The Denali/McKinley thing is one of the stupidest debates in US politics. No one in Alaska ever called it McKinley. McKinley himself never saw the mountain, stepped foot in Alaska, or had anything to do with either. It’s just a big Fuck You to native people. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreidbszsrnr62ahptw4sysa4524x4nhe76k2ptyzlzojubakwbfopfi
Ending the year with the same story I’ve been writing about my entire career. Kentucky police shot and killed a man while serving search warrant in the middle of the night. They appear to have had the wrong address. [www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...](https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article297754063.html ) [Search warrant was for differe...](https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article297754063.html )
Trump hasn’t yet taken office, but he has threatened four friendly countries. Plus Iran.
Headline says it all. I had forgotten about the episode in 2018 when ICE agents arrested undocumented parents as they picked up their kids at a Wisc. preschool. Just unfathomably cruel. Crazy thing is, immigration folks tell me that compared to Stephen Miller, Homan is a sane institutionalist. [Trump’s Border Czar Is a Terri...](
Trump’s Border Czar Is a Terrible Person
Tom Homan, bad human.
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The % of Latino voters favoring deportation and other anti-immigrant policies jumped as Trump and right-wing media demagogued the issue -- and as Democrats retreated and refused to defend immigrants. Leadership sometimes means explaining why good and moral policies are good and moral.
In light of the Penny verdict, just a reminder that "sickle cell trait" is a nonexistent condition that is frequently used to excuse police officers when black people die in their custody. [www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/u...](
How a Genetic Trait in Black People Can Give the Police Cover (Published 2021)
Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a ...
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How a Genetic Trait in Black People Can Give the Police Cover (Published 2021)
Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a ...
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George Mason University, the FBI and local police conducted a pre-dawn, door busting raid of two Palestinian students. The two have already been barred from campus for four years. The alleged offense: some graffiti. And it looks like officials have little evidence they even did that. [Police Raid Pro-Palestine Stud...](
The Intercept
Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.
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Anecdata: I’ve now heard from the heads of two nonprofits who are hedging about preplanned interviews on two different topics. Both say they’re hesitant to speak for attribution because they’re worried about HR9495, and retaliation from the Trump administration. Not good!
Yeah, you can give these guys agency for their dickishness. The simplest explanation is that wealthy, center-left tech guys turned into angry middle-aged white guys. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreiboi2tqtsn7ax24vcley5wig6abuv22c33ql4fzjoqajr6fc66jai
BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic&cid=bafkreigzwdx4zlkjyea5wgtfknnrhtszbgetodspbssmjmfdihcrjbeaxe