For reference.
For reference.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.
keepingit101.com/smartgrrlsum...
what is religious nationalism? Why should you care?
And of course
Ch 2, esp
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
keepingit101.com/smartgrrlsum...
what is religious nationalism? Why should you care?
religious nationalism has always been a scourge
I have big news about how the British cultivated, fomented and rewarded it
some resources:
VERMONT
Peter Welch's phone numbers:
DC: 202-224-4242
If you can't get through or leave a message on the DC number β¬οΈ
Burlington: 802-863-2525
Seems like a good time to repost this one:
Two things. Iβve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals.
And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody wonβt allow it because itβs such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
i hate this clickbait crap. the data tells you a lot about national norms, but very little about generational ones
full data set www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...
Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.
Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraudβhow nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat
Holy shit they keep finding new lows. This is...wow this is bleak man. This is a propaganda techno-fever dream. A killstreak counter from a jingoistic video game concerning actual, literal, murdered children.
Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.
Too bad there's no opposition party that could relentlessly press the case against war.
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
Yes! I made a similar point a couple months back. The productive struggle is the point.
an important read
Great deep analysis of the current situation. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...
I know that the people who need to read this arenβt here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement arenβt for the enemy. Theyβre for you. Theyβre for your soldiers when theyβre captured or wounded. Theyβre for your civilians when theyβre in range of the enemy. Theyβre for your allies, to reassure.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.
In this new report, @ksavin.bsky.social, and @calliefreitag.bsky.social and I explain how Trump 2.0 and DOGE built up new barriers to the already-difficult process of getting disability benefits.
Let's talk about what we found, and what we recommend to address the issues. π§΅
Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going
omg lol no
babe, no
"In a lot of ways Ive spent a lot of time being the one person willing to say we're all afraid to die and afraid to lose our loved ones..."
Oh really, Justin? You're the only one willing to say death is scary?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...
This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. Itβs not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.