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monicavisalam.bsky.social

Assistant Prof. at Georgia State College of Law. Scholar working at the intersection of human rights and the environment. Alex Trebek called me a barracuda. She/her.

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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

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I mean, if you mean, “would be very interested in him checking right out of public life and all women’s lives forever and ever,” then sure.

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This was a really excellent episode of a generally excellent podcast, although I do wish the intro hadn't fallen into some of the common tropes of manufactured crisis and implying that most immigration is into the US/Europe, and had avoided the dehumanizing phrase "flood of migrants."

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Reporter: Migrants who were in Guantanamo Bay say they were shackled and placed in cages and say they were not treated as human beings. Any response to those conditions? Leavitt: It’s a promise the President campaigned on

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I’m afraid I really only did two things this week: 1) Got into a land war in Asia 2) Went in against a Sicilian when death was on the line

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

In Those Years by Adrienne Rich

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Just a little sad tarallo-dog in a fluffy bed

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Important, triste et potentiellement dangereux 👇

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

#relatable

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Important and useful thread

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s the good Atlas network! (#iykyk)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Amidst <vague gesture at the world>, I'm happy to share that my new article "Race, Reparatory Justice, and Climate Change-Related Migration" will be published in the @fiu.bsky.social Law Review. It's not currently on SSRN, but I'm very happy to post the draft if folks would like to take a look!

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Please let anyone in the Metro Atlanta area know. Share! #Atlanta #FoodSecurity #foodismedicine

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Cooper contemplating the state of the world

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

YES!!!

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This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

I had something to say on this topic www.lawfaremedia.org/article/musk...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The Partition of India displaced 20 million people, killed almost 2 million & created a refugee crisis whose effects are still in play over 70 years later, if you actually think it's a model for anything but massive catastrophe, you should not only not be employed here you should be in a padded cell

submitted 15 days ago • 90 comments

Today's poem of the day, "To a Young Poet," by Zaina Alsous, feels especially apt: poets.org/poem/young-p...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Scholastica book fair is this a thing?

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“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way.“ www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...