🖊️That’s a picture of my stepdad reading my book shortly before his death. He was a prodigious reader, and as his health was failing told me, “I’m not ready to die, Earl, there are so many books I haven’t read yet!
Happy Father’s Day, good man. You were one for the books.
“It makes this sort of face surveillance ubiquitous on American streets," Quintin says. "I don't think that Americans should tolerate law enforcement being able to scan anyone's face at any time for any reason to try to determine their identity. This is the new form of 'papers, please.”
Damn straight! The DHS & DOJ are abusers and we have a right to keep watch and lend a helping hand.
To all farm worker fathers: Thank you for your hard work, sacrifice and love. Your dedication strengthens your families and feeds our nation.
¡Feliz Día del Padre!
#FathersDay
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I had one rule this week: no one plays on Home Court until some old friends and I get some shots up.
Who’s got next? 🏀
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s resplendent Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy.
Was Orientalism innocent cultural projection or racist, colonial imaginings? The latter, in my research. Either way, art is telling the story in NYC.
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Happy Summer Solstice!
#summersolstice
Is anyone really surprised that Trump was outsmarted by a single-cell organism?
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A persuasive show at the Met adds new layers of nuance to decades of postcolonial polemics
A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.
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JUST IN: DHS and DOJ cannot cateogrically shut out the public from immigration court proceedings in most instances, a New York-based judge ruled Monday.
They also can't prevent observers from quietly communicating about legal/religious support, she says.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art’s resplendent Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy.
Was Orientalism innocent cultural projection or racist, colonial imaginings? The latter, in my research. Either way, art is telling the story in NYC.
www.ft.com/content/ee9c...
A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.
