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Pedestrian safety advocate. Democratic socialist. they/them

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Some flavors are kosher, so they must not have gelatin.

05.08.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"As a tax-paying homeowner and immortal vampire..."

01.08.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can disagree with their analysis or think they are misguided or even think they are cynical opportunists. But to invoke greed and money grubbing? Really now? Come on.

31.07.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, no. The idea that Jewish orgs are consciously fabricating antisemitism merely to be money grubbers seems conspiratorial rather than cynical. I hope you reconsider this view.

31.07.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If a DEI program includes efforts against antisemitism, and the program gets cut, it is bad for Jewish students as Jews regardless of whether they have an intersectional identity or not.

31.07.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Trump administration is gutting universitiesโ€™ best tools to fight antisemitism The White House has put schools in a โ€œcanโ€™t winโ€ situation.

"in an attempt to abide by the governmentโ€™s directive, colleges and universities are cutting the offices and programs that hosted many of their proactive efforts to address antisemitism"

The Trump administration is gutting universitiesโ€™ best tools to fight antisemitism share.google/Hxr3sWvnQzf9...

31.07.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are Jews being given special treatment? Which Jews?

The DEI programs that addressed antisemitism are getting axed and Jewish student protestors are often treated horribly.

31.07.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Intersectionality or not, universities were beginning to address antisemitism specifically through their DEI programs, which have been put on the chopping block. So anti-DEI does undermine efforts against antisemitism.

31.07.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sarah McBride has similar "moderate" talking points. The rot goes deeper.

29.07.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Montgomery County Council, Maryland The Montgomery County Council, Maryland is the legislative branch of County government. It has eleven members, all elected at the same time to serve four-year terms.

The Council will hold 2 public hearings on the University Boulevard Corridor Plan. The first on Sep 10 at 7:00pm at Montgomery Blair HS. The second on Sept 16 at 7:00pm at the Council Office Building.

Those wishing to provide testimony must register via www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council

29.07.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How is this a significant issue, outside of a few people grumbling on the internet?

Christianity is the norm in the US and negative attitudes towards the non-religious and non-Christians is common among Christians.

29.07.2025 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bricks bricking at Blair High School.

Bricks bricking at Blair High School.

Bricks doing what they do in front of Blair High School. I submitted a service request ages ago. Will this ever be fixed?

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28.07.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donate to Community Support for Ada Villatoro, organized by Carlos Guevara Support Ada Villatoro in Her Fight Against Stage 4 Breast Cancer Ada Villatoro โ€ฆ Carlos Guevara needs your support for Community Support for Ada Villatoro

for years Ada Villatoroโ€™s El Golfo has been an institution in Silver Spring and a place where Iโ€™ve made so many fond memories. now, as she fights stage 4 breast cancer, she needs our help www.gofundme.com/f/community-...

28.07.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

It's already here, but it isn't clear how we stop it.

The majority of Americans either sympathize with fascism outright or are enabling it through "moderation" and apathy. How do you fix a spiritual sickness?

25.07.2025 02:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that "The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew."

WTF is wrong with you?

25.07.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isnโ€™t straws or grocery bags โ€“ itโ€™s your tires Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. Thatโ€™s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

Seems bad:

"We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

23.07.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 408    ๐Ÿ” 147    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40
In Nuremberg, โ€œwe started to judge company executives and managersโ€

In Nuremberg, โ€œwe started to judge company executives and managersโ€

Not sure why the link didn't work.

"In its Statute, the IMT stipulated that it should try individuals not entities. It did not try companies or States...there is an ongoing debate to this day...as to whether corporations have criminal liability as corporations. And that question is not settled."

23.07.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Le site d'information et d'actualitรฉs sur la justice internationale Justice Info est le site d'information le plus actif sur la justice internationale. Actualitรฉs, analyses dโ€™experts, vidรฉos et podcasts.

"Managers or executives of companies that collaborated with the Nazis were tried both in the international Nuremberg trials (1945-1946) and in the twelve so-called "successor" trials organized by the Americans at Nuremberg from 1946 to 1949."

Corporations weren't, but individuals were.

23.07.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro naturalization paperwork, 1936.

Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro naturalization paperwork, 1936.

Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro draft card, 1940.

Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro draft card, 1940.

1920 census record for family of Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro.

1920 census record for family of Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro.

Example...Mex-Am ambassador Raรบl Hรฉctor Castro. He's listed as "White" by color & "Mexican" by race on his naturalization doc. His draft card lists him as "White". Both parents are listed as "W" on 1920 census.

