saying Fauci created the virus. That explains why I was seeing tweets saying Fauci should sue him for libel.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged vaccinated people to resume wearing masks under certain circumstances amid low vaccination rates and rising cases from the delta variant, Fox News host Tucker Carlson placed blame on Anthony S. Fauci for the changing mask guidelines.

Yes let’s blame someone for the fact that viruses change and knowledge changes. Let’s pretend that all knowledge is instantly available to all people and that no virus ever changes; that will make everything better overnight.

“Here’s the man who helped to create covid in the first place,” Carlson said.

The

Another woman punished.

A teacher has been sacked after attempting to scupper the election hopes of a transgender candidate who wanted to be head girl. 

Susan Field told her tutor group she felt the pupil was not “representative” of the student body and that it was not an “appropriate” role for her, the teaching watchdog found.

Ms Field, a French teacher who was said to have previously enjoyed an “unblemished 35-year career”, was dismissed from Ash Manor School, in Surrey, for gross misconduct after a disciplinary hearing into her remarks and subsequently lost her appeal.

I don’t know what being representative of the student body is supposed to mean, but as for a boy who calls himself a girl … Read the rest

They actually say it. Right out in the open! As if it makes perfect sense!

One great reason NOT to get the vaccine is because you are being told you must by people who have no right to tell you any such things. This is America. We are still free. Let's make sure we act that way.

— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) July 28, 2021

Yes, this is America, where dedicated researchers came up with effective vaccines for polio, to name one.

Here’s someone who would have been glad to have that vaccine available in 1921.

If the vaccine had been available, and mandated, then the people who died or were more or less paralyzed in the decades before it was … Read the rest

On the one hand boo vaccines, on the other hand yay ivermectin. Whaaat?

A contingent of Americans has embraced the anti-parasite drug ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID-19 despite warnings from the American scientific community that little to no evidence exists of its efficacy.

At the same time, many Americans have rejected the COVID-19 vaccines in spite of enormous evidence supporting their efficacy.

No good reason to think ivermectin any use so let’s embrace it, but tons of reason to think the vaccines work so let’s refuse to get them.

I’m not seeing the reasoning here – not even the party or partisan or political reasoning. Your politics are kind of beside the point once you’re dead.

The

Even Simone Biles can be a pretext for sadistic bullying from the Fox party.

On Fox, a growing cadre of white, male rightwing sports talking heads sharpened their claws, ignoring the racial and gendered nuance of Biles’ experience. On his Fox Sports radio show Doug Gottlieb claimed Biles hasn’t faced criticism in her career. “For years, women have said, all we want to be judged as is equal,” he opined. “Generally, we don’t have any sort of critique for our female sports teams. On one hand you want to be viewed, treated, and compensated the same as the men, but on the other hand whatever you do, just don’t be critical of us.”

On the one hand you want … Read the rest

It’s an interesting idea, that a member of Congress should be able to encourage a violent attack on that same Congress because his team lost an election, and then get the government to act as his lawyer. The DoJ isn’t persuaded.

The Justice Department rejected a request by Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks for legal protection in court against a lawsuit linking him to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Brooks, former President Donald Trump and others were sued by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., earlier this year. Swalwell alleges that Brooks and others named in the lawsuit helped incite a mob of Trump supporters on Jan. 6 during a pro-Trump rally.

Swalwell alleges it and the … Read the rest

Why indeed?

Originally a comment by cluecat on A full wax.

This has been an issue in a number of settings – particularly gymnastics and related sports. A number of us have taken the point deduction that comes with departing from uniform expectations in competitions. Those deductions can be substantial – going from a near-perfect score on technical grounds, to ending up placing last as a direct result of the clothing/appearance penalty. A penalty applied only to female athletes in these settings – the males rarely have points deducted on these grounds.

I have competed wearing leggings in some sets, and others have worn the “boy’s” uniforms – a vest or mens’ leo with shorts. We were all penalised for refusing … Read the rest

So that’s a relief anyway.

BREAKING: DOJ & Garland have rejected Mo Brooks’s request to be immunized for the insurrection. They correctly found that his actions were OUTSIDE the scope of his duties.

