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law student, nyc. criminal law, politics, urbanism, gender, mtg, wnba.
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Reyes then goes through the history of Haitian TPS in particular; how around 50,000 Haitians in the US were protected in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, and maintained their status until Trump first tried to end it soon after his "shithole" comment. She has a fascinating footnote on that.
![Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,” doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930). See Shithole, Oxford English Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole. Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.” Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler. Hitler later tried to convert him to Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused. He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books, raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest. He lived his remaining years in exile, first in Austria and then in Switzerland. See Von David Gordon Smith, Eye-Witness Account of Hitler’s WWI Years Found, Spiegel International (April 30, 2007), https://www.spiegel.de/ international/zeitgeist/ rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwiyears-found-a-478359.html [https://perma.cc/RU49-2Y4U].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpgaminadurq2nlqlzdsinr7xozdac5bk4sf4lchb6woa4qtdkye@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Reyes then goes through the history of Haitian TPS in particular; how around 50,000 Haitians in the US were protected in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, and maintained their status until Trump first tried to end it soon after his "shithole" comment. She has a fascinating footnote on that.
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Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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NFL offensive players: i just think we need to stop picking people from new mexico. i mean nobody any disrespect but football is an american sport.
NFL defensive players: carly rae jepsen is mother
NFL defensive players: carly rae jepsen is mother
February 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
NFL offensive players: i just think we need to stop picking people from new mexico. i mean nobody any disrespect but football is an american sport.
NFL defensive players: carly rae jepsen is mother
NFL defensive players: carly rae jepsen is mother
few know that "you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose," now accepted as a common law principle, was once the subject of a hotly contested jurisdictional split in the courts of 15th century england
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
few know that "you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose," now accepted as a common law principle, was once the subject of a hotly contested jurisdictional split in the courts of 15th century england
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I'll have you know I'm held in the highest esteem by some of the dumbest people alive
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I'll have you know I'm held in the highest esteem by some of the dumbest people alive
lady gaga should win a grammy every year for the next twenty years
February 2, 2026 at 2:43 AM
lady gaga should win a grammy every year for the next twenty years
justin beiber im soooo drunk
February 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
justin beiber im soooo drunk
miley cyrus's work is so tasteful. need her surgeon
February 2, 2026 at 1:10 AM
miley cyrus's work is so tasteful. need her surgeon
✅ 7 points on 3/6 from the field
✅ co-mvp
✅ 14-6 victory
in today's exhibition game in madison square garden
✅ co-mvp
✅ 14-6 victory
in today's exhibition game in madison square garden
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
✅ 7 points on 3/6 from the field
✅ co-mvp
✅ 14-6 victory
in today's exhibition game in madison square garden
✅ co-mvp
✅ 14-6 victory
in today's exhibition game in madison square garden
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generationally wealthy sexy yodas near me
February 1, 2026 at 7:37 AM
generationally wealthy sexy yodas near me
i cast pot of greed to draw two cards from my deck and add them to my hand
January 31, 2026 at 4:42 AM
i cast pot of greed to draw two cards from my deck and add them to my hand
2 hrs late. its over
January 30, 2026 at 11:27 PM
2 hrs late. its over
my amtrak to philadelphia to see paige is running 35 minutes late.... im going to miss half her game 😭
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
my amtrak to philadelphia to see paige is running 35 minutes late.... im going to miss half her game 😭
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i'm going to go to a show tonight and have exactly two beers and dance like a charlie brown character. furthermore, ICE must be destroyed
January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
i'm going to go to a show tonight and have exactly two beers and dance like a charlie brown character. furthermore, ICE must be destroyed
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gone off a heady mixture of blood and victory wine
January 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
gone off a heady mixture of blood and victory wine
lol
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
lol
vance and co are not going to be happy when they realize they've ended up at a position ("your eyes are lying to you!") that takes more effort to embrace than refute. they need a simple, compact narrative. their people do not have the cognitive bandwidth to add any extra layers to "immigrants bad!"
Vance: "Dems decided they didn't want to talk about fraud from Somalians, they wanted to talk about the 'brutality of immigration enforcement.' 2hat you've seen is a viral effort to try to inflate what's actually going on, to overstate wrongs that have been committed. They're trying to distract."
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
vance and co are not going to be happy when they realize they've ended up at a position ("your eyes are lying to you!") that takes more effort to embrace than refute. they need a simple, compact narrative. their people do not have the cognitive bandwidth to add any extra layers to "immigrants bad!"
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I feel like a crazy person, a delusional conspiracy theorist, just for putting this idea out in the world, but: I've seen enough different things like this that I'm reasonably certain members of the Trump Administration are placing bets in prediction markets on their own actions before they do them.
The head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll be able to prosecute Don Lemon for his journalism, after a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime.
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I feel like a crazy person, a delusional conspiracy theorist, just for putting this idea out in the world, but: I've seen enough different things like this that I'm reasonably certain members of the Trump Administration are placing bets in prediction markets on their own actions before they do them.
sending my tattoo artist a "healed" shot taken in the reflection of a ditch pool on a foggy dawn
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
sending my tattoo artist a "healed" shot taken in the reflection of a ditch pool on a foggy dawn
clearly this is a difficult topic for some people, so it deserves this disclaimer: naturalized citizens from illiberal countries did not win the 2024 election for trump. rather, trump successfully used LGBT wedge issues to motivate non-college-educated social conservatives, including non-white ones
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 PM
clearly this is a difficult topic for some people, so it deserves this disclaimer: naturalized citizens from illiberal countries did not win the 2024 election for trump. rather, trump successfully used LGBT wedge issues to motivate non-college-educated social conservatives, including non-white ones
is it any wonder an anti-trans scapegoating campaign strategy was effective among unlikely, low-information voters who harbor regressive cultural views about diversity and sexuality?
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 AM
is it any wonder an anti-trans scapegoating campaign strategy was effective among unlikely, low-information voters who harbor regressive cultural views about diversity and sexuality?
haven't seen nothing ever happens wojak in a while. hope he's ok
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 AM
haven't seen nothing ever happens wojak in a while. hope he's ok
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded