Published March 16, 2025
Really, what more do you need to see?
First Amendment scholar Lee Bollinger has seen enough, as he told the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America director, doesn’t need to see more.
Séamas O’Reilly, who is one of my favorite columnists, ponders something topical in a column with a headline that declares: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons.
If you’ve been paying attention, you already know that many things have been taken away from people, leaving huge voids in their lives. Instead of being honest, politicians like to point fingers at feminists, “woke” culture, or what people I know would call “the nanny state,” or the “pussification” of (insert name of country here).
If I weren’t barely functioning, I’d be able to make it clearer why I picked that for this list. It’s like blaming “mental illness” for causing problems and refusing to fund treatment for mental health. We’re not serious as a country about understanding much of anything, except wanton destruction that is going to cost us like never before.
I’ve seen enough.
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you’ll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include “DEI medal.”
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Segregation had only been outlawed for four years when Rogers mounted his defense as a lieutenant colonel. In other words, he nearly sacrificed his life for a country that had him serve most of his career as a second-class citizen. And these fascists have the nerve to call it a “DEI Medal of Honor.”
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m still sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day, but in better health I could have put 100 items on here. Every day it’s a firehose of evil. I might update this when I have enough energy.
Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness
— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
We’re in big trouble. What more do people need to see?
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