A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.
Whatever you do,
I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing.
No, because I can't think of a single Republican who hasn't bent the knee to Trump. I also don't think the GOP is a "conservative" or "center-right" party anymore; I think it's a horseshoe (right+left) populist cult of personality, not really even a party now.
Worth noting that Hungary was much further down the road to fascism than we are. And with one election and a motivated electorate, it’s over.
Out of 23,000 undergrads, only 19 students signed up for the lavishly funded conservative academic center forced onto University of Iowa by Republican politicians.
Turning Points has an $85 million budget and there is no equivalent on the center-left/left. And yet, students still aren't buying it.
One problem with American politics that doesn’t get talked about enough is the ~30% of voters who very much don’t want good things to happen to other people and would rather have hundreds of thousands of people crushed by medical debt than have a cent of their taxes go towards making society better
There should at least be some social consequences for being so selfish that you dedicate yourself to hindering societal progress and making life worse for other people
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.
Let this be a lesson. Vote!
"In 2011, Kansas adopted a law requiring prospective voters to show documentary proof of citizenship to register. By the time that requirement was blocked by federal courts, it had prevented over 31,000 eligible citizens from registering to vote,"
More about that law: apnews.com/article/kans...
Republicans have a ten point registration edge in the district.
We are in a phase of American experience where we are unable to apply the hard-learned lessons of the past to any facet of our lives.
The most pathologically destructive belief about law on social media is that a person can always sue someone to correct a perceived wrong. Causes of action and remedies are often unavailable or limited. One of the crucial insights of the Trump administration is how limited lawsuits are.
Trump has always been a eugenicist, obsessed with "good" and "bad" genes, but the media largely ignores or sanewashes it.
Admirable statement, exemplary humanity in dire times.
Alabama planned to execute Charles Sonny Burton today as punishment for the death of man he didn't kill
But after widespread condemnation, the governor commuted the death sentence
People recognize felony murder executions are wrong--the Constitution should, too!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I don’t want to discourage the brave people doing this work but this is really lacking:
do you have the right? absolutely yes
if an ICE agent says fuck you and beats you to within an inch of your life, can you file a lawsuit for damages? basically no
Can't think of a clearer signal we desperately need statutory Bivens now.
In layman's terms: we currently cannot sue individual Federal officers who act violently during arrests. A SCOTUS case, Bivens, created a way to, but this (and past) SCOTUSes have gutted it. Congress needs to codify it.
And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..."
...becomes "We are really good at killing people."
Tech brain.
He can win them by playing "YMCA" more often.
It directly addresses young men!
If the U.S. president can't guarantee the safety of participants in the World Cup, then the World Cup shouldn't be played in the U.S.
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm
Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.
This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx
1. I keep seeing people say "if the war itself is illegal, then no act committed in that war can be legal, so why bother to distinguish between legal and illegal acts." This is profoundly mistaken, and let me explain why.
