Cynthia Fraase

Steve King stripped of committee posts after 'white nationalist' comments Republicans condemn Iowa congressman after he questioned how terms like white supremacist had ‘become offensive’

I misremembered the timing. King was upbraided by the head of the RNC in 2018 for his repeated white nationalist comments, but it wasn't until he said he didn't understand why "white nationalism" was such a bad term in 2019 that he was booted from committees. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

It's an index of how much the GOP has radicalized since 2017 that the same party would ostracize King for saying things back then that today they would almost all endorse wholeheartedly (or at least condone). Then again, Steve King was the co-chair of Ted Cruz's 2016 Presidential campaign...so...

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I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Yep. A lesson to PhD students and vivas. Admit when something is pointed out to you, and you hadn't thought about it or got it wrong. But if the examiners have some point you fundamentally disagree with, stand your ground. Offer to better clarify it, but don't concede when you're right.

It really seems like anyone whose response is not “I dunno they both seem fine” in Texas is an absolute weirdo. Stop being weird about Black ladies and normal religious folks you absolute weirdos.

I was wrong and it actually *was* a coincidence?

Appreciate @davidnir.com for the correction.

I think it's super that the GOP has dispatched its dullest and dimmest senators, like Mullin and Tuberville, to make the unintelligible case for an unpopular unplanned war. Go get 'em, boys.

This is the exact same Guy you could find 2,000 years ago as a Roman senator gleefully listing the number of Germani slain and sold into slavery, 900 years ago exulting in the sack of Jerusalem, or 100 years ago celebrating 500 yards taken on the Western Front. Timeless chickenhawk scum.

Only in the sense that the people who launched it without a plan or objective all get pretty defensive when criticized.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

"Oh my goodness, you expect Congress to do its job? Heaven forfend."

A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.

Tonight in 1959, “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” (season 1, episode 22)—Rod Serling’s taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltration—was broadcast for the first time on CBS.

Jamie Raskin to Kristi Noem LOLLLL:

"Apparently when your special blanket -- your blankie -- was left one of the govt jets and not transported over to the new one, your special govt employee Corey Lewandowski chivalrously stepped forward to fire the pilot, mid-air."

Texts show Rep. Tony Gonzales sent explicit messages to staffer who later died by suicide: "This is going too far boss" A newly revealed text exchange appears to show Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales encouraging an aide who later died by setting herself on fire to send him an explicit photo.

* The scandal:

I doubt it's a coincidence that this happened the day after Rep. Gonzales was forced into a runoff in his primary.

The House GOP leadership must have realized he can't be saved from this scandal* and it's better to replace him now than have him get beaten in the fall.

NEW: US House Ethics Commitee announces it has launched investigative subcommittee to probe if Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) violated the Code of Official Conduct or any law, rule, regulation, or other applicable standard of conduct in the performance of his duties

Whenever people ask me to make predictions, I always say, as a historian, my professional training was in hindsight so I'm not very qualified there.

But I think I'm more qualified than a Wall Street wannabe jacked up on Red Bull and a quick glance at Axios.

"This is what most of the online gambling addicts who have briefly glanced at the headlines are guessing will happen next" doesn't have the same kind of selling power, I guess.

If a news outlet was this reckless and regularly got its "projections" wrong, it'd be a huge scandal and people wouldn't trust them. Instead, you've got legitimate news organizations rushing to partner with these credibility-destroying companies?

Polymarket • @Polymarket • 22h BREAKING: It's now more likely Iran's Supreme Leader position will be abolished than any given person taking the role. X World - Iran Next Supreme Leader of Iran? • Position abolished 17% ②口 & Polymarket 25% 20% 15% 10%

Another example: no, it's not "now more likely that Iran's Supreme Leader position will be abolished than any given person taking the role." It's simply what the most gamblers on the platform are guessing will happen.

Like... no, you're not "projecting" or "calling" races, Polymarket. You're showing people the current betting line and misrepresenting it as something more than that.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

This could easily be said by a marionette in Team America: World Police word for word

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

Our Secretary of Ladies-Covering-Their-Drinks wants to talk about "warfighting" because it makes him feel tingly and that's part of why we're at war now. Dying empire shit

Promo picture for a fundraiser showing that Pete Hegseth as the special guest at a political fundraiser for Zach Nunn

Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war

Every article about the sex crime goggles needs to mention that the first thing purchasers of the sex crime goggles do is download a simple piece of code that disables the recording light.

The light is not hardwired in. It's software controlled and can be disabled in seconds.

This is a feature.

Someone made an app to warn you if smart glasses are nearby Nearby Glasses warns you if there are smart glasses in your vicinity.

PSA: You can get a warning if these things are near you. Normalize ripping them off peoples' faces and stomping on them www.engadget.com/apps/someone...

The investigation says the contractors review video that is captured specifically by the smart glasses' "live AI" feature.

“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” a contractor said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”