Greenwald said that Trump expelled the “Bush-Cheney” ideology by denouncing them and he won, thereby changing the very nature of the Republican party. That’s why the Cheneys and the Bushes hate Trump, “petty dynastic vengeance,” Greenwald said. Cain notes how “principled” the left is when they align themselves with the neo-conservatives because the neo-conservatives are against Trump.
Things haven’t been the same since Trump showed you can unseat the establishment. That’s why he’s truly “evil” to these people on both sides of the aisle, it has nothing to do with Jan. 6. They hated him way before that, indeed, ever since he won and that’s why. He upset the plan and showed it could be upset. That’s why he has to be crushed so that no one will ever dare to do that again. //
DithoTx
5 hours ago
“In our nation’s 246 year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Deep State Dynasty than Donald Trump.” //
To the NeoCons and the rest of the Establishment, Donald Trump was the ultimate traitor. //
Trump's personality, the "mean tweets," the nick-names for opponents and all that stuff is, in their minds, so unacceptable that they place their standards of behavior above the things that really matter. They would rather have a center-right or center-left President who behaves like they do, or like Reagan did, because appearances are far more important to them than principals. It's a grotesque standard of priorities,
If you’ve read anything about relay testing written in the last ten years or so, you’ll see a pattern; No-one is talking about the traditional pickup and timing tests most relay testers (and most automated relay testing software) use to test relays. You are much more likely to read terms like “dynamic testing” or “system testing”, which are the true future of relay testing. Unfortunately, these terms aren’t well defined and are usually embedded in a short article written in engineer-ese that even I, a relay testing “expert”, usually have trouble following.
Carter was later arrested at his parents’ home in Georgia. His employer, Rep Schneider, was informed of Carter’s crimes and arrest. The Congressman’s office didn’t fire him on the spot. Instead, Carter was given the option to resign. Carter resigned. Only after his arrest was Carter’s payroll theft discovered and incredibly that is the only crime Carter will spend time behind bars for. His initial arrest was for impersonating a federal agent and illegal possession of a handgun, but it was his theft of $80,000 (theft of public funds) that got him prison time. The other charges were dropped.
Carter was sentenced to nine months in federal prison. He’ll begin serving his time shortly.
Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. And more than 5,200 miles away, a Chinese company is hard at work making the batteries in Dalian, China.
The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer. An investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network found the federal agency allowed the technology and jobs to move overseas, violating its own licensing rules while failing to intervene on behalf of U.S. workers in multiple instances. //
Department of Energy officials declined NPR's request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China. After NPR sent department officials written questions outlining the timeline of events, the federal agency terminated the license with the Chinese company, Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd. //
Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling." //
The idea for this vanadium redox battery began in the basement of a government lab, three hours southeast of Seattle, called Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It was 2006, and more than two dozen scientists began to suspect that a special mix of acid and electrolyte could hold unusual amounts of energy without degrading. They turned out to be right.
It took six years and more than 15 million taxpayer dollars for the scientists to uncover what they believed was the perfect vanadium battery recipe. Others had made similar batteries with vanadium, but this mix was twice as powerful and did not appear to degrade the way cellphone batteries or even car batteries do. The researchers found the batteries capable of charging and recharging for as long as 30 years.
Question
How to restore domain's backup files created on local repository on one server that were uploaded to another server?
Answer
Limitations:
- A restoration server must have the same or a higher Plesk version.
- A restoration server must have the same or higher Plesk license edition than the server where the backup has been created.
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Connect to the server via SSH.
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Create a backup directory for the domain, for example:
mkdir -f /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/example.com
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Upload the backup files to the domain backup directory /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/example.com. This will allow the backup to appear in Plesk UI.
For example, if backup files are located in /root/backup directory, it is required to move them under a domain's backup directory:mv /root/backup /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/example.com
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Go to Plesk > Domains > example.com > Backup Manager and restore the backup.
