May 3, 2026

02d Agit-Prop

Louisiana’s governor wants to rewrite his state’s constitution—but won’t say why– www.dailykos.com

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● LA Ballot: The Louisiana House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to replace the current state constitution with a new governing document even though the governor has yet to explain exactly how he wants to transform state government.

However, convincing two-thirds of the House to vote Landry’s way may have been the easier part of the governor’s ongoing goal to consolidate even more power within his office. A supermajority in the 39-member Senate also needs to agree to a constitutional convention, and while the GOP holds a 28-11 edge there, its assent isn’t guaranteed.

Senate President Cameron Henry in particular has expressed skepticism about Landry’s plan, though he hasn’t shot down the idea.

“I don’t think it’s on track or off track,” Henry told NOLA.com’s Stephanie Grace last month. “I still think members have a lot of unanswered questions.” (The Republican who authored the bill that passed Tuesday, Rep. Beau Beaullieu, is Henry’s college roommate.)

Former CNN Hack Baffled After Dinner With ‘Well-Educated’ Trump Supporters– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Many people on the left are so arrogant and naive that they think half the country is a bunch of hillbillies/trailer trash who barely made it past middle school. And according to them, there is no way that anyone who voted for Trump is college-educated, let alone from an Ivy League school. But what’s funny about that is it’s completely false. It’s objectively smart to vote for Trump over Sleepy Joe. And in reality, many people graduate from college dumber.

A former CNN reporter is flabbergasted and frightened after discovering that the seemingly “normal” people she had dinner with were actually “closeted” Trump supporters. And what baffled her into oblivion was that they graduated from an Ivy League school.

According to The Post Millennial:

A former CNN reporter recounted an experience of being “haunted” by a dinner with “closeted” and seemingly “normal” Trump supporters on Sunday.

Section 230: Social media companies aren’t equipped to handle hate speech abroad. Neither is the law.– www.vox.com

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Just after the clock struck midnight, a man entered a nightclub in Istanbul, where hundreds of revelers welcomed the first day of 2017. He then swiftly shot and killed 39 people and injured 69 others — all on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Among those killed was Jordanian citizen Nawras Alassaf. In response, his family filed a civil suit later that year against Facebook, Twitter, and Google, which owns YouTube. They believed that these tech companies knowingly allowed ISIS and its supporters to use each platform’s “recommendation” algorithms for recruiting, fundraising, and spreading propaganda, normalizing radicalization and attacks like the one that took their son’s life.

Their case, Twitter v. Taamneh, argued that tech companies profit from algorithms that selectively surface content based on each user’s personal data. While these algorithms neatly package recommendations in newsfeeds and promoted posts, continuously serving hyper-specific entertainment for many, the family’s lawyers argued that bad-faith actors have gamed these systems to further extremist campaigns. Noting Twitter’s demonstrated history of online radicalization, the suit anchored on this question: If social media platforms are being used to promote terrorist content, does their failure to intervene constitute aiding and abetting?

The answer, decided unanimously by the Supreme Court last year, was no.

Trump Is Scared That He Will Be Put In Prison For “A Long Period Of Time”– www.politicususa.com

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Trump posted on his social media platform complaining that his free speech rights have been taken away and that he could be put in prison for a long period of time.

Trump posted on Truth Social:

It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want. It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be PUT IN PRISON, maybe for a long period of time.

This Fascist mindset is all coming from D.C. It is a sophisticated hit job on Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME!. Judges Engoron and Kaplan, also of New York, are equally Corrupt, only in different ways. What these THUGS are doing is AN ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND OUR ONCE GREAT NATION ITSELF. OUR FIRST AMENDMENT MUST STAND, FREE AND STRONG. “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!’

Trump is going full martyr here, as he is afraid of being put in prison, but he also thinks it will help him politically. What he doesn’t seem to understand is that getting locked up won’t help him at all. Incarceration would only confirm for the majority of Americans who already hold the belief that Donald Trump is a criminal.

