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I can't stop thinking about the LAPD officer that was killed during training at the academy in May. Can't stop thinking about it because the violence that resulted in his paralysis below the neck and eventual death was intended for civilian targets but killed him accidentally.
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My favorite part of this video drop was all the white people explaining how profound it was lol
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The pediatrician in the video, Dr. Ismail, said that Rayan effectively died of a panic attack: that his little heart and body couldn't control his reaction to the fear of being chased by the soldiers, and so he just dropped after arriving at home.
The family of a 7-year-old Palestinian, Rayan Suleiman, say he died of heart failure after being chased by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
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Literally the episode of South Park where Cartman buys himself an amusement park and doesn't let anybody in
This photo of Jeff Bezos riding Space Mountain completely alone is one of the funniest, most pathetic demonstrations of wealth I’ve ever seen.
Imagine having the power eradicate poverty & choosing to instead spend your money and time doing shit like this.
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Reading about the shooting in the Texas mall and this line is really sticking with me.
“Spainhouer said he got there before any first responders and while a handful of people around him recorded videos of the bodies on the ground, he tried to save lives.”
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Genuinely bitter that people are insisting on doing things in person-only again. Was really hoping the accessibility of virtual events would be embraced as a part of this new pandemicine normal, but...
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He was paralyzed during an exercise that "simulate[d] a mob," which could mean a "chaotic" protest event. He was beaten so badly he sustained liver injury, a punctured lung, head injury, and his spine was broken in 3 places.
This is how they plan to treat civilians.
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Also, most Africans I know on the continent speak English as well as their respective (or multiple) vernaculars (and, in South Africa, sometimes also Afrikaans). Why are they never the poster children for multilingualism and we just heap praise onto Europeans? (We know why!)
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I said what I said, and I'd say it any day of the year.
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No one has the right to sex, and every time the topic of "men having decreasingly less sex" comes up as a moral panic, we ignore sex workers persistently telling us how this line of argumentation effectively outsources sexual violence to them. Absolutely not.
We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to, and we need to develop services that meet people’s needs without attaching the baggage of shame or criminalization.
So let’s talk about sex.
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Just saw a how to survive a shooting in a public place PSA and the link to the resource page is fbi[.]gov/survive and now I feel like I want to cry.
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A royal whose wealth and position are both entirely hereditary saying she isn't responsible for the behavior of her ancestors is far too rich for my blood
Belgium's Princess Esmeralda says it should "apologize" for colonial atrocities, but said: "We are not responsible for our ancestors."
Her ancestor Leopold II killed an est. 10 million people in the Congo with famine or forced labor and imprisoned 267 people in a "human zoo."
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I am the what?
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called her confirmation to the Supreme Court “the greatest honor of my life.” President Biden hailed a “real change” in American history as he and his supporters celebrated the ascension of the first Black woman to the court.
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Yelling on the train is not a crime, but it speaks volumes that so many people believes that it constitutes punishment, especially fatal punishment.
This subway choke out death is the latest example of how progressives don’t think their positions through. You want to legalize crime but also don’t want people to react to it. Not realistic. If the law isn’t going to protect people, they’re going to protect themselves.
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As the first generation of my family not born in a British colony, I would dance on the graves of every member of the royal family if given the opportunity, especially hers.
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A horrifying institution whose sole purpose is to mete out violence. It's far beyond reform.
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It’s not a matter of being “more antisemitic”: it’s a matter of understanding the line of what’s less unacceptable to say in public. You think most of these Republicans are “less antisemitic” than Kanye or they just understand what they “can and can’t say” without censure?
Based on this interview, Kanye is substantially more anti-Semitic than Alex Jones. Alex Jones actually looks uncomfortable with how far Kanye is going. That’s quite a statement.
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He didn't "test positive again," he's still sick. The gross CDC's guideline to isolate for 10 days after symptom onset is grossly inadequate because 10 days might not be long enough for the virus to clear out of your system.
