The “banned books” narrative was always bs, as I’ve repeatedly shown on this page, but it was very effective. School board elections across the country rejected conservatives. Where I live, the Moms For Liberty type challengers were soundly defeated, like 2 to 1. Which surprised me since I live in a relatively sane family-focused suburban area where I thought parents would be freaked out by the woke stuff in schools.
Anecdotally, the main concern I saw in our community was that there would be “book bans” from the M4L types. People unironically feared books would be banned despite no books actually banned anywhere. There was just some inkling that books were banned down in Florida or something.
Of course, when you actually talk with them they quickly realize they have no rational fear of book bans, they can easily obtain whatever books they wish for their kids and that won’t change. Of all the things to worry about with your children, “banned books” shouldn’t even register. Sane people realize this once you have them actually think about it. But the narrative was powerful. So if you wonder why the banned book hysteria was spread everywhere, it’s because it worked.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
