playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
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against michigan s referendum, enshrining abortion rights, by falsely claiming the bill would lead to forced sterilization of children. the michigan ballot puzzle passed overwhelmingly. republicans vastly underperformed in the midterms after going all in on anti-trans issues. that doesn t stop them. they are still at it, taking issue with trans people existing at all. donald trump is vacated a significant amount of time in his president not switch to and picked for senate herschel walker tried to close out his race in the runoff, making trans women participating in sports as one of his closing arguments top issue for georgia voters about who you want to send to the senate ahead of next month s runoff election. it s important to note, this is not just elected officials and political candidates, these politicians are taking their cues from right-wing media. those incidents at drag events i mentioned moments ago, they have been within the context of conservative media personalities fear
existing at all. donald trump is vacated a significant amount of time in his president not switch to and picked for senate herschel walker tried to close out his race in the runoff, making trans women participating in sports as one of his closing arguments top issue for georgia voters about who you want to send to the senate ahead of next month s runoff election. it s important to note, this is not just elected officials and political candidates, these politicians are taking their cues from right-wing media. those incidents at drag events i mentioned moments ago, they have been within the context of conservative media personalities fearmongering against queer folks. new york times events featuring performers and have received disappointing coverage of some of the most prominent voices on the right, including fox news host tucker carlson and jesse waters, who frequently in the events are dangerous for children. tucker in particular seems fixated on this and i queer panic, in additio
office in ohio. the language that s currently flooding online message boards on the right has turned from threatening to downright apocalyptic in the wake of the fbi raid on mar-a-lago. among the many lessons of january 6th insurrection is that that kind of language on those kind of chat boards can all too easily lead to actual, tangible, horrifying violence. given all of this, it s not unreasonable at least to ponder and obtain the possibility that at some point in the future we ll look back at the reactions of republican, elected official, conservative media personalities and other voices and factions on the right to the search and seizure operation at mar-a-lago and the events of the past two weeks as a moment when the united states of america was a tinter box and they collect you havely chose to strike a match if you know how combustible it is and how the rhetoric has