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PhD holder and teacher of journalism at a CT university. Currently too tired to be any good at social media-ing. (She/Her)
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/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
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💔😢
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I would love to see a pre-print of that.
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Thanks for sharing! I’ve definitely noticed this problem over the years, and it’s useful to have my impressions confirmed.
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The man who was killed by 50501 Utah's "peacekeepers" is Afa Ah Loo, an acclaimed fashion designer. He was the only Sāmoan contestant on Project Runway. A fundraiser for his family is here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...
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Folks -- We've updated this piece, with a new headline too, to more accurately get at how dangerous this bill is re: letting Trump skirt the courts. The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
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Fair enough! I’ll leave you be.
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💯 they should be allowed to transition whenever they want
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Since we’re the same age, I refuse to believe you look that old. You absolutely look cute! (From a fan 🙂)
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Growing up in Southern California, the Mexican flag has always been a big part of the culture and means more than a connection to Mexico. It’s not necessarily a symbol of national pride, but of Mexican-American pride and Southern Californian pride.
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We're at the "we cannot build bananas in America" stage of our societal collapse. God help us.
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if you never acknowledge wins, there's kind of nothing to do but despair.
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“Shifting that number of law enforcement agents from those types of agencies inevitably will mean fewer resources fighting transnational criminal organizations, drug smuggling, counter-terrorism, and child exploitation,” a former senior ICE official tells me. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/1961...
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Numerous teachers told me that they are wasting many hours of their lives giving thoughtful feedback to robots