Jen the Libertarian

Things we learned this past week - root access to Twitter can be bought for an insanely low price, DHS can send CBP into Portland because they feel like it, and libertarians like to fight over dumb stuff

(to be fair you probably already knew about that last one)

Jesse and I have a conversation about The Letter (which he is a signer of), the discourse around The Letter (which involves him), The Counter Letter (which also involves him), a bit about Bari Weiss (that does not involve him), and his and Katie Herzog's new (very successful!) new podcast Blocked and Reported

Blocked and Reported Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/blockedandreported

Jesse's Substack page - https://jessesingal.substack.com

Things happened outside The Discourse over the past week, including the Trump administration trying to either force universities to open or force foreign students to go home, some more SCOTUS decisions that are quite significant, and the commutation of Roger Stone's prison sentence

It's been a busy week

Awful lot of gaslighting and strawmannirg and willfully (?) misinterpreting certain things this week...

Of course this is about The Letter but also about Taylor Lorenz and clickbait culture and the insane reactions people have had to both stories and wow things have been crazy the past few days

We had an abbreviated holiday week with featured a bit of bad and good news on the unemployment front, conditions worsening drastically in HK (and how we can't really help), and the return of a story I first covered waaaaaaaay back when I first started making content - the Shitty Media Men list

(yeah I know I missed a few presidents on that statue garden list don't @ me)

So about Parler, the hot new free speech no "censorship" platform that...well...isn't quite

Spoiler alert - yeah you might want to go ahead and delete your account before someone decides to sue Parler over something you said on the platform

We've got unemployment claims leveling off at an alarmingly high number, Trump extending the green card ban until the end of the year and adding in some more groups of people who can't come to the US, a whole discussion about a noose, and idiots tearing down statues

On the bright side we do have grand jury charges against the men involved in Arbury's death and Braun gave us a bill to significantly change QI so it's not all bad

Where we discusser her Arc Digital article of the same name plus a *lot* of other things

Link to Cathy's piece - https://arcdigital.media/feminism-racism-and-the-damsel-in-distress-1aa65c5172cc

In which I discuss the reactions (or lack thereof) to the Brooks shooting, the rather momentous SCOTUS decisions we got this week, and Trump's weird failed Tulsa rally

There's also talk about Bolton's book and a slightly off topic ramble about cop who lie about fast food incidents

As the country slides even further into delirium we still manage a conversation about what to do about policing, ancoms take over a chunk of Seattle, and (sadly) we have another death at the hands of police