[[link removed]]

DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – DECEMBER 3, 2024  
[[link removed]]


 

December 3, 2024
xxxxxx
[[link removed]]

*
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
*
[[link removed]]

_ The Great Purge and Resistance 2.0 _

Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court on May 4, 2022, in
Washington. Credit, Alex Brandon/AP Photo

 

* GOP: MAGA Control is Irreversible
* Resistance 2.0
* Preparing For the Great Purge
* The Youth Vote
* Christian Nationalism Wants to Repeal Women's Vote
* Queering Trump’s Deal
* Book Bans and Authors of Color
* ‘Wicked’ Politics
* Reproductive Wrongs
* Diet in the Culture Wars

MAGA CONTROL OF THE GOP IS IRREVERSIBLE
[[link removed]]

By Carl Gibson
Alternet

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who was elected in the 2010 Tea Party
wave and ousted two years later, says any hope of reforming the
Republican Party to go back to traditional conservative philosophy is
now “off the table... It’s down to two options,” Walsh told
Politico. “Productively throw rocks at the administration, or become
Democrats.”

RESISTANCE 2.0
[[link removed]]

By David Smith
The Guardian

Trump is heading back to the White House and a People’s March on
Washington is scheduled for 18 January, two days before the
inauguration. But there are fears that it will be a pale imitation of
the historic first protest. The mood feels more muted this time. Some
people speak of feeling jaded and disillusioned and turning off the
news because they are simply Trumped out.

PREPARING FOR THE GREAT PURGE
[[link removed]]

By Wendy Fry
CalMatters

In the first Trump administration, California passed a “Sanctuary
State” law that, with some exceptions, prohibited local law
enforcement from automatically transferring people to federal
immigration authorities. Now the state is readying legal challenges to
thwart a second Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

THE YOUTH VOTE

 • D’ZS
[[link removed]]  
By Amber A’Lee Frost, Jacobin

 • NO, THE KIDS AREN’T ALT-RIGHT
[[link removed]]  
By Keir Milburn, Novara Media

 • ALLEGIANCE TO DEMS WASN’T EARNED
[[link removed]]
  By Delaney Vandergrift, Scalawag
 

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM WANTS TO REPEAL WOMEN'S VOTE
[[link removed]]

By Emma Cieslik
Ms.

Christian nationalists’ argument against women’s suffrage is part
of a broader picture of how Christian nationalism uses Christian
theology to change the entire election process itself. With Christian
nationalists in his circle, women’s suffrage may be the canary in
the coal mine for further drastic changes to the electoral system. 

QUEERING TRUMP’S DEAL
[[link removed]]

By Michael Bronski
The Guardian

The lessons that queer activists need today to fight Trump’s
influence are brilliantly manifest in late 70s and 80s organizing and
ready for revising, repurposing and reactivation. Direct action and
confrontation works. Queer citizens have to be out and vocal. We
can’t afford to worry about being “respectable” or “playing
nice”. Educating other Americans about who we _really _are is
vital.

BOOK BANS AND AUTHORS OF COLOR
[[link removed]]

By Katherine Spoon and Isabelle Langrock
The Conversation

Fifty-nine percent of banned books were children’s books featuring
diverse characters or nonfiction books about historical figures and
social movements. Authors of color wrote 39% of the banned books in
our study. Women of color penned almost a quarter of them. That’s
even though authors of color make up just 10% of U.S. authors and
write less than 5% of the most popular books in the U.S.

‘WICKED’ POLITICS
[[link removed]]

By Constance Grady
Vox

_Wicked_ the musical is based on a 1995 novel of the same title by
Gregory Maguire, an anti-fascist treatise in which the Wizard becomes
a Hitler-like despot.  For a silly, spectacular show about friendship
and talking animals, _Wicked _actually does invite political
interpretations. Its allegory can both elicit eye rolls and still feel
eerily prescient more than 20 years after its stage debut.

REPRODUCTIVE WRONGS
[[link removed]]

By Laura Ungar
Associated Press

Requests for long-term birth control and permanent sterilizations have
surged across the nation since the election. And companies that sell
emergency contraception and abortion pills say they’re seeing
significant spikes in requests from people who are stockpiling the
medications — one saw a 966% increase in sales of emergency
contraception from the week before in the 60 hours after the election.

DIET IN THE CULTURE WARS
[[link removed]]

By Iñigo López Palacios
EL PAÍS

Which foods are leftist and which are right-wing? Modern wars do not
distinguish between the front line and the rearguard. As the
battlefield stretches from Ukraine to Twitter, food has become
susceptible to ideologization.

* Republican Party
[[link removed]]
* Make America Great Again
[[link removed]]
* Donald Trump
[[link removed]]
* resistance
[[link removed]]
* Immigrants
[[link removed]]
* mass deportation
[[link removed]]
* California
[[link removed]]
* youth vote
[[link removed]]
* Generation Z
[[link removed]]
* Democratic Party
[[link removed]]
* Christian nationalism
[[link removed]]
* Women's Suffrage
[[link removed]]
* LGBTQ
[[link removed]]
* book bans
[[link removed]]
* authors of color
[[link removed]]
* Wicked
[[link removed]]
* Reproductive rights
[[link removed]]
* contraception
[[link removed]]
* abortion pills
[[link removed]]
* diet
[[link removed]]

*
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
*
[[link removed]]

 

 

 

INTERPRET THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT

 

 

Submit via web
[[link removed]]

Submit via email
Frequently asked questions
[[link removed]]
Manage subscription
[[link removed]]
Visit xxxxxx.org
[[link removed]]

Twitter [[link removed]]

Facebook [[link removed]]

 




[link removed]

To unsubscribe, click the following link:
[link removed]