Warning: A backup will not be added to Plesk Backup Manager if .discovered hidden directory is missing. In this case, restore the backup using the command line.
A Plesk backup can be restored either via Plesk interface or a command-line interface directly on a server.
Limitations:
- A Plesk xml.tar backup file cannot be restored in Plesk for Windows Server. A Plesk xml.zip backup file cannot be restored in Plesk for Linux.
- A restoration server must have the same or a higher Plesk version.
- A restoration server must have the same or higher Plesk license edition than the server where the backup has been created.
- The maximum size of an uploaded backup file is limited to 2Gb. If a backup file size is larger than 2Gb, upload this backup file via a command-line interface.
Defining data that should be backed up includes the following:
- Defining the backup level and, unless it is the server level, optionally, selecting which resellers, customers, or subscriptions should be backed up.
- (Optional). Defining which resellers, customers, or subscriptions should be excluded from the backup.
- (Optional). Restricting backup to either only mail content, web hosting content, or their configuration.
- (Optional). Specifying that log files are excluded from backup.
Generally speaking, the data that can be backed up with one call of the pleskbackup utility are represented by any single cell of the following table.
Exporting to a local file system
To export a backup as a file to a local file system, use the --output-file option with a <full-path-to-file>\<file-name> value.
For example, to create a backup of a subscription with ID 1 and export it to the file domain1.tgz located at /usr/local/irregular-backups/ folder:
pleskbackup domains-id 1 --output-file=/usr/local/irregular-backups/domain1.tgzCharles V Payne @cvpayne
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Household Survey
Full Time -71,000
Part Time +384,000
Multiple Jobs +92,000
Robert Luther @RobertLutherFL
Replying to @cvpayne and @PressSec
how is it possible we “added” 528,000 jobs, but 136,000 fewer are employed than in May?
9:03 AM · Aug 5, 2022 //
Labor participation is still lower than it was before the pandemic. It likely means things like retired people having to take a part-time job and other people having to take a second job to keep up with the rising prices in the crush of Bidenflation. If you’ve looked around when you’ve gone out, you may see some evidence of this — retired-age people working jobs that you might generally see teenagers working to supplement Social Security. That’s not exactly a sign of a healthy economy, no matter how the Biden people want to slice it.
The number of people holding two full-time jobs is also at a record high. That’s also not a good thing. //
Frog Capital @FrogNews
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433,000 Americans now working 2 full time jobs.
That is an all time high.
12:35 PM · Aug 5, 2022 //
Charles V Payne @cvpayne
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You have to ask @PressSec while you are at it ask why Black Americans are sinking in the midst of the jobs boom?
July
-39,000 out labor force
-68,000 fewer employed
I get this stuff is only newsworthy when GOP in WH but some care all the time. Thanks
Jeffrey L. O'Malley @icebergdad
Replying to @cvpayne
Oh, 528,000, not 150,000? Care to comment?
8:19 AM · Aug 5, 2022
SIKE Broken
SIKE is one of the new algorithms that NIST recently added to the post-quantum cryptography competition.
It was just broken, really badly.
We present an efficient key recovery attack on the Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman protocol (SIDH), based on a “glue-and-split” theorem due to Kani. Our attack exploits the existence of a small non-scalar endomorphism on the starting curve, and it also relies on the auxiliary torsion point information that Alice and Bob share during the protocol. Our Magma implementation breaks the instantiation SIKEp434, which aims at security level 1 of the Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization process currently ran by NIST, in about one hour on a single core.
Clive Robinson • August 4, 2022 10:27 AM
@ Peter Galbavy, ALL,
“while I haven’t the first clue about the underlying math it read to me like someone who’s installed an amazingly fancy and highly secure”
The fundamental protocol for SIKE is “Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman”(SIDH). Which is a tads difficult to fully explain even by mathmaticians…
The problem is that even mathmaticians can be unaware of the more referified parts of their art…
So it turns out it was not “secure”, and it had been known by some mathmetitians how to attack it since the late 1990’s…
Which is kind of a decade or two and some before anyone decided to use SIKE as a one way function for crypto. Which kind of makes it realy “face palm” embarrassing… //
Clive Robinson • August 4, 2022 5:09 PM
@ SpaceLifeForm, ALL,
Re : Move to ECC with a SafeCurve.