By contrast, Albert Einstein is listed as "White" & "Hebrew" on his naturalization docs.

23.07.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know how to look these records up. Just saying thank you for your skepticism and excellent questions. Keeping me on my toes and helping me think through these details more deeply.

22.07.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Perez v. Sharp - Wikipedia

The legal whiteness of Mexicans was certainly relevant to laws against interracial marriage. Which typically banned white-Black marriages, which was a problem for legally white Mexicans who wanted to marry Black people.

Perez v. Sharp - Wikipedia share.google/nmK1jF4Ace9G...

22.07.2025 23:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not quite. Those are specificities in regards to Mexicans, influenced by the context of treaty law. It didn't nullify anti-Asian restrictions, say.

I've seen many census, draft, and marriage records listing Mexicans as white. Now I need to find naturalization paperwork for Mexicans.

22.07.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you look at census documents for Mexican-Americans in the Southwest during the 1800s and early 1900s, they are consistently listed as whites on the census.

This is not to say they had full privilege compared to Anglos, but they had greater access to legal whiteness than Black and Native people.

22.07.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"In 1897, a federal judge in Texas decided In Re Rodriguez,[8]a case in which a Mexican was seeking naturalization. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexicans (including mestizos with varying Indian ancestry) were collectively naturalizedโ€”even though naturalization after the Civil War was limited to whites and persons of African descent. The outcome in the case turned on the Court's conclusion that Rodriguez (although not strictly scientifically, anthropologically White) was nonetheless "white enough" in Professor Gรณmez's terminology, to fit within the allowable racial category and therefore was eligible for naturalization. This legal precedent, that Mexicans are white persons under the law, was greatly influenced by the Treaty's interpretation. A recently discovered case from 1935 concluded that a person with half Indian and half Spanish blood was not entitled to naturalization under the federal code, and it wasn't until the person was determined to have "only 2 percent Indian blood," that he was granted citizenship.[9]"

"In 1897, a federal judge in Texas decided In Re Rodriguez,[8]a case in which a Mexican was seeking naturalization. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexicans (including mestizos with varying Indian ancestry) were collectively naturalizedโ€”even though naturalization after the Civil War was limited to whites and persons of African descent. The outcome in the case turned on the Court's conclusion that Rodriguez (although not strictly scientifically, anthropologically White) was nonetheless "white enough" in Professor Gรณmez's terminology, to fit within the allowable racial category and therefore was eligible for naturalization. This legal precedent, that Mexicans are white persons under the law, was greatly influenced by the Treaty's interpretation. A recently discovered case from 1935 concluded that a person with half Indian and half Spanish blood was not entitled to naturalization under the federal code, and it wasn't until the person was determined to have "only 2 percent Indian blood," that he was granted citizenship.[9]"

Not exactly.

American Latino Theme Study: Law (U.S. National Park Service) share.google/CrpSk8xhPSaY...

22.07.2025 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been happening. Remember when Musk said George Soros funds Hamas?

22.07.2025 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Landmark Case of In Re Ricardo Rodrรญguez: A Fight for Mexican American Citizenship Explore the landmark civil rights case of In Re Ricardo Rodrรญguez, which affirmed the voting rights of Texas Mexicans and challenged racial barriers to citizenship in the late 19th century.

I'm thinking of the 1896 court case in Texas that affirmed the naturalization and voting rights of Mexican-Americans. Rodrรญguez argued in court that he was neither Indian nor Spanish, but still white, and he won.

In Re Ricardo Rodrรญguez share.google/W1XRHf1zIxF6...

22.07.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congress, the Supreme Court, the media, major corporations...all have been captured or have acquiesced. We are so cooked.

22.07.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've had this discussion with dozens of people, who often stare at me blankly, argue, or "inform" me that the Irish suffered by showing me old magazine caricatures. I know. I know all this. But there are many facts of Black and Native oppression, codified into law, I didn't know. That's a problem.

22.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm not sure why descendants of so many "ethnic whites" want to say, sure, our groups could naturalize, own slaves, own land, attend white schools, drink from white water fountains...but who cares? Their suffering is more relevant. I'd rather honor my ancestors by looking at them honestly.

22.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Of course I know about the Italians lynched, Jews excluded from clubs, Irish who need not apply, etc. But I learned a lot more by asking, specifically, what rights did Europeans have under law that others didn't ever have. Quite a lot, actually!

22.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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