"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor": An Immigration System That Would Make Emma Lazarus Delete Her Twitter Account "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

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This Is the Home of the Intolerant Left How the Political Debates on TikTok are Being Censored and Forcing Creators to Substack, YouTube, Telegram, Discord and (EEK!) Instagram Leaving a Platform that Misrepresents American Political Views

My new post on Substack! This is the Home of the Intolerant Left: TikTok's New Censorship

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These are scary times.

My nearly 19 year old cat has decided suddenly that she likes giving me face kisses. What’s up with that?

I didn't think I was going to publish again so soon, but this one hit really close to me. Please read. These immigration raids are about more than sending undocumented folk back to wherever the f*ck they're from....

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Friends, I’m examining my grocery habits to he more aligned with my values. Is Lunds & Byerly’s an ethical company? They are across the street from me.

I can handle the loss of coffee. Cocoa, however? Just kill me now.

I use AI to help me when I have writers block and when I need to refine my language. But it’s just a tool.

We are on our own. I think we are further down the road than you do. And, I don’t think we can restore democracy without addressing the structural problems with capitalism.

What do you do after you do six loads of laundry and make vanilla extract? You notice your bananas need to be made into banana bread. No waste from now on!

I wrote an essay about stocking your pantry for resilience. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

No argument. But there are those of us who have moved on to organizing.

And do you feel like you came to this conversation willing to consider another point of view?

Don’t you think shadow-banning occurs? It’s something my right wing friends complained about all the time.

Go talk to TikTok content creators. They can help you find what you seek. I’m not the repository of all knowledge.

Are you incapable of developing your own test protocol?

Read the article. Try those topics. But, unless you have a TikTok following, the algorithm is probably going to make this test pretty hard. I’m not going to talk about additional codes. I support content creators.

By whom?

Trump does seek censorship. But this is an experiential phenomenon. The algorithm is burying posts that talk about certain things. We know this because it’s happening to us. So coded language is employed.

I don’t think you understand. This is about the algorithm censoring speech. There was plenty of coded language before Trump. There is just more now because the algorithm has changed and people are organizing.

I keep wondering if people don’t realize that the Nazi salute was literally the “Roman” salute. Or am a victim of the Mandela Effect.

Agreed. I’m having a hard time reaching my favorite creators.

The Supreme Court can change interpretation of the Amendments, but cannot overturn an Amendment. (I’m a lawyer.)

Just one thing: I have been an Amazon Prime subscriber since April 1, 2005. At 11:30 EST yesterday, I canceled my subscription. #justonething

I recall stuff like this happening in the first administration. Has anyone created a starter pack for public health accounts?

In light of the Trump gag on government public health communications, what Bluesky accounts should we follow for public health information?

Helpful!

Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

This is why I canceled my subscription. This headline is part of the normalization of fascism. I'm sure the article went on to say what all the barriers will be. Which then will become the fascist recipe.

Just one thing: I canceled my local newspaper subscription because yesterday, the headline didn't tell the truth. Yesterday's inauguration was a fascist wet dream. Normalizing yesterday is dangerous. #justonething