Err the maths behind this attack on SIKE is also being looked at for breaking ECC (read ARS article for more details).
So far the search for an ECC attack of use is “ongoing”. This attack on SIKE is almost certainly going to renew attempts to break ECC. Doing so would give the successful person(s) a “Golden Ticket” C.V.[1]
Let’s put it this way I suspect ECC now has a very short shelf life… Maybe half a decade at most life left would be my advice to the cautious. So looking for a replacment should begin right away.
It could be a heck of a sight less, as there is a chance a successful attack may already have been discovered but not yet recognised. So it might come fast very fast.
Hency my earlier comments about thinking on how to replace the curent asymetric “Key Exchange” and “Signing” systems.
Because if we loose them before we replace them to a non QC algorithm then it’s going to be brutal very fast…
Think no secure online,
1, Banking / Finance.
2, Online Shoping/Commerce.
3, Software Patching.
4, Secure Communications.
5, Privacy.
You might remember I’ve been talking off and on about replacing privacy wrecking CA heirarchics for years, as well as private/secure “Rendezvous Protocols”. Because it’s been kind of obvious that Asymetric Crypto has a serious flaw in the “Secure Trap Door” assumption that was always weak. Worse the statments of David Deutsch[2] in the mid 1980’s about “Quantum Computing”(QC) and his proof that it was going to be significantly improved compared to “Clasical Computing”(CC) was a large “Red Flag”…
Even our host @Bruce Schneier some time ago (around AES comp time ending) made the point we realy needed to stop playing with crypto algorithms and get on with the far harder task of “Key Managment”(KeyMan). Which even today is mostly not done (seen by some as either impossible or a career killer).
The best we have for Private/Secure key transfer in emergancies is the provably secure yet both fragile and awkward to scale “One Time Pad”.
Every system so far thought up that does not use asymetric crypto, needs a “Secure Side Channel” to at the very minimum set up a “Root of Trust”.
A Two-Party “Root of Trust” transfer without OWF’s with Secure Trap Door functions is currently assumed not to scale[3]. The alternative three or more party systems are provably not secure under the usuall assumptions (it’s why we spend time talking about “End To End Encryption”(E2EE)).
[1] As some know the sort of mathamatician who is most likely to do this is of PhD Research age, so upto middle to late 30’s. So a “Golden Ticket” is their most likely route to “secure academic employment” for the rest of their life.
[2] Basic bio of David Deutsch,
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/david-deutsch-the-father-of-quantum-computing-but-who-is-he/
[3] I’m of a different opinion, think of three impartial entities, that randomly select some “Number Used Once”[nonce] and send them to the two parties that wish to communicate. The two parties then use those points as being on the circumference of a circle and use the radius or center they calculate as a symetrical key. This system shows it is possible to have a system where none of the impartial third parties can know what the key is. But also that the scaling problem can be significantly reduced, to the point where OTP can be used by individuals to the impartial third parties.
Like so many kids who grew up in the Los Angeles area in the ’80s (or the ’60s, or the ’70s, or the ’90s — well, you get the picture), for me, Vin Scully was the voice of summer. Yes, the Dodgers were our boys of summer, but the names on the backs of the jerseys frequently changed. Vin Scully, and the traditions he started and maintained, were our stability, our reassurance in turbulent times.
It wasn’t just that Vin was a great announcer. As is widely acknowledged – even by Yankees, Giants, and RedSox fans – Vin was the GOAT. He was also the embodiment of the type of brother, dad, uncle, grandfather, or friend we would all like to have, and the type of quiet leader. //
Vin Scully was a bit of an enigma. He was exceedingly approachable, but also a man no one wanted to disappoint. He was so kind and welcoming to Dodgers players regardless of how the fan base felt that one could conclude that he was a bit of a pushover, yet he survived for 67 years in a cutthroat business, and with the same organization that employed the famously explosive Tommy Lasorda.
