Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele works on topics related to comparative constitutional ethnography within the sociology of law. .. more
An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:
In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
I have decided not to be reduced by any events, social or political, that aim to rob me of my dignity”
— Maya Angelou
#SheShed
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Our kids asked that their white noise machine be turned up to try to drown out the noise of the helicopter that’s been nonstop since we woke up this morning.
Our 7yo asked “Isn’t it past their bedtime, too? They should go home & stop being so noisy.”
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Venezuela
Greenland
Department of War
Gaza
ICE
Renee Good
[$]TRUMP
The East Wing
Gulf of America
January 6
E. Jean Carroll
34 convictions
Alien Enemies Act
Stephen Miller
US-Iran War
DOGE
The Trump Shutdown
Noem
Hegseth
+ 100s more
When does everyone decide it is enough
Across multiple cities, disturbing updates are pouring in, wounded and killed numbers are rising fast. The regime is throwing everything it has at suppressing the uprising.
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But it is fully factual, fully sourced, and full of necessary truths about where we are and what is about to happen in America.
This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.