1/5 🧵Really happy to have a long-gestating piece in this issue. It connects several threads that I’ve been circling around for the past decade: (1) the racial, gendered and social politics of the NAIRU; (2)alternative modes of inflation management; and... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
“States rights” is about to be tested in the 21st century and it’s going to be very ugly
NEW: UnitedHealth strategically limits access to critical treatment for autistic kids. Leaked documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say United’s strategy may be illegal.
a thread: korean protesters bringing random flags--this started years ago to show that protesters were just normal citizens with various interests because they were accused of doing some sort of political agitation and now it has just become part of the protest culture and i love it
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Was asked to interview for a western media outlet and they were like "and has the impeachment vote awakened the women into political consciousness" and I was like ??? Women have always been the FOREFRONT of protest in Korea: Yoo Gwan Soon, stroller-pushing mothers in 2008, Ewha Women's Uni in 2016??
Conservative party comments on president's declaration today that he will not step down:
"Is he insane"
"Is he asking us to impeach him"
"It's like he just confessed to insurrection"
"Though many politicians believe that halting existing or new fossil fuel production is politically unpopular, there is surprisingly limited data to back this claim...we conducted a nationally representative survey."
guess what @cplusc.bsky.social found?
climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...
A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
When I talk about how Korea has a special place in its heart for political protest... I really do think it's different from the US where you get taught about MLK etc. Like, this is one of Korea's national heroes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Jung...
Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
— James Baldwin, 1980
My cousin's husband, Abu Shadi, was renowned as one of the most famous kunafa sellers in Gaza. His kunafa was not only delicious and authentic but also affordable. He fondly referred to his kunafa as "the Poor's Kunafa.", He was killed along with my cousin, their children, and grandchildren.
It’s finally here!! My first solo-authored article, “The Specter of Indian Removal: The Persistence of State Supremacy Arguments in Federal Indian Law,” is out in Columbia Law Review!
columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
This is an important point and has historical colonial roots
"Morgues are full. More than half the dead are women and children" - WHO
Source: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera:
Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire”
It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Across the occupied West Bank, at least 105 Palestinians have been killed since Oct 7, and another 1,550 arrested in a crackdown by Israeli forces. Palestinian towns have been cut off from one another through Israeli closures and the threat of settler attacks, resulting in a commercial standstill.
Israel says its ground troops are fighting inside Gaza as it subjects the besieged territory to the heaviest bombardment since the war began. International media and aid agencies say they have lost contact with staff in Gaza amid a near-total communications blackout.
‘The sound of explosions is terrifying. The sky is orange. We don't know anything. We are not safe. Pray for us,’ one journalist in Gaza said today.
'Police officers broke into a man’s apartment in Jerusalem and arrested him for hanging a sign against the occupation from his living room. A venue owner in Haifa canceled an event for Jews and Arabs that called to stop the war and return the hostages after getting a warning from the police.'
If you don’t condemn genocide when it matters, when lives are in peril, then you don’t condemn genocide.
It’s an extraordinarily simple position, actually.
CPJ reports that 17 journalists have died since the Israel-Gaza war began earlier this month, mostly due to Israeli airstrikes. cpj.org/2023/10/jour...
There is a playbook.
