look, i absolutely agree that this is the meaning of the phrase i was taught, but it was coined by Meir Kahane. we can be confident he meant it only to protect Jews.

i'm sure that was a healthy smell i was smelling.

in my middle school, a science teacher would confiscate any CD player he saw in class, and if a parent didn't come pick it up by the end of the week, he would microwave the CD in front of the class.

kids started getting intentionally caught with CD-Rs. it was eventually a weekly class light show.

if the carceral system was driven by any impetus for rehabilitation we would not force prisoners into small unclimatized cells. this worsens their mental state. similarly, we would not force them into slave labour, unmentionable medical conditions, or keep them under the threat of arbitrary viplence

i still say every prison in this country must be torn down.

i am an abolitionist because i recognize that this all needs to be torn down. you cannot repurpose a death machine.

i do believe in rehabilitation. my ideas for it might well fit some people's definition of a prison. that doesn't particularly distress me.

it gets more transparent and slapdash every time, and it works just the same.

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Press Release

“On the Memorandum Issued by Palestinian Factions and Forces on the U.S. Draft Resolution at the Security Council”

The Palestinian factions and forces issued a political memorandum warning of the dangers in the U.S...

look, i know this is an unkind thing to remark upon, but i can't help but notice in her current picture that she seems to be well on her way to Mar a Lago face, which was absolutely not the case just a year or two ago.

goddammit dude, that was not defending Robert Maxwell, who was horrible regardless. demanding that we bother with a modicum of evidence is not evidence of zionism.

This is what "parents rights" looks like in TX: 1 mother decides what 8,292 students don't get access to read b/c she thinks boy unicorns shouldn't be pink or have eyelashes. *side note: the unicorn isn't pink, but he does have eyelashes. And to TX legislators: your bad laws are harming our kids.