- More conservative racism: Everyone is *not* welcome; Laura Loomer would boycott brands that don’t use white actors in their TV commercials;
- MTG thinks evildoers are using weather control to create the deadly floods in Texas;
- Meanwhile, people who know real things have been warning about the effects of climate change for decades — of course;
- Yet another Republican (the “Jesus. Guns. Babies.” lady) thinks the Texas floods have been faked;
- And Timothy Snyder on concentration camps and the potential in the Constitution’s 13th Amendment to allow slavery for punishments of crimes.
From my favorite aggregate site. More evidence of conservative racism. And the idiocy of the extremes.
JMG, 5 Jul 2025: Idaho AG Bans “Everyone Is Welcome” Signs In Schools
One nice thing about this site is that site runner reminds us of previous stories involving the current subject. In this case, for example, this AG, Raul Labrador, cowrote a bill in 2015 that would have allowed business owners to refuse to serve LGBTQ customers. His thinking seems not to have changed much.
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And here’s Laura Loomer again. (I’ll omit the pic.) She doesn’t need reminders.
JMG, 5 Jul 2025: Loomer: Boycott Brands That Don’t Use White Actors
Remember, Trump takes her advice.
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I’ll omit MTG’s pic too.
JMG, 5 Jul 2025: MTG: I’m Introducing A Bill To Ban Weather Control Because God Didn’t Create The Deadly Floods In Texas
Well she’s right about that — “God” had nothing to do with it. I’m tickled by the part in which she says she has
been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill.
I can only imagine what she means by “research.”
We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering. This is not normal. I want clean air, clean skies, clean rain water, clean ground water, and sun shine just like God created it!! No person, company, entity, or government should ever be allowed to modify our weather by any means possible!!
Why doesn’t she worry about weather control when droughts and hurricanes occur? That is, why wouldn’t someone have prevented them, if weather control were so easily accessible? She lives in a cartoon world, in which weather catastrophes are evidence of evildoers.
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Meanwhile, in the real world, people who know things have been issuing warnings about this kind of thing for decades.
NY Times, 5 Jul 2025: As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme, subtitled “Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.” (Gift link)
Colossal bursts of rain like the ones that caused the deadly flooding in Texas are becoming more frequent and intense around the globe as the burning of fossil fuels heats the planet, scientists say.
Warm air holds more moisture than cool air, and as temperatures rise, storms can produce bigger downpours. When met on the ground with outdated infrastructure or inadequate warning systems, the results can be catastrophic.
These were the ingredients for tragedy in Texas, a state that is well acquainted with weather extremes of all kinds: high heat and deep cold, deluges and droughts, tornadoes and hurricanes, hail and snow. Indeed, the Hill Country, the part of the state where the Guadalupe River swelled on Friday, is sometimes called “flash flood alley” for how at risk it is to seemingly out-of-nowhere surges of water.
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Back to our aggregate site.
JMG, 5 Jul 2025: House Candidate Declares Texas Floods To Be “Fake”
This woman is a Georgia county Republican Party chair. Her statement:
Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake. Whack weather patterns creating crisis that are portrayed to be natural and real, but when weather is manipulated, it is a fake progression not natural. Everyone should ask questions. Everyone should hold people accountable. Stop twisting and perverting words. Our job is to protect our freedoms and keep our children safe. When tragedy strikes, I will always ask questions, and if it was caused by recklessness, I will call it out.
JMG’s description of her, followed by a long series of her “greatest hits”. Such as “Former Candidate For GA Governor Vows Executions For Those Who Oppose A Christian Nationalist Government.”
Kandiss Taylor, current US House candidate, flat earther, anti-vaxxer, moon landings truther, 9/11 truther, and failed Georgia “Jesus, Guns, Babies” gubernatorial candidate.
Yes, she’s the one who drove around in a big campaign bus with the slogan “Jesus. Guns. Babies.” The obsessions of MAGA, apparently.
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Are people paying attention? Most people know no history.
Timothy Snyder on Substack, 4 Jul 2025: Concentration Camp Labor, subtitled “Cannot Become Normal”
With the passage of Trump’s death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.
Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp system followed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor.
We know this and have no excuse not to act.
What happens next in the U.S.? Workers who are presented as “undocumented” will be taken to the camps. Perhaps they will work in the camps themselves, as slaves to government projects. But more likely they will be offered to American companies on special terms: a one-time payment to the government, for example, with no need for wages or benefits. In the simplest version, and perhaps the most likely, detained people will be offered back to the companies for which they were just working. Their stay in the concentration camp will be presented as a purge or a legalization for which companies should be grateful. Trump has already said that this is the idea, calling it “owner responsibility.”
We should remember what drew I.G Farben into Auschwitz: profit.
Once again, beware the privatization of government functions. But the worst of it is this:
And slavery is not entirely illegal in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment allows slavery if only as punishment for a crime. The people described as “undocumented” or “denaturalized” (and other categories sure to be invented soon) are portrayed as criminals.
If the Trump regime tries to enslave such people on a large scale, there will be a court case. But waiting for the Supreme Court to do the right thing is, to put it gently, no substitute for action. It would be good if there were explicit legislation banning slave labor in all circumstances. But such a law is unlikely without a movement behind it.
Happy with slavery, MAGA?
