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Address at University of Kansas - Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center Tags Share I have seen these other Americans—I have seen children in Mississippi starving, their bodies so crippled by hunger; and their minds have been so destroyed for their whole life that they wil...

RFK knew: rfkhumanrights.org/speech/addre...

Sky - Etymology, Origin & Meaning "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover"… See origin and meaning of sky.

“sky” is the Old Norse word for “cloud.” And we understand how inhabitants of the British Isles conflated the two. www.etymonline.com/word/sky

‘Where things come into being, there too they must also pass away according to necessity; for they must pay penalty and recompense to each other for their injustice, according to the arrangement of time.’ Anaximander

From a book I didn’t read

But they are making it more likely that white male candidates will win, right? And a few well placed big bets early on will put the thumb on the scale for him?

Red herring - Origin & Meaning of the Phrase "smoked herring" early 15c. (they turn red when cured), as opposed to white herring… See origin and meaning of red herring.

www.etymonline.com/word/red%20h...

“Let’s have us a little handy-clap for the lord!”

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🌞⚡The Sun is now at the peak of its 11-year cycle.
🔹 Sunspots and magnetic "traps"
🔹 Magnetic reconnection (billions of bombs)
🔹 Radiation reaches Earth in 8 min
🔹 CME: satellites, communication, power grids
Based on NASA/SDO/SOHO data.
#SolarStorm #SpaceWeather #NASA #Astronomy #Science

Cormac McCarthy was using “jackpot” in this or similar sense going way back

"...rather than believing that anything we give or do will demonstrate our love, we should take the lack of the Other as our object. The mistake we are most likely to make is in assuming that the Other’s lack can be objectivised...like roses on Valentine’s Day" www.lacanonline.com/2010/05/what...

That second link is gone. Those around him are certainly going to allow him to try.

YouTube video by The Last Poets - Topic White Man's Got a God Complex

The spark came when Jenkins, who was serving as the ship’s DJ, played “White Man’s Got a God Complex” by The Last Poets over the ship’s PA system. White Marines erupted. Some demanded the music be shut off. Others confronted Jenkins directly. (cont)
youtu.be/_pU-392Pu5E?...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Today, we're going to learn about The USS Sumter Three — and the mutiny charges that should never have happened. It's apropos for #BlackHistoryMonth—because most people never knew about it.

Pull up a seat. 🪑 (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

The Spirit of Liberty—Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture Knight Institute Director Jameel Jaffer on the role of ordinary citizens in defending democracy when powerful institutions fail.

Jameel Jaffer shares remarks from a recent lecture:

“The spirit of liberty is still easy to find in the United States, … beyond the leadership of elite institutions. Among ordinary citizens, there’s no scarcity of civic courage.”

Glossary - Etymology, Origin & Meaning "collected explanations of words (especially those not in ordinary use), a book of… See origin and meaning of glossary.

gloss: word inserted as an explanation, translation c1300 Late Latin glossa> Greek glōssa language, hearsay, also obscure or foreign word, also mouthpiece, literally the tongue, from PIE *glogh- thorn, point, that which is projected (Greek glokhis barb of an arrow) www.etymonline.com/word/glossary

#Lacan on #ValentinesDay 🥀
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"Love is giving what you don't have
to someone who doesn't want it.
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Claire Hall · Maths is second best: Archimedes on the Beach For Archimedes, the mathematical and physical worlds were as real as each other and mutually reinforcing. To know...

‘To know something about the physical world, you could use maths to model it. But more radically, you could also use the physical world to open up and model mathematical ideas.’

Claire Hall on what makes Archimedes so interesting.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Great Prophet sculpture by Pablo Gargallo

Image reminds me of The Great Prophet by Pablo Gargallo

We need 20 Swedish citizens.

I mean I might slap them first. (So many of them are v soft, after all)

Vote with your hands

ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.

I remember @sarahkendzior.bsky.social saying, and i very much poorly paraphrase from memory, that covid and then genocide were about getting people used to death at scale so people just shrug when it comes to American streets.
This bringing foreign wars home, fits
www.972mag.com/ice-immigrat...

Key findings of the brief:
1. Canadians understand of the risks that AI chatbots pose to young people.
2. Canadians assign clear responsibility to AI companies.
3. Canadians support specific, operationalizable interventions mapping onto proven regulatory frameworks.

The Knight Insitute's Jameel Jaffer is demanding the Trump DOJ publicly explain why they searched a Washington Post reporter's house:

“Searches of newsrooms and journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, and we must ensure that these practices are not normalized here.”

Jameel Jaffer · Thought Control Ideological exclusion at the border seems anachronistic now, when all human knowledge is accessible online, video-...

Thought Control
Jameel Jaffer
‘Ideological exclusion seems anachronistic now...Can anyone really believe today that the denial of visas to foreigners with supposedly dangerous beliefs will have the effect of keeping those beliefs at bay?’ @lrb.co.uk @knightcolumbia.org www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

See, they *are* invested in building more housing.

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Okay. So there was an innocent reason for overhauling primary schedule?
And would you not agree that Trump gained vs. HRC due to the liberties Wasserman took with primary process?

Disagree. If the 2012 primary schedule had been followed in 2016, Bernie would have been nominee.

Also: Wasserman intentionally scheduled southern primaries early for the first time to counter Bernie’s name recognition increasing as he did well in early non-southern primaries. Led to HRC saying he must drop out when he got <25% in Louisiana, which was forgotten when she got < 25% in Washington.