J. Lusk

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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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Every company sponsoring the White House egg hunt and every celebrity getting their pic took with the POtuS is guilty of cultural appropriation -- displaying the trappings of democracy and rule-of-law without living up to them.

#whitewashedtombs

The Wilhoit Proposition: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

He's a pig.

I can't respect anyone who claims to love science and panders to such a pernicious source of disinformation.

Everybody follow @chenoweth.bsky.social. She did the work on the 3.5% research for non-violent protest.

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Everyone needs to be aware of this kind of bot.

Many of us believe we have a duty to respond gently to polite argumentation. Especially in advocacy.

Nope.

If someone sealions, check their timeline to see if this is a pattern. Then report & block, as @rahaeli.bsky.social describes. 🧵(1/6)

The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.

A Michigan lawmaker, part of the incoming GOP majority in the state House, today:

A scene from Rise of Skywalker where Rey runs from Kylo Ren's TIE fighter before causing it to crash.

Had to share for those still "grieving" after the #election: found it immensely helpful to watch "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" with so many accurate parallels...
Poe Dameron: "How'd you do it? Defeat an empire with almost nothing."
Lando Calrissian: "We had each other. That's how we won."

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price.
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Nancy Mace is a distraction from the end of women's rights, pass it on.

*shudders*

This is strategy. They are still playing us.

Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

He didn't win the popular vote. The GOP gamed this with voter suppression and strategic ballot spoiling. This isn't normal or legitimate.

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I don't know, I'm not in comms, I don't know anything about anything but maybe just get a bit more aggressive on how fucking weird these fucking fucks are and how their weirdness not only has a stink to it that lingers but is keeping them from actually working and helping people.

"The search for their meaning has, in many ways, been a search for the missing pieces of myself."

three little boys from the wizard of oz are standing next to each other on a street . ALT: three little boys from the wizard of oz are standing next to each other on a street .

Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid?

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Trump wants to avoid FBI background checks for the likes of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard?

A president who cared about the country would want to make sure their nominees were not child sex traffickers or fond of dictators.

But it’s never been America first. Only Trump first.

We worry about attack ads and this is them from 10 mini ago. Openly blackmailing with no fear of retribution.

As was discussed elsewhere, I also associate the word "futurism" with Italian Futurism. In your previous framing of the question, you used the word "futurology" for which the association is much weaker. Lots of people have some idea of futurism, not as many about the methodologies and field itself.

The Women of the Manosphere: Anti-Feminist Women Influencers in South Korea - GNET

Fascinating research, as always, by the brilliant Yebin Won in GNET. gnet-research.org/2024/11/11/t...

"But the rate of profit… is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin."
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, I:XI.p, p.266

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)