The Fall of Roe v Wade: US Politics, June 2022

Some good news:

Univision is selling many of its Spanish-language radio stations — including Miami's ultraconservative Radio Mambí — to a group led by Democrats.
Creating a beachhead in a broadcast market often dominated by conservative or right-wing programming, a newly formed, Latino-owned and bipartisan media group is announcing Friday it has purchased 18 major Spanish-language radio stations owned by the TelevisaUnivision network — including Miami's Radio Mambí.

WLRN has learned that the Latino Media Network, or LMN — headed by Stephanie Valencia, a Latino community outreach director for former President Barack Obama, and Democratic activist Jessica Morales Rocketto — has bought the stations for $60 million.

The AM and FM stations are located in 10 of the country's largest Latino markets, including Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston and Las Vegas.

LMN says it has secured financing from "leading Latino investors" as well as Lakestar Finance, an investment group associated with businessman-philanthropist George Soros.

Other prominent LMN investors and advisers include Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, former Florida Republican Party chair Al Cárdenas, former Miami-Dade College President Eduardo Padrón and radio entrepreneur Tom Castro.

The purchase comes amid years of accusations that Spanish-language radio, especially in Miami, has become one of the most prominent sources of right-wing disinformation in the U.S.

Democrats have long chafed at much of it, particularly in 2020 when talk show hosts at stations like Mambí labeled then-presidential candidate Joe Biden a "socialista" who would turn the U.S. into a left-wing dictatorship like Venezuela's.

But until now, Democrats and Latino liberals and moderates had focused their efforts and resources on monitoring Spanish-language radio outlets instead of trying to own stations themselves.

https://www.wlrn.org/news/2022-06-03/a-new-latino-media-group-is-buying-up-and-shaking-up-spanish-language-radio

The ripple effect from that alone could be legitimately huge.

It's hard to explain how big AM radio is in Miami even for men and women you'd think are too young to listen.

“It’s inappropriate to ... subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”

Gov. DeSantis, Hobby Lobby is on line one. Chik-Fil-A is on line Two. They'd like a talk with you.

Condemning homosexuals isn't political activism. BEING a homosexual is!

“It’s inappropriate to ... subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”

sometimes i'll just lean my head back at my desk and daydream about a politician or party that would have the balls to say something like this in the interest of doing something actually good. silly, i know. but what would that look like. would people like it? would cable news give it much air? would Claire McCaskill or David Axelrod come on to tell us that this is Bad, Actually?

there's been an influx of competition in the past few years, but i think this joker is still the dumbest guy in congress

Rep Louie Gohmert on Navarro indictment: "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you" pic.twitter.com/8eIkkycukd

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 3, 2022

Well I mean that does violate the holy writ of IOKIYAR. Sad times.

"If you're a Republican, you can't even skip two to ten years of paying taxes or the IRS comes after you, it ain't fair!"

""South Dakota Legislators Seek Hasty Repeal of Ethics Law Voters Passed." Of course, it was actually South Dakota Republican legislators"

I was just in SD for the past week and if there is a non-republican state legislator, I'd like to know, because that place is 100% non stop Republican candidate advertising across the board. On top of that, from what I can tell, they don't even mail out voter information packets, which I cannot believe. My mother said "oh in california we'd get a booklet that told us what we were voting on" and I said "uh, yeah?" she's never received one.

"no big deal to lie to the FBI?"
"yeah, exactly."

Dems gotta use that in an ad!!

Louie Gohmert used to be a judge.

that information alone undoes any sort of legitimacy of the US legal system

Checks and balances ... or the shell game writ large?

the contents of my colostomy bag have more of a sense of ethics and intelligence than Gohmert on a good day when he was young.

In my mond he talks like Gomer Pyle. I'm not clicking on that to check, though.

~mind~

Thanks for nothing Merrick Garland per Guardian reporter (although NPR reporter Carrie Johnson says "Not a surprise given their partial cooperation and their roles close to then President Trump."

