Noel Siksai

Opinion | We’re in Trouble When Racism Is Dismissed as Just a Joke False humor is simply a technique to neutralize the unpalatable.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Our country needs to understand, as it once did, how dangerous it is to recast violent racist hate as ‘just joking,’” write Roberta Kaplan and Michael Bloch, two of the lawyers who sued the white nationalist organizers of the 2017 Charlottesville rally.

Prior White House renovations were done by practical people with good taste. They made the building more functional without sacrificing its architectural and decorative refinements.

The current renovations are being done by a shockingly vulgar man and will tackily undermine the building's beauty.

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The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.

Trump administration seeks to move special education to different agency The move would affect the $15 billion IDEA program and comes as the administration seeks to close down the federal Education Department

Breaking news: The Education Department is looking to move a $15 billion program supporting students with disabilities out of the agency as it works to close the agency altogether, a department official said.

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Perhaps Trump should meet the same fate as Marie Antoinette.

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

Black and white portrait of Hans Krása, showing a side profile with a serious expression.

Black and white portrait of Pavel Haas, wearing a bow tie and a dark suit, facing slightly to the left.

Black and white portrait of Viktor Ullmann, showing a close-up view of the face with an intense expression.

18 October 1944 | A transport of 1,500 Jews deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto arrived at #Auschwitz. Among those murdered in gas chamber and crematorium III after the selection were three distinguished composers: Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, and Viktor Ullmann.

Pete Buttigieg to appear with Spanberger in Charlottesville With the election for governor three weeks away, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is getting some outside help to get out the vote. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will appear with t...

Looking forward to hitting the campaign trail next week with my friend & Virginia’s next governor, @abigailspanberger.com.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

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Airports say they won’t play Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints Travelers in Seattle, Phoenix and other cities will not see the video, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight disruptions.

Multiple airports around the country said they won’t display a video in which DHS Sec. Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown and related travel delays.

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

Don Lemon is coming for the closeted Republicans on Grindr & beyond: "I'm gonna out you" - Queerty Don Lemon is ready to expose the hypocrites who work on anti-gay legislation.

Don Lemon is coming for the closeted Republicans on Grindr & beyond: "I'm gonna out you" - Queerty www.queerty.com/don-lemon-is...

The Bulwark (@thebulwark) "There is significant deference that judges owe the executive branch in questions like federalization of the National Guard, but he can't have his facts as he deems them." Thank God at least one judge...

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Always share. When you share something it no longer has power over you. Also, both my godfather and my first sponsor told me where to find sympathy. It’s in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

Thank you for posting this.

YouTube video by Cheri Jacobus Trump lied about his role in the fascist, unAmerican "Project 2025" and doesn't care that we know.

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