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And now, your midday news spam from the Worst Year Ever:
I have been door to door before (even got bitten by a dog - invisible fence my aśs!) and I may go again. My 70+ mother has been tireless since the day after the election and is now running her local League of Women Voters and working with half a dozen local groups. She puts me to shame, so I have to do more.
The piece (as per usual with Politico) is a bit too sympathetic to both him and Nielsen, but at least it gives insane insights like that. Meanwhile, in The Hottest Take: Except I think it is the same. I know George Takei does, and he was there. I am Jewish on my father's side, and I honestly never thought I'd see what we're seeing now in my own lifetime. It was inconceivable to me outside the lunatic fringe when I was a child. I'm glad my grandparents, who came up in the Depression and WWII, didn't live to see this - they lost a whole branch of the family in the Holocaust. I think - and my parents think - that what we're seeing with the alt right and the detention is very close to the slow rise of the Nazis and the internment camps. Too close. I think we can't say that enough. To dismiss it is to shield it and give it room to grow and build. Whatever the nuances and the degrees of the crises, the real issues, above all, are the same - hate, fear, bigotry and taking the civil rights of the different, the brown, the other.
Well, social media can be very maddening (and deadening). But at the same time good can sometimes be found from examining details and shining a light. If an ICE agent can be outed as a neo-Nazi, does it really matter if someone was posturing as part of that effort? Some behavior is performative for a lot of people, but ultimately I think the visibility in situations like these is better than a lack thereof. If we'd had social media 18 years ago who knows where we'd be.
We can make as many strides as we want - we have before. It's not going to begin to really stop until the last generation dies off and stops cultivating it. And even then it's a long road. I don't think people forgot about Abu Ghraib. I just think the dominant constituency are the same people who never cared - old and young.
Jon Bernthal will be returning as Shane for an episode next season but I won't be watching.
I think the public outcry is almost as heartening as the crimes themselves are disheartening. But we just have to keep the pressure on, as we did last January when they tried this shít at the airports.
Obama's immigration policy left a lot to be desired, but that administration genuinely cared about the impact and effect of what they did. Not so much here.
I think the only place it's going is real bad for ol' Talkin' Chris real fast.
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He was a magnetic force even in his sadly truncated return. I loved what they were doing with Den Sr., Dennis and Sharon at that time, pushing them and phasing out Phil. It's sad how his life ended up, apparently several suicide attempts. I'd forgotten Louise Jameson from Doctor Who was one of the first to urge him to get into acting when she was visiting prisons and he was still serving time.
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