Called it: https://t.co/bk89cVUNem

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) July 28, 2021

DOJ says Mo Brooks was NOT acting in his scope of employment in his rabble-rousing 1/6 speech and thus they will not defend him against the lawsuit by Eric Swalwell. Very big development as a practical matter, and Brooks is going to be sweating it big time come his deposition,

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 28, 2021

And not just Mo Brooks…

DOJ sends a clear-as-day signal that Trump would also not be shielded from these lawsuits

I saw a tweet by Amy Siskind saying the Pillsbury Dough Boy of Fox News is now mocking today’s January 6 hearing, and after I got my breath back I looked for more. Aaron Rupar, as so often, obliges.

Tucker Carlson is now making fun of Adam Kinzinger for choking up during the January 6 committee hearing pic.twitter.com/d5IPxjrqIG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2021

i know it's not even really worth amplifying this stuff but man, this is so absurd. i pity anyone who thinks this sort of deflection is compelling pic.twitter.com/M8uWG7AIEp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2021

And in case that’s not enough –

“Hysteria” and “grift” – yes it’s all just a big con game. … Read the rest

From a comment by iknklast on How to threaten power.

There is a battle between faculty and administration right now, both of whom claim to support high standards, but who identify that differently. High standards to the faculty means that you actually educate the students in what they came to learn; high standards to the administration means they are happy. They are doing battle right now with English and Math because they are trying to remove basic competencies in reading and mathematics that we currently require for graduation; the administration says that held up several students from getting their degree on time. Yeah. It’s more important that they graduate than that they learn anything.

They’ve also made it possible … Read the rest

From a comment by Rob on Systemic v individual.

I’m not going to enumerate all the examples of serious cultural, institutional and systemic racism in western society. Any reasonable person just needs to open their eyes to see the ocean we swim in. CRT was initially adopted by law schools as a tool for analysing the effect of laws (past and present) and the way their application affected people coming into contact with the legal system (police, courts and prisons). Remember this isn’t just kumbaya-singing hippies at universities, but hard headed lawyers from a wide ranging political and social spectrum. You can find plenty of non-academic lawyers and prosecutors online who give meaningful and specific examples of current systemic … Read the rest

Well. That takes some nerve.

House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik: “The American people deserve to know the truth. That Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility, as speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6.” pic.twitter.com/24IXfoMPrI

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 27, 2021

Really?!

No.

Stefanik’s claim is that the Capitol police raised concerns about security and that Pelosi “prioritized her partisan political optics over their safety.” But there’s a catch: their safety is not Pelosi’s jurisdiction.

It should go without saying that the main person who bears responsibility for the violence that occurred on Jan. 6 is former President Donald Trump, whose lies about the election being stolen are what inspired a militant set of protesters

Speaking of shorts on the men and tiny tiny underpants on the women, Gail Dines points out something I think of every time I see those damn photos and clips –

No discussion in mainstream media about the need for women athletes to have a full Brazilian wax to wear the hypersexualized, pornified skimpy outfits. Aside from the very painful procedure, women often bleed during the wax, get infections, and it hurts when the hair grows back. Could you imagine men having to wax their pubic area in order to compete in sports? And the mostly male coaches get to have a bird’s eye view of the women’s crotches, and we know that Larry Nassar is not just one bad

CNN on the treason hearings:

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack at the Capitol held its first hearing on Tuesday with harrowing testimony from four officers who shared their stories of being attacked by the rioters.

…

One by one, the four officers who testified Tuesday — DC Metropolitan Police Officers Daniel Hodges and Michael Fanone, and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell — recounted their gut-wrenching stories about how they were attacked and their lives were threatened on January 6.

Witnesses and committee members were verklempt at times.

H[odg]es described how he was forced to scream out in agony as he was pressed between the rioters and a metal doorframe. Fanone

Aaron Rupar is following the January 6 hearing for us.

Sgt. Gonell gets emotional recalling how when he returned home early on the morning on Jan 7, he had to push his wife away because of all the chemicals he had on his clothes pic.twitter.com/91LBpd1LVi

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2021

Fanone: "I was aware enough to recognize I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm. I was electrocuted again and again and again with a taser. I'm sure I was screaming, but I don't think I could even hear my own voice." pic.twitter.com/2qgmASp6n1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2021

Fanone pounds the table as he says, "the indifference shown to my

As the man said – powerful.

Officer Dunn: "There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that." pic.twitter.com/mIOtjxKpI7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2021

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