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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
August 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love
"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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There’s a kind of person who considers anyone who cares about Palestinians a de facto antisemite and apparently Frum is one of them. Zohran has plenty of Jewish friends and cross endorsed a Jewish candidate but since he’s Muslim, I guess that’s not enough for Frum
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
There’s a kind of person who considers anyone who cares about Palestinians a de facto antisemite and apparently Frum is one of them. Zohran has plenty of Jewish friends and cross endorsed a Jewish candidate but since he’s Muslim, I guess that’s not enough for Frum
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YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
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The thing I want in every one of these stories of "why is ICE doing this?" is to ask the person:
1) What media informed your assumptions about ICE policy?
2) How did that inform your vote?
3) What changes are you going to make in your media diet to not be caught so off-guard again?
1) What media informed your assumptions about ICE policy?
2) How did that inform your vote?
3) What changes are you going to make in your media diet to not be caught so off-guard again?
May 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The thing I want in every one of these stories of "why is ICE doing this?" is to ask the person:
1) What media informed your assumptions about ICE policy?
2) How did that inform your vote?
3) What changes are you going to make in your media diet to not be caught so off-guard again?
1) What media informed your assumptions about ICE policy?
2) How did that inform your vote?
3) What changes are you going to make in your media diet to not be caught so off-guard again?
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The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
May 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
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Almost certainly an anti-Semitic hate crime. And the President who is trying to tear up the American university system on the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism hasn't said a word.
It is horrifying no matter what — and there is still a lot to learn — but it’s particularly concerning that the Jewish PA Governor’s home was set on fire on the first night of Passover. apnews.com/article/josh...
Police say they are investigating an arson attack at the Pennsylvania governor's residence
Police say they evacuated Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family from the governor’s official residence after someone set fire to the building.
apnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Almost certainly an anti-Semitic hate crime. And the President who is trying to tear up the American university system on the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism hasn't said a word.