Two sources confirm DOJ told Jan. 6 committee this morning that it would not pursue contempt of Congress charges against Trump aides Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino

New: Two sources confirm DOJ told Jan. 6 committee this morning that it would not pursue contempt of Congress charges against Trump aides Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino — matching scoop by @alanfeuer and @lukebroadwater

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 4, 2022

Garland wimps out thanks to "partial cooperation" and fear of litigation over exec privilege

https://i.imgur.com/UKPFMwm.png

oof

Briahna Joy Gray: Fox News is more inclined to have a leftist on than MSNBC and CNN. (MSNBC regularly hosts members of the squad)
Kim Iversen: "I used to hate Tucker Carlson... but I've grown to appreciate him... he's so anti-establishment"
Briahna Joy Gray: That's exactly right. pic.twitter.com/wtB6TvvPcI

— Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 (@themattdimitri) June 4, 2022

Briahna Joy Gray is a nonsense grifter who is full of shit and should be ignored

bernie's campaign retroactively tainted by association with her frankly

i read the thread and wow what an unpleasant conversation they're all having

never read the thread

It's amazing how BJG has not tried to finesse the grift at all, just went from zero to sixty on the Tucker kiss-ass career path after the Virgil Texas debacle.

she and matt christman have definitely dipped the toe into populist white grievance messaging many months ago. on one of her chapo guest appearances she lamented that covid lockdowns separated white people from their churches and families so who could blame them for their anger. to enthusiastic agreement, natch!

Members of the failed People's Convoy, now '1776 Restoration Movement', were told that locals would donate a "100 foot long" Subway sandwich for their encampment. But, it turns out, it was all a hoax, as convoy members now claim "antifa extremists" were behind the sandwich scam.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 5, 2022

Worth noting that not a single member questioned the length of the sandwich, despite a 100-foot-long sub being insanely long for a group of 20 or so people!

Questioned it hell, they were excited about those 5 feet of sandwich each. The 1776 Restoration Movement marches on its belly.

Interesting that John Oliver exposed the/a Subway scam in his last episode 2 weeks ago. How prescient.

Sounds like Antifa.

what would a 1776 Subway sandwich include? Oxen, horseradish, mincemeat & molasses on a whole rye bun

preserved rations from valley forge

NEW: Far-right provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has found a new gig: Capitol Hill intern for MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/6PH35NABnv

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 6, 2022

i hate this reality

I don't know, I think that's kinda perfect. There is no higher office to which Marjorie Taylor Greene can realistically aspire. She's stuck in that House seat for a few more years, getting on Fox News on the regular but pushing through absolutely no legislation, and...that's...it. That's her life, summed up. She'll be a political troll for a little while longer, until someone shoots her or she gets indicted for something or she just gets bored and decides to run for Senate or governor, in which case she'll get demolished. So Milo, who self-immolated beautifully once already, is currently "working" as an *intern* for a political dead-ender. Good for him. I hope he overstays his visa and gets deported and banned from the country, but in the meantime, he's got a dead-end job that might (but probably won't) get him on Tucker Carlson's show once. The stench of loser-dom in that office must be enough to make people want to cover their faces with a rag soaked in Vick's.

wasn't milo hawking catholic curios on a shopping network recently? I guess any gig is better than that, even being MTG's office boy

Eh, Greene is one thing, I just hate that anyone is giving Milo a chance at laundering his image at this point in time. Fuck that guy forever.

