Or a peeping toad? Does seem early, though. Our (magical) frog chorus just started here in SC.
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Or a peeping toad? Does seem early, though. Our (magical) frog chorus just started here in SC.
Hell yeah, congrats!
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
My daughter says stuff like this all the time, and then when we're out in the world together, and people are acknowledging my drip, it drives her nuts.
“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”
Brilliant, thank you!!
Amazing. What's the context for this?
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
Very excited to get into this.
Respect to this curler. Rooting for you, brother!
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
Still, regrettably, force or at least the threat of it is sometimes the only counterbalance to force. Combatting authoritarianism sometimes means literally constraining its agents' ability to impose it, and we do have entities that are capable and equipped now to do so. A couple of weeks before ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good on the streets of Minneapolis, I wrote for The New Republic about the mechanics of federal agent immunity and its limits. As the federal government defiantly and explicitly refuses to investigate Ross and instead turns its attention to Good herself and her widow, local prosecutors could, at any time, issue an arrest warrant for the agent-but they have declined to do so. Governor Tim Walz has put the state National Guard on standby with the vague objective of preserving peace and public order. There's one obvious way to do that, because there is one party that is clearly responsible for disrupting that order.
I understand why state and local officials feel trapped here, and why they seem to waver between rhetorical defiance and relative paralysis. If you're Walz, or any other blue-jurisdiction executive in a place besieged by the Trumpian shock troops, there are no good options on the table. A commitment to maintaining some diffuse semblance of order-which functionally means targeting the protesters and organizers, over whom you have far more tangible power than the invading feds—paired with weak protestations and the occasional lawsuit makes sense as a reflexive response, if only because these are people who are by nature risk-averse. The federal officials understand very well that the expectation is an imposition of outside authority, outside the scope of the laws as they exist and outside the social contract. They won't go gentle into that good night.
What I hope local leaders might soon grasp is that there are conceivable-even likely-scenarios where the main choices they are going to have are the ways and degree to which their constituents will be harmed, not whether they will be. If you read the sum total of the coverage out of Minnesota, it's clear that regular life is at the very least destabilized for everyone in the occupied areas, and practically impossible for anyone of color, regardless of status. Perhaps the idea here is to wait this out until Stephen Miller feels like Minnesotans have learned their lesson and sends word to Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to decamp to the next target, at which point the active threat might seem to diminish, but with some rather dire caveats.
Besides helping doom the next unlucky locale to even worse-because this has been an iterative process, with each deployment imparting the lesson that they can push the envelope a bit further-what local leaders then demonstrate to both their own constituents and the federal government is that the latter has nothing to lose now. If anything, the lesson learned is that they have to keep going because the main thing an authoritarian government has to fear is a loss of power that could one day make them answer for their actions. Will local prosecutors and the National Guard save us? That's certainly not a sentiment I'm going to express here, but states' rights cut both ways, and local force in tandem with the effective community-level organizing we've seen can toss this dictatorial effort fully off balance.
This can’t go on. thebaffler.com/latest/state...
Why is this bad?
Shooting mothers, nurses, while arresting priests and toddlers - this is what comes of that. Their terror campaign is completely backfiring on them. People aren't backing down, they're just getting enraged and radicalised.
Exactly this. American history is marked both by profound and continuous violence—genocide, chattel slavery, segregation, internment, imperialist militarism, etc.—and a deep and enduring tradition of struggle against that violence. We need, in this moment, to draw from and build upon the latter.
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
I can confirm that that play, and the statue of liberty, never failed in sixth-grade flag football.
Yes. One of the most striking revelations of the Burns doc, for me, was how like every literate person in the eighteenth century—regardless of class—could write with extraordinary eloquence. So many beautiful sentences!
Excellent, thanks for this.
Man...this guy played on SO many dates, lived and breathed jazz, was NEVER satisfied to be one of the all-time greats but always kept looking for the next step up & out & into the music...we will not see the likes of Jack DeJohnette again soon. Deep gratitude for a lifetime of dedication to the art
People do contain multitudes.
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Entirely moved by this flyer, designed by my colleague @glavey.bsky.social (for a film screening hosted by our theory reading group).
Great news!
Really excited to see how he develops this season.
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