Biden tests positive again for COVID-19, experiencing return of a loose cough
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I have a lot of contempt for the US government for rightfully condemning these horrific homophobic bills in Uganda and elsewhere without fully accounting for how the targeted export of evangelical Christianity to Africa facilitates their creation.
The passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act by the Parliament of Uganda is deeply concerning. This law would jeopardize progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, deter tourism and investment in Uganda, and damage Uganda’s international reputation. Human rights are universal.
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Love the anti-abortion people QTing Josie’s tweet with “she had a miscarriage, not an abortion” and reminding us for the billionth time they have no idea what an abortion is.
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We voted for Biden to save the country from the precipice of fascism or whatever and what do we have two years in? No COVID support or relief, repro rights rolled back, queer and trans people under attack, no ambitious climate plan, no debt relief. But vote blue!
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The amusing unintended consequence of Will Smith's slap and all the celebrities weighing in is that as much as our culture is deeply celebrity obsessed, our varied interest and curiosity can transmute into disdain very VERY quickly
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Not called for help because they didn’t know CPR, not panicked and screamed because they saw people with devastating injuries — they recorded videos of bodies on the ground. Granted this is his subjective recollection of a few people, but that’s DAMNING.
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Can't stop thinking about Patrick Lyoya's father talking about how he brought his son from the DRC to live a better life here and now wishes that he hadn't.
He said: "I thought it was a safe place, but it seems like we are in danger even when we come here."
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Idk anything about Jonathan Majors’ character, but what I know for absolutely certain is that any celebrity who appears in an Army recruitment commercial in the big big year of forever wars 2023 is a walking talking red flag.
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I hate these because they’re still Westphalian border-making projects; what in god’s name is an “ethnically drawn border” when a border is itself an imperial logic
Map of Africa using ethnically drawn borders, rather than those drawn by imperial powers.
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Apropos of the fact that Dr. King was in Memphis in solidarity with the sanitation workers' strike and delivered his mountaintop speech in which he said "always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal" the day before he was assassinated
The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers around the U.S. that some cities have had to delay or suspend garbage and recycling pickup, angering residents shocked that governments can’t perform this most basic of functions.
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Apropos of this nonsense that appeared in my inbox a couple of hours, my full solidarity with Prof Uju Anya and all other black and brown people being censured and disciplined for refusing to join in the chorus of hagiographies about the British monarchy.
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The state’s willingness to destroy families and traumatize trans kids in order to preserve the “sanctity” of the family and purge transness from existence is beyond horrifying.
“I can’t believe this” has to stop; this is the logical conclusion of years of legislative antagonism.
I can’t believe I’m writing this.
A new FL bill will tell courts to SEIZE TRANS CHILDREN AWAY from their supportive parents if those parents provide or are “at risk” of providing them life-saving care.
Parents would be charged with felonies + thrown in prison.
This is fascist.
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I’m getting eaten up in the QTs, but this response is my personal fave
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No offense, but just going to therapy is the absolute most self-centered version of "putting in the work" after you've wronged/hurt someone
Steven Yeun, Ali Wong and ‘Beef’ Creator Say David Choe Has ‘Put in the Work’ Since ‘Fabricated’ Rape Story
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We asked for healthcare, affordable housing, public transportation, codified protections of bodily autonomy, environmental policy, and student loan forgiveness not this?
President Joe Biden will lay out plans to ask Congress for $37 billion for crime prevention programs as he seeks to address one of the top concerns among Americans ahead of congressional elections in November
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Forgot the word "unassailable" so I googled "synonyms for unfuckwithable"
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0 days without black people begging others not to circulate footage of yet another black person murdered in public
#JordanNeely
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There is no "pronoun debate," there are only cis people who feel that recognizing and respecting a diversity of gender identity is an imposition and existential threat
@ztsamudzi
The pronoun debate is used to distract you from the terrible things they’re really doing.
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Monkeypox is once again testing the pathetic limitations of public health communication: the miles between "is a sexually transmitted disease" and "is spread through close--including sexual--contact" is the millions of people who do or don't believe themselves to be "at risk."
