How have Pepe-posting meme warriors responded to real violence?
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: ‘THEY WORK FOR ME’
Check out what this US Park Police officer said about militia members at a far-right rally in DC
CARNIVAL: ON COSTUME AND CLASS IN TRUMP’S AMERICA
He’s talking about the fact that the FBI has designated the juggalos as a “loosely organized hybrid gang”—a 2011 designation, which, juggalos say, has real consequences. One speaker at the rally, Jessica Bonometti, told how she was fired from her job as a probation officer in Virginia because she liked ICP-related photos on her personal Facebook page.
COWARDLY COMMITTEE PUTS OWN SLIGHT DISCOMFORT ABOVE SUFFERING OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
The prohibitionist puritans in the House Rules Committee showed their true cowardice when they blocked congress from voting on amendments that would protect people in states where cannabis is legal from federal prosecution.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THAT TERRIBLY SCARY DATA GRAB STORY CONTINUES
This is after the Trump Department of Justice has had the chance to view personal information from thousands of people who did no more than send an email to an address associated with the site.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD
The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.
WHITE SUPREMACY, MONUMENTS, AND POWER
He was filmed and photographed beating a black man, Deandre Harris, by what looks like the Village People of racists—one with a Nazi helmet, another like a construction, one in a polo, and another, like this guy, with beard and baseball hat.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: DOJ WARRANT SEEKS INFORMATION ON POLITICAL OPPONENTS FROM WEB HOST
While major news outlets hyperventilate over not being called on at press conferences, other reporters, as well as activists who exercised their First Amendment rights are facing decades in prison.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: ‘YOU CAN’T RUN, YOU CAN’T HIDE’
Charlottesville and the shattering of America
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: OPERATION STINGBALLS
“Without warning, Defendant Officer John Doe 150 grabbed Mr. Horse’s testicles and yanked on them.”
