Quicker Than Usual Hits

Another DSA communist (and queer, I think he identifies himself as) is deleting all of his old extremist, anti-family, "hurry up and die, old people" tweets, and claiming, as James Talarico did, that those "cringey" tweets "missed the mark."

'F**k you...hurry up and die': Swing-seat Democratic House candidate's deleted tweets show far-left record

William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition, called for nationalizing fossil-fuel companies to end their production, attacked moderate Democrats and argued for a "fundamental overhaul" of the Constitution.

Other deleted posts show Lawrence writing "f**k" the nuclear-family home and calling it an "isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society," envisioning "a world of free and open migration," and calling to "Abolish the Senate."

Lawrence even wrote a song inspired by moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's resistance to Democrats' climate agenda: "Our generation says f**k you for everything," Lawrence wrote in lyrics he posted in December 2021. "Hurry up and die so that we can get started."

The deleted posts, most of which have not been previously reported and came under a previous Twitter handle, stretch back years to when Lawrence, now 36, was building his career as a progressive organizer as an original co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, helping propel the Green New Deal into Democratic politics in 2018.

Since winning the Democratic primary in August, he's now the Democratic nominee for Michigan's 7th Congressional District, running against incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, who is seeking to win his first reelection.

Michigan's 7th is one of the country's truest House battleground tests: President Donald Trump carried it by less than two points in 2024 and the district was previously represented by now-Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin.

But Lawrence's past rhetoric may complicate Democrats' ability to retake the district, especially those deleted posts which include attacks aimed at fellow Democrats from the party's more moderate wing, including Slotkin.

Now for the "woke 1 was crazyyy" walkback:

'Thinking out loud on the internet'

Lawrence has since distanced himself from at least some of his earlier positions. He told Semafor last month that his past posts supporting the 2020 "defund the police" movement "are out of step with what I believe now." Last month, he told CNN's Manu Raju that he let his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America "lapse" in July.

He told CNN in a further statement he regretted his past comments on Sen. Slotkin and said he did not support defunding the police or open borders.

"Like many millennials, I've done my fair share of thinking out loud on the internet. I've been clear that I disagree today with some things I posted in the past. I don't support defunding the police or open borders."

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'A world without police and prisons'

Lawrence's ideological arguments stretched well beyond Democratic infighting.

In 2021, Lawrence praised the Minneapolis activist group Black Visions, writing that its 'defund the police' campaign had brought the country "nearer to a world without police and prisons."

In August 2022, he argued that remaining fossil-fuel production should be wound down through a "more confrontational" strategy, writing that it "should happen through forced nationalization and that should be our demand." In October 2021, he pushed for then-President Joe Biden to "promise" to "end the coal industry," through an executive order.

Later in August 2022, Lawrence summarized his politics as "social democrat in the streets, libertarian socialist in the sheets."

He repeatedly took aim at the nuclear family home as well.

"F**k isolation and the nuclear family domicile," Lawrence wrote in 2021 while praising communal living. The following year, he went further, calling the nuclear-family home an "isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society." "I don't want to be part of that," he wrote.

Days later, Lawrence argued that the "hetero-patriarchial nuclear family" is a "MATERIAL foundation of wealth accumulation" because inheritance was concentrated through male family lines, while writing that "Queer families create MATERIAL conditions for solidarity and wealth sharing."

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"May the 21st century begin an indigenous millennium," he wrote.

In another post, Lawrence declared: "Racial capitalism is the problem. Empire is the problem."

And in 2021 he urged readers to "envision a world of free and open migration," answering his own question -- "You mean, ANYBODY can move ANYWHERE??" -- with an emphatic: "Yes!"

The WNBA's woke AWFUL commissioner -- who Sophie Cunningham has suggested tends to make everything about her and her political agenda, rather than the league -- is retiring at the end of the year.

Enes Kanter wants the job.

Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom

2h

MAKE @WNBA FEMALE AGAIN

Commissioner Freedom Has a Nice Ring to It.

While the reported retirement of #WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is a win for women and an admission that the league's rules must change, her retirement does not solve the systemic issues which must be addressed in order to protect women's sports.

If the WNBA is unable to define what a woman is, then I, Enes Kanter Freedom, would be more than happy to step in as commissioner and lead this league back to greatness and restore fairness for all women.

I'll bring common sense.

I'll bring fairness.

And yes, I'll bring a dictionary.

Black Conservative Perspective and Stephen A. Smith thinks that the she was asked to resign due to her mishandling of the trans issue and the courting of woke controversies.

Progressive Lesson of the Day: Don't admit you want to exterminate the Jews. It makes it harder to achieve the goal of exterminating the Jews.

Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman

Alice Nderitu. Most people don't know that name.

I talk about her all the time. Why is she important? She was one of the world's preeminent experts on genocide.

She's a Kenyan woman, not a Jew, not married to a Jew, obviously not Israeli.

She rose in the ranks of international communities around the world because of her tremendous expertise in this field.

And she she reached the pinnacle of this field. She became the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of Genocide.

She became the world's preeminent and most prominent source on whether genocides were happening around the world and how to prevent them.

And she was adamant and clear that there was no genocide in Gaza, that it was the furthest thing from a genocide, that Israel spent tremendous amounts of money and effort and had an entire organization of its government devoted to preserving and protecting the lives of uninvolved Palestinian citizens.

And then what did Alice Nderitu get for telling the truth at the United Nations?

She was fired. Her contract was not renewed, and someone who would toe the party line was placed there in her stead.

And it's the fact that no one even knows her name that shows you what it looks like to lose an information war in the West.

Post here.

Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried Update:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

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