Kansans head to the polls Tuesday to vote on the proposed “Value Them Both” constitutional amendment that seeks to overturn the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt that declared that the state constitution guarantees a “fundamental right to abortion.” Many Kansans may not realize, however, that the votes they cast on Tuesday may have been heavily influenced by out-of-state abortion apologists who contributed a whopping 71 percent of the $6.54 million spent by the lead group campaigning against the amendment. //
Kansas voters may not recognize the outside influences in play, however, but if they take the time to actually read the proposed amendment before marking their ballots tomorrow, they’ll realize that the “no” side of the debate has been lying to them for the last year-and-a-half. Or Kansas voters can instead learn the truth the hard way when, once the amendment has been defeated, abortion activists turn to the state courts to start striking the current abortion regulations on the books and obtain taxpayer-funded abortion. Conservative Kansans will then learn what so-called “abortion access” really means.
But beyond the textual argument, which the federal court will likely consider in the next week or so on an expedited time frame, the underlying rationale for the Speech or Debate Clause should provide a stark warning to Democrats that what Willis is doing is destructive to our democratic republic and should be denounced.
As Graham’s attorneys stressed in his motion, the framers believed the Speech or Debate Clause was “‘indispensably necessary’ for the independence of the legislature, and ultimately for the ‘rights of the people.’” Only by protecting members of Congress from being questioned about their legislative activity could the integrity of the legislative process be assured. “By ‘enabling these representatives to execute the functions of their office without fear’ of interference from prosecutors, grand juries, or courts, the Framers understood that the ‘rights of the people’ would, in turn, be protected.”
But here, we don’t truly have a “prosecutor” or a “grand jury”; we have an inquisitor and her trial of Republicans by publicity. And the Fulton County court seems but a rubber stamp for the subpoenas Willis seeks.
And Willis is but one county D.A. Imagine the mischief if every prosecutor with political ambitions followed her lead.
scientists began to wonder if Amyloid was the cause of the disease, or merely a sign of the damage the actual cause was doing to the brain; the difference between, say, a terminal disease and the tombstone left behind after it’s taken its toll.
The science, however, was settled, and alternative hypotheses would no longer be considered.
“In more than two dozen interviews,” a 2019 STAT News expose revealed, “scientists whose ideas fell outside the dogma recounted how, for decades, believers in the dominant hypothesis suppressed research on alternative ideas: They influenced what studies got published in top journals, which scientists got funded, who got tenure, and who got speaking slots at reputation-buffing scientific conferences.”
Straying outside the dogma would get you marked as a “traitor,” one prominent scientist explained, and could cost the heretic published articles, prominent posts, grant money for research, and speaking slots at prestigious conferences. //
The 100-year anniversary of Dr. Alzheimer’s discovery might have been the year for skeptics to have their say, pointing out that despite decades of research and money, no cure yet existed. //
Over the next 15 years, the 2006 study would be cited in more than 2,000 other scholarly works.
Then in 2022, it would be exposed as seemingly fraudulent by a host of credible scientific investigators.
Fraudulent, as in, literally using falsified images to make its case. The “substance,” it turns out, might not even exist.
The damage, however, was done. Since the study was first published, millions of manhours and billions of dollars had been spent chasing its conclusions. Minds that could have been working toward actual progress had instead been led astray. Conclusions based on false presumptions had been compromised — as have any studies based on those now-compromised studies that worked off of the 2006 findings.
The reality is while one (or a few) dishonest players certainly caused a great deal of damage, they couldn’t have done it without the assistance of a cabal of senior scientists who jealously guarded their theory — and put down those rebels who dared question it. //
The above is the story of how quickly greed, pride, and groupthink can get out of hand in even a strictly scientific field of research — one so many Americans across all parties and incomes and races are personally interested in figuring out.
