Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
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Parents of the bride!
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Caturday on the Catio.
This Good Friday reflection, “For You Were Once…” tells a piece of my family’s story as Chinese Americans during the Exclusion Era. It is a story about silence, memory, and what it means to carry fear across generations.
My wife uncovered a trove of my childhood photos. I will post more later, but let this nightmare fuel Easter bunny sink in. Really sink in.
I’m still scared of clowns, mall Santas, and team mascots. No wonder.
Poster text: Elon makes brisket in the microwave
Absolutely savage sign from the #HandsOff protest in Austin yesterday. There is no greater Texas insult.
Lt Chekov and Nurse Chapel on an away mission in the catio
OPINION: Trump’s administration has, in shocking fashion, marshaled government resources and used their bully pulpit to attack individual faith leaders and major religious institutions.
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
el 430 But its relevance to immigration policy remained open to debate until the Supreme Court decided the case of Wong Kim Ark in 1898. At the time, Chinese immigrants were explicitly banned from becoming American citizens. But when asked if a man born to Chinese immigrants in California could claim citizenship, the Supreme Court ruled he could — because he was born on American soil. To decide otherwise, Justice Horace Gray noted in the majority opinion, "would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German or other European parentage, who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States."
The right of those born on US soil to citizenship were affirmed by the 1898 Supreme Court battle of Wong Kim Ark—a Chinese American born here during this nation’s decades of anti-Chinese exclusion—to be recognized as a citizen.
Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
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It’s not checkers vs chess.
It’s certainly not 3-d chess.
It’s going to be Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Chekov is busy watching Arkansawyers fail miserably at driving in the snow.
Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco to Chinese Parents. In his 20s, he was denied re-entry to the U.S. on the basis of the Chinese Exclusion Act. His legal case set the precedent for birthright citizenship, something Donald Trump has pledged to attack when in office. #Velshi
Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.
Advent/Christmas graphic design by @ultravioletkiwi.bsky.social
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps show number of cases per 100,000 people.
Polio cases in US states, before and after introduction of the polio vaccine
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Being a Gen X progressive Christian means I live in a paradox of abhorring violence and the whole heretic hunter nonsense but I also can’t resist a solid meme. Anywho, happy Feast of Saint Nicholas.
Every Thanksgiving I’m reminded how thankful I am to be from a family of eaters and nappers and not holiday morning 10k runners
Cold day, warm cat.
7 AM, Monday 11/25:
Woke up
Read WaPo front page article on Elon and his "DOGE" plans
Remembered purges of intellectuals & gov workers in Communist Russia & China
Threw paper across room
Screamed something unbecoming a theologian
Project 2025 is apparently going to start by taking us back to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Painting of a sitting black cat and an orange word bubble that says ‘no’
I forgot I painted this. Make what you will of it; cats say ‘No’ to many things they don’t agree with.
Gouache (I think) and color pencil
#cats #kidlitart
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
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