April 26, 2026
Again...
I was streaming during the event, I was unaware of it until much later.
There is not much that is known at this time. What is known is that a Teacher of the Year from California ran the scanners at the White House Correspondent's Dinner and got off several shots before being subdued.
Thankfully unlike the Butler shooting, no one was killed. One Secret Service Member was shot but his bulletproof vest's manufacturer is going to have a field day with advertising.
Not counting the Iranian backed attempt from 2024 (which was disrupted during the planning phase and seems to have gotten nowhere near the president), this was the THIRD assassination attempt. The third time shots were fired at him.
At this point, I think it likely that Trump does not finish out his term, and think it likely that he joins Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.
I also think that will be a disaster, as it will normalize political violence in a way the 4 others did not. The opposition party is openly calling for this, the protesters outside the WHCD cheered when the news reached them.
IDK who Jason Howerton is, but he's correct. almost everyone doing politically motivated assassinations right now is on the far left. The only one I'm aware of in recent years that was an assassination of a left winger was the brutal murder of the leader of the very left wing Farm-Labor Party. However that turned out to be a leftist who was angry that Melissa Hortman had voted against a measure to bring more Illegal Immigrants into her state.
I fear the we are entering a period of political violence we haven't seen since the late 1960s and early to mid '70s. This was a cycle that has played itself out in many other American countries, and turned many of them into abattoirs. The U.S. has been lucky in that regard, but is not immune to the immense currents of historical trends and human nature.
We are in for a rough ride.
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April 18, 2026
OK: This is a Freaky Venn Diagram....
The takeaway is that men are muck more tolerant of the speech of political opponents than women are of political allies.
The article this is screen-capped from is here and a longer, more detailed version of the article that goes into the methodology, but does not link to the actual paper is here. The actual paper is eluding me at the moment. It's somewhere in a vast pile of data compiled by F.I.R.E. for their free speech rankings of schools.
I should note that this is not akhsually a Venn diagram, but rather a line graph that has had Venn bubbles added to it for clarity. Still, the bubbles are regular spheroids and do not overlap.
The result is rather stark in any event.
I'm not sure what to do with this information. It's really interesting, and kind of terrifying. It might explain the sudden explosion of censoriousness around the 2010-2015 timeframe once women reached a certain critical mass in corporations and government. However it does not present any sensible or viable solutions even if that hypothesis is corroborated by further research.
The graph just sits there. Festering.
So I thought I'd share it.
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