@mcsarahmac.bsky.social
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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@armyannstrong.bsky.social
24.07.2025 04:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, RΓΌmeysa ΓztΓΌrk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
sorry i never replied to your email. i didnβt want to and then i forgot.
10.07.2025 13:16 β π 1228 π 141 π¬ 17 π 15IDNGAF if the Senators "had to pull two all nighters" or if they ordered pizza at that time.
01.07.2025 18:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
01.07.2025 02:58 β π 964 π 376 π¬ 32 π 18
I remember the day - catastrophe.
22.06.2025 13:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm going to say something that a lot of historians are aware of but which I think is too seldom articulated. For many years, this is how the deal has worked: a number of industries are only viable in their current form with a workforce of people too desperate and terrorized to demand a living wage. Agriculture, garment production, domestic labor, construction -all of these industries and others allocate their substantial profits in such a way that they depend on a workforce paid a pittance to work in terrible conditions. Sometimes people say that undocumented immigrants do the jobs white people won't do, but I always think that's a little misleading. There's nothing biologically different about white people; they're just largely not desperate and terrorized enough. Many people argue that this is precisely why we have borders in the first place: to create a reserve army of laborers desperate enough to keep afloat industries that otherwise would make no financial sense. So this is how it's worked for many years, and everyone understood the deal. Of course, they never spoke it out loud: instead leaders have praised the "melting pot" and the "land of opportunity." Meanwhile we have made the process of legalization an impenetrable labyrinth and kept poor working people terrorized.
While this was all going on, it made sense to allow immigrants to do double-duty: they serve as both vital labor *and* the scapegoat once white people started noticing that the middle class of this country is rapidly disappearing. That, of course, is because corporations have increasingly moved operations overseas, disemboweled labor unions, and employed gig workers and contract laborβ even as social welfare programs have been demolished. You could say that it's another way immigrants work for this country: by serving as an attractive distraction from the otherwise blatant transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the super-rich. But Trump, as is so often the case, either wasn't aware of the rules or saw an opportunity to grab an applause line that his colleagues had tactfully sidestepped. He started talking about mass deportations, and his supporters, who of course were never aware of the deal in the first place, were delighted to take him up on it. Based on everything they knew, it was just the logical next step. That's how we get here. Deporting peopleβ remember, these are human beings, with families and friends and hopes and dreams-doesn't change the fact that a bunch of industries don't make financial sense, at least in their current configuration, when people are paid a living wage.
Whether Trump is aware of or cares about this intractable fact, I frankly don't know. But once again, immigrants are serving double-duty: this time, they're providing the excuse for the military occupation of a city that's always been a thorn in Trump's side. That this excuse doesn't stand up to even the faintest of scrutiny doesn't really matter, as long as he can keep enough of the country foaming at the mouth for long enough to cement this power grab. Please don't fall for this. Think back on what you know about how history has unfolded. Is it possible that this explanation makes more sense than the narrative you've accepted? If that's the case, then we need to start thinking more clearly about how we can aid the people who need us right now.
I laid it out as clearly as I could. Sorry itβs so long.
09.06.2025 16:48 β π 68 π 28 π¬ 3 π 4People in Gaza are being annihilated.
27.05.2025 03:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did you make 10 tiny bindles, or no?
20.05.2025 02:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If AI is that big stupid blue genie Disney created, I wish we could put it back in the model. Hoping it's something else, but (at least today, for me) the jury is out.
29.04.2025 14:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We should all read or listen to this story about Gaza's hospitals, because it's really about Gaza's children/people. I no longer subscribe to the New Yorker - sorry about the paywall. Al Jazeera is also doing some incredible reporting. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
27.04.2025 17:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marco Rubio speaks and dresses as if heβs second negative on the high school debate team - freshman squad.
27.04.2025 14:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New and important piece by Sherrilyn Ifill on Trumpβs egregious threat to deport incarcerated US citizens.
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/americans-...
This is an incredible program, thank you so much for these brilliant ideas and convening this community.
28.03.2025 18:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The bracelet on the left is made of a native veteranβs Purple Heart.
26.03.2025 07:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Baseball, Native American culture, and tacos in Phoenix. Outraged that the VA removed 22 flags of native nations while we were there - βDEIβ. What an affront to the sacrifice of native veterans. And Baseball makes me miss my friend Gerald.
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