“In practice, adults from all walks — Republicans, Democrats, the media and university administrations — are exhibiting traits of hysteria and dogmatism they deplore in the young. It should come as no surprise that the protests are getting angrier.”
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I'm filled with a seething rage I haven't felt in years.

MANUEL. BUSTOS. youtu.be/BMwh_WOq40w?si…

The EPA released its plan nearly a week after a ProPublica investigation revealed the agency had laid out a justification for increasing the amount of acephate allowed on food by removing limits meant to protect children’s developing brains. propub.li/44lZYYY

Amazing poster encouraging Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. Almost 250k would make the voyage from 1908 to 1984, making it the largest diaspora outside Japan

One of the books I'd really love to read is just a broad interconnected history of all the Asian diasporas in Latin America over the centuries.

Charles C. Mann's book 1493 talks about tons of Filipino priests and even occasional Japanese ronin in 16th century Mexico

And none of this will change conservative discourse or centrist appeasement of said discourse.

There should be a name for his kind of reasoning: fallacy of misplaced abstraction or something. Basically he built his career on it.

Shocking how little we hear about this country's deep-seated, institutional Islamophobia. After the past 25 years of military adventurism in the Middle East, the USA should feel a special responsibility to confront and eliminate this form of hatred.

Basic (maybe very basic) mapping question: I want to map this data from LA in 1950 but a contemporary map of LA is misleading, how do I find a map of LA that I can use as a basemap? Or more importantly is this something that I can do or should I hire someone? #mapping

All of this is happening to defend universities' right to invest in a genocide without students being mad at them

We heard a lot about 'normalization' during the Trump years. But the real risk was never that Trump himself would come to seem normal. The risk was that everything 'not as bad as Trump' would become acceptable.

A rally specifically organized around the anti-Semitic “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which resulted in the murder of a counter protester, seems infinitely worse than well meaning students asking their universities to divest from a country committing war crimes

Hey, how's everyone's night going?

Welp, see ya later.

Joe Weisenthal 1. Cartelization of tv. With only four networks, innovators hadn’t yet figured out that dumbing down is more profitable, and there was a gentleman’s agreement not to dumb down too much that increased competition destroyed.

2. There were also technological limitations making…

Gotta wonder about the people who are only ever concerned about the 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 threat of fascism, the 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 of creeping authoritarianism, the 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 of violence, all while studiously avoiding what's already here.

The trick is not to describe the sounds but the feelings and then affect a Werner Herzog accent.

'The greatest part of Rachmaninoff's Preclude in C minor is the spiraling entropy of madness pulling you to the pounding chords that feel as tho you've reached the depths of hell.'