Bette’s Weekly Roundup - The Age of the Surreal

Breaking news, the Best of Bette for the week, and some New York Times comments from geniuses

We had a brilliant ‘Speakeasy’ with Jeff Sharlet on Sunday, and as soon as I can put together a few quiet moments I will empty my head of some of the magic. One of the phrases I learned from him that I keep going back to is ‘militant eroticism’ - an authoritarian right trope. I thought of that phrase today as I FAFO’d a tweet from Tom Fitton, who said h…