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Chuck DarwinDonald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.One of Trump's directives named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Krebs</a>, his former cybersecurity chief, and said any security clearance he has would be revoked.A second presidential memorandum targeted <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miles</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taylor</a>, who was a top official at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term and anonymously wrote a 2019 book criticizing the then-president.The order stripped Taylor of any security clearance he might have and ordered the Justice Department to investigate him."I think it's a very important case, and I think he's guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth, but we'll find out," said Trump as he signed the order on Taylor.In response, Taylor said via text message: "I said this would happen. Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path."Krebs had questioned Trump's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.The order signed on Wednesday called for a review of Krebs' activities as a government employee, including his leadership of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a White House fact sheet said."We're going to find out about this guy too because this guy is a wise guy," said Trump, calling Krebs "a disgrace."Krebs did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Trump fired Krebs in a November 17, 2020, tweet, five days after CISA posted a statement saying the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history." Trump has falsely claimed that Biden's win resulted from fraud.After leaving government, Krebs co-founded the Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity consultancy, along with former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos.Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne acquired the consultancy in November 2023, and Krebs became SentinelOne's chief intelligence and public policy officer.Trump's order said security clearances for individuals at Sentinel One would also be revoked pending review. A spokesperson for SentinelOne declined to comment. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-orders-targeting-two-ex-officials-who-criticized-him-2025-04-09/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-orders-targeting-two-ex-officials-who-criticized-him-2025-04-09/</a>

fyre_festivalsNew Artist announced for Smukfest 2025: 🔥 Christopher 🔥🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: <a href="https://fyrefestivals.co" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fyrefestivals.co</a> 🎟️ Get your Tickets now: <a href="https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smukfest_2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smukfest_2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fyre_festivals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fyre_festivals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livemusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spotify</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musicfestivals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musicfestivals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/playlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#playlist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tickets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tickets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/announcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#announcement</a>

Chuck DarwinIn 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly, the US government could be toppled and replaced”.Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program. They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAGE</a> (for “retire all government employees”).They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them. They should bring Congress to heel, in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers. And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House, Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”Yarvin continued: “You’d actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves, and effectively ran on these promises. Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff, and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”. Later expanding on the idea with 💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets, commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC, with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.Vice-president-elect JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rufo</a> have identified universities as primary ideological enemies, with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair: “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording: “There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast. That’s the universities.”-- Jason Wilson <a href="https://c.im/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CurtisYarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CurtisYarvin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MichaelAnton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelAnton</a>

Philo Sophies<a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Zoomposium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zoomposium</a> mit Prof. Dr. <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Hebling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hebling</a>: „<a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Wasserstoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wasserstoff</a> als <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/L%C3%B6sung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lösung</a> - als <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Energietr%C3%A4ger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energieträger</a> und <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Klimasch%C3%BCtzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Klimaschützer</a> der <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Zukunft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zukunft</a>“In einem weiteren sehr spannenden Interview sprechen Axel und ich diesmal mit dem deutschen Professor Christopher Hebling, der als Direktor für Internationales am <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Fraunhofer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraunhofer</a>-<a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Institut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Institut</a> für <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Solare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solare</a> <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Energiesysteme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energiesysteme</a> <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/ISE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ISE</a> letztes Jahr in den Vorstand des Forums für <a href="https://earthstream.social/tags/Zukunftsenergien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zukunftsenergien</a> e.V. gewählt wurde.Mehr auf: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/12/17/wasserstoff-als-loesung/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/12/17/wasserstoff-als-loesung/</a>oder: <a href="https://youtu.be/E62Kij5i_Ck" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/E62Kij5i_Ck</a>

Chuck DarwinRight-wing provocateur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rufo</a> could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for <a href="https://c.im/tags/higher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#higher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a>, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars, from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio —reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as “a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education, who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.” To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.” Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian, including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.” The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty. One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business” and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left —stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools</a>

