Nandini Ramachandran

Oh look it’s the Hindutva doing the DNC-fascism two-step.

‘We Think They’ll Kill Someone’ | Anjan Sundaram Indigenous communities in Mexico who oppose the construction of megaprojects on their lands do so at great risk.

“In 2021 more than fifty environmental defenders were assassinated in Mexico—more than in any other country.” —Anjan Sundaram

A++ intro to a constitutional theory article

Three Journeys Through New York’s Asylum Maze It’s almost impossible to win an asylum case without an attorney. Finding one is a tall order.

“Asylum is your story."
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Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning,

Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

After many years in the works, Jim Jaffe & Marc Galanter's source book on panchayats is finally out! This will be very useful for teaching, plus it has a nice introduction on panchayats in South Asian legal history: orientblackswan.com/details?obsi... Buyers in the US can get it via Abe Books.

This story made me happy on an otherwise bleak day

Nearly Blind Rohingya Refugee Found Dead After Being Stranded by Border Patrol Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s family spent days searching for him in sub-freezing temperatures before his body was found.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, was found dead five days after US Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop without informing his lawyer or family where he was, making it impossible for Shah Alam to find his way home in sub-freezing temperatures.

(it seems they quite like you also)

(it was ok I guess I was just grumpy about the overstatement)

“Who is your husband Nandini”

I am nothing if not an enigma wrapped in a mystery &c

by my evidence, I walked fifteen blocks to an ostensibly academic bookstore today, only to discover one of the three walls was entirely SFF while less than half of another was (any kind of) nonfiction & doesn’t romantasy regularly outsell all the things (tho it’s not SF proper I suppose)

There’s a lot of genre history 101 in this essay (+ one very nice sentence about, um, my husband‘s novel, not that I’m counting) but not (far as I can tell) much of a point to it. (also “vanishing” rather a hyberbole by his own evidence)

Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.”

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image is a redesign of xkcd comic 2501. ponytail says "monstrous children of narcissistic parents are second nature to us wizards vs lesbians fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person only knows Orion lake, Gideon Nav, and Marceline." cueball adds "and fetter, of course," and ponytail agrees, "of course."

me talking about the latest queer sff with my friends like

Turning a Blind Eye A memoir of daily accommodation to fascism.

“We—that is, Americans—live most of the time inside the cocoon of our small daily lives. Except for fire, flood, or outright war, the history-making world hardly ever impinges on most of us. For the most part, it is over there and we are over here.”

New from Vivian Gornick:

“The government knows that educational institutions are the strongest sites of dissent,” said Zargar. “They think that by handicapping and policing these spaces, they can crush resistance—but they’re mistaken. The more they try to suppress campuses like Jamia, the louder our voices will become.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you could see how many books by or about Palestinians they've reviewed in the last year: www.google.com/search?q=pal...

Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa Before ancient aliens—before Lizard People—there was the search for living dinosaurs.

"Of course, the okapi was new only to European eyes. To people from Central Africa, the okapi had been known for millennia. But to the British, it did not exist until Europeans could see it—or at least its corpse. Even then, African facts were far less appealing than European 'discoveries.'”

Inside the End of Kurdish Self-Rule in Syria A fragile deal with Damascus means reunification in the country’s northeast, but fighters remain on alert and civilians are fearful of both the present and future

Is it the end of Kurdish self-rule in Syria? Paloma Dinechin gives us a detailed look at how shifting geopolitics, regional pressures and local struggles have hollowed out the experiment in autonomy that once defined northeastern Syria.

DHS Expansion of Immigration Detention into Warehouses This is a live toolkit and will be updated as needed. Table of Contents Introduction & Background Warehouses in Context Impact on Communities National Expansion Map and Status Core Campaign Demands f...

People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people and keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, and demanding ICE out of their communities.

🔗Learn how to fight back against detention warehouses in our new warehouse toolkit: bit.ly/noicewarehouse

The Trump Tariffs Case Is a Preview of Bigger Supreme Court Fights to Come The conservative justices built the major questions doctrine to thwart a Democratic president. They are reserving the power to do it again.

lawl'd at this bit by @jaywillis.net :

"Trump went on to praise Kavanaugh, who wrote the principal dissent in Learning Resources, for his “genius” and “great ability,” which is instantly, effortlessly ruder to Kavanaugh than anything I have ever said about him."

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Constituent Power Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Constituent Power

It's something conservative historians like Schama and Furet tend to discuss more, I've found (tho' I'm hardly an expert.)

This book might have useful footnotes: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

New Report Helps Journalists Dig Deeper Into Police Surveillance Technology SAN FRANCISCO — A new report released today offers journalists tips on cutting through the sales hype about police surveillance technology and report accurately on costs, benefits, privacy, and accoun...

!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!!

A report from @eff.org , @justjournalism.bsky.social, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. 🧵

Our adorable, noodle-like ancestor had 4 eyes, half-a-billion-year-old fossils reveal The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

This is the expression of someone who just learned what nonsense her primate descendants would be getting up to about half a billion years in the future

When boring old procurements turns bad…

If you've been following the Mohsen Mahdawi case, check out this @lawfaremedia.org article about the history of the foreign policy provision added to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in 1990 & its current use by the Trump admin. to attempt to ideologically deport foreign noncitizens. 🗃️⬇️

Exploring Black History in the Greenwich Village Historic District - Village Preservation Village Preservation recently released a revamped and updated version of our Greenwich Village Historic District Virtual Maps. Originally created in 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Green...

[People are always surprised when I share during my Black women in Greenwich Village tour that GV is probably the oldest FREE Black community in the U.S.]
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

This is some of the craziest shit I've seen in a while and I really fear for our social order sans some pretty heavy-handed regulation