Turnout in Mississippi's midterm primaries for U.S. Senate:
Republicans: ~163,000
Democrats: ~157,000
www.mississippifreepress.org/democratic-t...
Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.
This ALL DAY & frankly it’s no accident that regulating reproduction & versions of white nationalism are key pillars of fascist politics.
Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
Well I mean the problem is that every single president since LBJ, under both parties, has ultimately backed down from their threats to meaningfully alter the relationship to Israel. The evidentiary record favors their assumptions.
Ruining the joke but I think that’s the actual plan for “opening” the Strait of Hormuz.
Doing the hard work of “diplomacy“ to support your No Reason War on your personal social media network is some real Man of the People shit.
I refuse to back down in my anti-fascism, especially in my closest relationships. I’m not overreacting. If you want to ignore the state of the world, keep that to yourself at the very least.
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
Mordor for morons.
An excellent and important book that, as you say, reveals a great deal about the systems & ideas we inherit.
The crime is not just the killing of people who surrender. The crime is telling the enemy that if they surrender, they will be killed. Because when the enemy hears that they cannot surrender peaceably, the war changes from a strategic conflict to a blood-soaked deathmatch.
It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.
A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.
Already done! "Rural Pain, Republican Gain: How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed"
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Last act Dr. King tried to engage — cutting across racial lines and gathering poor of all persuasions.
Dangerous, indeed.
Me The most racist
person alive
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“Stop softening
racists’ language”
But what I think is most dangerous to those in power is bringing people together & working collaboratively to solve the problems that impact our communities. Whatever you decide about firearms, that's the work that reveals the regime to be illegitimate & will ultimately bring abt its destruction.
And it is obvious, too, that white conservatives have invested heavily in surveillance & violence to prevent targeted populations from having a means of defending themselves. That was legit the initial priority of the First Klan in 1865.
I do think the *possibility* of armed self defense lends greater force & weight to the assertion of rights claims. I am willing to defend myself or others, bc I believe in the fundamental dignity of the person & demands for liberation. It is no mere act of supplication.
I'm reminded of all of the bullshit that BLM, antifascist, & civil rights protestors have been charged with possessing as "weapons" or for "assaulting" the officers kicking the shit out of them. As with the guns, these are pretexts for state violence against groups for actually supporting equality.
Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.
Obvious attack on the First Amendment, and also--importantly--an attack on the second amendment
One asshole did a stupid thing, and the completely legal firearms owned by other protesters became evidence of domestic terrorism
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Absolutely no one signs up to die, but in a country w essentially no social safety net whatsoever, the military dangles healthcare & college tuition to attract recruits from the poorest & most marginalized communities in the country. Just another articulation of the kleptocratic killing machine.
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AI “writing” to be “read“ by AI kinda seems to miss the whole social mission of education & knowledge production thing.
Non-rhetorically: what is the point of going into debt for grad school if you don't actually learn anything?
#MagaKillsUS
