Meet the creepy men behind the QAnon hoax | Fred Clark


Cullen Hoback’s HBO documentary miniseries “Q: Into the Storm” is less about QAnon than it is about 8chan — the fringe image board curating the very worst of the internet. But that is the story of QAnon too.

Source: Meet the creepy men behind the QAnon hoax | Fred Clark

How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump | The Guardian


Yale professor Jason Stanley enters a growing literary field with a sober examination of an inflammatory political concept

Source: How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under Trump | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Dear Tucker Carlson


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Dear Tucker Carlson,

Hey Tuck, I just got done watching a segment of your show. You know, the one where you suggest that there should be a camera in every classroom in order to root out…let me get this accurate…”civilization ending poison.” https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1412566208763895810

I’m going to zig where you thought most teachers would zag. I welcome your Orwellian cameras in my classroom. Frankly, I don’t know many teachers who would object to having people watch what we do. As a matter of fact, I hate to tell you this Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, but most of us spent the last year having video cameras in our classrooms.

See, I think you believe that your suggestion that people see what happens in our classrooms will somehow scare teachers. The truth of it is that we have been begging for years to have people, such as yourself, come into our classrooms. I…

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Michigan Republicans Debunk Voter Fraud Claims in Unsparing Report – The New York Times


The 55-page report, produced by a Michigan State Senate committee of three Republicans and one Democrat, is a systematic rebuttal to an array of false claims about the election from supporters of former President Donald J. Trump. The authors focus overwhelmingly on Michigan, but they also expose lies perpetuated about the vote-counting process in Georgia.

René Girard – Colloquium on Violence & Religion


In his later work, Girard demonstrated the origins of violence in competing mimetic desires. He also showed the origins of culture in the scapegoat-mechanism, in which an innocent victim is sacrificed to catharsise the community of violence. Religion, according to Girard, originated in these sacrificial mechanisms, but developed in the Judeo-Christian tradition into a denouncing of violence and the scapegoat-mechanism.

Source: René Girard – Colloquium on Violence & Religion

Q&A: Oregon Writer Robert Leo Heilman on the Power of Language – The Daily Yonder


We must not now fool ourselves into excessive anger with our words and we cannot let the bluster of others fool us into expressing hatred for each other. Perhaps we should fear our words rather than fearing our neighbors. Robert Leo Heilman, “Of Tyrants and Tyranny”

Source: Q&A: Oregon Writer Robert Leo Heilman on the Power of Language – The Daily Yonder