Alice Jane Grimm (she/her)
@alice-j-grimm.bsky.social
Sparkling Sapphic on Lisjan Ohlone land (Oakland) / math PhD drop-out, former high school teacher, working in tech these days / potato powered princess
Jew by choice
Former Trans Educator Core Collective
Jew by choice
Former Trans Educator Core Collective
Pinned
No billionaires
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Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
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Revisiting because arg and I am gonna spend two days off the internet til I get this done and published
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Revisiting because arg and I am gonna spend two days off the internet til I get this done and published
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So true 😂
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So true 😂
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We should be clear. SCOTUS justices who vote against birthright citizenship are enemies of the US Constitution & the United States of America.
The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We should be clear. SCOTUS justices who vote against birthright citizenship are enemies of the US Constitution & the United States of America.
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This goes across the political spectrum, too.
I get genuinely upset with friends who casually talk shit about a civil conflict or violent revolution that they fully admit they don't expect to be "on the front lines" for. All expecting other people's sons to die for them.
I get genuinely upset with friends who casually talk shit about a civil conflict or violent revolution that they fully admit they don't expect to be "on the front lines" for. All expecting other people's sons to die for them.
people genuinely don't realize how awful civil conflict is
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This goes across the political spectrum, too.
I get genuinely upset with friends who casually talk shit about a civil conflict or violent revolution that they fully admit they don't expect to be "on the front lines" for. All expecting other people's sons to die for them.
I get genuinely upset with friends who casually talk shit about a civil conflict or violent revolution that they fully admit they don't expect to be "on the front lines" for. All expecting other people's sons to die for them.
Birthright citizenship is a fact, regardless of how the Court rules
The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Birthright citizenship is a fact, regardless of how the Court rules
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The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
Top 5 political awakening moments for me might include in US history in high school my teacher
“In the 80’s conservatives argued that welfare was causing a breakdown in the traditional family structure, and they were right because welfare gave women the resources to leave abusive men”
“In the 80’s conservatives argued that welfare was causing a breakdown in the traditional family structure, and they were right because welfare gave women the resources to leave abusive men”
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Top 5 political awakening moments for me might include in US history in high school my teacher
“In the 80’s conservatives argued that welfare was causing a breakdown in the traditional family structure, and they were right because welfare gave women the resources to leave abusive men”
“In the 80’s conservatives argued that welfare was causing a breakdown in the traditional family structure, and they were right because welfare gave women the resources to leave abusive men”
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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High on the Hog covers this. A great documentary series.
“After five years in Paris, Hemings brought his new skills back to the US and served as Jefferson's head chef at Monticello, as well as in New York and Philadelphia, until he was able to negotiate his own freedom in 1796.”
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The enslaved man who popularised mac and cheese
The baked dish is one of the US's most popular foods, but its rise can likely be traced back to an enslaved Black chef who worked for Thomas Jefferson.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
High on the Hog covers this. A great documentary series.
"Aren't people just soup dumplings?" - my partner, during dinner
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"Aren't people just soup dumplings?" - my partner, during dinner
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And the threat to democracy is the flower *of that*. Reconstruction isn’t about breaking the South, reconstruction is about freeing the slave and barring the door to reenslavement. The failure of reconstruction creates hazards for democracy but is not in itself a hazard to democracy.
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And the threat to democracy is the flower *of that*. Reconstruction isn’t about breaking the South, reconstruction is about freeing the slave and barring the door to reenslavement. The failure of reconstruction creates hazards for democracy but is not in itself a hazard to democracy.
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The lust for hierarchy arises from living in hierarchy. The tolerance from totalitarianism comes from being totally empowered over a subset of your neighbors. So the root is the subjection of Black people (this btw is why we say Black bodies—a liberal gesture at the freedom of the spirit)
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The lust for hierarchy arises from living in hierarchy. The tolerance from totalitarianism comes from being totally empowered over a subset of your neighbors. So the root is the subjection of Black people (this btw is why we say Black bodies—a liberal gesture at the freedom of the spirit)
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The unfinished work of reconstruction was and is Black political equality (which btw is NOT Black liberation, so the third reconstruction is in truth already a bit of a misnomer—again we ALL think in the direction of our own interests).
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The unfinished work of reconstruction was and is Black political equality (which btw is NOT Black liberation, so the third reconstruction is in truth already a bit of a misnomer—again we ALL think in the direction of our own interests).
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that completes the work of “breaking the slave power” in its modern incarnation as MAGA—but keeping MAGA from breaking our system of justice becomes a higher priority than behaving as though we live in a world with a justice system that is compatible with Black selfhood. Does that make sense?
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
that completes the work of “breaking the slave power” in its modern incarnation as MAGA—but keeping MAGA from breaking our system of justice becomes a higher priority than behaving as though we live in a world with a justice system that is compatible with Black selfhood. Does that make sense?
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So imagining a Third Reconstruction that might complete the work of making Black Americans full citizens—which necessarily entails prioritizing as a value literally freeing and restoring the right to vote to Black Americans, which the pardon power has been used for—becomes a Third Reconstruction
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
So imagining a Third Reconstruction that might complete the work of making Black Americans full citizens—which necessarily entails prioritizing as a value literally freeing and restoring the right to vote to Black Americans, which the pardon power has been used for—becomes a Third Reconstruction
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No one is cheaper than rich people www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
No one is cheaper than rich people www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...
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If you are in a position of power and you're telling me in good faith that you are *actually* this incompetent? That's an easy problem to solve. You are relieved of your duties effective immediately. We no longer require your service. Thanks.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you are in a position of power and you're telling me in good faith that you are *actually* this incompetent? That's an easy problem to solve. You are relieved of your duties effective immediately. We no longer require your service. Thanks.
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I hate to be so crass. But we gotta start having a different conversation about this shit. We can't mount a defense to any of this until we agree to entertain the possibility that *everyone* involved is either an active scammer or has knowingly decided to be a collaborator.
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I hate to be so crass. But we gotta start having a different conversation about this shit. We can't mount a defense to any of this until we agree to entertain the possibility that *everyone* involved is either an active scammer or has knowingly decided to be a collaborator.
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Okay, but was it an amateur move? Or is it really that a bunch of people have tacitly agreed that it's scamming season? I've talked about this as one of the most significant markers of the Trump era. Scammery has been normalized. Everybody knew. They just decided to try to get away with it.
You've known for a year that she had a sexual relationship with a source and lied about it to her previous employer. She admits in her book—which VF excerpted—that she helped RFK Jr's campaign! Amateur hour not to investigate any of this before hiring her.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Okay, but was it an amateur move? Or is it really that a bunch of people have tacitly agreed that it's scamming season? I've talked about this as one of the most significant markers of the Trump era. Scammery has been normalized. Everybody knew. They just decided to try to get away with it.
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hell yeah
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
hell yeah
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“There are few questions in US law that are more settled than the question of whether babies born in the United States are citizens of this country. In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the nation ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.”
“All persons” from its first line “means all persons.”
“All persons” from its first line “means all persons.”
“There is no plausible argument that Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is constitutional.” www.vox.com/politics/471...
The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done
There is no plausible argument that Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is constitutional.
www.vox.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“There are few questions in US law that are more settled than the question of whether babies born in the United States are citizens of this country. In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the nation ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.”
“All persons” from its first line “means all persons.”
“All persons” from its first line “means all persons.”