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1/5 🧵Really happy to have a long-gestating piece in this issue. It connects several threads that I’ve been circling around for the past decade: (1) the racial, gendered and social politics of the NAIRU; (2)alternative modes of inflation management; and... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
December 16, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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“States rights” is about to be tested in the 21st century and it’s going to be very ugly
New: Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident.

This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/t...
Texas files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider
This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.
www.texastribune.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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NEW: UnitedHealth strategically limits access to critical treatment for autistic kids. Leaked documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say United’s strategy may be illegal.
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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a thread: korean protesters bringing random flags--this started years ago to show that protesters were just normal citizens with various interests because they were accused of doing some sort of political agitation and now it has just become part of the protest culture and i love it
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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the seoul tourism board is feeling so tired lmao
December 12, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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Was asked to interview for a western media outlet and they were like "and has the impeachment vote awakened the women into political consciousness" and I was like ??? Women have always been the FOREFRONT of protest in Korea: Yoo Gwan Soon, stroller-pushing mothers in 2008, Ewha Women's Uni in 2016??
December 12, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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Conservative party comments on president's declaration today that he will not step down:

"Is he insane"
"Is he asking us to impeach him"
"It's like he just confessed to insurrection"
"미친 거냐" "참담하다" 윤 대통령 담화에 국민의힘 의원들 격앙 - 머니투데이
윤석열 대통령이 비상계엄령 선포를 두고 "내란이 아니다"라는 취지의 담화문을 발표한 것과 관련해 국민의힘 내부에서는 "미친 거 아니냐", "즉각 탄핵해야 한다"는 등의 격앙된 반응이 쏟아졌다. 한 국민의힘 중진 의원은 12일 윤 대통령 담화 발표 직후 머니투데이 더300(the300)과 한 통화에서 ...
news.mt.co.kr
December 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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"Though many politicians believe that halting existing or new fossil fuel production is politically unpopular, there is surprisingly limited data to back this claim...we conducted a nationally representative survey."

guess what @cplusc.bsky.social found?

climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...
Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction - Climate & Community Institute
Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …
climateandcommunity.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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When I talk about how Korea has a special place in its heart for political protest... I really do think it's different from the US where you get taught about MLK etc. Like, this is one of Korea's national heroes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Jung...
An Jung-geun - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

— James Baldwin, 1980
November 11, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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My cousin's husband, Abu Shadi, was renowned as one of the most famous kunafa sellers in Gaza. His kunafa was not only delicious and authentic but also affordable. He fondly referred to his kunafa as "the Poor's Kunafa.", He was killed along with my cousin, their children, and grandchildren.
November 3, 2023 at 10:10 PM
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It’s finally here!! My first solo-authored article, “The Specter of Indian Removal: The Persistence of State Supremacy Arguments in Federal Indian Law,” is out in Columbia Law Review!

columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
THE SPECTER OF INDIAN REMOVAL: THE PERSISTENCE OF STATE SUPREMACY ARGUMENTS IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW - ...
“Could Alabama, if denied the right to legislate co-extensive with her limits, be said to be sovereign? Can she be considered sovereign, when the operation of her laws, although she wills it otherwi...
columbialawreview.org
November 2, 2023 at 12:30 AM
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This is an important point and has historical colonial roots
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds Hobbs, @nazita.bsky.social, Li & Lucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both groups in tandem

doi.org/10.1007/s111...
October 30, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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"Morgues are full. More than half the dead are women and children" - WHO
Source: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
October 28, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera:

Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire”

It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ‘ball of fire’ as blackout adds to distress
Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.
www.aljazeera.com
October 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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Across the occupied West Bank, at least 105 Palestinians have been killed since Oct 7, and another 1,550 arrested in a crackdown by Israeli forces. Palestinian towns have been cut off from one another through Israeli closures and the threat of settler attacks, resulting in a commercial standstill.
Netanyahu: Gaza war will be ‘long and difficult’ as Israel pummels enclave
Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.
www.aljazeera.com
October 28, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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October 28, 2023 at 6:43 AM
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Israel says its ground troops are fighting inside Gaza as it subjects the besieged territory to the heaviest bombardment since the war began. International media and aid agencies say they have lost contact with staff in Gaza amid a near-total communications blackout.
Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ‘ball of fire’ as blackout adds to distress
Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.
www.aljazeera.com
October 28, 2023 at 12:02 PM
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‘The sound of explosions is terrifying. The sky is orange. We don't know anything. We are not safe. Pray for us,’ one journalist in Gaza said today.
Israel-Palestine live: More than 7,700 Palestinians dead in Gaza as Israel says ground operation 'ad...
Israel releases footage of tanks in Gaza as communication remains cut off in the besieged enclave
www.middleeasteye.net
October 28, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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'Police officers broke into a man’s apartment in Jerusalem and arrested him for hanging a sign against the occupation from his living room. A venue owner in Haifa canceled an event for Jews and Arabs that called to stop the war and return the hostages after getting a warning from the police.'
Netanyahu’s Government Is Trying to Suspend the Freedom of Information
A proposed law would prevent journalists and the Israeli public from seeing how the government is managing one of the worst crises in the country’s history.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2023 at 3:59 AM