Sean Morrissey Carroll

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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Democrats ended the shutdown so they could fund this. Never forget.

Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...

Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

Danny devito bumper sticker Warhol getup

As seen in Houston

Suppression of dissent hopefully moves the protests into consumer spaces, that would be cool

My dream to move to Ireland and start a seaweed farm looks rosier every day

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

Philly Civil War Memorial, where they list all the times Pennsylvanians fucked up racist bitches

@thelincoln.bsky.social got ahold of an arc of Metallic Realms; such biting satire. Got to page 105 before I had to post Cheers to you :)

The broader structure of the Constitution provides additional support for the proposition that the 14th Amendment does not treat the children of those temporarily or unlawfully present as natural-born citizens. While the Constitution treats all citizens equally in almost every respect, only natural-born citizens are eligible for the presidency. The Framers adopted this requirement to ensure that the president would have the utmost loyalty. The Constitution thus "cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners," as Justice Joseph Story put it. Granting natural-born citizenship to the children of those here temporarily makes a hash of this constitutional design. A person who is brought to the U.S. legally as an infant, grows up in this country, is lawfully naturalized and serves in the military can't be president. Are we really to believe that the framers of the 14th Amendment, whose primary objective was to assure that black Americans are equal citizens, incidentally and unnecessarily opened eligibility for the presidency to the children of foreign tourists?

I'm sorry, motherfuckers, is your argument that the structure of the Constitution in 1792 should be used to interpret the meaning of the 1868 14th amendment?

That Joseph Story's commentary on the laws of the United States in 1833, which I notice you don't actually cite, is somehow meaningful?

Lindale Park, Houston TX

Loving watching the Chiefs lose #bwahaha

Old man climbs jungle gym

Climbing the playground gym 30 years too late

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!

I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.

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Starting the Sunday driving early I see, Houston

Yay! The Witch King series is so good :)

Lo mismo

Charlie Jane always goes on the most interesting side quests 👀

A tall snowman

An octopus snowman

The best snowmen I saw today #houston #houstonsnow

Mentally, I'm here

Make it make sense

He's gonna loot the US for all he can

J Giles record Freeze Frame covered in odd children's blocks

Freeze Frame!

Tarot, knight of coins, king of coins, the empress, 9 of swords above

Everyone looking forward

Neighborhood walk

Screenshot from The Onion, “Kissed The Ground And Cried After Finally Returning To An Apartheid State According to witnesses, South African-born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion.”

the IDF has never landed a strike targeted this well

I must not fear
Fear is the mind-killer
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration
I will face my fear
I will permit it to pass over me and through me
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain

Who tf dumps 20% more cars onto the streets of Houston every holiday season I swear

This NaNoWriMo I am counting 15 random documents in my word count and have made very little progress on what I was supposed to be writing

Imaginary deadline time!

I can't ________ until I edit the last four pages.