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prezzemolo e finocchio
Screenshot of Abrams opinion: "All of the five defendants were born in Russia. They were intelligent, had considerable schooling, and at the time they were arrested they had lived in the United States terms varying from five to ten years, but *none of them had applied for naturalization.*" (highlighted)
Re-reading Abrams v. United States for the gazillionth time to prep for class tomorrow and I had overlooked this before, or forgotten it: perhaps the most famous free speech opinion ever, the birth of the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor was... written about non-citizens.
31.03.2025 23:18 — 👍 665 🔁 120 💬 6 📌 4
Traditional New Orleans architecture under the snow. #sneauxday
22.01.2025 01:30 — 👍 4313 🔁 768 💬 79 📌 60
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Sharp focus on two teeny mice on their back legs scrapping, the one on the right probably winning, on a blurry backdrop of a London Underground train station
London tube mouse rumble photo = most deserving award winner of all time imo
31.07.2024 15:06 — 👍 1695 🔁 469 💬 33 📌 49
You know you’ve gotten lucky when you get to work with people who have your back the way Mel Brooks had David Lynch’s when they worked together on THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980).
22.07.2024 09:10 — 👍 513 🔁 95 💬 11 📌 13
Reproduction of excerpt from Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY: "1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."
As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
20.10.2023 23:38 — 👍 8029 🔁 3736 💬 48 📌 119clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am, graduating from clown college. this is the happiest day of my life
21.06.2024 04:14 — 👍 1409 🔁 260 💬 14 📌 8
I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
18.06.2024 22:56 — 👍 7464 🔁 2448 💬 151 📌 141Breaking News: A man is killed by an unknown stranger on a motorcycle while he is riding his motorcycle on a motorcycle and has a knife wound on the neck of the man he killed
31.12.2023 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎵 it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right
Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel
And the last two letters are an e and an r
And a t is in the front of the iiiiii
of the tiger🎵
Forget about becoming the person you want to be: successful, lauded, confident, assertive, talented, rewarded, etc.
Instead, work on being the kind of person you actually like to *be with:* kind, thoughtful, generous, easy-going, joyful.
Just some old wild shirts and a couple of pairs of pants.
04.08.2023 19:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fantastic.
23.07.2023 04:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me: “The task of drafting a single document that appeals to multiple people with widely divergent judicial philosophies, at least some of whom will not familiarize themselves with the underlying case record before ruling.”
[Doctor, nodding]: “I meant is anything bothering you physically”
friend: why are you crying?
me: I'm having trouble dealing with my grandma's passing
grandma: *slinging a football at my head* just catch it, nerd
