Christopher Deutsch

What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States. I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency. Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

One of the US's gifts to the world is the modern industrial meat production system. It was in America that capitalists and the state figured out how to successfully concentrate animals for slaughter in massive factories for mass consumption.

I am 100 percent convinced that the Supreme Court is going to gut birthright citizenship the way Plessy v Furguson gutting equal protection.

Indeed! The list of foods originating in the Americas, or truly boggles the mind. Southern central Mexico and the Andes in particular were excellent at cultivation.

‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.

This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

You bet! Not nearly as poetic as your work but hopefully insightful.

The Industry that Stayed: How Meatpacking Remained Domestic As the Trump administration calls for the return of domestic manufacturing, there is one industry that managed to resist the outsourcing process of the late 20th century. It only required the destr…

My most recent popular piece is here (I also published an academic article in Agricultural History in the fall issue):
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Riverside Co. Sheriff is spending $78,450 to upgrade its Nyxcell cell site simulator with a U100 5G Native Identifier Unit so that it can track 5G phones.

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Right!? They were event movies precisely because groups of people saw them back-to-back. Why are CEO's always so high on their own supply? I guess if he's just outrage farming, congrats, but you know he means it at least a little bit.

Sure you can, but you shouldn't

Sappho, "Tell everyone" (tr. Mary Barnard) "I shall / sing beautifully for / my friends' pleasure."

if you want an essay about a poem -- i know, that's what everyone wants -- i wrote about reading fragments of sappho in order to get myself to write. i guess it worked? www.ashokkarra.blog/sappho-tell-...

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So gross

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.

Mass higher education comes with some real costs. Throwing students into a class taught by someone who had that high a teaching load could sadly be one of those costs. Wishing you well as the semester wraps up.

Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?

I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research

Thanks!

As a terminal light-fighter airborne, even I'll readily admit to armor and artillery and close support being the magic sauce in war. It's fun and cool to do all that breaching and high-speed forced entry combat, but heavy weapons wins wars.

Yet more #GOPCorruption

IMO, the best framework for understanding all of this infighting is that Tucker, Candace, TPUSA, Fuentes, and the Daily Wire are fighting over their respective audience shares of the relatively small number of people interested in consuming their nonsense.

Buckley, replying in the same issue, dug in more deeply, predicting chaos "which would issue upon the predominance of Southern Negroes in their present stage of development." Besides, as far as white Southerners were concerned, both the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments weren't really part of the Constitution. They were "inorganic accretions" to the original document, grafted upon it by victors-at-war by force."

In his excellent biography of William F. Buckley Jr., Sam Tanenhaus notes that "as far as white Southerners were concerned, both the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendments weren't really part of the Constitution." In 1957, Buckley called them "inorganic accretions" (p. 380).

When Justice Brown wrote the phrase "Seperate but equal," he was twisting the plain meaning of the text of the Constitution to allow for unequal treatment under the law. I can only imagine the current court doing the same for birthright citizenship. I can't see them defending automatic citizenship.

This is exactly how the Supreme Court handled segregation in Plessy v Furguson. The 14th Amendment, on the face of it, barred segregation (it is not equal), and yet the judges unleashed a 60 year reign of Jim Crow injustice by twisting the meaning of equality to include unequal treatment.

Omg! That sounds amazing! (Nicole is the best!)

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

University Of Southern California Layoffs Now Total More Than 900 Since July, the University of Southern California has laid off more than 900 employees, as it attempts to reduce a deficit that exceeded $200 million in Fiscal Year 2025.

I had somehow missed that USC fired more than 900 (!) people

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What does it say about me that I'd probably pick Airplane?

#ACIP invites anti-vaccine lawyer Aaron Siri to present on the schedule, since apparently they could not find any vaccine experts to do that.
Apparently they invited Drs. Offit and Hotez who refused, maybe because Malone called them "industry experts."