Full headline:
‘Disney reportedly pulls Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode over trans athlete story’
I’ve really been getting a lot of use out of that rage emoji lately. 
Self-censorship - capitulating to the reaction of bigots before the bigots have even looked in your direction - is even worse than official censorship, and much harder to overcome. Fuck you, Disney.
‘War on the verge of breaking out’: Trump allies fume over possible new Senate GOP hires
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/trump-senate-elections-2026-fundraising-00189839
Donald Trump’s team — convinced that the Senate GOP campaign arm and its top allied super PAC are hiring “Never Trumpers” for key roles — is preparing to launch its own super PAC to compete in the next round of Senate races in 2026, according to two close allies of the president-elect.
The plan, if carried out, would upend the party’s traditional method of competing in Senate races and could cause major discord among powerful GOP financial players — pitting Trump and his new regime against longtime GOP donors seeking to influence competitive Senate races. The move could disperse money across multiple entities and hinder the Senate Leadership Fund, a group that was created to be a centralized GOP clearinghouse for Senate spending.
There’s a “brewing war on the verge of breaking out” between Trump’s team and the traditional institutions that play in Senate races, said one person close to Trump, explaining that the heads of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and SLF “should reflect current leadership and the future, not the past.”
Echoing the thanks for posting this.
It reminds me of the “Four Pests” campaign in China in 1958. This was a top-down decree that included sparrows in a list of pests to be eliminated. The simple reasoning was that sparrows ate seeds farmers were trying to plant.
After the sparrow population was diminished, insects took over the fields. The resulting famine killed somewhere between 10 million and 30 million people, depending whose numbers you trust [1].
Too many people think the lesson was “Communism bad”.
[1] When assumptions about an estimate can shift tens of millions of people between “killed” and “not killed”, you know things got very bad.
Some patriot needs to leak this report stat.
Great point, which I’ve long tried to make – why are most Democrats such wimps?!
I’ve been wondering about Hungaey, as a parallel for what Tromp will try to do, to both government and society. This piece covers that well, in a lot of sickening detail:
Loyalty. That’s all Trump wants.
Infinite, unquestioning loyalty.
And power. He probably thinks that be as rich as Musk, and thus the richest in the world, would be nice too.
As far as I’m concerned, my tax dollars paid for this investigation so the fruits of that investigation should be released to the public. Isn’t that the fiscally responsible thing to do?
The Riddle of Steel clearly states that unquestioning loyalty is power.
Honestly it’s kind of wild how they stumbled into best practices given that they didn’t even have germ theory to go on yet. Luckily “miasma” was a concept of disease that was close enough to germ theory that many of the measures designed to protect against one were effective against the other.