Not least because he is now claiming to be an "ex gay" and is pushing conversion therapy.

the shit thing is even if she is a political albatross it's still useful for the GOP to keep her around, since every time she says something idiotic it gets a ton of media coverage and leads to people donating to unseat her, despite being in a Trump +99 district

i stumbled across a radio interview with an old high school friend today. i used to be facebook friends with him, back when i had facebook, and unfortunately he'd turned into a real classic white dude right wing / libertarian anger machine since the days i knew him. he and i had been really close. we started a band together. he was two years older than me. his name was herbie and he literally drove a beige beetle. he loved fugazi and ministry. we went to hardcore and metal shows together. i watched all kinds of "edgy" vhs tapes in his parents' rec room. clockwork orange, the wall. we both smoked camel filters. he loved to quote alastair crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". i always added "as long as it doesn't stop somebody else doing what they wilt" and he thought that was funny and agreed with it.

anyway, it turns out he ended up enlisting and going to somalia. when he came back he had ptsd. in the radio interview he said that his job was to get food and supplies to villages in somalia, and what would happen is that warlords would figure out where the drops were happening, and just clean up behind the us military, killing whoever they needed to in order to steal all the stuff. so it felt to him like his unit was basically responsible for wiping out village after village indirectly. i thought this was pretty insightful, so i looked him up on instagram. his handle is "synapticleftist" and he is now in the psychology department at the university of tennessee and specializing in PTSD and drug addiction!!! so like.. people can change. for the worse, maybe, and then for the better. i think in herbie's case it sounds like it took a lot of very hard personal experience - and then seeing exactly how republican politicians actually treat veterans - to get to a better place.

Interesting, I found out today that someone with whom I went to nerd camp as a teenager is now Curtis Yarvin’s fiancée. She even wrote a long, neoliberal Facebook post about how she was being attacked and how couples should be able to get past their political differences.

That and one of my teenage mentors ending up being a lead editor and writer for The Federalist is pretty, uh, jarring.

Great story, Tracer. Thanks.

(I should note, too, that the guy who started Facebook also went to this nerd camp at the same time as me, but i did not know him) ( Not a great record for this nerd camp)

Tracer! Wow.

Thanks for sharing.

You know, it's ironic. If @SenTedCruz put half as much effort into building a better future for all Americans as he does shitposting on Twitter, maybe his constituents wouldn't be paying so much to get around.

Let's take this latest lie apart, shall we?

1/ https://t.co/4HqJqtFjoj

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2022

Today I’m investigating Twitter for potentially misleading Texans on the number of its “bot” users. I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.https://t.co/OZbwdV3pnY

— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) June 6, 2022

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas. Goddamnit fuck that whole fucking state.

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas.

https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s---4aPFOD---/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1650904312/elon-musk-in-a-cowboy-hat.jpg

Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.

Elon's apparent concern with the bot count is solely him seeking an exit strategy

he must be charles m. russell collector or something

he is the only western judge on the supreme court right now fwiw

Sometimes the appeals are for people to show up. Perhaps the pollsters are thinking of disposable income and disposable time and weighing their appeals accordingly. Apathy is hard to escape. Most people don't expect an effect and come to weigh and parcel out their contributions or efforts to when enough people feel the same or they can ride a common sentiment and not stick out. (xpost)

I think Trump's politics have been described as transactional and the most corrupt governments might be considered the same. There is a notion of giving for a cause or belief that is distinct from a direct payback for survival.

Is there a sudden spate of decorating walls with dripping ketchup or similar condiment. Is there a specific canonical ketchup one needs to base things on ?

Looks like the hearings are having some effect:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/gop-megadonors-turn-on-trump-look-for-2024-alternatives-after-jan-6-hearings.html

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-09-23/ed-1/seq-29/?loclr=blogloc

"Commoners' food"; also mustard, with cheese in Ulysses IIRC; ~= false embellishment

Biden stated that he wanted to overturn the filibuster and codify abortion rights.

Is that news?

So what are we calling the July thread?

Orange Jesus Take the Wheel (just kidding)

"I'm the effing president"

so i've been trying to do something with this overwhelming anger i've felt over the last few weeks, months, years and was hoping to do more in local criminal justice. does anyone know of databases that store crime, charges, age of accused etc?

We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022