Chuck DarwinFBI Director <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wray</a> and Donald Trump's team are planning for the possibility that the president-elect will replace Wray during the new administration, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.One person under consideration for Wray's job is Trump adviser <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kash</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Patel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patel</a>, who is also being considered to lead the CIA, according to two other sources.Wray, whom Trump appointed in 2017 to a 10-year term, enjoys leading the FBI and had intended to serve out his term, a source said. But he's also preparing for the possibility that Trump will seek to replace him, according to a separate source. All the sources spoke on condition of anonymity to recount sensitive discussions. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-director-christopher-wray-preparing-possible-forced-exit-trump-rcna179684" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-director-christopher-wray-preparing-possible-forced-exit-trump-rcna179684</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shulkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shulkin</a>, whom Trump had appointed to head the V.A., made multiple visits to Palm Beach to consult with the troika that officials came to call “the Mar-a-Lago crowd.” “There probably weren’t too many times I met with the President when he didn’t say, ‘What’s happening with Ike?’ ” Shulkin once said. When Perlmutter visited Washington, Shulkin told me, “I would get a call —‘Could you come over to the White House? Mr. Perlmutter’s here with the President.’ ”Shulkin was fired by Trump, in March of 2018, amid a controversy over an expensive trip to Europe that Shulkin had taken at taxpayers’ expense. Within hours, he went public with accusations that the story had been hyped by Trump political appointees who were intent on privatizing many of the V.A.’s services. Shulkin told me that he never fully understood why Perlmutter, who had not served in the U.S. military or even visited a V.A. hospital until Shulkin took him to one, had been given such power over the agency. He described Perlmutter as “a private-sector guy” whom Trump admired as a self-made man, someone who “had started with very little and built empires.” The problem, as Shulkin saw it, was that Perlmutter had little idea of what he was doing. “Because he never worked in government, he didn’t understand government,” Shulkin told me. “Part of my role was always trying to translate —‘That isn’t the way we could do things in this organization.’ ”Perlmutter, however, has remained close to Trump. He and his wife gave $21 million to a super pac supporting Trump’s bid in 2020, and, in 2024, they bankrolled a new pro-Trump super pac, "Right for America", donating another $25 million. By September, Right for America had raised some $70 million, which it has spent on an advertising blitz this fall. The venture drew support from other longtime members of Mar-a-Lago, including the Newsmax founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ruddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ruddy</a>, who gave $100,000, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anthony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anthony</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lomangino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lomangino</a>, a South Florida waste-management mogul, who donated $7.85 million. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scott</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bessent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bessent</a>, another hedge-fund executive often mentioned as a possible Trump Treasury Secretary, also contributed $100,000.🆘 Perlmutter’s highly unusual role in the first Trump Administration appears to have become something of a template for outside influence in a second term. In March, when <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> met with Trump at Peltz’s house for breakfast, they discussed a broad advisory gig for the tech billionaire on such matters as immigration and the economy —“in the mold of the role” that Perlmutter had played at the V.A., according to the Wall Street Journal. By August, after publicly endorsing Trump, Musk had fleshed out the idea. During a lengthy live-streamed conversation with Trump, Musk suggested that a commission was needed to investigate how to rein in government spending. Such a panel, Musk posted on X, “would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”Weeks later, during a speech at the Economic Club of New York, Trump formally announced his support for a “government-efficiency commission” that would “conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.” He proposed that Musk, despite having received billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies for his ventures SpaceX and Tesla, should chair the effort. Soon, Trump was calling Musk his future “Secretary of Cost Cutting.” It sounded like a more ambitious version of a project that Trump had launched early in his Presidency, when he named the billionaire investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carl</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Icahn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Icahn</a> as a special adviser in charge of overhauling federal regulations. Icahn left the role less than a year later, when an article in this magazine raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Chuck DarwinFlorida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steve</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sailer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sailer</a>, who has been described as a 💥“white supremacist” and a 💥“proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public eventnext month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, ❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rufo</a>. That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corcoran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corcoran</a> as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College – like ♦️abolishing disciplines, ♦️removing bathroom signage and ♦️denying professors tenure – have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty, and given rise to myriad legal actions.But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”, many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “<a href="https://c.im/tags/reconquista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reconquista</a>”. JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “<a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressively" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aggressively</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/attack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attack</a> the universities in this country”.Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that an “African population explosion” is related to a “primal African cult of fertility”. Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists” with “Haitian <a href="https://c.im/tags/voodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voodoo</a> and Southern <a href="https://c.im/tags/hoodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hoodoo</a> magic”. 🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Pixelcats⁷I generally feel quite 'Eh?' about Christopher, but Youngji raises his cool level significantly. :blobcatgiggle: :ablobdj: Christopher, Lee Young Ji - Trouble [Live Performance Video] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCdKexnwGy8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCdKexnwGy8</a><a href="https://apobangpo.space/tags/Pop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pop</a> <a href="https://apobangpo.space/tags/KPop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KPop</a> <a href="https://apobangpo.space/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://apobangpo.space/tags/YoungJi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YoungJi</a> <a href="https://apobangpo.space/tags/NewMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMusic</a>

