Not really appreciating the whole “don’t rain on people’s parade” stuff, it’s been some time since i understood it
It suggests people control the rain simply because they’re choosing to acknowledged that it is, in fact, still raining
also, social workers are mandated reporters. which means they are deputized cops, or at best official police informants, unless they choose (as some do) to put their work licenses at risk, and to risk prosecution, by actively refusing to be cops.
i just will not be fooled into placing hope into US politicians. you know what gave me hope recently though? entire neighborhoods of people in california running ICE agents away. now that we can build on.
I did a survey of their editorials in 2016 and found that in the previous 30 years the NYT editorial board had never opposed a US war, invasion, bombing or coup. I believe this remains true which means the last time they did so was the 1983 invasion of Grenada. So they did that.
This moment is exceptional in some ways & not in others, but this is decidedly one of the ways it's *not* exceptional. And the implication of these claims is if the (non-existent) practice of limiting kidnappings to situations when ICE has warrants is restored, things will be ok.
I think it's a problem to say stuff like this because (1) it's wrong, (2) it creates fake exceptionalism around this moment, and (3) it feeds into the wrong idea that there's some procedural justice "fix" to the situation of ICE kidnapping and deporting our neighbors.
Showing up for neighbors is cool (...no comment about electeds specifically doing it during a campaign...) but y'all.
Zohran, BLander, & some journalists are repeating this claim that ICE needs a judicial warrant to arrest people. That's just a fantasy. That has never been true.
a pol can do something practically useful (for once) and take the consequences for it, and still be perfectly acceptable to the New York Times' editorial board. they know who he is, based on his record as a professional politician. so should we.
if you don't like cops & cages, don't rank lander.
he pushed hard to spend $11,000,000,000 – before predictable cost overruns – to build 4 new jails without closing rikers. he voted for every NYPD headcount & budget increase, including right after eric garner was murdered.
Democrats could have run on a populist anti-war platform that has overwhelming public support in the US. They could have explicitly said that if elected, they would make sure not to launch a war on Iran. Instead they said the single greatest threat to the US is Iran, and repeated the same Zionist Trump propaganda to launch the war: "Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons".
And now virtually the entire Democratic Party, from Schumer to Jeffries, are fully behind the war, with Bernie Sanders and AOCIA doing their typical performative bullshit to also launder it with their "Netanyahu's war" and zero attempt to actually mass mobilize against it, and only Rashida Tlaib being explicitly opposed to it.
This is a huge win, even if it’s come so late. There has been an incredible and sustained campaign of pressure on PEN for 21 months - glad to see this.
solidarity with Hridindu Roychowdhury!
he is currently earning no time towards his 7 year federal sentence because he's being held in contempt in a county jail in Wisconsin for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury! he's refusing to snitch!
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Honor Mosab's memory by contributing to the @sameerproject so they may continue their absolutely essential life-saving and life-affirming work in Gaza https://t.co/vt69yV8FDS
Sorry, I’m still laughing at the NYT reasoning that having Palestinian reporters writing about Palestine/Israel would be too biased, while their actual Middle East reporter is a former IDF soldier and they have several other former IDF soldiers and AIPAC affiliated reporters.
Not even waiting more than a couple days to immediately start targeting Iran's healthcare system, and children no less. Just as they targeted Lebanon's healthcare system and annihilated Gaza's healthcare system, the intent is to destroy the fabric of these societies.