Recommended Reading: Anatomy of a (Mass) Murder

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Asha Rangappa, Charlotte Clymer, Michelangelo Signorile, Jill Filipovic, Erin Reed, Oliver Willis, and Molly Knight

May 28, 2023

The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

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writes that Jeffrey Toobin “makes clear that despite the various conspiracy theories surrounding the Oklahoma City bombing — including a concerted effort by conservative media to link it to Islamic terrorism — McVeigh acted alone (with some planning and procurement assistance from his bumbling sidekick, Terry Nichols). But the book brings to the fore all of the different forces — societal, legal, and political — which facilitated McVeigh from the beginning of his journey until the end.”

The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa

Anatomy of a (Mass) Murder

At 9 a.m. on April 19, 1995, I was in my dorm at Princeton University. Our room, 221 Cuyler Hall, was a typical Princeton quad — two small rooms with a bunk bed in each, attached to a larger common area, which is where my roommates and I were hanging out because we didn’t have classes until later that day. I remember that morning because the phone rang…

a year ago · 91 likes · 83 comments · Asha Rangappa

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Charlotte Clymer

writes “if you're a corporate marketing officer concerned over what's happening with Target, let me make something abundantly clear: you will never appease anti-LGBTQ extremists. They don't want some concessions. They want all of them.”

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What Target Needs to Understand

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a year ago · 220 likes · 10 comments · Charlotte Clymer

Michelangelo Signorile

writes that “this vocal minority doesn’t have the buying power to launch boycotts—all of which in the past have dismally failed—against Disney and other entities. So the new strategy is to threaten violence via their own armies of brownshirts. And it is working— at least it did with Target. That is truly dangerous.”

The Signorile Report

Why Target caving to the "anti-woke" mob represents a new level of danger

The Signorile Report is reader-supported. If you’ve valued reading The Signorile Report, consider becoming a paid subscriber and supporting independent, ad-free opinion journalism. Thanks! Target this week became the latest company to bow to MAGA extremists and violent white supremacists. And the speed at which it happened was horrifying. After threats T…

a year ago · 45 likes · 27 comments · Michelangelo Signorile

Jill Filipovic

writes “it’s not just women seeking abortions who suffer under abortion bans. It’s the health and wellbeing of entire regions. Will conservatives care? Probably not. But they will suffer from their own political decisions. And they’ll make everyone around them suffer, too.”

Jill Filipovic

Things Are About to Get a Lot Worse for Red State Residents

Abortion bans in conservative states are playing out exactly as predicted, curtailing women’s opportunities, landing women in the ICU, forcing raped children to become mothers, nearly killing a lot of women, and probably killing some we haven’t heard about. The Republican politicians who pass these bans, though, are lar…

a year ago · 55 likes · 2 comments · Jill Filipovic

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Erin Reed

writes “the trend of banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth was gaining momentum in conservative-leaning states, leading many to fear that the entirety of the Southeastern United States would follow suit. However, on Wednesday, Louisiana bucked this trend.”

Erin In The Morning

Bombshell Louisiana Report Led To Republican Senator Rejecting Youth Trans Ban

a year ago · 240 likes · 18 comments · Erin Reed

Oliver Willis

writes “these people built this damned thing in the first place. Modern American conservativism was always a fascist operation. Things didn’t suddenly change in 2015 with the rise of Trump. Trump, if anything, simply watched Fox News and parroted conservativism’s fascist impulses right back to it.”

Oliver Willis Explains

Never "Never Trump": Fascism Architects Aren't Anti-Fascism Allies

In 2004, Matthew Dowd was the chief strategist for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign. In that year, when he wasn’t campaigning on Iraq War lies and casting dissenters as Al Qaeda apologists, Bush wa…

a year ago · 87 likes · 18 comments · Oliver Willis

Molly Knight

writes “before we get into the play-by-play of how the Dodgers stepped in it and the many steps that led them to unf—k this situation, we can’t go any further without noting the insane national conversation surrounding drag queens right now, and the moral panic that MAGA Republicans are sowing that threatens the right of these human beings to simply exist.”