G Ratt
@gratt1.bsky.social
Quasi-Anonymous New Orleans socialist, into music, food, gardening, community building, and the fall of capitalism/ rise of democracy. 🏳️🌈 Bi/ pan cis man, hedonistic heathen
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This isn’t a story of corporate law firms breaking an honorable tradition of upholding the rule of law.
It’s a story of Big Law showing its true colors.
It’s a story of Big Law showing its true colors.
You Can’t Seriously Be Shocked That Big Law Caved to Trump
They defend fossil fuel corporations, tobacco giants, Wall Street criminals, and the pharmaceutical firms responsible for the opioid crisis. So of course they folded to Trump like a cheap suit.
newrepublic.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This isn’t a story of corporate law firms breaking an honorable tradition of upholding the rule of law.
It’s a story of Big Law showing its true colors.
It’s a story of Big Law showing its true colors.
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees
When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.
www.inquirer.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees
When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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it’s not uncommon for kids to think their teachers sleep at school, but eventually you see one at the supermarket and realize everyone is also a person with a full, complex life deserving rights and autonomy just like you. you gotta grow up.
April 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
it’s not uncommon for kids to think their teachers sleep at school, but eventually you see one at the supermarket and realize everyone is also a person with a full, complex life deserving rights and autonomy just like you. you gotta grow up.
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Also, am I a bad person for being skeptical that isis is recruiting people who are on porn sites??
April 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Also, am I a bad person for being skeptical that isis is recruiting people who are on porn sites??
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Just as my grocer is not obligated to sell putrescent meat for the sake of presenting options, the marketplace of ideas need not put every slightly coiffed racist on offer either
April 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just as my grocer is not obligated to sell putrescent meat for the sake of presenting options, the marketplace of ideas need not put every slightly coiffed racist on offer either
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you do not actually have to argue in a fair and noble way against rabid Nazis that want to burn and desecrate everything good in this world, actually
April 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
you do not actually have to argue in a fair and noble way against rabid Nazis that want to burn and desecrate everything good in this world, actually
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Report: Majority Of Nation’s Civic Engagement Centered Around Oppressing Other People
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
April 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Report: Majority Of Nation’s Civic Engagement Centered Around Oppressing Other People
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
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you'll never be rid of him
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
you'll never be rid of him
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Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
April 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
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When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:
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The reason I'm hitting myself in the head with a big cartoon mallet is that the people who told me not to do that were condescending. "That's gonna hurt dumbass" they sneered. Well it doesn't hurt and in fact I think it may be helping my asthma
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The reason I'm hitting myself in the head with a big cartoon mallet is that the people who told me not to do that were condescending. "That's gonna hurt dumbass" they sneered. Well it doesn't hurt and in fact I think it may be helping my asthma
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"We have the power of the strike. That is the one power that no president or court or employer can ever take away. Workers do the work, and they can stop doing the work. Everything the labor movement has built flows from that truth."
inthesetimes.com/article/unio...
inthesetimes.com/article/unio...
Unions Without Strikes
Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.
inthesetimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"We have the power of the strike. That is the one power that no president or court or employer can ever take away. Workers do the work, and they can stop doing the work. Everything the labor movement has built flows from that truth."
inthesetimes.com/article/unio...
inthesetimes.com/article/unio...
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This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
April 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
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From the 2024 presidential immunity oral arguments: "But the liberal justices voiced concern that by offering presidents a shield from prosecution, the court could turn the Oval Office into a “seat of criminality,” as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described it."
April 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
From the 2024 presidential immunity oral arguments: "But the liberal justices voiced concern that by offering presidents a shield from prosecution, the court could turn the Oval Office into a “seat of criminality,” as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described it."
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"here to comment on this quirky, odd turn of events: Chris Rufo! welcome back to The Daily"
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"here to comment on this quirky, odd turn of events: Chris Rufo! welcome back to The Daily"
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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It's been 34 days since a New Yorker was abducted from his apartment lobby and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana.
The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech.
Free Mahmoud now.
The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech.
Free Mahmoud now.
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
apnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's been 34 days since a New Yorker was abducted from his apartment lobby and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana.
The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech.
Free Mahmoud now.
The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech.
Free Mahmoud now.
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New in PN: Yes, they voted for this
"Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions."
"Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions."
Yes, they voted for this
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in."
www.publicnotice.co
April 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New in PN: Yes, they voted for this
"Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions."
"Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions."