Christopher Candy

This just sets my hair on fire.

This. Between lack of skill and asthma, thought I hated sports. Then picked up archery while at uni on a lark and discovered there were sports I was actually pretty darned good at and enjoyed.

And out west, I mean... the LAPD and LA County Sheriffs exist, you know? And I saw plenty of confederate flags in Vermont of all places when I lived there.

The Trump Administration's foreign policy boys skipped everything in their history classes from 1890 to 1945, didn't they?

This is the reality the ‘just do it legally!’ people blind themselves to avoid seeing..

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with his eyes closed ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with his eyes closed

Oh, the cognitive dissonance. "Lectures suck! Have your students watch this TED Talk instead!"

One of these is not like the others.

Fighting that stupid urge to post about workplace related pettiness yet again.

I call it the 80% rule. Students will do 80% of what you ask of them. If you reduce your expectations to that 80%, they’ll do 80% of that.

Because

Comey has not been in public service since 2017.

Andrew Wakefield was a physician too. As was Josef Mengele. Physicians are no more immune to idiocy and evil than any other occupation. And the senators who are physicians are obviously politicians first and physicians second.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Or a historian, or a government/civics teacher... I teach US Government to high schoolers. Imagine how that class is going to be once we're back from the winter storm closures.

Huh. My facebook feed had been relentless for months about throwing right-wing politics at me, and now suddenly it's wall-to-wall opposition to what happened in Minneapolis this week. That seems like something worth noticing.

#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."

MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

When the budget vote for ICE would have failed except for seven Democrats crossing the line - you can't ignore their existence. Or did you think I meant Dems like AOC and even Seth Moulton thundering their condemnation of ICE and backing it up with their votes?

You know the ‘reasonable Republican’ unicorns you keep looking for won’t show up to fight on their own, right, Senator? They won’t risk anything unless they see you there already? Not to mention you have what you need to prevent cloture already.

Again, when Bill effin' Kristol gets this and Congresscritters don't...

The 'duh, of course not!' answer doesn't occur to all too many people in our hyper-individualistic, abstract-challenged society. They do ask 'did they deserve it'. But now an awful lot of them can answer that question as 'no'. That is the necessity! Because otherwise you, I, we are all on our own.

Folks, holding up Pretti as a martyr is not about diminishing prior victims of ICE. It's not 'hey, brown people brutalized don't count' - anything but! It's not appealing to white supremacists either. What it is about is removing the 'but did they deserve it?' question from the table.

The only likely benefit of this winter storm is that I probably will get an extra day or two before having to explain this weekend to the high schoolers in my Democracy classes.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

For all intents and purposes you deny someone justice when you rip them out of the area in which their support networks are in. It is even worse when you do so repeatedly with the intent to functionally deny them their rights.

We absolutely need to reform the issue of venue when it comes to the judicial system. The current model is based on 1800's transportation systems, which can be royally abused in an era of email and plane flights. Whether it's venue shopping or moving prisoners, it's gotta go.

With the rapid and repeated movements of detainees to prevent lawyer access, timely court filings, venue establishment, and due process by their peers from the same area, our government is now applying the logic of using Guantanamo Bay for terrorists to American soil. It has to stop.

Call Congress. Call your Reps. Call your Senators. If they are complicit, make them scared at the firestorm of anger. If they opposed it all along, they can use it as a sledgehammer against their cowardly colleagues. Make them hear the roar.

Congressional Dems need to face the hard truth that people are dying in Minneapolis to oppose ICE precisely because some Dem Reps in Congress aren't. They are dying because the Reps somehow can't see the moment. Would doing so have saved the MP'ers? Maybe not - but they stood because you wouldn't.

Not how I would shorten “defamation”, but maybe they have a different set of grammar rules than I grew up with.

How to tell someone doesn’t understand how NoVA’s been trending for decades without them saying they don’t know how NoVA’s been trending.