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@dylanwalsdorf
Accidental inasmuch as an officer isn't supposed to die during training, because you're right: that's an incredible amount of damage, especially considering the LAPD's claim it was a result of falling during a grapple
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Without fail it's "the empire abolished slavery" and never "why did slavery or empire exist in the first place," as though we're supposed to be grateful for the former
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The United States has a piece of legislation that basically says they'll go to war with the Netherlands if US military personnel or elected official is prosecuted by a criminal court to which the US isn't a party like the ICC. It's called the Hague Invasion Act.
The United States is committed to accountability for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Today, we welcome the opening of
@IntlCrimCourt
trial proceedings against Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former Séléka commander in the Central African Republic.
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I appreciate this piece, and it reminds me how little liberals have an analysis of power. Quinta Brunson is "shirking her responsibility" by not making a school shooting episode, but Hollywood execs aren't for CONTINUING to push copaganda as a genre of "entertainment"?
COLUMN: Hollywood won’t save us from school shootings. Neither will cop shows.
Either way, leave Quinta Brunson and "Abbott Elementary" out of it.
Copaganda, though? Let's talk about the disconnect between fantasy and reality.
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“especially women, especially Asians” is a very very interesting formulation of both innocence and victimhood here.
I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
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“Only the people with an identity can define oppression of that identity” is, in my unsolicited opinion, the absolute worst perversion of standpoint theory, which itself sees identities and subjectivity as MULTIVALENT rather than ESSENTIALIZING and ABSOLUTE.
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HLG is always way way too excited to confirm/reveal people’s blood ties to this country’s founding myths for my liking.
“Did you ever in your wildest dreams think you’d be related to people who laid the foundation” he says to ANGELA DAVIS.
“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Our researchers discovered
#AngelaDavis
’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction.
#FindingYourRoots
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I'm not even going to make a "people who aren't women get abortions, too" caveat because at this point it's just willful and piss poor analysis that pundits aren't understanding the simultaneity of the right's attacks on trans and queer people alongside reproductive justice.
The Supreme Court just declared war on women and the right to privacy. And this is just the beginning.
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Absolutely chilling how much, yet again, it feels like industry and the state are making it impossible for people to *not* get COVID?
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"Science" is as much a social construct as "the humanities."
Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?
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Reproductive justice is about bodily autonomy, which is necessarily about one's ability to define and freely live/perform one's gendered and sexual life without state regulation. This includes terminating pregnancy, transitioning, and marriage.
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We aren't voting our way out of this violence; local orgs and abortion funds and mutual aid groups have been worth your time and resources far more than these electoral vampires.
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This, more than anything, is making me think about how we sidle students with assignments that function far more as time-consuming busy work than anything else that actually promotes critical thought.
From a student at Columbia: “At any given time, I can look around my classroom and find multiple people doing homework with the help of ChatGPT. We’re not being forced to think anymore.”
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Let's start from the beginning: who is "our"?
The purpose of our constitution is to defend our lives and our liberty. It's worth asking if it currently serves that function.
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When white people start talking about “reality” in their critiques of religion it’s a sign for me to bail. Some of our lifeworlds consist of metaphysical realities beyond the material and it doesn’t make us any less committed to materialism or anti-capitalism.
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Have derailings (esp. of trains carrying chemicals) *been* happening and they’ve just not been reported until relatively recently or is there a marked increase in these incidents in light of some rapid deterioration of railroad infrastructure? My god
BREAKING: Train carrying ethanol derails and catches fire in Minnesota, prompting an evacuation for residents living near the crash site, officials say.
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Tfw you’re an imperial entity but you’re trying to rebrand so no one remembers your own rampant—and inherent—gender violence problem
The US Army has dropped ads featuring Jonathan Majors after allegations of assault surface
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I know this ragamuffin didn't say that the 48 countries on the continent that emit just over half a percent (0.55%) of the world's harmful emissions are as responsible for engaging the climate crisis as the 20 countries responsible for 80%? Not this line AGAIN.
