Новости за 08.05.2023

Texas Governor Greg Abbott made his first public address Monday since his state was struck by double tragedies—and he spent the entire time demonizing migrants.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out Republicans’ big plan for 2024: Win everywhere possible.

It took masses of concerned mothers and families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting to convince just two Republicans to get the stones to support incredibly modest public safety regulations.

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt doubled down Monday on his decision to veto funding for PBS, accusing the network of indoctrinating children.

A Democrat-turned-Republican Texas legislator is obstructing incredibly modest gun reform in the wake of yet another mass shooting in his state.

Ever since Texas passed a law two years ago allowing people to carry a gun without a permit, random acts of gun violence have increased dramatically—including over the weekend when a shooter attacked a crowded mall.

“I have to frame it in a way that’s not gonna piss off all his voters.”

Great Britain has a monarchic tradition and a free speech tradition. Defenders of Britain’s constitutional monarchy argue that it’s sufficiently harmless as to pose no real threat to freedom of expression. But when the two came into conflict at King Charles III’s coronation last weekend, free speech gave way, demonstrating that England’s quaint royal tradition isn’t half so benign as advertised.

At the start of David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringers, twin boys, blond and bespectacled, walk out of their front door. “I’ve discovered,” one informs the other, “why sex is.” It has to do with the fact humans don’t live underwater. If we did, we would be like fish, he has decided; we would lay eggs and fertilize them. As they walk down the street, the boys see a girl their age sitting on their stoop. “Raffaella, will you have sex with us in our bathtub?” one shouts. “It’s for an experiment.”... Читать дальше...

Recently, the United States has experienced a spate of innocent people being shot and murdered over the most trivial of social interactions. Two high school cheerleaders in Texas, who mistakenly got into the wrong parked car, were shot by the 63-year-old man inside at point-blank range. Sixteen-year-old Ralph Yarl went to pick up his younger brother and was shot in the head when he rang the doorbell of the wrong house. Kaylin Gillis, lost with her friends in rural upstate New York, was killed... Читать дальше...