Please reporters, for the love of god, don’t normalize this administration and manufacture consent for the abject evil they will commit. Your objectivity was always a myth! You know that, right? Now is not the time for sentences like, “Trump appeared to answer dishonestly.”
We've tried to DIY society, and in the process, we've left families (especially mothers) with far more responsibility than they can manage.
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/u...
"Our beloved Refaat Alareer (@itranslate123) wrote these words in October, but they had not been published until now. @intifada is grateful to have the honor to share them with the world. When I read them, I can hear his voice."
Ali Abunimah
@aliabunimah.bsky.social
"What infrastructure do we need to transform our
culture while also decarbonizing our communities? The answer, in part: Public pools. Shorter workweeks. Accessible parks. Local sports. Low-carbon leisure." prospect.org/sponsored/th...
Not enough discussion about how rapidly and completely the Democrats abandoned Black Lives Matter
I want y'all to start having bigger dreams and bigger imaginations. It's possible that we can have a better world.
There is a direct line from the police murder of Mike Brown and the building of cop cities
www.wabe.org/10-years-lat...
10 years. Michael Brown would be 28.
It’s James Baldwin’s 100th birthday! I’ve mentioned this before, but ICYMI, there’s a wonderful Spotify playlist consisting of all the records that were documented as being in Baldwin’s house in the south of France. It was curated by Ikechúkwú Casmir
Onyewuenyi. open.spotify.com/playlist/7qo...
Because that’s their job…keep you afraid. The more you’re afraid, the more you’ll want the state and its actors (cops) around to make you feel safe…and kill innocent Black and Brown ppl.
fair.org/home/crime-i...
The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes: Demonstrations are on the rise, and scientists are revealing which types work best.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"If the top 1 percent of income earners in America just paid all the federal income taxes they owed, we could raise an additional $175 billion a year. That’s 38 times what it would cost to provide a bed to every person experiencing unsheltered homelessness in America."
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month.
Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.
That's one way to disarm the police
I would not have imagined a world where “fighting antisemitism” became a rallying cry of white supremacist Republicans to silence pro-Palestinian protesters (including anti-Zionist Jews), and an alleged reason for authoritarian Democrats to call for a mask ban, but here we are.
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Load-bearing comma.
Awful. Stanford Internet Observatory, a fantastic effort studying online misinfo & related topics, dismantled after "a sustained & increasingly successful campaign among Republicans to discredit research institutions & discourage academics from investigating political speech & influence campaigns."
The SSI asset limit is one of the most bullshit, punitive, damaging restrictions in existence.
what's great is how multilayered a success this is. It won't win a single conservative voter and it greatly demoralizes a huge number of liberal voters, all while being morally indefensible and a treaty violation.
News Analysis: President Biden’s executive action to temporarily close the U.S.-Mexico border to asylum seekers is a “stunning reversal for a president and a party that spent years arguing that America was a country of immigrants,” Michael Shear writes.
James is of America’s leading authorities on asylum and immigration law.
Turns out the "campus antisemitism" fearmongering was fueled by Israeli tech firms. Meta reports that FB and Instagram posts praising Israel's handling of the war in Gaza came from accounts posing as Jewish students, African Americans and other concerned citizens.
www.reuters.com/technology/m...