The Regime's War On Language Expands, Plus Thoughtcrime, Plus
When will the Earth Coincidence Control Office take Elon's brain, plus music
Thoughtcrime
The regime have detained and say they will deport a permanent resident who holds a green card and has never been charged with a crime. Mahmoud Khalil was a master’s student at Columbia University during the pro-Palestinian protests there last year, and he has in essence been accused of and threatened with deportation for antisemitism.
Despite rolling over like a whipped puppy to the demands of Zionist reactionaries during the protests, the university has seen $400 million in expected funding cancelled by the regime for not cracking down even harder, and is showing no signs of support for Khalil.
As of this moment, no one outside the regime, including Khalil’s attorney and his eight-months-pregnant wife—a US citizen who was threatened with arrest by the ICE storm troopers when they snatched her husband—knows where he’s being held.*
A Columbia University spokesperson said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property, but declined to say if the school had received one ahead of Khalil’s arrest. The spokesperson declined to comment on Khalil’s detention.
In a message shared on X Sunday evening, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration “will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
The Department of Homeland Security can initiate deportation proceedings against green card holders for a broad range of alleged criminal activity, including supporting a terror group. But the detention of a legal permanent resident who has not been charged with a crime marked an extraordinary move with an uncertain legal foundation, according to immigration experts.
This is a huge deal. It represents an aggressive escalation in the regime’s war on free expression—equating any objection to Israel’s assault on Gaza as support for terrorism—and it is meant to terrify people into silence. (It’ll also be a bellwether for the way things will go with the courts.)
Don’t be silent. It won’t do you any good anyway.
*Khalil was originally thought to be held in a New Jersey detention center, and the regime is still refusing to officially disclose where he is now, but the NY Daily News reports that a public ICE database shows him in a Louisiana facility.
The War On Language Expands
Remember George Carlin’s routine about the seven words you couldn’t say on television? The regime has come up with a great many more words that they intend to remove from circulation not just in the federal government, but in the broader society as well—and not a one of them is profane.
The New York Times, which is always sometimes useful despite their frequent lapses, ran a story Friday about this blossoming war on language, featuring a list of words and phrases they compiled by examining regime memos and other documents.
The above terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents viewed by The New York Times. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school curricula) in which they might be included.
In other cases, federal agency managers advised caution in the terms’ usage without instituting an outright ban. Additionally, the presence of some terms was used to automatically flag for review some grant proposals and contracts that could conflict with Mr. Trump’s executive orders.
The list is most likely incomplete. More agency memos may exist than those seen by New York Times reporters, and some directives are vague or suggest what language might be impermissible without flatly stating it.
The first word on their list is “accessible,” and the last, “women.” In between we find words and phrases including “allyship,” “Black,” “disability/disabilities,” “Native American,” “oppression,” “social justice,” and many more. The full list is appended before the music for those who would rather not favor the The Times.
As I’ve previously written, the war on language is aimed first at subjugating and othering everybody who isn’t a well-off reactionary white male (preferably straight but exceptions can be made for same-sex assaulters), and second, at destroying every federal and downstream government function supporting those people.
This is serious shit, forecasting eugenics and other Nazi-like treatments of people the regime regards as and wants to be seen as and treated as subhumans. Even if courts were to be involved and obeyed, the latter something we have no reason to assume, the majority on the supreme one have already indicated a clear distaste for categorically protecting humans who aren’t white men.
When will the Earth Coincidence Control Office take Elon's brain?
John Lilly, the Timothy Leary confederate, scientist and physician whose escapades with ketamine played a role in the Altered States novel and film, had regular encounters with otherworldly beings during his ketamine experiences.
Ketamine, first developed as an anesthetic, figured largely into two of Lilly’s most famous projects: the invention of the isolation tank and his NASA-funded efforts to communicate with dolphins.
And sometimes it got weird.