How much easier, then, could this be in more politically fractious fields? In fields that allow the top scientists access to more than simple money and prestige, but also power.
In fields like global warming, where dissenters (or even mere skeptics) are labeled “deniers”? Just this week, Al Gore compared those skeptics to the Ulvade, Texas police, whose inaction contributed to the murder of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers.
Billions more dollars flow into this field than into Alzheimer’s research. In the name of global warming, organizations like the United Nations join powerful state actors across the planet in shaping policy and economics based on the favored research.
From its very beginning, global warming scientists’ most alarmist claims have been disproven, yet still they march on, confident as ever.
https://twitter.com/DanielTurnerPTF/status/1549737575954399233
On some moonless nights, enormous patches of the Northwest Indian Ocean and seas around Indonesia begin to glow. This event has been witnessed by hundreds of sailors, but only one research vessel has ever, by pure chance, come across this bioluminescent phenomenon, known as milky seas. Thanks to that vessel, samples showed that the source of the light was a bacteria called V. harveyi, which had colonized a microalgae called Phaocystis. But that was back in 1988, and researchers have yet to be in the right place and the right time to catch one of these events again.
Both the bacteria and algae are common to those waters, so it’s not clear what triggers these rare events. To help understand why milky seas form, researchers have gotten much better at spotting these swaths of bioluminescence from the skies. With the help of satellites, Stephen Miller, a professor of atmospheric science, has been collecting both images and eyewitness accounts of milky seas for nearly 20 years. Thanks to improvements in the imaging capabilities over the past decades, Miller published a compilation last year of probable milky seas in the time frame of 2012 to 2021, including one occurrence south of Java, Indonesia, in summer 2019. //
Although milky seas can be massive—greater than 100,000 square kilometers in the case of the 2019 sighting—the intensity of this bioluminescence is still relatively faint. By comparison, the better-known sea sparkle from marine plankton (dinoflagellates) is 10 times stronger—and even that can be hard to spot. //
“When waking up at 2200 the sea was white. There is no moon, the sea is apparently full of ? plankton ? but the bow wave is black! It gives the impression of sailing on snow!” the Ganesha crew wrote in their logs.
This glow was continuous as far as they could see, and they also compared the effect to glow-in-the-dark stickers. When they collected some of the water in a bucket they found that the light extinguished when stirred, which is the opposite of dinoflagellate behavior.
“I was surprised by their description of the pinpoints of light that vanished upon stirring and the sense that the glow was coming from depth,” writes Miller. “The disappearing glow may be due to bacterial communities being broken up that made their individual glow less apparent than when concentrated on a particle, or a change in the water that shut off that glow… not sure!” //
“I would also like to point out that while we look in collective awe at the incredible photos from James Webb Space Telescope coming from the edges of our universe, there still somehow remain these fascinating mysteries down below, waiting to be discovered, appreciated, and learned about,” adds Miller.
NuScale will get the final approval nearly six years after starting the process.
On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new nuclear reactor design, making it just the seventh that has been approved for use in the US. But in some ways, it's a first: the design, from a company called NuScale, is a small modular reactor that can be constructed at a central facility and then moved to the site where it will be operated.
The move was expected after the design received an okay during its final safety evaluation in 2020. //
Small modular reactors have been promoted as avoiding many of the problems that have made large nuclear plants exceedingly expensive to build. They're small enough that they can be assembled on a factory floor and then shipped to the site where they will operate, eliminating many of the challenges of custom, on-site construction. In addition, they're structured in a way to allow passive safety, where no operator actions are necessary to shut the reactor down if problems occur. //
The NRC will still have to weigh in on the sites where any of these reactors are deployed. Currently, one such site is in the works: a project called the Carbon Free Power Project, which will be situated at Idaho National Lab. That's expected to be operational in 2030 but has been facing some financial uncertainty. Utilities that might use the power produced there have grown hesitant to commit money to the project. //
C.M. AllenArs Tribunus Militumreply2 days agoReader Favreportignore user
Wheels Of Confusion wrote:
Would have been even better 20 years ago. But then again, so would EVERY non-fossil fuel-based power source being rolled out at scale. We're just so late on everything, and most of the blame lies with politicians allergic to governing and rich, subsidized industry allergic to changing.
