To create a visa process, invite a student to study here, to grant them a visa, to take their money, and then snatch them off the street for criticizing Israel is deeply fked.
grabbed off the street by plain clothes agents thrown into an unmarked car and disappeared with no charges simply for criticizing a foreign government. Textbook fascism.
The First Amendment had a good run. It was a radical notion and couldn’t be expected to survive forever. Of course it would be taken down by flag-waving fake patriots.
The central passage in Skin in the Game is the immorality of blowing up someone in a remote location while safely sipping Bourbon, something that never happened before in the history of mankind.
JFK, Bush senior, & many others had skin in the game; they were prisoners of war.
The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Rachel Zegler had one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood fly out specifically to ask her to delete a tweet in support of Palestine and she refused.
More backbone and integrity at 23 than 99% of powerful people in this country. A queen.