reminder: if you ever see somebody stealing food, no the fuck you didnt.

“Placing SCOTUS in the context of this history reveals a pattern. Since its inception, the court has generally operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law, & to strengthen this baseline by consistently favoring & reinforcing the superior status of whites in the US”

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us — It Was Founded to Defend White Supremacy Since its inception, the court has operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law.

Conventional wisdom tells us the Supreme Court’s dominion is the administration of justice. This misconception, however, prevents us from seeing it for what it truly is — a national defense agency.

truthout.org/articles/the...

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us — It Was Founded to Defend White Supremacy Since its inception, the court has operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law.

Two years ago, I wrote a brief piece for @truthout.bsky.social, arguing that we should view #SCOTUS as a national defense agency that has consistently worked to enshrine and defend white nationalism since its inception—a trend likely to intensify under Trump.

truthout.org/articles/the...

Remains more relevant than ever.

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

♥️ this!

Grit Matthias Phelps introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. She found a few dozen old manual typewriters and created what her syllabus calls an “analog” assignment.

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My flower painting 🌼

Well done. #NoKings

Jamacian artist Ebony G Patterson creates mixed media atworks including jacquard-weave tapestry to tell the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #Womensart

Poster for a “Rally for Trans Visibility.” The design features a dark textured background with bold white text at the top. Below, it says “Endorsed by:” followed by a circular logo reading “She Votes Illinois” over a light blue outline of the state. Event details are listed: Saturday, April 4th at 1 PM, Federal Plaza, Chicago. In the bottom right, an illustration shows a person holding a megaphone and speaking. Logos for “Trans Up Front Illinois” appear near the bottom.

Trans rights are human rights, and they’re under attack. 🏳️‍⚧️

Join the Rally for Trans Visibility to demand safety, healthcare, and dignity for trans people, especially youth facing political interference in their care.

📅 Saturday, April 4 | 1:00 PM

Sign up today! tinyurl.com/TDOVChicago2...

Klan Materials Found in Mississippi DPS Office Likely Came From 1960s Investigations, Agency Says Ku Klux Klan materials found in a briefcase in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety were likely from 1960s-era investigations, MDPS says.

Ku Klux Klan materials found in a briefcase in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety were likely from 1960s-era investigations, an MDPS spokesperson says.

The materials included full Klan regalia, ledgers with the names of klansmen, Klan pamphlets and more.

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Grady Judd endorsing immigration reform and calling for the Trump admin to pull back on deportation is seismic. He is a strong Trump and DeSantis ally who has been a hardliner on immigration for years.

Colourful collage of four stylised Black female figures in dresses with umbrellas on grass under a blue sky

Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart

Tell Your Senators: Oppose Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary Contact Congress today!

🚨URGENT: Trump's UNHINGED DHS pick—Markwayne Mullin—confirmation hearing tentatively set for next week!

He defends ICE fatally shooting citizens, backs expelling US-born kids, objected to 2020 election results.

Tell your Senators: BLOCK this nomination!

Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.

That's why the right killed them.

If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!

I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

From: 1 <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:13 AM To: David Schoen Subject: Re: Report: Porzingis accused of rape in New York no testimony , i just need info . =n the girl. she said she was 14 . entering high sc=ool . ? details of house all nonsense. ? ava=etti said he had a victim and then danieal kaiser resuurects who jeffrey herman , approacjed me 3 years ago with her. . =AO it is a scam and im not sure what to do a=out it. id like the investigator to find social media. orb. i have found some web pates. i would re=lly hike to know if there is connection between kaiser and avenatti. ? =A0 On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 12:09 PM c > wrote: As an investigator in NY, I like a guy name= Joe Dwyer. He does great work. A problem with him though is t=at it would be difficult to use him to testify in a case because he took a=plea in a case for getting a cop to get him non-public records on informan=s. The lawyers he was working for had him do it but he took the whol= rap and they walked. He did not go to prison and he has his license=back; but that would be an area of cross examination. I still think =e does the best investigative work. It is very tough to find a good =ne in NY. His brot=er Ron Dwyer is pretty good. They don't speak but Ron speaks=to me. There are a couple=of other guys who are good at pulling records on people. Joe is just=all excellent at getting people to talk to him. =/div> I have also used some of the big agencies and they c=n be decent. On Mar 31, 2019, at 3:35 AM,1 <=a href="mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeevacation@gmai=.com> wrote: Repo=t: Porzingis accused of rape in New York Read Now

One of the grossest things in the Epstein files is how he just randomly scanned the news for men accused of SA and used this money and connections to dig up dirt on victims.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

Photo of an off-white lichen. One section of the lichen looks like brain. The rest looks like frilly leaves. Five large, orange apothecia are visible on the lichen. The lichen is growing on grey rock and on other (crustose) lichens.

Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
lichen is about 3cm in longest dimension.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.

👏👏👏

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.

Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

If you've received notice that your TSA Pre or Global Entry has been revoked and you believe it's due to your political activity, I'd love to talk to you.

jdica@protonmail.com

Multiple deadly ICE shootings later, and they know body cameras are enough to make the public relax.

Trump is raising a private paramilitary police force to execute his slow-motion coup—and the idea of justice?

Body cameras.

Housing insecurity is a real and urgent nationwide issue.

In recent months, I’ve been part of an housing coalition working to pass Evanston’s landmark strategic housing plan. I spoke before the mayor and council last week urging them to pass it and they voted wisely!

Now the hard work begins.

The massive growth of deportation infrastructure has been uneven & inadequate to meet the administration's goals. The bottlenecks of not enough ICE lawyers in MN (see article below) is partly solved by denying detainees the right to appeal (see 2nd article below). 1/