Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later
David Ryan Miller
BREAKING:
New from Haberman and Swan:
Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
I like academics but a nontrivial number of them view their job as to be reflexively critical to the point that they are at best useless and too often harmful
Ian McKellen on Magneto destroying New Jersey in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
“[The Russo Bros told me to] make it look as if you hate what you’re destroying ... So I stood there and I shouted: ‘Mar-a-Lago!’”
Society cannot survive unless you punish this sort of duplicity with an 80 foot plummet from the Tarpeian Rock
The admin at Yale Law School sees this as their primary mission: helping fascists network and take power.
Yale Law School is where Vance met Thiel (invited for a talk) and Ramaswamy (fellow student), and where he was brought into FedSoc by Amy Chua (tenured professor).
It’s so cool that the ailing pedophile president made a giant biological toxic waste site in the middle of the capital after desecrating the White House with a white trash gladiator battle royale. Truly, only cowards use subtext.
I do not consider "fed the citizens of the city of Rome at the expense of literally committing genocide in several provinces" a good case study
Kyle Griffin
Paul Musgrave
Culture Crave 🍿
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱
One of the most interesting interpretations of 1984, and somewhat supported by comments by Orwell, is that the rest of the world is normal and Britain was just, sort of, like that
Max Kennerly
Took a 20 mile bike ride this morning to check out the Reflecting Pool
From the Glasgow antiracist rally.
Sky Marchini
Jamie Dupree
utopia deferred
started/going
I attended an urban infrastructure panel where a UC Berkeley professor argued that libraries were gentrification. I am really struggling to see how this is different from a Republican position of denying knowledge, tools, and technology to low income, disadvantaged neighborhoods.