Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. She/her or gender neutral pronouns. Sending much respect to the people of Minnesota. Abolish ICE.
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But here, Tom Sullivan and I explain what really happened when Minnesotans peacefully stood up to Operation Metro Surge.
www.startribune.com/tom-homan-an...
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In an escalation of this trade war, he’s threatening to stop the opening of a new U.S.-Canada bridge until his demands are met.
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Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
truthout.org/articles/bla... | @truthout.org
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Noon, Feb. 18 on Zoom (register at docs.google.com/forms/d/1nuc... - open to all regardless of location).
#academicsky #blacksky
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![Some escaped to freedom, including Oney Judge. The President’s House displays recognized
Oney Judge and focused on how her struggle for freedom represented this country’s progress
away from the horrors of slavery and into an era where the founding ideals of “Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness”
165 could be embodied for every American.
And yet, in its argument, the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter,
remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments
within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984, where:
The largest section of the [government’s] Records Department . . . consisted simply
of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books,
newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for
destruction. A number of the Times [a newspaper] which might, because of changes
in political alignment, or mistaken prophesies uttered by Big Brother, have been
rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other
copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and
again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had
been made. Even the written instructions [for workers in the Records Department]
. . . never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed; always the
reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to
put right in the interests of accuracy.166
The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of
the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean,
hidden, or overwritten. And why? Solely because, as Defendants state, it has the power. At oral
argument, Defendants insisted:
Although many people feel strongly about this one way, other people may disagree
or feel strongly another way. Ultimatel…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreieozargzz4mwsqojgo7uapxz6ucuof2uw7k66q45tlgjvu3bgnupi@jpeg)
![. . . [T]he message that the Government chooses to convey is for the Government
to choose. I don't get to choose what that message is. And it's our position that the
City doesn't either.167
An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot
arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership,
regardless of the evidence before it. Accordingly, the City is likely to prevail on its claims that
the removal was arbitrary and capricious](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreidpzcv3mt65ac543gn5t4vkirwm6d64zr6taujzfiybsps65np6ea@jpeg)
TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Fair to say Democracy for Sale isn’t sleeping at the moment!
New story up w/ Lighthouse Reports and Follow the Money
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:
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The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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“We have these reproductive health care deserts…and we see the kind of suffering that's being reported, and then so much more that doesn't end up getting reported, that just simply gets lost in the mix of things.”
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Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
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Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
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After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
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