Britt P. Tevis

I loved it.

May the United States be inscribed for a good year in the book of life.

A year of empathy and community.

A year of peace.

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

teach more history in law schools

Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy

Americans' historical illiteracy on full display today. 🤦🏻‍♀️

anyone offering up hagiographies of kirk is a poltroon of the first water. mouthing pieties about that hatemonger is just absolutely vile

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The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

beautiful

Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.

IT DOESN’T

IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL

IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW

IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.

Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

preparedness Sec. 3013. Transfer of Functions. Any emergency function under this order, or parts thereof, may be transferred from one department or agency to another with the consent of the heads of the organizations involved and with concur-Preparedness. rence of the Director of the Office of Emergency United Under the terms of EO 11490, the President of the States exists and can then: can order that a national emergency • Take all souls or picer electic, nuclear, pe- troleum, etc.) railroads, inland facilities waterways, and storage • Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision • Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare • Register every man, woman, and United States child in the • Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another • Control all devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation • Institute EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES with respect to any facility, system, or service essential to national survival • Take over farms, ranches, or timberland properties so as to protect, manage, and utilize them effectively • Freeze all wages and prices • Demand emergency welfare services, (food, cloth-ing, and lodging) in private homes, for those in need • Regulate the amount of your own money you can withdraw from your bank or savings and loan institution • Close the stock exchanges and freeze stock and bond prices. All of these items listed, plus many others clearly enumerated on 32 pages incorporating nearly 200,000 words pertain to every previous Executive Order ever issued unless specifically revoked. E.O. 11615 Executive Order No. 11615 was issued by President Nixon on Aug. 15, 1971. It provides for stabilization of prices, rents, wages, and salaries. Although the wage-price "freeze" was to last only 90 days, the Order established another bureaucratic agency called the Cost of Living Council. This Council is almost certain to be with us for a long time, growing in power and size, with concomitant restrictions on…

THE FEDERAL REGISTER The Federal Register is one States today. Its notification of dential actions assumes the power of law. No is no review Congressional authorization is required. There by the judiciary. All Executive Orders (EO's) are laws made by one man-the President of the United States. Through existing EO's it is possible for one man to ignore the Constitution, the Congress, ship can be imposed, and the will of the people. A complete dictator- under the veil of law, on the American people. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11490 The most damaging of all the EO's is 11490, the consolidated 23 so-called "omnibus" Emergency Preparedness order that signed on Oct. 28, 1969. previous EO's, which President Nixon By virtue of EO 11490 President Nixon declared a national emergency to exist on Aug. 15, 1971, in con- economy. At first glance, most of the EO's seem to be steps needed to enable the United States to prepare for and strike back in the event of a nuclear attack. blanket every conceivable facet of today's gigantic and complex American society and of events no part of it will ever supervision from Washington. More frightening than all its contents is the omission of a definition of the phrase "national emergency." The decision as to what constitutes a "national emergency" President, whoever he might be. EFFECT OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS Although there are Presidential memorandums and not specifically listed in this brochure, LIBERTY LOBBY feels those excerpts referred to are the essential orders that must be studied by all Americans if they are to acquaint themselves with this sword of Damocles" hanging over all our heads. established the machinery dent and his advisers to take control of every significant factor of the private sector of our society! The Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) is re-President in all emergency sponsible for assisting the preparedness activities. Its director is a member of the subversive Council on Foreign Relations! The OEP has eight regional offices …

As Trump exerts ever more dictatorial powers using baseless claims of "emergencies" to do so, I'm reminded of how "America First" far right orgs like Liberty Lobby in the 1970s was obsessed with the idea that Presidents would use EO's to impose full communism on America by declaring emergencies.

My god this is creepy.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

So…not antisemitism.

@dsharnak.bsky.social Spotted: Of Light and Struggle, front and center!

Yes, maybe someday someone will write a book about all the stuff that happened in international politics after World War II. I guess until then, we just won't know. 🙄

Charl Kleinhaus @charlkleinhaus Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are . Where is the Temple that must be their concern leave us alone we all believe in the God of Abraham, Moses and Jacob ! I almost said something ugly ... 5:07 PM • 4/15/23

here's one of the South African "refugees" that Trump has brought into the country

Joseph Boskin, Scholar of Humor and April Fool’s Prankster, Dies at 95 (Gift Article) To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”

Some much needed levity. Long live King Kugel!

Joseph Boskin, Scholar of Humor and April Fool’s Prankster, Dies at 95 (Gift Article) To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”

Some much needed levity. Long live King Kugel!

They killed it. RIP to international scholarship. We are allowing ourselves to get dumber by the minute. @wilsoncenter.org

This whole campaign is disgraceful. This administration which is riddled with actual antisemites is using antisemitism as a stalking horse for its campaign against all universities. A kind of elaborate and hideous gaslighting.

Nothing about canceling funding for an epidemiology student's dissertation can possibly make Jewish students safer on campus.

getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life

Listening to Clara Bow as I type this 💕

Society or Department?

A millennial Democratic legislator should do a live demo of the SSA AI-bot customer service with their parent. To, you know, show everyone how well it will work.

Then, when there's outcry about bias, offer to do the same with a senior GOP representative or senator. Without their staff assisting.