“That evening I took 150 milligrams of ketamine,” Lilly said in one interview, describing one of his frequent perceived interactions with other-dimensional beings, “and suddenly the Earth Coincidence Control Office removed my penis and handed it to me.”
After his wife came to comfort him, Lilly confirmed that he was unharmed.
Lilly, a fundamentally gentle soul, never would have conceived the idea of taking a hatchet to the good bits of government and the people served by it while too high on ketamine to get a full sentence out. He wanted to talk with dolphins and aliens, and he wanted everybody to get to know themselves better.
Musk is a different creature altogether—one suspects that the last thing he wants is to get to know himself better. We understand that the ECCO may already have taken his penis and returned it somewhat damaged; we’re hoping they’ll go for his entire brain in the near future.
Regular readers will know that I get periodic ketamine treatments for depression, which have helped me a lot. I’m not down on ketamine at all. I just know for a fact you don’t want daily users of it running the government because even if they weren’t malevolent sociopaths like Musk and company, they’d fuck it all up.
The words you can’t say in government
accessible
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
affirming care
all-inclusive
allyship
anti-racism
antiracist
assigned at birth
assigned female at birth
assigned male at birth
at risk
barrier
barriers
belong
bias
biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards
biologically female
biologically male
BIPOC
Black
breastfeed + people
breastfeed + person
chestfeed + people
chestfeed + person
clean energy
climate crisis
climate science
commercial sex worker
community diversity
community equity
confirmation bias
cultural competence
cultural differences
cultural heritage
cultural sensitivity
culturally appropriate
culturally responsive
DEI
DEIA
DEIAB
DEIJ
disabilities
disability
discriminated
discrimination
discriminatory
disparity
diverse
diverse backgrounds
diverse communities
diverse community
diverse group
diverse groups
diversified
diversify
diversifying
diversity
enhance the diversity
enhancing diversity
environmental quality
equal opportunity
equality
equitable
equitableness
equity
ethnicity
excluded
exclusion
expression
female
females
feminism
fostering inclusivity
GBV
gender
gender based
gender based violence
gender diversity
gender identity
gender ideology
gender-affirming care
genders
Gulf of Mexico
hate speech
health disparity
health equity
hispanic minority
historically
identity
immigrants
implicit bias
implicit biases
inclusion
inclusive
inclusive leadership
inclusiveness
inclusivity
increase diversity
increase the diversity
indigenous community
inequalities
inequality
inequitable
inequities
inequity
injustice
institutional
intersectional
intersectionality
key groups
key people
key populations
Latinx
LGBT
LGBTQ
marginalize
marginalized
men who have sex with men
mental health
minorities
minority
most risk
MSM
multicultural
Mx
Native American
non-binary
nonbinary
oppression
oppressive
orientation
people + uterus
people-centered care
person-centered
person-centered care
polarization
political
pollution
pregnant people
pregnant person
pregnant persons
prejudice
privilege
privileges
promote diversity
promoting diversity
pronoun
pronouns
prostitute
race
race and ethnicity
racial
racial diversity
racial identity
racial inequality
racial justice
racially
racism
segregation
sense of belonging
sex
sexual preferences
sexuality
social justice
sociocultural
socioeconomic
status
stereotype
stereotypes
systemic
systemically
they/them
trans
transgender
transsexual
trauma
traumatic
tribal
unconscious bias
underappreciated
underprivileged
underrepresentation
underrepresented
underserved
undervalued
victim
victims
vulnerable populations
women
women and underrepresented
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits, y’all. We want to keep the words and terms in that much longer list alive, and the people their erasure targets, safe.
Music
Joe King Carrasco & The Crowns, Nuevo Wavo, “Caca De Vaca” live;
Sir Douglas Quintet, Mendocino, “She’s About A Mover” live;
and from the same album, “I Don’t Want;”
and finally one from the Texas Tornados, who are fronted by Doug Sahm, the Sir Douglas of the Quintet, and who include several members of that band along with other Tex-Mex legends: Zone Of Our Own, “Ramona/Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone” live.
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