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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
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MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT PRIDE comes out today and I'm feeling extremely Ralph Wiggum "I'm in danger" about it. It's beautiful though and I love it no matter what they say
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT PRIDE comes out today and I'm feeling extremely Ralph Wiggum "I'm in danger" about it. It's beautiful though and I love it no matter what they say
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- ECONOMIC BLACKOUT 2/28!
- Protest with your wallet & time!
- Dont spend $/time on Bezos: Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, WaPo. Musk: Tesla, X, Starlink. Zuck: Meta - FB, Instagram, Threads (Bluesky just launched an IG-ish app named Flashes, btw)
- Buy from small, local businesses in general
- Protest with your wallet & time!
- Dont spend $/time on Bezos: Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, WaPo. Musk: Tesla, X, Starlink. Zuck: Meta - FB, Instagram, Threads (Bluesky just launched an IG-ish app named Flashes, btw)
- Buy from small, local businesses in general
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
- ECONOMIC BLACKOUT 2/28!
- Protest with your wallet & time!
- Dont spend $/time on Bezos: Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, WaPo. Musk: Tesla, X, Starlink. Zuck: Meta - FB, Instagram, Threads (Bluesky just launched an IG-ish app named Flashes, btw)
- Buy from small, local businesses in general
- Protest with your wallet & time!
- Dont spend $/time on Bezos: Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, WaPo. Musk: Tesla, X, Starlink. Zuck: Meta - FB, Instagram, Threads (Bluesky just launched an IG-ish app named Flashes, btw)
- Buy from small, local businesses in general
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When the world gets complicated, I simplify.
February 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When the world gets complicated, I simplify.
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🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
February 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Black people have never needed a government to recognize our traditions and beliefs. #BlackHistoryMonth will proceed as planned.
February 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Black people have never needed a government to recognize our traditions and beliefs. #BlackHistoryMonth will proceed as planned.
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"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs
January 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs
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Remember, she lifts her lamp above a door, not a wall . . .
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus
January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Remember, she lifts her lamp above a door, not a wall . . .
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus
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just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
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TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
January 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship
#StateMediaCensorship
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Yes, it can happen again. 👀
January 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yes, it can happen again. 👀
How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
When evil is good and good is evil, we tear our country apart.
When evil is good and good is evil, we tear our country apart.
Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
When evil is good and good is evil, we tear our country apart.
When evil is good and good is evil, we tear our country apart.
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"School Choice Week" is coming to Kansas and the rest of the country the last week of January. &#ksleg #ksed #vouchers #SchoolVouchers
The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools truthout.org/articles/mil...
The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools
The school privatization PR stunt is a pet project of the Gleason family and Koch family fortunes.
truthout.org
January 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"School Choice Week" is coming to Kansas and the rest of the country the last week of January. &#ksleg #ksed #vouchers #SchoolVouchers