Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you
Congrats!!
more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
The biggest gathering of professional historians in the US is about to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli destruction of every educational institution in Gaza. These are the spokespeople for the pro-scholasticide wing of the historical profession:
This is an unbelievably shameful list to appear on.
I just published a piece in The Journal of Jesuit Studies, about the Jesuit Alonso de Sandoval, who wrote one of the most important eyewitness accounts of slavery in the seventeenth-century Caribbean.
The piece has been published in open access here: brill.com/view/journal...
again going to my bench of favorite complaints: it is weird how openly predatory US culture is and it would be good to have a government that feels some semblance of responsibility for people's wellbeing
As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public. nyti.ms/41EOpNc
New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8.
If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Cornell students allege yesterday was the “first [known] time a U.S. university has enacted deportation powers against a student” over Palestine organizing, effectively deporting grad student Momodou Taal, over a protest of defense contractors at a job fair last week
h/t @leximcmenamin.bsky.social
my big takeaway from this — aside from the fact that bari weiss is one of the most unprincipled people i’ve ever encountered — is that uri berliner fucked up popular.info/p/the-real-c...
As many people pointed out along the way, most of these would've likely ended as peacefully as ours if admin left them alone rather than called the cops. It's the end of the semester; students would inevitably graduate or go home for summer. Not sure why so many admin didn't think about that timing.
I think it's important to emphasise that what Baconi argues here applies universally. Multiethnicity is routinely tarnished as unrealistic fantasy, but it's the reality that exists. It's the supposed utopia of ethnic purity and homogeneity that repeatedly turns out to be unattainable fantasy.
Goldwater, and Friedman alongside him, viewed the proposed law with suspicion. It would have been relatively easy for Friedman to avoid commenting on the topic. Instead, as the campaign progressed, Friedman became increasingly vocal. In an appearance before Harvard students, Friedman launched into a long diatribe against the Civil Rights Act. "The majority in this country are prejudiced and it is naïve —no, it's undemocratic,— to suppose you're going to get people to vote against themselves," he argued. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, he veered off topic to explain and defend Goldwater's position. "Sen. Goldwater believes improvement in the lot of the Negro depends primarily on freedom of economic opportunity and on changing att-tudes on the part of individuals," he explained, presenting Goldwateris views as equivalent to his. "He believes that laws by the federal government cannot effectively improve the Negro's position…”
reading this jennifer burns profile of milton friedman and the entire section on the civil rights act is infuriating. friedman comes across as smug, blinkered and willfully ignorant of the actual state of the jim crowd south, to say nothing of its history. here, he is speaking out against the act
Any company that lays off more than 3% of its workforce while profitable should also be legally required to lay off its entire c-suite, who should be legally barred from collecting anything more than the same severance as the laid off workers
We're working on a dataset and map of runaway slave ads that are connected to the neighborhood of Georgetown. Here's what the students have produced so far. www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
