For this week's @TIME cover story, @katiemacreilly, @Jas_Aguilera and I profiled educators who went to extraordinary lengths to support students amid the pandemic. These are their stories:
https://t.co/vECWtZPOU3
Kids have an excuse.
They were taught wrong by bigoted adults.
Adults using the R slur just sound like bigots who think others are lesser.
But they're only showing they themselves refuse to learn to be better themselves.
The Cornell rapists are not "young men with bright futures who made a mistake."
They are the next generation of wealthy, privileged men being taught that their money and status mean they won't have to answer for their actions.
On the rape culture pyramid, objectification is literally at the trivialization stage. Reducing womenโs worth to their sexual organs is how sexual violence is born so yes, they absolutely did it
My book on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, published in 2022, ended with the point that intelligence assets engaged in blackmail, like Epstein, are no longer needed (and thus became expendable) because the surveillance state can retrieve blackmail directly from your devices or plant incriminating material on them.
Four years later, they are just saying it out in the open.
Just a reminder that if you're wondering how we arrived at a society where seemingly no one can read, it's precisely because the powers that be have spent four decades using propaganda to sow widespread suspicion of literature, the arts and the humanities.
Instagram algorithm: here's stuff you like
Twitter algorithm: here's stuff that makes you mad
Facebook algorithm: you will now be dropped headfirst into a bizarre public feud involving a small business in a town you've never been to and several socially maladapted strangers
Pink Clouding and the PR PR PRomises PRomisesโฆ Paper Rings
Babylon and If This Was a Movie have a suspiciously similar intro
Both surprise songs Minneapolis night 1 โ 06.23.23
Idk what it is but I feel the connection