Donald Trump repeats inaccurate claims on economy in local news interview in Pennsylvania– www.politifact.com

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Former President Donald Trump repeated a bevy of inaccurate claims on the economy during an interview with WGAL-TV, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, television station.

Here is a rundown.

Trump policies “created the greatest, strongest economy in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world.”

Economists have previously told PolitiFact that this is False.

The strongest evidence in favor of this assertion, at least in the U.S. context, is the unemployment rate. On Trump’s watch, the unemployment rate fell to levels untouched since the early 1950s.

However, the annual increases in gross domestic product — the sum of a country’s economic activity — were broadly similar under Trump to what they were during the final six years under his predecessor, Barack Obama. And GDP growth under Trump was well below that of previous presidents.

Ending the Nuclear Deal With Iran Might Be Trump’s Biggest Failure– www.truthdig.com

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Six years after former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the disastrous consequences of this decision are still adding up.

In addition to Iran being closer than ever to a nuclear weapons capability, now we must consider how the declining security situation in the Middle East has raised the stakes significantly. Trump promised a “better deal” but instead we got an increasingly costly blunder that may be impossible to fix.

To fully understand the enormity of Trump’s decision to leave the Iran deal, consider this: When the U.S. and Iran were complying with the deal, it was estimated that it would take Iran about one year to produce enough fissile material (in this case, weapons grade uranium) for a nuclear bomb (known as the “breakout” time). The states negotiating with Iran (the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, and Germany) assessed that this would be enough time to respond to possible violations and prevent Iran from producing a bomb. Even if Iran were to acquire sufficient fissile material, it could still take another year for Iran to make a deliverable nuclear weapon. As of May, 2018, the deal was working and considered (by most) to be a great success.

Kristi Noem’s Career Death Spiral Worsens As She Bails On CNN– www.politicususa.com

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CNN announced that Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SC) abruptly bailed on an interview with the network that was scheduled weeks in advance.

CNN’s Dana Bash said, “I will say that Governor Noem was scheduled to be on this program Inside Politics today. Her team reached out to us weeks ago to book her, and we reconfirmed earlier this week she abruptly canceled last night. She is welcome on the program anytime.”

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Yikes. This was the package that CNN used to announce that Kristi Noem abruptly bailed on their scheduled interview. pic.twitter.com/hCwY0wg1MY

What the MSM Would Rather You Not Know About Why the UNC-Chapel Hill ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Were Arrested – RedState– redstate.com

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As RedState previously reported, something not widely known about the viral “frat dudes save the American flag” moment at UNC-Chapel Hill from last Tuesday was the circumstances surrounding the UNC-CH American flag before the pro-Hamas agitators stormed the campus to take it down the first time around.

The flag they ripped down had actually been flying at half-staff in honor of the four law enforcement officers who were murdered – three U.S. marshals and one Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer – after attempting to serve a warrant in Charlotte last Monday.

The reason it’s not widely known is that there was scant to no mainstream media coverage of their disrespect of a flag flying at half-staff. In fact, the same is true of their coverage of the frat bros who, outside of Fox News, did not get much attention from the national press.

Washington Post complains that Trump’s message is still reaching Americans due to social media power of Posobiec, Kirk, Bannon | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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The Washington Post cannot stand the fact that Americans are still hearing the message of Donald Trump despite their best efforts. They are placing the blame on prominent conservatives like a Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and  Steve Bannon and their wide social media reach.

The Washington Post has conducted an analysis to try to figure out how Americans are still able to hear populist messages from the MAGA right despite social media bans, the self-censorship of cable news networks, and gag orders from Democrat judges.

Trump’s Wild Gestapo Remarks vs. Biden Faces ‘Jaded Electorate’– www.newsbusters.org

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The “Politics Monday” segment of the PBS NewsHour, as hosted by substitute anchor William Brangham, was spicier than usual. Brangham found “controversy” on Trump’s side (no surprise there) but President Biden eluded blame for his poor polling — blame a “jaded electorate” instead.

He was joined by the usual Monday political duo, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith. Brangham huffed:

In sarcasm mode, Brangham interjected his own thought. “So feeling like a trial is unfair is equivalent to being part of the Nazi secret police.” 

