How can I assign this thread to my intro students as they learn about courts next week? Because this is amazing.
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How can I assign this thread to my intro students as they learn about courts next week? Because this is amazing.
NEW: Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.
Here's what happens when miscarriage is recast as murder:
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
In the book White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, about the 1870s-1920s, historian Louise Michele Newman notes that it was when Black people started to participate more In the political sphere that discourse about politics became more preoccupied with fraud.
This was an episode of 30 Rock.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
"'Protective presence' is a tactic utilized by a targeted group of people in which they get untargeted people to be a buffer so that they can go along with trying to resist their occupation and live a normal life."
And iiirc the woman who started it has raised something like $600k from it? That’s pretty good!
A male professor of sexual violence prevention assaulted one of my friends in grad school and that was my Joker moment 🤡
when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
For context, organizers in Springfield have asked for support via donations and that no one travel there even to act as observers, and that anyone who lives/works in town should attend a training on how to protect neighbors and interact with ICE.
See the post about DIFA if you're in Dayton.
arguably, it had a lot to do with training, as in, this is what they are trained to do. however the idea this was a *lack* of training is laughable and any Dem who floats it as a solution should be laughed at.
These agents joined CBP in 2014 and 2018, just to fully dispel the notion these were recent hires who just needed more training.
The Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, has over 260,000 employees. The Department of Defense, which houses the military, is the largest employer in the world. Carceral industries are some of the most unionized.
Abolition is a labor issue. We need a new economy with different work.
Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.
A reminder that subtlety is dead under this regime.
The Deportation Data Project has some interesting information about how people are being arrested by immigration police and what is happening.
First thing worth pointing out, the increased number of immigration arrests are from massive "street arrests" and more transfers from other agencies.
This thread provided me so much clarity. Thank you. Was revisiting Cesaire and Fanon today and struggling with this.
“The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.” So fucking good.
Coates is always worth reading.
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The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you
It seems worse in the Twin Cities but this is how it felt in Chicago, too. I think they have escalated tactics since then.
Stopping for a moment to acknowledge that it's absolutely nuts that everybody's schedule is now like "2:00 meeting, 3:00 daycare patrol, 4:00 emails." And we just...do it because what other choice is there?
Inside you are two wolves. One is fine-tuning next term's syllabi, the other is scraping its cheekbones against a week-old plate of pecan pie.
Me after I watch A Muppet Christmas Carol
I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.
Let me paint a picture for you.
It finally happened. I saw an anti-vaxxer post in a local pet group. Asking for a holistic vet 🥴
Decriminalization of sex work does not equal Decriminalization of sex trafficking.
That's like arguing that legalization of Marijuana also makes it legal to coerce someone into smuggling drugs.
Trafficking is trafficking
Sex work is sex work.