U.S. climate envoy Kerry calls on African nations to help curb emissions
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Ok but isn’t mass unsubscription from a service because you’re unsatisfied with its bigoted content and piss poor quality just the invisible hand of the market speaking?
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"...So in effect, this statement was a condemnation and implicitly a signal to other academics at the university that they should watch their mouth on certain matters."
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Dr. Howard Maibach, one of the dermatologists responsible for the medical experiments (“including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins”), STILL WORKS AT UCSF.
Begin by firing him.
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Forcing trans kids into foster care bc their parents support access to puberty-blockers is literally a creation/destruction of kinship in the image of white nuclearity, a practice black & indigenous people have long been subjected to. These legislative wars are co-constitutive!
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Orgs and institutions invested in the technology and sustained these online platforms for two solid years and now they're just not because they don't want to? Cool.
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Also people saying “she’s lost!” about Walker’s affinity for antisemitic theories and TERF ideology. She’s not. She’s not been led astray, she’s an almost 80 year old woman who’s written beautiful books and also made calculated political affiliations that happen to be nasty.
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This whole “parents having sex with kids in the house” discourse in unnerving? Surely there’s a middle ground between screaming so loudly your child is terrified (and then derangedly recording them crying) and simply pretending it doesn’t happen?
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Describing the apartheid government's racist propaganda as "misinformation" is actually an incredibly irresponsible way of describing apartheid
Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda.
He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation.
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The Penn anthropologist who used the bones of murdered black children as teaching aides and was recorded saying that the bones were "juicy" and smelled like "grease" is suing people who dared to write about racist things she did in the name of anthropology. Astounding.
Janet Monge is suing me and others y’all.
There is nothing worse than a liar that double downs.
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I know it's really seductive to lecture third party voters, but let's actually talk about the Dems, particularly Obama's pathetic record with a congressional majority
The next time you choose to throw away your vote by voting for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or sitting on your hands because you think all parties are the same, remember you’ve already cost the women of America their reproductive liberties.
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Every new iteration of "women are disappearing!" panic is an affirmation of fascist replacement theory, the state's violent regulation of our families and social lives, and a willingness to allow people to violently self-deputize in order to "correct" that "disappearance."
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The anti-trans position is fascistic; we should aspire to be antifascist.
Publish that repeatedly with explanations about what that means, how to understand it, and how to practice a social refusal that fights to protect our kin and prevent them from dying preventable deaths.
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I think the worst part of Alice Walker’s support for JK Rowling is the cynical deployment of her community elder status as if almost reassure us that her support for gender-confused is well-informed when in fact she sounds like every other TERF
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Talking to a friend and I’m convinced white Americans fetishize French protests writ large but wanted the police called on black protesters from Ferguson thru 2020 is that French protests are a mythopoetic of the freest that white people will ever be.
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Hell, part of Amy Coney Barrett's justification for banning abortion is to ensure the "domestic supply" of adoptable infants -- the family, literally, is to be regulated like The Market -- doesn't disappear. Please stop acting like they aren't revealing their entire playbook.
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Banning abortion is inextricably linked to the state deciding parents allowing their trans kids to access gender-related care is child abuse. All these attacks on bodily autonomy (and, further, privacy with talk of attacking queer marriage) are also about controlling the family.
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I know it's a Maya quote, but all I'm saying is that metaphor and citation can be misplaced: I know we love to deal in symbolism, but we also have to deal in the realities of black people on both sides of institutional power.
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I truly believe that if hearing mentally ill or homeless people yell or seeing defined-as-undesirables exist in public makes you fly into a murderous rage (which includes either calling the police or killing them yourself), you simply should not leave your fucking house
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*adds Vogue photo shoot of First Lady Olena Zelenska to my "Looking at Violence" syllabus*
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This, what Eig describes as "journalistic malpractice" by Alex Haley, is astounding. The implications, the fact that this interview and its criticism shaped so much of how we understand the political field of the civil rights movement...wow
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Whitney's impulse to redeem whiteness aside, I went on a date with a stand-up comedian a few years back and I am convinced they are some of the least interesting people on the planet.