Tapper: MTG Motion Is ‘Kristi Noem Taking A Shotgun To Cricket’s Head’– crooksandliars.com

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Greene’s humiliation came just as Kristi Noem finally realized nobody admires her for killing her dog, Cricket, and slinked away. If only Marge would realize people are also sick of her obsessive need for attention and do the same.

From The New York Times report on Greene’s effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson:

Lawmakers widely booed Ms. Greene as she called up the resolution and jeered several times as she read it aloud. As she recited the measure, a grievance-laden screed that lasted more than 10 minutes, Republicans lined up on the House floor to shake Mr. Johnson’s hand and pat him on the back.

Donald Trump Rages Against Paul Ryan in Fiery Midnight Rant After Former House Speaker Trashes Ex-President– radaronline.com

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In December 2023, Ryan blasted Trump after he blamed the former House Speaker for Republican election losses.

“Trump’s not a conservative,” Ryan said. “He’s a populist, authoritarian narcissist. So, historically speaking, all of his tendencies are basically where narcissism takes him, which is whatever makes him popular, make him feel good at any given moment.”

American Actress Mia Farrow Commends Stormy Daniels: ‘She’s a Strong Woman, Nothing Wrong With Being a Hooker’– conservativeroof.com

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Actress Mia Farrow voiced her support for porn star Stormy Daniels on social media Wednesday. She described Daniels as “a strong woman who may not want to appear to be weak or a victim” while she testifies against former President Donald Trump.

“Stormy is a strong woman who may not want to appear to be weak or a victim,” Farrow wrote in an X post, adding, “but what she described seemed very like a sexual assault.”

In the comment section, an X user wrote that Daniels “screws for money.”

“One thing guys know: you can’t trust a word that comes out of a hooker’s mouth,” the X user added, to which Farrow defended the porn star, arguing, “She has a husband and a child. She made adult films.”

Joy Behar Responds to Stormy Daniels’ Wild Testimony: Trump Is a ‘Despicable Person’– slaynews.com

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The co-hosts of “The View” responded to the wild testimony of Stormy Daniels after her unhinged rants from the witness stand derailed President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial on Tuesday.

As Slay News reported, the prosecution, the defense, and the judge overseeing the sham trial struggled to keep adult star Daniels under control.

The statements from Daniels during her testimony have led to widespread calls for a mistrial.

Daniels repeatedly blurted out inflammatory statements during her testimony that were not relevant to the case.

The defense argues that Daniels sought to make additional salacious allegations to paint Trump in a negative light before the jury.

CBS Only Network To Report Indictment of Laken Riley’s Killer– www.newsbusters.org

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The murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley shook the nation, and hammered home the real dangers to which the nation became exposed when the border was flung open on January 20th, 2021. The media has been reluctant to cover the story because it casts Democrats (generally) and President Joe Biden (specifically) in a very bad light. That reluctance continues to this day.

CBS Evening News was the only national network newscast to report on the indictment of the illegal alien that murdered Laken Riley. Here is that brief report in its entirety, as aired on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024:

NORAH O’DONNELL: The 26-year-old man accused of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has been indicted by a grand jury on ten new charges, including kidnapping and being a peeping Tom. The suspect, a migrant from Venezuela, is charged with killing the 22-year old while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus in February.

Trump says the FEC saw no merit in Stormy Daniels-related case. Here’s why that’s misleading.– www.politifact.com

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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, saying Bragg  brought forward the case against him after other investigative bodies passed.

In remarks to reporters after court May 6, Trump also singled out the actions of the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. attorney’s office in New York’s southern district.

“The FEC said they threw it away,” Trump said, referring to the Federal Elections Commission. “They said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’ Southern district didn’t bring the case. Nobody brought the case and then Alvin Bragg brought the case.”

Trump said Bragg brought the case “when I am running and leading” in the polls. He said, “They all want to keep me off the campaign trail.”

