Noam Chomsky was born a month before Martin Luther King Jr.

I went and Facebook and was met with a long post from a conservative sibling about how he was wrong and fascism is a serious problem in America. A conservative aunt is reposting Indivisible content. My family is not a representative sample of the country but this gives me some hope anyway

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

Issues with this one have been popping up. Still maybe my favorite history of eugenics I've read so far? But she's gotten a bit stuck on some anti-liberal memes that she doesn't back up well enough

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Vote Trump for State Terrorism and Pedophilia

This is what the front page of every newspaper should look like for the next 3 years

Inside of you there are two wolves: one is a citation minimalist who refuses to cite anything except direct quotes from historical figures, the other is a citation maximalist who wants to add twelve citations to every paragraph to prove to any readers that you are very smart and well-read

Some 20th century sexologists thought femme lesbians didn't count as lesbians

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

I am reading Casti Connubii, a 1930 papal encyclical by Pius XI. Interesting bit. It claims that an allowance for divorce was made as concession by Moses for "the chosen people of God on account of the hardness of their hearts," but that Jesus abolished these exceptions

It feels practically cliche to point this out but eugenicists' anti-immigration rhetoric really is totally indistinguishable from contemporary anti-immigration rhetoric

I am only ~30 pages in but so far this is my favorite history of eugenics

The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good.

If you want to read something deeply stupid and cowardly about the murder of Renee Good, you can read this: vanjones.substack.com/p/america-is...

The actual history of successful civil rights movements in America is largely getting the shit emasculatingly kicked out of you by lesser, meaner men until state repression peters out, & then in the flush of victory people tell FANTASIES of heroes leaving the wicked in broken heaps the "right" way.

I wrote something: wp.me/pgvQof-n

Gonna finish this tonight

It's pretty amazing that there's a video of a man straightforwardly shooting someone for no reason, where somehow every piece of context makes it even worse

Oh no did the ICE men get hurt in the feewings???

"As ICE has surged, so has Minneapolis-St. Paul." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Good article: www.jstor.org/stable/44447...

I went on Instagram reels and almost immediately saw Powell's speech surrounded by zoomer adhd brain rot

I’ll never forgive them for doing this to my city

Two stats I just saw (and double checked) DHS says they're mobilizing 2000 ICE agents (not sure if this has been independently confirmed given their propensity to lie and exaggerate, but they've certainly sent hundreds) Minneapolis has SIX HUNDRED COPS TOTAL WHAT THE FUCK

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

RT if you STAND with WASP FINANCE CAPITAL against the PRUSSIAN MENACE in the White House!

Okay it's crept up to 4300. I think this is the longest thing I've finished (I haven't quite finished it but I will) since undergrad

One of the ways you can tell if you made a Good And Not Annoying Comment is if it gets likes faster than any other comment

Heated Rivalry is not good

trained police are allowed to react with unpredictable lethal violence and untrained civilians are obligated to behave entirely predictably to the threat of lethal violence

The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

Lots of people, upon discovering that some particular disability doesn't negatively impact a person's life/wellbeing in the way it "should," prefer to reclassify whatever particular disability they're learning about as not-really-a-disability instead of rethinking their idea of what disability is

“Three years is a long time to resist and to endure with all our might. But it is not long enough for them to triumph, not the way they’re going. We’ve got this. It’s going to be hard, there will be more losses, but we will beat them in the end.” www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

Just shy of 4000 words. I have a complete draft of an essay about trans people and eugenics and transhumanism

Spanish anarchists in the early part of the 20th century advocated eugenics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anarcho-imperialism

okay so Sorry, Baby is a good movie and I would recommend watching it, but (and I say this with as little self-hatred as possible) it does feel a lot like it was written and directed by a non-binary person

I found the word "anointing" in a game of Boggle. I got to use the word "asymptotically" in an essay I'm writing. I am having good word day

This is a graph from the Oxford Very Short Introduction to Intelligence:

This is a good paper: joelvelasco.net/teaching/233...

Thought about anarchocapitalism: y'know that thing where people go "eh, fuck 'em" when something bad happens to people from states that don't align with them politically? That would get so much worse

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