This is regrettable. Rushdie is important in a literary and historic sense and a symbol of freedom of expression under assault. I would certainly want to hear him speak.
But let’s drill down a bit and talk about how this.
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Two of the cats were extreme assholes, even by cat standards, starting at 3:30 am or so — climbing on me, yowling, knocking stuff over. Eventually discovered someone had closed the door to our bedroom so they were trapped with us.
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You know how occasionally you want to clean up but it’s overwhelming and you decide to just pick up a handful of things for a minute? In that spirit, search the word “retard” on Bluesky, block the first ten people who use it as an insult, and go about your business. Every bit helps.
Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
The significance of this, of course, is that the administration claims it is deporting people to fight anti-Semitism but they are letting this bigoted turd in.
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If you cave and talk the cops out of fear or weakness, I have sympathy.
If you talk at length to the cops because you know you are just the bro to stand up to tyranny, and you talking at length to the cops is fighting the power, you’re a dipshit.