Aliki Barnstone

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🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements.

A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

U.S. House members want answers on Texas’ decision to not review maternal deaths after near-total abortion ban U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas led a letter calling for a briefing on why the state won’t review 2022 and 2023 deaths.

Texas is blocking the review of the deaths of pregnant women post-Dobbs to hide the consequences of their deadly law.

Rep. Raskin, Rep. SummerLee, Rep. Pressley and I are calling on Texas HHS to explain why they're hiding the deaths of Texas women.

www.texastribune.org/2024/12/19/t...

Your point? My family’s owned property on Serifos since 1975. Most know enough English to take your order, sell you goods, & host you. I’ve never had a problem finding people to speak English to since most Europeans speak it, many who come to Serifos regularly speak it fluently.

Charlotte Bennett, a young employee who was found to have been harassed by Andrew Cuomo, has dropped her lawsuit against him after he used the legal proceedings to retaliate against her, including public smearing of her sexual history & court orders for her gynecological records.

So when we remove birthright citizenship can we go by the mother? Because:

Don Jr was born in 1977
Ivanka was born in 1981
Eric was born in 1984

Ivana became a US citizen in 1988.

Barron was born in March 2006

Melania became a US citizen in July 2006.

Trump’s entire family would be deported.

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

I loved teaming up with Unite Against Book Bans for my BY ANY OTHER NAME book tour. A huge thank you to all the librarians around the country who came to the events to speak out against book bans.

Raise your voice and stand up for the freedom to read! Learn more at tinyurl.com/uabb-jodi-pi....

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.

This quote's been on my mind the past week:

“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people.”
― Susan Sontag

Two scribes depicted in an ancient Assyrian low relief, using styluses to write on clay tablets.

A cuneiform tablet with writing on it.

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.

They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

And the terrible Trump Cabinet picks keep coming. Let's talk RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services Secretary.

Let's ignore the fact that he may have eaten a dog and proudly stated a worm ate part of his brain.

The more important question: what would this mean for YOU? 🧵

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Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black ...

“The curious connection between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the second-largest country in Africa is the subject of Johan Grimonprez’s documentary.” The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Is this as bad as it Gaetz?