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And in this respect being a world power can pretty clearly make your country just abjectly dumber and worse, in addition to crueler.
started with the "propaganda" law... "it's ok to be gay as long as you don't try to convert ppl by having a rainbow flag patch or something." then it was state-backed nazis going on "pedophile hunts" where they harassed, kidnapped, and tortured lgbt ppl.
not entirely true. many were forced off the farms to make room for more sheep grazing lands, due to increased demand for wool. there was probably a worse situation of mass vagrancy in the elizabethan era, also largely due to enclosures but for diff reasons.
Students and staff at Portland State University are still reeling from Monday’s proposed budget cuts.
blazers trying to make me feel things again
Wait, WHAT??????
I think the reason all those "trump believes in multipolarism, so he will leave Asia alone" takes aged so badly is that they failed to recognize that Americanism is never actually anti-interventionist. it's always gone hand-in-hand with imperialism. it's just always been more bare knuckled about it.
RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT Trump's approach is much more than a simple effort to reconnect American objectives in the world to its capabilities and interests, however, as commendable as that is. Equally important, it recognizes that the distribution of power in the world has become more polycentric, and that technologies are changing the components of national power in ways that have big implications for geopolitics. In an emerging multipolar world, it makes no sense for the United States to do things that encourage Russia and China to cooperate against us, as we have inadvertently done for many years. The strategy implicitly recognizes that having a more normal relationship with the West will make Moscow less beholden to Beijing and better able to operate as an independent pole in the emerging order, rather than as a force-multiplier of Chinese power. The strategy also understands that it makes no sense for the United States to encourage continued European dependence on US security protection. We need Europe to have the military strength and internal cohesion to serve as a stabilizing counterweight to Russia, and we need it to have the societal and cultural health to manage perceived threats on the basis of confidence and resilience rather than fear.
stuff like this I guess... totally magical thinking cast in the form of "realism" (was published less than four months ago)
I almost feel bad for the Angevins, bc they were originally "French" (didn't exist at the time) and lost their lands of origin, getting stuck in engherland like regular Johnny castaways.
the history of England—colonized by Rome, Saxons, Danes, Vikings, and Normans (sometimes simultaneously)—is rlly one of those "I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me." things.
The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
look i suffered with rice dream and the big bags of dehydrated tvp. they’re right
A Cybertruck owner in Texas is suing Tesla for $1,000,000 in damages for “ grossly negligent conduct” following an accident on a Houston highway that involved the vehicle’s self-driving feature. Here's the dashcam video.
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Crazy stuff
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Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.
Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.
Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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The link is broken on José's post but this one should be working. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Chris trying to make me hopeful about something 😵💫
“He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.”
the best old English greeting is "holla, ho!" from shakespeare, and I use it every chance I get...
Yesterday afternoon, Iranian state media published photos of what it says are missile parts from the weapon that struck the school in Minab.
The images are notable not just for the parts they show, but for how they show them.
Let me explain...
"You always think the closest water is like a lake or a river or stream, but the closest water is beneath your feet."
Princeton's @reedh2o.bsky.social talks about new research that maps out groundwater below the surface — a vital tool during times of drought.
Screen shot of introduction of case: Michael H. Simon, District Judge. In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case. Indeed, a democracy is only as strong as its tolerance for dissent. As Benjamin Franklin wrote: Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.' Our nation is now at a crossroads. We have been here before and have previously returned to the right path, notwithstanding an occasional detour. In helping our nation find its constitutional compass, an impartial and independent judiciary, operating under the rule of law, has a responsibility that it may not shirk. ' Benjamin Franklin, "On Freedom of Speech and the Press," Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 17, 1737. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Franklin wrote: "Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freedom of Speech." Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, No. 8, as printed in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722.
otherwise, it is HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and all agents and employees of that Department, including all persons acting under the direction of or in active concert or participation with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any of its agents or employees (collectively, the "Enjoined Persons") are hereby prohibited and enjoined from engaging in, directing, or encouraging others to engage in or direct any of the following actions at or in the vicinity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") building located at 4310S. Macadam Avenue, near the corner of Southwest Moody Avenue and Southwest Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon ("Portland ICE Building"): No Enjoined Person may direct or use chemical or projectile munitions, including but not limited to kinetic impact projectiles, pepper ball or paintball guns, tear gas or other chemical irritants, soft nose rounds, 40mm or 37mm launchers, less lethal shotguns, and flashbang, Stinger, or rubber ball grenades, unless the specific target of such a weapon or device poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. No Enjoined Person may fire any munitions or use any weapons described in subsection (a) at the head, neck, or torso of any person, unless the officer is legally justified in using deadly force against that person.
No Enjoined Person may use pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, or other aerosol restraint spray (collectively, "OC Spray"), unless the specific target of that weapon exhibits, at a minimum, active resistance. For purposes of this Order, and by way of example and illustration only, trespassing, refusing to move, refusing to obey an order to disperse, and "going limp" (or "going dead weight") are merely acts of passive resistance, not active resistance. In addition, no Enjoined Person may use OC Spray indiscriminately against groups of people where bystanders foreseeably would be affected. OC Spray, however, may be used against specific individuals actively engaged in violent unlawful conduct, actively resisting arrest, or as reasonably necessary in a defensive capacity.
2. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from making an otherwise lawful arrest if there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that the person being arrested has committed that crime. 3. Nothing in this Order shall prevent an Enjoined Person from using proportional force, including less lethal weapons, on any individual who poses an imminent threat of physical harm to a law enforcement officer or other person. 4. Defendants shall not be liable for violating this Preliminary Injunction if a person is incidentally exposed to a crowd-control device, provided that such a device is deployed in a manner that is fully consistent with this Order of Preliminary Injunction. The parties shall promptly confer regarding how the Enjoined Persons who perform duties at or in the vicinity of the Portland ICE Building can place conspicuous and unique identifying markings (using numbers and/or letters) on the uniforms, vests, and/or helmets of the officers and agents deployed at the Portland ICE Building so that they can be identified at a reasonable distance and without unreasonably interfering with the legitimate law enforcement needs of these personnel. If the parties agree on a method of marking, they shall submit the terms of their agreement in writing to the Court, and the Court will then issue a Supplemental Order of Preliminary Injunction that incorporates the parties agreement. If the
Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.
Federal officers barred from unleashing indiscriminate force on ICE protesters in Portland
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The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.
For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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Wake up, a new scandal that would end any other presidency just dropped. bsky.app/profile/cram...