If it can bring the cost of nuclear power down by an order of magnitude and reduce the lagtime between facility approval and initial production, it might have a legitimate place in the effort to eliminate CO2 pollution. A nuclear plant coming online start producing electricity in a couple years, while still scaling up to its full production levels as more reactors get built, also gives it a serious edge against other nuclear technologies in addition to fossil fuel plants, which are more or less 'all or nothing' projects //
raxx7Ars Legatus Legioniset Subscriptorreply2 days agoReader Favreportignore user
itfa wrote:
Initial estimates have it within a few percentage points of natural gas in price per megawatt, both from the manufacturer and the operator of the first project these are supposed to go into.
Personally, I think this type of design has a far better chance of being on budget than traditional nuclear construction.
MegalodonArs Legatus Legioniset Subscriptorreply2 days agoReader Favreportignore user
quamquam quid loquor wrote:
SMNRs are a fundamentally flawed technology. They don't benefit from efficiencies of scale and can't benefit from manufacturing economies of scale, because an SMNR is still more expensive than natural gas.
I don't follow this argument. Economies of scale come from regularizing construction by doing more in the factory rather than on-site, and from shrinking the size of a unit of generation until you're building enough of them to get good at it. We can see this from the fact that nobody builds gigawatt natural gas turbines, they build them to a smaller size and when they want a gigawatt they order a larger number of them. But as far as nuclear reactors are concerned, a gigawatt is about the smallest you can get. That seems like the wrong way to get good economics.
You need to build about 12 of the NuScale reactor to get a gigawatt, and it seems to me you're going to be a lot better at building them by the 12th unit than you will be with the 3rd or 4th larger reactor. But an entire country would be lucky to build 4 full size reactors reactors per decade so nobody gets good at it. //
ORcoderSmack-Fu Master, in traininget Subscriptorreply2 days agoreportignore user
ZenBeam wrote:
Here's hoping this pans out, and gives us one more low-carbon power source knob to turn, to use to replace higher carbon sources.
Do these have any capability to vary their power generation, trading lower output for a longer lifetime? If so, how much can they vary it?
They probably won’t be great at it- likely can bypass the turbines to load follow as necessary (like many current nuclear plants can), but it won’t help fuel life. Even if they load follow by lowering the power of the reactor, which is possible but slower, thanks to fuel damage it also probably won’t save much uranium.
Designs that will be better at this are Natrium, which incorporates thermal storage for load following, and molten salt reactors, which don’t have to worry about fuel damage.
Per megawatt (power) or per megawatt·hour?
The first would be pure fantasy.
There's no way the cost per MW of a pure steam cycle plant can get within a factor 3 of a combined cycle gas turbine plant no matter what heat source we use to boil the water.
The second I'm willing to hold my judgement. //
Edgar Allan EsquireArs Tribunus Militumreply2 days agoReader Favreportignore user
The Addams family meets the Flintstones for power tools.
The change coupled enhanced photosynthesis with improved nitrogen use. //
Nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas. Extracting and burning natural gas is harming life on our planet, so we should probably stop doing it (or at least try to cut back considerably). But food crops, like all plants, need that nitrogen. It’s quite the conundrum, especially since the human population relying on those crops is slated to grow over the next few decades, while the acreage of arable land is slated to drop.