The spread of misinformation varies by topic and by country in Europe, study finds– phys.org

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The eventual prevalence of a piece of misinformation may depend on its topic and the country in which it spreads, with notable differences between the UK, Germany, France and Italy, according to a study published May 8 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Fabiana Zollo from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and colleagues. This finding suggests that policies to combat misinformation and polarization may need to be context-specific in order to be effective, the authors say.

Researchers analyzed news activity on Twitter (now X) in France, Germany, Italy and the UK from 2019 to 2021, including a focus on news about Brexit, the coronavirus, and the COVID vaccines. Each news source they analyzed was rated as either “reliable” or “questionable” based upon their NewsGuard (a tool that evaluates the reliability of news outlets based on nine journalistic criteria) score.

Across all four countries, the vast majority of users only ever consumed reliable news sources on each of the three topics. But in every country and in each topic, there was always a small percentage of users who only ever consumed questionable news sources—with very few people consuming a mix of both reliable and questionable sources.

 

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell– www.cnn.com

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Reporters and members of the public outside of the Leonard Williams Justice Center where Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News in Delaware Superior Court today in Wilmington, Delaware. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A last-second settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems’ historic defamation lawsuit against Fox News, the parties announced Tuesday in court.

“The parties have resolved their case,” Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said.  “Your presence here… was extremely important. And without you, the parties would not have been able to resolve their situation,” the judge told the jurors, before dismissing them.

The settlement was apparently brokered while the trial was on the brink of opening statements in Wilmington, Delaware.

After swearing in the jury earlier Tuesday, an unexplained hours-long delay paused proceedings in court, which yet again triggered rampant speculation that a deal was quietly in the works.

Abortion restrictions tied to higher rates of intimate partner homicide, says study | Abortion– www.theguardian.com

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A new study finds abortion restrictions may be associated with increased rates of intimate partner homicide among reproductive-aged women and girls.

Notably, the study looks at the period before the US supreme court overturned the national right to abortion in 2022, when states could restrict – but not outlaw – abortion. Fourteen states have since banned the procedure.

As a result, the dynamics identified in the research may in fact be significantly exacerbated, even if they are not yet reflected in the data.

What Happened When Stormy Daniels Finally Met Trump in Court – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star actress whose sexual encounter with Donald Trump is at the center of the former president’s hush-money trial, took the witness stand on Tuesday, offering lurid testimony about their relationship.

Daniels told the jury that Trump had said he and his wife, Melania, do not sleep in the same room. And that the former president compared once compared her to his daughter, Ivanka. “She’s smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,” Daniels recalled Trump telling her.

ABC, CBS Ignore Frat Bros Who Saved American Flag from Pro-Hamas Mob– www.newsbusters.org

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Last week, a group of heroic Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill saved an American flag from being torn down a desecrated by a mob of anti-Semitic/pro-Hamas student extremists. But in the week since the incident occurred, the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC and CBS ignored the incident, while NBC only gave their heroism in the face of evil anti-Americanism a fleeting eight seconds on NBC Nightly News two nights later.

To be fair, the broadcast networks were too busy whining about the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia University being busted by the NYPD. ABC in particular was also busy lying about the UCLA encampment being “largely peaceful.” And CBS was busy worrying that the protests could hurt President Biden’s reelection chances.

ABC and CBS might argue that they thought that the flag-saving incident didn’t rise to a level that would allow it to be considered a national story, but that’s debunked by the fact that at least NBC gave it a few seconds.

NPR Praises Catholic Nun Who is Pushing Abortions Up to Birth– www.lifenews.com

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Leftists love to believe that churches should be run like clubs — the majority rules. So they’ll make a big deal out of polls, like the Pew Research Center finding six of ten Catholics disagree with the church’s opposition to abortion. They do not ask self-identified Catholics whether they actually go to church on Sundays, or if they stopped the minute they became an adult. You would get a more conservative result.

On Tuesday, NPR’s newscast All Things Considered brought on reporter Katia Riddle to channel the views of pro-abortion Catholics, but what made it more shocking is touting a pro-abortion nun — someone who is financially supported by the Church, and who should be accepting of all the Church teachings.

