Everything is awful, sorry

[conuly]

Also... has the Washington Post always had a banner on its articles saying "Democracy Dies in Darkness?"

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In Big Win For Big Cats, China Approves National Park Larger Than Yellowstone

Making Athens Great Again

Church cops? Congregation eyes its own unusual police force ("You've got to have some presence here," said Jeff Siren, 61, who has worshipped at Briarwood since 1998. "Anyone can wander in here unchallenged at any time." Well, yes. Because it's a church!)

The Seismic Change in Police Interrogations: A major player in law enforcement says it will no longer use a method linked to false confessions.

For Some Americans Of MENA Descent, Checking A Census Box Is Complicated

Imagine finding out your biological father wasn’t the man you thought he was. Imagine finding out he was your mother’s fertility doctor.

Why hurting the poor will hurt the economy

White Evangelicals Believe They Face More Discrimination Than Muslims (oh, ffs)

The Forgotten Prisoner of a Spyware Deal Gone Wrong

Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming

The most striking thing about the WikiLeaks CIA data dump is how little most people cared

Refugees Fleeing Violence in Central America Hope for Asylum in Mexico

Afraid of Jail? Buy an Upgrade!

Buried Alive: Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement

America Gets a D Plus for Infrastructure, and a Big Bill to Fix it (So, what else is new?)

Republican Report Accidentally Proves Trump Lied About Voter Fraud

Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign

A Portable Panic Button for Immigrants Swept Up in Raids

U.S. Ethics Official To White House: No, These Rules Definitely Apply To You

John McCain tells Trump: present wiretapping evidence or retract the claim

New Republican bill would gut class actions, not improve them (This article is old, but it provides context. It just passed the House.)

Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan

Paul Ryan admitted he has no idea how health insurance works

Conservatives cheer EPA cuts that activists fear 'will be borne by lungs'

Comments

[monanotlisa]

No, it's their new slogan -- there was a LOT of press around it; NYC and Guardian commented upon it, IIRC. :)

[conuly]

Didn't see any of that.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Y'know what: the white evangelicals might not be wrong about their facing more discrimination than Muslims. After all, there are a LOT more Christianist extremists in the USA than there are Islamist extremists. They're the ones who commit the vast majority of hate crimes. They're the ones who constantly try to force their religious beliefs on the rest of us, in defiance of the Constitution's prohibition of the establishment of religion. They're the promoters of the War on Women, working to take away our right to control our own bodies: there's apparently no level of corruption too vile for them to vote for, in order to stop abortion, birth control, and laws against rape. They're the haters of the LGBT folk, and openly call for their elimination. They're the science-deniers who block all attempts to address the environmental issues killing our planet.

As you know, I am pretty-much equally opposed to all three branches of the People of the Book. The world would have been so much better off if that Book had not survived the fall of Rome, because the God of Abraham is a monster, and the religion(s) that worship that deity are the slaves and pushers of monstrous ignorance and superstition. Islam and Judaism are both huge forces for evil in other parts of the world, and that can't be ignored. But in this country, it's Christianism that poses the clear and obvious threat to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of everyone who disagrees with it.

Is it 'discrimination' to oppose a cult of hate? I guess next we'll hear the American Nazi Party crying in their beer about the 'War on Nazis' because decent, rational people don't want to be friends with them.

True, it's hard on the genuine followers of Christ to be lumped in with the hate-mongers, but they've never been anything but a tiny minority: too few and too passive to have much effect. By contrast, Christian Hate Radio can be heard 24/7 on any car radio in the country, so there is absolutely no use pretending that hate is not (still!) the Church's best-selling signature product.

*sighhh* If only the Rapture was coming....