China fixates on Florida condo collapse as disasters unfold at home - "In June, a gas pipeline explosion in a Hubei market killed 25 people and injured more than 100. A few days later, a seven-story building collapsed in Hunan province, leaving five people dead. On June 25, a day after the Surfside disaster, a fire tore through a martial arts school in Henan province, killing 18 students — most of them children.
"These incidents were heavily censored on Chinese social media platforms amid calls from President Xi Jinping to maintain 'political stability' in the lead-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary celebrations in early July. The Henan fire didn’t make the front page of the provincial Henan Daily newspaper or break the top 50 topics discussed on Weibo."
After Stephen A. Smith’s rant about Shohei Ohtani, his ESPN co-workers led the pushback - "Smith also deliberately mispronounced the names of several Nigerian men’s basketball players on Monday’s episode following the national team’s exhibition upset of Team USA, for which he also apologized Tuesday."
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance
The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance: Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown. - "But what makes Vance so awful is that he knows better. His intentional distancing from his earlier views shows that he is fully cognizant of what a gigantic fraud he’s become.
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"Instead of a candidate who’s willing to speak hard truths to his people, Ohioans now have a native son who has returned to weaponize their resentment and cultural dysfunctions. His ambition is fueled by the money of others who would never deign to live in the Midwest. And like other populist charlatans, he has convinced himself that he should be anointed to lead the rubes out of their misery."
Who’s Actually Responsible for the “Culture War”? Is it really the liberals? - "There are political ramifications to swift leftward shifts on various cultural issues that the Democrats should reckon with as David Shor and others have argued. There are also real social and cultural ramifications. It can create social strife for culturally conservative Americans to feel uncomfortable expressing their views at home or in the workplace for fear of being chastised—or worse—over issues they have little familiarity with.
"All of this is absolutely correct.
"But when it comes to the actions of politicians, the aggressive, top down Culture War is being driven overwhelmingly from the right. And the shift rightward among Republican politicians on culture war issues is as dramatic—if not more so—than the leftward shift among Democratic voters on policy."
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