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Judge blocks 4 districts from enforcing Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments in classroom A federal judge has temporarily blocked some of Arkansas' largest school districts from enforcing a new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

“Why would Arkansas pass an obviously unconstitutional law?” Brooks wrote in his 35-page ruling.

“Most likely because the state is part of a coordinated strategy among several states to inject Christian religious doctrine into public-school classrooms.”

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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer Don't Wait | Find Your Own Justice League | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What

"This is the kind of stuff we see where you end up with concentration camp regimes."

- Andrea Pitzer
Democracy Now!
July 5, 2018

He’s not panicking, he’s doing what he and his billionaire allies planned: hollowing out government capacity, taking as much as they can for personal profit, and corrupting the democratic process to try to stay in power.

The budget cuts and shuttering of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “will disproportionately affect Indigenous communities and First Nations broadcasting. Almost all the infrastructural money for (broadcasting on) the reservations comes from the CPB.”

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TIL if you fly Eurowings from Germany to Portugal you pay more carbon tax for that flight than a multimillionaire does for flying the same route in a private jet.

I have a guess

I too watch this show to externalize my ideological distortions. Hate to love it? As an environmental humanities scholar, I am constantly struck by its coloniality: access to land is presumed, and always, contestants are dropped off in a place of great abundance at an unseasonable time of year.

Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump is, in a theologically coherent sense, the antichrist: where Christians believe that Jesus was blameless yet suffered for all of the sins of humanity, Trump sins yet makes all of humanity suffer so that Christians believe that he is blameless.

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of…

Many minerals needed to produce cleaner energy are found on Indigenous lands.

“We shouldn’t have to accept the burden of the climate crisis. We should be able to protect our ancestral homelands,” said one activist.

“Dr Ho” [no period] is screamingly fishy to me

Makes being a father so much harder

"the antithesis of the academic freedom"

How do you think these men are speaking to reporters?

Say it with me: the commitment to prosecute everyone responsible for these inhumane, illegal deportation policies is a litmus test for future elections.

Yearn for the mines, etc

What an insane cultural artifact this post is. I’ll remember it in my own personal museum of fossil fascism so that we can remember just how crazy things got.

why does coal use she/her pronouns

Academic jobs are an intensely competitive market, made more competitive by the decline of public funding for universities, and more still by the declining share of teaching positions that are tenure track. Weird and dumb to blame DEI for problems that objectively stem from right wing policies.

35 cuz like family and conferences

How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed Former staff of Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program say it encouraged a healthy dialogue, but critics accused it of antisemitism.

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Former staff of Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program say it encouraged a healthy dialogue, but critics accused it of antisemitism.

The old Democratic party doesn't fit new media Melding new modes of policy making with new modes of public making

The connecting thread between Chris Hayes, Ezra Klein, Zohran Mamdani and Brian Eno. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-old-de...

The Autocratic Academy

from my summer reading list:
www.dukeupress.edu/the-autocrat...

The 90s just called, and they want their schmucks back.

This was in the public record during last year's election. Trump's many links to Epstein, his long history of being credibly accused of sexual assault, and his many and pedophilia-inflected comments could have been front page news all year long.

Listening to a lot of Les Rallizes Dénudés these days.

Epstein's Calendar Contained Multiple Meetings With Peter Thiel A review of Epstein’s personal calendar by the WSJ found that he had arranged meetings with Peter Thiel and Thomas Barrack.

According to the WSJ's review of Epstein's personal calendar, Theil and Epstein met multiple times in the run-up to the 2016 election...

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