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Hyun-mi Kim
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Very Proud Cat Lover 🐾🐈‍⬛ Public Policy Advocate. Public Interest Attorney.
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🗃️ The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: A thread on some ominous precedents. 🧵1/14
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February 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Rep. Larson BLASTS The GOP For Blocking Elon Musk From Testifying
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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March 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Trump is taking the Big Lie to Social Security.

The point is and was to "fabricate this elaborate, grotesque lie about a cherished institution of American government to sow enough fear, doubt and uncertainty among enough people that Trump can get away with destroying it."
March 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“Across his roles, he stresses that people are at the heart of medical practice. He said he tries to emulate an “old-timey country doctor” and once helped throw a 100th birthday party for one of his patients.”
When This Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It.
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Well done, SNL.
Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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March 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This is an excellent legal analysis of the administration's recent anti-DEI actions (the executive order and last week's "Dear Colleague" letter). Faculty and school admins take note.

tl;dr version: If you like your school's DEI programs, you can keep your school's DEI programs.
Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump
OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box
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February 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"In many Jewish communities around in the United States today, you get in more trouble for challenging the legitimacy of the state of Israel than for questioning the authority of the Torah." –@peterbeinart.bsky.social
Peter Beinart on “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza”
We speak to Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart about his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, which is “addressed to my fellow Jews” and criticizes what he…
www.democracynow.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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The Albanese we needed. 🪶 #auspol
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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“Most poor, rural Americans are deprived of their fair share of the American dream,” writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, “and over the years the gap between them and the urban middle class has widened to the point of lunacy.”
Justice for the Rural Poor | Catherine Coleman Flowers
Of the forty-six million Americans in rural communities, more than seven million dwell in stubborn, relentless, abject poverty. They may live in neglected
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January 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Two new books coming out on Gaza and its moral and political implications. Can’t wait to read them.
December 7, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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James A. Goldston and Aryeh Neier on the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
The ICC: Myths and Realities | James A. Goldston and Aryeh Neier
On November 21, when three International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, the decision drew a frenzy of
www.nybooks.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Most of the 58,000+ American soldiers who died in the war in Viet Nam were killed in an eight year period. At least 44,664 Palestinians, of whom 70% are women and children, killed by Israel in fourteen months.
At least 44,664 Palestinians have been killed and 105,976 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/y5lfzx
December 7, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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“President Yoon's surprise martial law declaration is a culmination of longstanding tensions – and offers lessons to the world.”

Read @heesoojang.bsky.social’s article on the deeper cause of South Korea’s overnight unrest, and what that means for global democracy: zeteo.com/p/south-kore...
December 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
“To recognize refugees and migrants, those of us who have not faced displacement would have to acknowledge that their full complexity is tied to ours, that their plight is shaped by our choices as much as their own, that their fate foretells ours.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/s...
To Save Refugees and Migrants Is to Save Ourselves
The psychology of fear, blame and scarcity keeps us from solving the crisis of displaced people.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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To fulfill his campaign promise of carrying out mass deportations nationwide, Donald Trump will likely turn to the interior of the country, where an estimated 11 million people are undocumented, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than ten years.
The Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Entered the Country Legally
Biden could still pursue additional protections for many of them—so far, he appears unwilling to do so.
www.newyorker.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Shameful. This will clearly have chilling effects on students’ right to exercise freedom of speech and civil disobedience

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Calif bar considers campus protests in moral character review for lawyer licensing
Bar admission authorities in California will consider applicants’ participation in campus protests on an “individual basis” during the moral character process, following an internal review.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:31 PM
My parents endured the martial law declared in 1979 in South Korea. My dad was repeatedly beaten for participating in the student movement. So proud of my fellow Koreans who resisted the attempt to overthrow democracy that became possible through blood, sweat and tears.
December 4, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy of pursuing detente against China at all costs –included embracing Yoon, whose anti-democratic affect has always been clear Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 travel diary of his time in Reagan’s America – “the only remaining…
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has announced that it will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.
December 3, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Here’s one account you should follow today, if you aren’t already following.

Every year around this time, @ufw.bsky.social breaks down the hard work that goes into getting food to our dinner tables.

Without the skilled and essential labor of farmworkers, we don’t eat. #WeFeedYou
Asparagus is a very early season crop, and it looks a bit odd popping up in the otherwise barren field. Labor intensive to harvest.
November 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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I guess Israel does believe in boycotts.

Haaretz is a liberal newspaper. Nothing that it says is really radical, except that it has columnists like Gideon Levy and Amira Haas who see Palestinians as human beings and who consider the war in Gaza and Lebanon to be criminal.
Israel's government imposes a boycott of Haaretz. No government-funded body can communicate with Haaretz or place advertisements in the newspaper. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties and pulls advertising
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www.haaretz.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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The advance reading copies of TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER have arrived. Forthcoming in April 2025 from @harvardpress. I’m sure if you really want to review this, Harvard University Press will send one.
November 26, 2024 at 5:15 AM