Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Labor strikes and meteor showers are 2 camera operations and I will not back down on this!

Ok I did M…2
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Yay!!

Actually simultaneously observing Andromeda with three telescopes is good, even if one of your batteries tries to stop you by acting out. Maybe especially if

🧵 on how we got here

The US does elect people to walk back the more evil excesses of the GOP, then those elected Dems say they can’t roll back those evils for one Very Serious reason or another, disappointing their voters while not being evil enough to win over the moderately racist voters.

This literally happened to me yesterday and there’s a profound anti-intellectualism lurking in the suggestion that we shouldn’t be interested in the history of the past 20 years

Yes! And we hardly talk about the way in which the question of “kitchen table issues” was relevant in 2008 when he bailed out the banks but left distressed homeowners out to dry. This has nothing plagued us since.

Supercharging ICE has been a mostly bipartisan project

Tbh really sick of fellow Black folks thinking he gets a pass because he’s Black and the GOP were obscene toward him

He ordered drone strikes! He was a president, not a helpless kid on the street

Someone was giving me shit yesterday for saying he shouldn’t have continued the abuse of executive power and it was like why am I not allowed to talk about this??? Who is served????

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

But history didn’t stop in 1992 and then start again in 2016

like its fucking nuts that we don’t understand the “War on Terror” — the political event — as one that transformed American society and the presidency and how the GOP grabbed power, attacked civil liberties and … literally created the DHS

I feel like the cultural milieu I was in during the early 2000s was a lot more aware of what had happened in the 1980s and how it was relevant to that present moment than the cultural milieu of the 2020s is of the early 2000s

I don’t know if it’s bc we are constantly flooded by new info on socials

Obama won in part because people were sick and tired of Bush’s approach to governance, including the attacks on civil liberties and starting illegal

And Obama promised change and then didn’t even stop the abuses of executive power

If you want to ask how we got here, we can’t memory hole that

I don’t understand anyone who says they have a problem with Trump’s fascism and is angry at people for … talking about history and its relevance to the current moment

It matters that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran on progressive ideals that they ultimately turned their backs on

It matters that Biden had things rigged for him, to undercut more progressive candidates

It matters that Obama didn’t reverse the executive branch power grab that GWB started

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

Donations to Blacksky are the best way to get Link back bsky.app/profile/alia...

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Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

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Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

"it's pretty clear that the bluesky team doesn't view their userbase as either their customers or their product – more as a sort of incidental consequence of operating their little proof-of-concept"

NLG Chicago condemns arrests by state and federal authorities at demonstrations outside Broadview ICE detention facility and in Chicago

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

INBOX: an investigation by @annenbergmedia.bsky.social found that the United States Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 over the last seven years for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for Israel Defense Forces training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

It’s fucking wild man

Like why does she want to be CEO

Re-upping. Free Link