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This points to one possible dimension of the post Trump global order: a regime of extraterritoriality for US-headquartered businesses. The same treatment that Europe imposed on the weaker states of the South in the 19th century, but now applied by the US to the whole world.
Knowing who to be mad at is part of the work. Always.
Read more about this case in @theintercept.com's article by Jeremy Busby, @joinjeremy.org, in partnership with FPF:
Prison-style free speech censorship is coming for the rest of us: The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous
From your answer it sounds like democracy for realists might be missing something. Which is not shocking because social movement tend to be ignored in analysis.
They shouldn’t be judged in this way but there is evidence that they increase turnout! So my point is that typical GOTV stats don’t apply during a social movement.
This is because movements make new spaces and relationships. They activate people and do political socialization in ways that are different than everyday life. In sum, I think there’s something big being left out of the discussion: a sizable spring social movement in ‘24. /
As a matter of conscience I thought Biden/Harris were abetting genocide. But as a social movement scholar I thought they were disregarding what a mass movement could mean for them in electoral terms come November’24. 3/
Here’s why it’s important. Harris and Biden proactively participated in suppressing a movement. Social movements are different, and political science literature hasn’t been great on understanding relationship between movements and turnout. 2/
Haven’t read democracy for realists so I have a genuine question for those that have. Does it address the turnout effects of a social movement? I think the major conflict in this discussion looks differently when you frame Gaza as a policy vs. a movement. 1/
the mass abduction and detainment of immigrants that we’re seeing now is intrinsically linked to mass incarceration. politicians and the media have spent decades normalizing the mass detention of a lower class of people in squalid conditions.
things will never truly change until we as a society reckon with the fundamental links between policing, prisons, and immigration—including our complicity in allowing it to happen in our names.
This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime.
It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.
The difference is that there's this patina of AGI. Don't look at this as a part of the ever-changing-same of global capitalism. This is something different. But is it though?
One of the hallmarks of this era of tech is that the push to automate service work looks a lot more like the 90s/2000s era of globalization of manufacturing...breaking the service commodity down into pieces that can be done by off-shored workers.
What's going on with Waymos when they hit a snag? An employee in the Philippines steps in. How about self-scanning technology? Once again there are off-shored people engaging in monitoring.
Hard agree on this! It's in the dna of tech. What did Elizabeth Holmes do to convince investors? Took their blood, had lab technicians run it as fast as possible, and made it seem like it was just the Edison box or whatever the fuck they were called.
Even if you learn nothing else about the Prairieland case, please take note that the federal government is trying to build a terrorism case around an unarmed box of zines
The government is literally busting down doors and confiscating political literature. All eyes on Prairieland 👀👇🏻
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Everyone is pretty familiar with the Emmett Till lynching in 1955.
Everyone is pretty familiar with the Little Rock Nine in 1957.
But have you heard about Wrightsville, Arkansas in 1959?
You probably didnt, because it barely became public until 2018
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Genuine question since our media landscape sucks: where are you finding good, critical reporting on the war?
I've been reading Tourmaline's biography of Marsha P. Johnson and the era when the movement turned on STAR activists is just...brutal.
This is so shitty and not suprising.
These right wingers are all downstream of Paul Bremer. Bremer’s brood.
Bremer was young, arrogant, incompetent, and lacked expertise in the area. These dudes want to distance themselves from Bremer but they are this generation’s Bremer.
Yep! No reason for a moral panic!
Yep and very quickly as a prof it’s easy to see that these arbitrary things do not contribute meaningfully to assessing students. You want them in an environment where they can perform at their best.
accommodations didn’t exist when i was in college in the early 00s. of course there’s a “spike.” that’s a good thing; it means we’re getting better at educating all students.
One of the first things I learned as a professor is that accommodations don’t make the class/assessment easier — they just make it inclusive. Doing a moral panic on accommodations is just gross and ableist.
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