In response, genetic engineers in China have been developing crops that can thrive with less nitrogen, and they made a strain of rice with a yield that’s 40 to 70 percent higher than that of regular rice. It has more grain per branch, each grain particle is bigger and denser, and the plants flowered earlier. Most breeding methods currently used in cereal crops can only generate a yield increase of less than 1 percent, so this is a pretty big deal.
After years of dragging down Trump-supporting evangelicals — voters who made a careful calculation and helped install the president who confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices that made up the Dobbs majority — there wasn’t much Moore could have said but mea culpa.
Oh, but never underestimate the hubris of an ear-tickled right-wing defector, especially one with a track record like Moore. In his social media absence, he came up with something to say that didn’t include admitting error: Nope, overturning a deadly precedent that ruled for half a century and resulted in more than 63 million lives lost doesn’t vindicate conservative Trump voters. //
Moore has completely bought into the framing of left-wing media and other cut-throat opponents of conservatives, especially as it relates to Trump as a “disruptive figure.”
You can see this in the above passage, with phrases like “the cost of hitching the pro-life movement to a figure such as this.” And Moore invokes the deeply flawed analysis of the likes of David French and even John Piper when he singles out Trump’s “character,” as if we can dispense with that character analysis when it comes to a pro-abortion, pro-transgender opponent who helped concoct a yearslong hoax to cheat her way into the presidency and regards half the country as deplorable.
This single point wouldn’t be proof positive of Moore’s media trance, but there’s much more evidence than that spanning left-wing talking points outside the abortion realm. During just this one event, Moore parroted the media’s infamous Charlottesville lie. He promoted the leftist worldview that everything in life connects to skin color (invoking The Bulwark’s founder Charlie Sykes). He repeated the media’s gaslighting that the “great replacement theory” is a right-wing conspiracy rather than an explicit Democrat strategy, and with a straight face, he said: “…The Jan. 6 Committee hearings are so important.” //
Some of the people who have been the most own-the-libs-ish in the way that they’re speaking are the people who’ve been the least involved in the actual trenches of the pro-life movement.
Wow, he’s got us all figured out. We morally stained Trump voters celebrating the untold lives that will be saved in post-Roe America — a victory we thought we might never see in our lifetimes — are just trying to own the libs. No regard for neighbor here and certainly no real pro-life work. //
If you can’t talk about a massive blow to a death-culture industry that exploits women and murders innocents without uttering, “but Trump…” and putting down fellow pro-life Christians who don’t share your politics, perhaps you’re confused on who exactly your neighbor is.
And if you can’t be a “triumphalist” about the biggest pro-life victory in half a century, are you really trying to “persuade [your] neighbors of this position,” or are you trying to persuade the world that hates you that you’re not one of those Christians? //
In refusing to credit Trump for the judicial appointments that made overturning Roe possible, Russell Moore doesn’t understand that:
• The Lord sometimes works in mysterious ways.
• That, unless he is without sin, he has no right to cast stones at the “vulgar” Donald.
• To cite one of many historical examples, Lincoln won the Civil War by overlooking General Grant’s penchant for overdrinking because, unlike the general’s predecessors, he fought to win. Or would Moore have preferred that the South had either won the Civil War, or had succeeded in forming a separate nation, preserving slavery?
• The battle to eventually eliminate abortion is literally as life-and-death, if not moreso (with 63 million fatalities, in just one nation), than any war which has ever been fought, or any government sponsored massacre which has ever occurred..
The “Green Ember” stories are called “classic,” and “vintage.” How do you breathe new life into “old” tales and why did this become important to you as a writer?
These are new stories with an old soul. A friend described them as holding classic virtues that feel old-fashioned and like museum pieces—trapped in amber—because they are so strongly associated with the past in classic literature. But these books have modern pacing and are out “in the wild,” so families are having a kind of Jurassic Park-like experience. Something they thought belonged only to the past is rampaging through their imaginations and it’s exhilarating. In an age that is often grotesquely inhospitable to children, they feel almost transgressive. I’ve been delighted to find so many other families who share my own family’s love for these kinds of stories.