Comedians did not sign up to be your hero. It’s our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders.
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Thinking about my visit to the cardiologist -- the intake nurse who asked about my recreational drug use and told me she doesn't really note it because she doesn't want patients to get tagged as drug seekers when they visit the ERs or urgent care
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Nepo baby discourse in Hollywood is funny because most of the big name major players in Bollywood come from like 14 families, some of which have intermarried, and this is barely an exaggeration
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Not this anti-intellectualism when her not getting tenure post-1619 Project was the civil rights struggle of our time? I'm furious she's treating objection to her shitty little article premise as a thought exercise as though critics couldn't possibly be black and trans/queer
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It's a misreading to see attacks on CRT and queer/trans people as marginalizing groups for political gain: it is literally about the legislation of peoples out of existence, whether rendering them unnameable in educational spaces or forbidding self-determining practices.
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I wish immigrants were better able to discuss regrets around leaving & that that regret wouldn't be weaponized as reactionary xenophobia. A lot of people don't want to leave but are compelled to by various forces; many people realize myths of greener pastures after it's too late.
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Also it's fitting/telling that the concept of "involuntary celibacy" actually had some fertile ground in considering the matrix of race, gender, size, and disability as it forms a matrix of desirability but instead it's dudes feeling violently entitled to and thus denied of sex.
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@f_bott
For me, I might be less vehemently opposed if there was something productive that happened with the photos/recordings. But as it stands, we what? Are inundated with autoplay videos and carnage on our feeds and in news coverage as the violence rolls on unabated?
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@vazquezwithaz
Beyond being overstatedly clever, it was just the most swagless shit ever lol
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Not wading into this transatlantic food tussle but Brits truly need to stand down re: Mexican food lol
We’re not taking slander from a nation that thinks Chipotle is Mexican and Olive Garden is Italian
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As in to say, NHJ neither recognizes or inhabits a world in which black queer and trans people are being ripped to pieces and instead recognizes attunement to fascism's trojan horse of transantagonism as somehow undermining racial solidarity.
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Kanye—a man we know to be a megalomaniac, unmedicated, a contrarian, and shades of bigoted—is not necessarily “more antisemitic” than any of these awful right wingers. But they’re able to sit “look uncomfortable” & let their black mouthpiece say whatever horrible thing he wants.
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The worst part of the coverage of fascism in the US is having to watch pundits constantly shift the historical AND contemporary terrain of what constitutes fascism. The idea there *aren’t* fascists who’ve captured state institutions through electoral processes is ?!?!?!?
Also, fascists don't "run" for office. They don't do polling. They don't try to win court cases. They don't try for "earned media." They use discipline, ideology, and violence to build a mass movement that terrorizes those weak institutions into paralysis and collapse. /15
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What kind of "sisterhood" am I supposed to feel with Pamela Paul when she wrote these sentences as though black women don't exist? This bordering project around [cis] womanhood is not one I have any loyalty to because of how it very very explicitly does not include me either.
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Thinking about the mechanistic sociality
@robhorning
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Not to be too midwestern on main, but...this actually looks promising
The Indiana State Fair is just a few weeks away and here's one of the food items you'll be able to try. What do you think of the Pickle Pizza (Offered by Swains Concessions) It's homemade dough w/ a dill ranch sauce topped with mozzarella cheese, dill seasoning and dill pickles.
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"Consistent with White House protocol for positive COVID cases, which goes above and beyond CDC guidance..." *looks directly at the camera*
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Maybe in this 3rd year of the pandemic we'll finally learn what "endemic" means.
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Without the slightest bit of hyperbole, it’s ALWAYS some European institution and a set of skulls.
Belgian auction house cancels auction of African skulls after public outcry
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