And another day of rising Christian nationalism in the GOP, the continuation of mass shootings, US Covid cases, Israeli nationalists, heavy rains in Brazil, world record displacements, and dildos and guns in the state of Texas comes to a close:
“Please stop saying Republicans have done nothing on guns. They’ve done everything. Everything mass murderers want them to do. They’ve made sure America’s mass murderers are the best equipped mass murderers in the world.” -- Lawrence O’Donnell
Deaths
US: 1,031,273
World: 6,310,868
Cases
US: 85,716,214
World: 531,656,506
Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns. But scholars generally define Christian nationalism as going beyond policy debates and championing a fusion of American and Christian values, symbols and identity. Christian nationalism, they say, is often accompanied by a belief that God has destined America, like the biblical Israel, for a special role in history, and that it will receive divine blessing or judgment depending on its obedience. That often overlaps with the conservative Christian political agenda, including opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and transgender rights. Researchers say Christian nationalism is often also associated with mistrust of immigrants and Muslims. Many Christian nationalists see former President Donald Trump as a champion despite his crude sexual boasts and lack of public piety. -- We must fight the cancer that is Christian nationalism.
Mass shootings continued across the U.S. in the wake of the Uvalde massacre. At least eight have been killed and dozens injured across several states in the last five days. A mass shooting, defined by the Gun Violence Archive, is an incident in which four or more individuals are shot and either injured or killed, excluding the gunman.
6 charts that show the rise of guns in the U.S. — and people dying from them. Data shows how the gun landscape has changed in the last decade. Gun sales in the U.S. are rising. So are the deaths caused by those firearms. Whether it’s in child firearm deaths (which peaked in 2020), or active shooter incidents (which are also up), or gun manufacturing (which has doubled in recent years), these weapons exert a growing force on how we live — and, increasingly, how we die, data shows.
A mother and her three young children were shot to death and the suspected gunman — her husband — has been hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head, a sheriff in central Michigan said Saturday.
Agency: 1 dead, 7 injured in Oklahoma festival shooting. Authorities said one person was killed and seven were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, with a witness describing frantic people running for cover as the gunfire erupted.
US COVID-19 cases six times higher than this time last year. As the US marks Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer, the seven-day average for COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are more than six times what they were a year ago.
Anger, feelings of hopelessness even as Shanghai aims to end Covid lockdown. The city is set to end lockdown on June 1, but two months of stringent restrictions have taken a toll on the economy, public health and trust in the government.
Israeli nationalists chant racist slogans in Jerusalem march. Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a show of force that risked setting off a new wave of violence in the tense city. The crowds, who were overwhelmingly young Orthodox Jewish men, were celebrating Jerusalem Day -- an Israeli holiday that marks the capture of the Old City in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians see the event, which passes through the heart of the Muslim Quarter, as a provocation. Last year, the parade helped trigger an 11-day war with Gaza militants, and this year’s march drew condemnations from the Palestinians and neighboring Jordan.
At least 56 people have died in northeast Brazil amid heavy rains over the weekend. An additional 56 people are missing and at least 25 are injured, Brazil's Minister of Regional Development Daniel Ferreira said on Sunday.
Ethiopia set a world record for displacements in a single year: 5.1 million in 2021. Conflict and violence triggered over 5.1 million displacements within Ethiopia in 2021 — triple the number reported there in 2020 and the highest figure recorded for any country in a given year, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. An internal "displacement" is defined as being forced to leave a place of residence but not crossing internationally recognized borders. The cause of the staggering Ethiopian numbers: attacks against civilians, health facilities, and schools in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray which "triggered an unprecedented number of new and repeated displacements," according to the report. So the number 5.1 million includes people who may have been displaced more than once. The previous record was 3.5 million for Syria in 2013.
It's Illegal To Own More Than 6 Dildos In Texas But You Can Carry A Gun In Public With No Training. While it still exists as a law in the Texan penal code, it's not legitimately enforceable because it's been deemed unconstitutional 'by a federal appeals court nearly a decade ago', according to Politifact. Regardless of whether it's enforceable, it's still a part of the law and it's unlikely to be repealed anytime soon. — I don’t have anything to say except get your dildos, whether alone or with a partner(s), and have a terrific fucking time.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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