Benjamin Scott

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Rain first, then freezing rain, then snow is a good recipe for roads that are much icier than they appear. Not horrible, but worse than the average 1-3 inches in mid-winter.

Brings me back to my days working at the Middlebury College Library!

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat

I'll start brainstorming titles! Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dawn of the Dead, maybe Slither?

I'm a huge fan/longtime volunteer at the Trylon and made the same joke! I'll put in a word with our programmer to do an Invisible Bridge series next year

really love it when my favorite podcasts do unexpected crossover episodes!

There are no photos of the event in progress, but a cursory search shows there are lots of detailed, haunting photos of the aftermath. Or if you wanted to use an illustration the local Museum has a beautiful mural of the events painted by an actual artist named Cliff Letty.

I'm sorry, why post AI if you have to admit in the alt-text that it's not historically accurate?

Why tell your followers an interesting piece of history (I assume that's the point of the post) and purposefully add some AI slop that will inevitably mislead them?

having goals gives you clarity. right now the dems' goal is "win more seats in the midterms" and that gives them clarity of purpose; unfortunately, it is actually extremely damaging to spend 2 years of spreading authoritarianism stepping out of the way because you think it'll help you next election

Memorial Blood Center in St Paul took me as a walk-in. New donor forms were simple and fast. I was done in 45 minutes

Congrats, Molly! Cheering you on from Roseville

an unbelievable pickup for us. our defense is already so relentless, Carrington is perfect icing on the cake

Irreplaceable bookstore and great article! Come to the Trylon on a Monday night and say hi!

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

If you want to remember how to properly hate GWB, please read REIGN OF TERROR by Spencer Ackerman bookshop.org/p/books/reig...

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

in like 20 years all these sports betting ads are going to be viewed the exact same way as smoking ads from the 50s

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"

Tommy Tuberville blocked military promotions for months while his party was in the minority and he can’t read or write

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