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"In other words, that “war” she declared on her own body is but a microcosm — and a descendant — of the actual wars that, historically, have determined who gets to be considered beautiful. (Hint: It’s always the victors, the powerful and the rich.)"
February 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Not behind a paywall.
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"You’ve got to retain bandwidth. If...we file all the cases that we need to right now, and then don’t have the ability to file them in years two, three, and four, we’ll do the country no good. We have to play this game smartly. And we are picking and choosing our battles."
February 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
February 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"the litigation they’re bringing against the City of Chicago...is really far afield. They cannot use...pulling money from roads and hospitals and schools to pressure them on immigration...The governors and the state attorneys general...have enormous power to put up roadblocks."
February 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"In places like Germany or Japan, these countries still struggle with what it means to be a German citizen or Japanese citizen. You see the discrimination against Koreans in Japan. That’s because they haven’t had a concept like birthright citizenship, the way we do."
February 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"This is how we fixed that problem that we had in terms of chattel slavery, and how we made all of us citizens and so that the citizens included the children of slaves. It’s also the way that we became a nation of immigrants and levelled the playing field. It’s the great equalizer"
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"They want to eliminate the right to citizenship if you are born here, which was established in the Fourteenth Amendment...It’s how we created American citizens out of the children of slaves. For us in the civil-rights community, this is hallowed ground."
February 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
But I just checked and it is changed now in Google.
February 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Also: "Former President Barack Obama renamed the Alaska landmark [Mt McKinley] to Denali in 2015 as a nod to the region’s native population. But that change hasn’t been made on Google Maps as of Tuesday."

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps | CNN Business
The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America.
amp.cnn.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Doing the same. Not as far along yet!
February 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM