Link Bundle #6

A new version of Firefox looms, so I need to whittle down more tabs...

Paul Ryan (again) spreads the lie that anybody can have health insurance if they want it. (Hint: not having the money for insurance makes not having it NOT A CHOICE.) Of course, the truth is that Republicans would be perfectly happy to see poor people die- and are doing their best to make that happen.

Yet another detailed list of Trump's self-dealing. From back in March.

Yet another example of Trump demonstrating himself to be an idiot and a liar every time he opens his mouth. Of course, we knew this for certain when he fired James Comey at the worst possible time, ensuring he would look as bad as possible and piss everyone off in the bargain. But he's not entirely to blame. We have to also blame the Republicans who keep covering for him out of blatant self-interest.

Of course, getting rid of Trump will be no easy feat.

I'm white as Wonderbread, and even I won't go overseas anymore for fear I won't be let back into the country. For Muslim Americans today, it's worse.

White supremacy and fascism is much more widespread, and much more insidious, than you might realize.

But his freedom of speeeeeeech!

Neil Gorsuch, let me remind you, is the most radically conservative to be seated on the Supreme Court in living memory. He's even more of an asshole than Scalia.

A reminder that conservatives want to make it possible for big corporations to do anything they want to their disposable employees, and that said employees are to have no power to resist.

I attended two of the protests against Trump's Muslim travel ban in January. Black Lives Matter and the Socialist Party of America were the main organizers. The Democratic Party was conspicuous in their absence. Yet despite the Democrats' hatred of grass-roots action and their cowardice in general, they're more than happy to take credit for and claim the benefits of the actions of others.

And if Democrats want to shed their well-earned image of cowardice in the face of evil, they need to begin taking firm stances on popular positions like single-payer health care.

A reminder that yes, there are MULTIPLE Christian versions of ISIS.

Conventions, and fandom in general, have a long record of protecting molesters and other creeps. But as subsequent events have proven, that trend appears to be shifting at long last.

Cons are even turning against the idea that absolutely everybody, even Nazis, must be made welcome. To which I say: GOOD.

Conservatives are coming out into the open to admit they're only doing it for themselves, and that they feel no obligations to the people they supposedly represent.

 And, furthermore, that the rich need more money and the poor less money.

And that's all I have room for for now.