David, I admire your work immensely. Long time fan.
One observation: cognitive science tells us that when you repeat a phrase, it reinforces it in the readers mind. George Lakoff's "Don't Think of an Elephant" is instructive here.
California banned the sale of new Glock guns to try to force Glock to change its design so "switches" no longer work.
A 'switch' is a $20 device that turns a Glock into a fully-automatic, rapid fire machine gun. If Glock were to redesign the gun, it could be sold in California again.
"I feel terrified" - Inventor of "Glock switch" (auto-sear) technology, a $20 device that enables machine gun-style fully automatic rapid fire, says he regrets creation.
Meanwhile, 31 states exempt private gun sales from background checks.
Right-wing Blaze Media appears to echo some of the same emotions in this article titled 'Why Turning the Other Cheek Won’t Stop the Godless Left'...Hell or helluva town?
The Daily Caller's former editor-in-chief, Geoffrey Ingersoll, is advocating for conservatives to respond with violence to the current political climate. Ingersoll was the Daily Caller’s top editor from 2017 to January 2025. Currently, he is an editor at large.
Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were gunned down in what authorities say was a politically motivated killing, will lie in state in the state Capitol Rotunda on Friday, a day ahead of their funeral, Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student.
This video was taken by the student interrupting the professor to say that course content is "not legal" is chilling.
"....having access to generative AI effectively equalizes the evaluations of stories, removing any disadvantage or advantage based on the writers’ inherent creativity. That generative AI particularly benefited less able writers is paralleled in recent studies focusing on other domains..."
I'll know the Democratic Party has transformed itself when they bring George Soros on stage at the DNC convention to a 10 minute standing ovation to talk about his life surviving the Holocaust and his lifelong mission to promote and protect open societies.
A generation of conservative politicians have been taught by Trump to simply attack the media when cornered, but some do it more seamlessly than others. Nancy Mace has not perfected her craft, but the political discourse is so polarized in the US that it won't make a bit of difference.
A retired US special forces officer: "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians." He has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".
4. Trump depicted Putin as a victim of American injustice: 'He was accused of all that stuff. He had nothing to do with it. . . . The whole thing was a scam, and he had to put up with that.'
3. Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president who faces trial for attempting a coup to stay in power after losing an election. --> Trump: “This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!”
2. Benjamin Netanyahu was on trial for multiple counts of fraud, bribery, and other financial crimes. --> Trump: Called the trial “a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure.” The trial “should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY."
1. A French court convicted Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s right wing, of embezzlement. --> Trump: “The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent."
