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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2083758/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2083758/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Peter Burling on Team New Zealand exit, America’s Cup success and what comes next <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/about" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>about</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/after" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>after</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ahead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ahead</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/And" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener 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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2021361/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2021361/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Winston Peters says PM’s office concedes error over not releasing Luxon’s foreign affairs speech <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Affairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Affairs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christopher</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/concedes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>concedes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Error</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/foreign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foreign</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/him" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>him</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/luxons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luxons</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/made" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>made</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Minister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minister</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ministers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ministers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/not" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>not</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/office" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>office</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/over" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>over</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/peters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PM</span></a>'s <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/prime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prime</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/recent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recent</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/releasing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>releasing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/says" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>says</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Sharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Winston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winston</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>with</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, </p><p>calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.</p><p>One of Trump's directives named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krebs</span></a>, his former cybersecurity chief, and said any security clearance he has would be revoked.</p><p>A second presidential memorandum targeted <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miles</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taylor</span></a>, who was a top official at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term <br>and anonymously wrote a 2019 book criticizing the then-president.</p><p>The order stripped Taylor of any security clearance he might have and ordered the Justice Department to investigate him.</p><p>"I think it's a very important case, <br>and I think he's guilty of treason, <br>if you want to know the truth, but we'll find out," <br>said Trump as he signed the order on Taylor.</p><p>In response, Taylor said via text message: <br>"I said this would happen. Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. <br>America is headed down a dark path."</p><p>Krebs had questioned Trump's claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.</p><p>The order signed on Wednesday called for a review of Krebs' activities as a government employee, <br>including his leadership of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, <br>a White House fact sheet said.</p><p>"We're going to find out about this guy too because this guy is a wise guy," said Trump, <br>calling Krebs "a disgrace."</p><p>Krebs did not immediately reply to a request for comment.</p><p>Trump fired Krebs in a November 17, 2020, tweet, five days after CISA posted a statement saying the 2020 election was <br>"the most secure in American history." </p><p>Trump has falsely claimed that Biden's win resulted from fraud.</p><p>After leaving government, <br>Krebs co-founded the Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity consultancy, <br>along with former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos.</p><p>Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne acquired the consultancy in November 2023, <br>and Krebs became SentinelOne's chief intelligence and public policy officer.</p><p>Trump's order said security clearances for individuals at Sentinel One would also be revoked pending review. </p><p>A spokesperson for SentinelOne declined to comment.<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-orders-targeting-two-ex-officials-who-criticized-him-2025-04-09/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/trump-sig</span><span class="invisible">ns-orders-targeting-two-ex-officials-who-criticized-him-2025-04-09/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked on Capitol Hill. <br>Maj. Gen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Finerty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finerty</span></a>’s colleagues told investigators the relationships were “highly inappropriate” as they could give the Air Force undue influence in Congress. <br>“I honestly felt sick to my stomach,” one said, according to a report about the investigation, “because it just felt so <a href="https://c.im/tags/sleazy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sleazy</span></a>.”<br>The Air Force inspector general’s report redacted the names of the women who worked on the Hill. <br>But one of the women whose relationship with Finerty was scrutinized by the inspector general was Sen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joni</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ernst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ernst</span></a>, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. <br>The Iowa Republican and combat veteran is one of the most influential voices on the Hill about the military, and she sits on the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, which oversees the Pentagon and plays a crucial role in setting its annual budget. <br>Three other sources told ProPublica that around 2019 Ernst had a previous romantic relationship with a legislative affairs official for a different branch of the military, the Navy. <br>Ernst and the officials were not married at the time and Senate rules do not bar lawmakers from entering into romantic relationships with lobbyists or other legislative advocates. But ethics experts say such relationships can create a conflict of interest, and other lawmakers have been criticized for such behavior in the past. <br>A former legislative affairs official for the military told ProPublica that people in that role aren’t officially “lobbyists but for all intent and purposes that’s their job. ... From an ethics standpoint, it’s severely problematic.” <br>A former Air Force officer who worked for Finerty said the perception in the office was that his relationship with Ernst “absolutely gave the Air Force undue influence.