reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
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i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"
I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
The thing about 'viewpoint diversity' is that taken to its logical extreme it means you must go out of your way to include liars and scoundrels because they too have viewpoints
once you put oatmeal in a cookie you lose me
Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance.
And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.
We in the legal profession really need to have a moment of introspection about how our commitment to "civility" above all else didn't just enable everything we're seeing now, it helped *cause* it.
Some arguments should not be met with civility. Sometimes civility only serves oppression.
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
This was the most glamorous of all my childhood malls in FL honestly
“WMDs in Iraq” Vibes Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
These people can bribe and defraud and be pardoned but I can’t get my unconscionable education debt forgiven lololol
the philosophy of a judicial originalist is very simple: instead of expressing actual beliefs in plain language, the founders were instead constructing a kind of crossword clue that, if solved, happens to always say whatever you wanted the outcome to be
I can't stop thinking about it, how results don't even matter anymore to the American electorate. Just culture wars. Just vibes. Sheer irrationality. And total apathy.
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...
I hope this story highlights for y’all how fragile the concept of citizenship is/how thin the line between citizen and noncitizen is—when we completely demonize and terrorize the latter, the former gets more precarious
Several thousand people will be able to say they saw this Carolina Chocolate Drops reunite as a love letter to North Carolina and Black culture.
senior editor talked to the legendary Dr. Yvonne Chireau about being the Hoodoo consultant on Ryan Coogler's latest blockbuster, *Sinners*
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extremely annoyed by Bukele's constant obvious propagandizing and his whole "what if Andrew Tate was a Latin American dictator" deal
I don’t think we’re going to “know your rights” our way out of this one.
NEW: Over the past two months, the Trump administration’s cuts to refugee aid programs have brought wave after wave of uncertainty and chaos to the lives of refugees and those who work to help resettle them.
By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
It’s almost like they’re trying to create new groups of people they can call unlawful or not law abiding by…erasing the history of their lawful status