KATIA RIDDLE: Today, Missouri is replete with Catholic churches, iconography and people like Sister Barbara.

SISTER BARBARA: I certainly did not intend to, you know, become a sister or a nun.

RIDDLE: She’s standing outside her modest apartment, wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. She grew up Catholic but wasn’t all that religious. In her 20s, she describes a kind of love affair she fell into with Catholicism.

‘Right-Wing Organizations’ Are ‘Training Up in the Hills Somewhere’ – RedState– redstate.com

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If there’s a competition for the most unhinged, unglued, wackadoodle conspiracy theorist in the United States House of Representatives, Maxine Waters has to be, if not in first place, then at least in the top three. And mind you, she’s up against some pretty stiff competition. In the latest episode of “Maxine Waters Gone Wild,” she took to MSNBC to decry the violence that will ensue if former President Trump wins reelection this November – not from the left, but from some shadowy right-wing groups up in the hills.

After Disastrous Day In Court, Trump Demands Campus Protesters Be Arrested– www.politicususa.com

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Donald Trump had a very bad day in court on Tuesday, so after his trial ended for the day, he claimed that campus protesters are Biden plants and called for their arrest.

Trump said, “It’s Biden backers that seem to be funding the, what’s going on with the Palestinians.
They probably not Palestinians, They are agitators, they agitators really bad. And I think our government ought to find out who they are where they’re from and treat them the same way as they do the J6 hostages. You got to treat them the same way. These are agitators. They’re really hurting our country. It’s happening all over the country and cities.”

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Trump tests Senate GOP leaders on election fraud claims– thehill.com

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Former President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election is putting GOP lawmakers in a tough spot, especially Senate GOP Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who are running to become next Senate GOP leader and have pledged to work closely with Trump.

Both senators, allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is in the mix to be Trump’s running mate, repeatedly refused to say Sunday he would accept the results of this year’s election.

Now, other Senate Republicans will face the same question, including Thune and Cornyn, who will have to balance their past positions on Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud with their ambitions to replace McConnell.

Tougher Sentence for Jan. 6 Capitol Rioter Weighed by DC Circuit– news.bloomberglaw.com

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A Washington federal appeals court questioned the Justice Department’s claim that a five-year sentence for a Florida man who participated in the Capitol riot would be unchanged even if the lower court applied the wrong sentencing guideline.

The three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit considered arguments on Monday by Tristan Stevens that his convictions shouldn’t be classified as an “aggravated assault.” That classification triggered a longer prison sentence for assaulting an officer and other misconduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Militia Groups Ramping Up Recruiting Using Facebook and Facebook Isn’t Doing Very Much to Stop It– www.dailykos.com

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In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol, which has resulted in multiple convictions, and despite receiving increasing scrutiny by the press, you might be wondering what is happening with the recruiting efforts of White supremacist, neo-Nazi, and MAGA-supporting militia groups? Unfortunately, you need look no further than Facebook to see that these groups are boldly using the platform to recruit in plain sight.

According to WIRED magazine’s Tess Owen, “After lying low for several years … militia extremists have been quietly reorganizing, ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook—with apparently little concern that Meta will enforce its ban against them, according to new research by the Tech Transparency Project, shared exclusively with WIRED.”

In a WIRED piece titled “Extremist Militias Are Coordination in More Than 100 Facebook Groups” (https://www.wired.com/story/extremist-militias-are-coordinating-on-facebook/), Owen reported:

Individuals across the US with long-standing ties to militia groups are creating networks of Facebook pages, urging others to recruit ‘active patriots’ and attend meetups, and openly associating themselves with known militia-related sub-ideologies like that of the anti-government Three Percenter movement. They’re also advertising combat training and telling their followers to be ‘prepared’ for whatever lies ahead. These groups are trying to facilitate local organizing, state by state and county by county. Their goals are vague, but many of their posts convey a general sense of urgency about the need to prepare for ‘war’ or to ‘stand up’ against many supposed enemies, including drag queens, immigrants, pro-Palestine college students,

communists—and the US government.