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/joni-ernst-congress-military-relationships" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/joni-er</span><span class="invisible">nst-congress-military-relationships</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly, <br>the US government could be toppled and replaced”.</p><p>Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program. </p><p>They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAGE</span></a> (for “retire all government employees”).</p><p>They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them. </p><p>They should bring Congress to heel, <br>in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers. </p><p>And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.</p><p>Given the post-election period and Trump’s preparation for a return to the White House, <br>Yarvin’s program seems less fanciful than it did in 2021, when he laid it out for Anton.</p><p>In the recording of that podcast, Yarvin offers a condensed presentation of his program which he has laid out on Substack and in other venues.</p><p>Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, <br>“You’re essentially advocating for someone to <br>– age-old move <br>– gain power lawfully through an election, <br>and then exercise it unlawfully”, <br>adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”</p><p>Yarvin responded: <br>“It wouldn’t be unlawful,” <br>adding: <br>“You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”</p><p>Yarvin continued: <br>“You’d actually have a mandate to do this. </p><p>Where would that mandate come from? <br>It would come from basically running on it, saying, <br>‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”</p><p>Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to carry out a wide array of anti-democratic or authoritarian moves, <br>and effectively ran on these promises. </p><p>Trump has suggested he might declare a state of emergency in response to America’s immigration crisis.</p><p>Trump also promised to pursue retribution on individually named antagonists <br>like representative Nancy Pelosi and senator-elect Adam Schiff, <br>and spoke more broadly about dispatching the US military to deal with “the enemy within”.</p><p>Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, <br>“you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”. </p><p>Later expanding on the idea with <br>💥“the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with <br>someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd.”</p><p>“Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea,” Yarvin added.</p><p>While he has not yet assumed power, Trump has moved against media outlets, <br>commencing lawsuits against some including the Des Moines Register, CBS and ABC, <br>with the latter settling a $15m suit that legal experts believed to be winnable for the broadcaster.</p><p>Vice-president-elect <br>JD Vance, meanwhile, and others in the broader Maga orbit like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rufo</span></a><br>have identified universities as primary ideological enemies, <br>with Rufo helping to remake New College of Florida in the image of Christian nationalism.</p><p>In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair: <br>“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left <br>and turn them against the left. <br>We need like a de-Baathification program, <br>a de-woke-ification program.”</p><p>The Guardian reported in August that Vance said in a podcast recording: <br>“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast. </p><p>That’s the universities.”</p><p>-- Jason Wilson </p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CurtisYarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtisYarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MichaelAnton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelAnton</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Right-wing provocateur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rufo</span></a> could help shape President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for <a href="https://c.im/tags/higher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>higher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.<br>Rufo—a leading actor in right-wing culture wars, <br>from the moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to the hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio<br>—reportedly “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a 🆘plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”</p><p>A spokesperson for JD Vance told the Journal that the vice president-elect sees Rufo as <br>“a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence” to higher education, <br>who “recognizes schools and universities exist to equip American students to face tomorrow’s challenges, not to indoctrinate them with the fringe beliefs of the far left.”<br>To see such lofty aims in action, one can look at how the New College of Florida has transformed -- since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Rufo and other conservative activists to the school’s board of trustees in 2023 in his “war on woke.”<br>Under its new leadership, New College has undergone significant changes, most recently hiring a number of “ideologically aligned rightwing faculty and staff for a range of positions,” per The Guardian,<br>including conservative commentator and comedian Andrew Doyle, who will teach a course on “wokeness.”<br>The overhaul of New College and Rufo’s actions as trustee have been met with resistance and sharp criticism from students and faculty. <br>One such critic, a visiting history professor, was threatened by Rufo and later dismissed after co-writing an op-ed against the new administration, in what the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called “a clear violation of the public college’s First Amendment obligations.”</p><p>According to the Journal, Rufo’s top concerns include <br>ending race-based affirmative action at universities “with which the federal government does business” <br>and defunding colleges “that continue to engage in DEI practices” in an effort to “recapture” them from the left<br>—stances that resonate with president-elect’s thinking on higher ed. <br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/188800/do</span><span class="invisible">nald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shulkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shulkin</span></a>, whom Trump had appointed to head the V.A., <br>made multiple visits to Palm Beach to consult with the troika that officials came to call “the Mar-a-Lago crowd.” </p><p>“There probably weren’t too many times I met with the President when he didn’t say, <br>‘What’s happening with Ike?’ ” <br>Shulkin once said. </p><p>When Perlmutter visited Washington, Shulkin told me, <br>“I would get a call<br>—‘Could you come over to the White House? <br>Mr. Perlmutter’s here with the President.’ ”</p><p>Shulkin was fired by Trump, in March of 2018, amid a controversy over an expensive trip to Europe that Shulkin had taken at taxpayers’ expense. </p><p>Within hours, he went public with accusations that the story had been hyped by Trump political appointees who were intent on privatizing many of the V.A.’s services. </p><p>Shulkin told me that he never fully understood why Perlmutter, <br>who had not served in the U.S. military or even visited a V.A. hospital until Shulkin took him to one, <br>had been given such power over the agency. </p><p>He described Perlmutter as “a private-sector guy” whom Trump admired as a self-made man, <br>someone who “had started with very little and built empires.” </p><p>The problem, as Shulkin saw it, was that Perlmutter had little idea of what he was doing. </p><p>“Because he never worked in government, he didn’t understand government,” Shulkin told me. </p><p>“Part of my role was always trying to translate<br>—‘That isn’t the way we could do things in this organization.’ ”</p><p>Perlmutter, however, has remained close to Trump. </p><p>He and his wife gave $21 million to a super pac supporting Trump’s bid in 2020, </p><p>and, in 2024, they bankrolled a new pro-Trump super pac, <br>"Right for America", <br>donating another $25 million. </p><p>By September, Right for America had raised some $70 million, <br>which it has spent on an advertising blitz this fall. </p><p>The venture drew support from other longtime members of Mar-a-Lago, <br>including the Newsmax founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ruddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ruddy</span></a>, who gave $100,000, <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anthony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthony</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lomangino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lomangino</span></a>, a South Florida waste-management mogul, <br>who donated $7.85 million. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scott</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bessent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bessent</span></a>, another hedge-fund executive often mentioned as a possible Trump Treasury Secretary, <br>also contributed $100,000.</p><p>🆘 Perlmutter’s highly unusual role in the first Trump Administration appears to have become something of a template for outside influence in a second term. </p><p>In March, when <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> met with Trump at Peltz’s house for breakfast, <br>they discussed a broad advisory gig for the tech billionaire on such matters as immigration and the economy<br>—“in the mold of the role” that Perlmutter had played at the V.A., <br>according to the Wall Street Journal. </p><p>By August, after publicly endorsing Trump, <br>Musk had fleshed out the idea. </p><p>During a lengthy live-streamed conversation with Trump, <br>Musk suggested that a commission was needed to investigate how to rein in government spending. </p><p>Such a panel, Musk posted on X, “would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”</p><p>Weeks later, <br>during a speech at the Economic Club of New York, <br>Trump formally announced his support for a <br>“government-efficiency commission” <br>that would <br>“conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.” </p><p>He proposed that Musk, <br>despite having received billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies for his ventures SpaceX and Tesla, <br>should chair the effort. </p><p>Soon, Trump was calling Musk his future <br>“Secretary of Cost Cutting.” </p><p>It sounded like a more ambitious version of a project that Trump had launched early in his Presidency, <br>when he named the billionaire investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carl</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Icahn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Icahn</span></a> as a special adviser in charge of overhauling federal regulations. </p><p>Icahn left the role less than a year later, <br>when an article in this magazine raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>With <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanitarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/catastrophes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophes</span></a> unfolding on several continents, <br>the response of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wealthy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences. </p><p>⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan. <br>🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.</p><p>And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate, <br>when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio. </p><p>This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings. <br>It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the <a href="https://c.im/tags/fringe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fringe</span></a> of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>-verse, <br>then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>, <br>and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> himself.</p><p>There is something particularly <a href="https://c.im/tags/insidious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insidious</span></a> about this claim, <br>uttered at this time, from that stage. <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a> are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined <a href="https://c.im/tags/symbols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbols</span></a> in our political life. </p><p>They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about <a href="https://c.im/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/belonging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belonging</span></a>.</p><p>You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right. </p><p>Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray. </p><p>The conservative culture warrior <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rufo</span></a> has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat. </p><p>It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into <a href="https://c.im/tags/vigilante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vigilante</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> against Haitians in America. </p><p>On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received <a href="https://c.im/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bomb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threats</span></a>, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.</p><p>MAGA bigotry is far more <a href="https://c.im/tags/sinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sinister</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dangerous</span></a> than weird. </p><p>And disbelieving laughter could, <br>I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/trump-debate-haitians-pets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=93CE287F-EE40-40AE-B1B3-90B0F13022C0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-debate-haitians-pets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=93CE287F-EE40-40AE-B1B3-90B0F13022C0</span></a></p>
Lars Holgersson 🎶<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/baroquemusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>baroquemusic</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/HenryPurcell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryPurcell</span></a> 1659–1695</p><p>«The Indian Queen» <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Z630" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Z630</span></a> </p><p>John Mark Ainsley [Indian Boy]<br>Emma Kirkby [IZempoalla]<br>John Mark Ainsley [Fame]<br>David Thomas [Envy]<br>Gerald Finley [Ismeron]<br>Thomas Williams [God of Dreams]<br>Catherine Bott [Orazia]<br>David Thomas [High Priest]<br>Gerald Finley [Hymen]<br>Libby Crabtree [A Follower of Hymen]</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/AcademyOfAncientMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademyOfAncientMusic</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> Hogwood </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musik</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/classicalmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classicalmusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/baroquemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>baroquemusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Purcell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Purcell</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j7tjTuDpvg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=-j7tjTuDpv</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>
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