JCS criminal psychology is 100% copaganda. It presents cop interrogation techniques as a kind of science, as if the Reid technique wasn’t all about deliberately misunderstanding body language and coercing innocent people to confess.

Skip Intro has a good series on Copaganda. Talks about TV shows/fiction, but a lot of the messaging is the same.

Cops exist to protect property, not you.

If you want a good non-copaganda documentary though, Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line is a worthwhile classic.

For an APUSH project, I did a Comedy Central style roast of William Jennings Bryant. Used clips from the movie to show him getting owned by Darrow.

I did another one where I made a shitty Java game where you played as Nixon stealing papers from Watergate.

APUSH was lit. I had no interest in history, wanted to be a scientist, but my teacher took me aside and told me that I was really good at history. (He was awesome - he actually took a moment to show us how ridiculous Alex Jones and 9/11 Truthers were by showing how quickly you could get to David Icke’s lizard people shit from those forums. He put that man on my radar all the way back in 2009!) That moment kept me alive through high school and is why I picked up a history degree alongside my science one.

History is so important to understanding what is happening now; it’s often inconvenient to the powers that be. That’s why it gets shafted off to coaches who wouldn’t know the Monroe Doctrine from Marilyn. (I’ve begged for someone to let me teach a section of US alongside my chemistry…)

Our state is captured by the oil and gas industry.

The FBI was literally invented because the bombings/murder of Osage Indians to get oil rights was being covered up by state politicians and police.

The OERB funds a ton of science education, and they do not want you taking about climate change. They are required by the state to contribute to education, so they do this buy running fancy workshops where they give supplies to educators (like, I got thousands in dollars worth of chemistry equipment - this is a big deal when my supply closet had baking soda that would have been expired when my dad was in high school…) They teach you there that fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes, that the warming climate can be explained by Milkanovitch cycles, etc etc.

Oklahomans aren’t given the education the need to not fall for this shit, and it’s on purpose. I would not be surprised if the oil/gas industry was involved in spreading the weather weapons conspiracy. Oklahoma has always been a playground for wealthy oilmen.

Oklahoman’s GOP platform has literal conspiracy theory shit in it.

Any nutter with an “R” next to their name can win whatever position they want. It’s straight ticket Republican, no matter what.

Everyone hated Mary Fallon, but they still voted for Kevin Stitt.

The Scopes Trial is integral to understanding the build up of the Religious Right in the US. People forget that Scopes lost the trial, the real win was the court of public opinion. It made that “literalist” fundamentalist christianity look ridiculous, regressive and anti-science in the public eye. Fundamentalists basically made a retreat to lick their wounds and plot other strategies over the next few decades.

William Jennings Bryant was involved and he’s a pretty critical character to understanding a lot of US economic history too - the idea that economic policy should benefit the common person, that we should not “crucify mankind upon a cross of gold” is something at has resonance today. It’s fascinating to consider how different his views on social welfare are to the people who would agree with him on creationism/teaching evolution in schools today.

Country girls make do…

Are you ready? 💦

The infanticide was historically accurate - although probably at a scale less than the movie implies. But it is in sources.

But yeah - the way that the film portrays the treatment of disabled people is especially gross. Pay attention to who is in the court of Xerxes - the acceptance of disabled bodies is presented as akin to the sort of “decadence” of these evil Persians. (If a necromancer brought Edward Said back to life to watch 300, it would probably kill him again.)

The movie is basically a Triumph of the Will for Spartans and torture for anyone who’s actually researched Greek history (Leonidus calling the Athenians “boy lovers” is teeth gritting, part of a Spartan education was getting fucked by older men…)

Did anyone walk away from that movie thinking “this is an unreliable narrator story and we shouldn’t take the fash-y elements at face value” or was it “damn the Spartans were bad ass”?

Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.

Republican Mike Moon

And John Rose met his wife judging a 4H contest.

(Fun fact: you can’t file for divorce as a minor)

Also as a mandatory reporter in the state of Oklahoma… hahhahahahahahah. I just wrote an affidavit about how seriously CPS takes shit.

Benny (“having a wet pussy is a sign of an infection, according to my doctor wife”) is just jealous of anyone who can pull off an acting career.

On the Synder track, 300 is just a really uncomfortable movie. It’s a propaganda movie for a hell-state.

There was a “code blue” in Oklahoma and Texas today because someone shot a cop at a detention facility. People are doing shit, the media isn’t covering it.

Alex Jones just had a caller that was asking how to get his undocumented wife on the list of the “good ones.”

Do you have any advice for coping with the discomfort?

I didn’t take the saline/get blood returned to me because it started burning. Which is fine, my doc has suggest therapeutic blood draws to deal with occasionally high hemocrit anyway.

But ugh…. The entire experience was really uncomfortable and icky. I’m debating on whether it’s worth going back, but damn if I didn’t enjoy having having a steak and a beer with the money after.

He harassed another kid at high school enough to the point the police were involved. Some sort of investigation involved “injury to a child.”

Check out this abomination:

Ugh, it looks like they intimidated the girls and harassed them for years afterwards.

“Jeffrey raped me and then his friend came in afterward to mock the entire scenario,” Robson recounted as she cleared her throat and breathed through the moment. “They decided to follow me for years to my job at Olive Garden to my gym at LA Fitness in Wellington. They would track me and harass me. It was part of the Epstein intimidation.”

But I also wonder if there are bodies on that island.