Chuck DarwinWith <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanitarian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/catastrophes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catastrophes</a> unfolding on several continents, the response of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealthy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#world</a> has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences. ⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan. 🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate, when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio. This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings. It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fringe</a> of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a>-verse, then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> himself.There is something particularly <a href="https://c.im/tags/insidious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insidious</a> about this claim, uttered at this time, from that stage. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Food</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pets</a> are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#symbols</a> in our political life. They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about <a href="https://c.im/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#identity</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/belonging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#belonging</a>.You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right. Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray. The conservative culture warrior <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rufo</a> has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat. It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into <a href="https://c.im/tags/vigilante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vigilante</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a> against Haitians in America. On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received <a href="https://c.im/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bomb</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threats</a>, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.MAGA bigotry is far more <a href="https://c.im/tags/sinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sinister</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dangerous</a> than weird. And disbelieving laughter could, I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/trump-debate-haitians-pets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=93CE287F-EE40-40AE-B1B3-90B0F13022C0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/trump-debate-haitians-pets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=93CE287F-EE40-40AE-B1B3-90B0F13022C0</a>

Chuck DarwinA neo-Nazi group is taking credit for creating and spreading the racist conspiracy that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.The leader of the group <a href="https://c.im/tags/BloodTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodTribe</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pohlhaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pohlhaus</a>, celebrated on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, after the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris the day before ❌where Trump brought up the false rumor.The neo-Nazi group “pushed Springfield into the public consciousness,” Pohlhaus, known as “<a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammer</a>” to his followers, wrote on Telegram, according to NBC News.“The president is talking about it now,” one of Blood Tribe’s members wrote on Gab, a social network popular with the far right. “This is what real power looks like.”While the exact origin of the rumor is unclear, it was at least amplified and spread by the neo-Nazi group. In late June, local Facebook groups in Ohio were posting about Haitian children chasing geese and ducks. In the next few weeks, darker rumors spread about the ducks and geese going missing and possibly being eaten by Haitian immigrants. In August, Blood Tribe picked up on the rumors and started posting about them on Telegram and Gab. Members of the racist organization marched in Springfield in Ohio in early August and spoke at some of the town’s meetings.<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/185950/neo-nazi-origins-trump-migrant-pet-eating-conspiracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/185950/neo-nazi-origins-trump-migrant-pet-eating-conspiracy</a>

Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <a href="https://nojack.easydns.ca/@tantramar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tantramar</a> 🥥 And THAT'S why Eye love you, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> and Eye am currently catless! 🥥

Queer Lit CatsJezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Paris Fashion Week Is a 'Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century' Mood Board <a href="https://jezebel.com/paris-fashion-week-space-1850887043" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jezebel.com/paris-fashion-week-space-1850887043</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Jezebel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jezebel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/zenongirlofthe21stcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zenongirlofthe21stcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/pierrecardinunfortunately" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pierrecardinunfortunately</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/frenchfashiondesigners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frenchfashiondesigners</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/rickowensspacegoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rickowensspacegoth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/balmainevenbalmain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#balmainevenbalmain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/olivierrousteing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olivierrousteing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/stephenhawking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stephenhawking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/pierrecardin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pierrecardin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/luxurybrands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luxurybrands</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/pacorabanne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pacorabanne</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/acnestudios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acnestudios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christopher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/emilycooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emilycooper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/clothing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clothing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/protozoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protozoa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fashion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/balmain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#balmain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/zenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zenon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/puig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#puig</a>

Chris Koester (old account)Saint Christopher | Salisbury Cathedral May 2023 Christoph Koester <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/england?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#england</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/eng?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eng</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/greatbritain?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greatbritain</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gb?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gb</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/unitedkingdom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unitedkingdom</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/uk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/monochrome?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monochrome</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blackandwhite?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackandwhite</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bw</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/schwarzweiß?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schwarzweiß</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sw</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/noiretblanc?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noiretblanc</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nb?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nb</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/salisbury?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#salisbury</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cathedral?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cathedral</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/salisburycathedral?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#salisburycathedral</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/architecture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/architektur?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architektur</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/saintchristopher?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saintchristopher</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/christoph?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christoph</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/christopherus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christopherus</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/christopher?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christopher</a>

DragonFlame<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> RIP <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christopher</a> Fowler. Thank you for all the books, wonderful characters and London lore you gave us. You have been taken far too soon and will be sorely missed.<a href="http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2023/01/18/the-last-post-3/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2023/01/18/the-last-post-3/</a>

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