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“Restricting access to these materials through subjective relocation or removal constitutes a violation of the community’s right to information and a direct infringement on the principles of free speech,” she wrote in a letter to the board of the Rutherford County Library System on Wednesday. She called the board’s vote “a clear act of viewpoint discrimination” and said carrying it out would violate both the First Amendment and her professional obligations.
now i can’t believe— that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”— all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as: life is merely to ovum and sperm and where those two meet and how often and how well and what dies there.
“I’m an American citizen,” Gavidia told the agent at least three times. Despite his responses, the agent pushed him into a metal gate, put his hands behind his back and asked him what hospital he was born in, Gavidia said. Gavidia, rattled, couldn’t remember the hospital. Video taken by Gavidia’s friend shows two agents holding Gavidia against a blue fence, as he tells them they are twisting his arm. “I’m American, bro!” Gavidia said in the video. “What hospital were you born?” the agent is heard asking in the video. “I don’t know dawg!” he said. “East L.A. bro! I can show you: I have my f—ing Real ID, guey.”
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Saying it will be ok is letting yourself off the hook. It is also deeply naive. By confronting the fact that it very well may not be ok, you are better mentally equipping yourself for a fight. By not saying it will be ok, you are allowing the gravity of this moment to fully sink it. Nothing about this is ok, and there’s nothing to indicate it will be. Saying so is honest. Right wing personalities are always telling their followers to “wake up!” to the truth, but now it seems Democrats should’ve been the ones heeding the urge. We needed to wake up to the fact that we are surrounded by people who think all of this is good—who hate women, who hate immigrants, who hate trans people, who hate education. Or at its most benign, people who simply do not care about what happens to foundational pieces of our society either because they’re insulated by privilege or because their media diet has fed them lies about what happens when they crumble. The answer, however, isn’t to match their hate: It’s to match the unwavering certitude with which they express their beliefs.
Netanyahu did not issue a warning to the Lebanese out of sincere concern. The purpose of the statement was to manufacture justification to an English-speaking audience. Swap out "Hamas" for "Hezbollah," and the rhetoric is identical: Evil is hiding everywhere, therefore Israel claims uninhibited freedom to attack indiscriminately. Anyone who is killed has only themselves to blame. We warned them. Does Israel really think the Western world is so credulous as to accept such a strategy without scrutiny? The answer, emphatically, is yes. And why wouldn't it? There's been no pushback so far. It beggars belief that anyone would buy this line, let alone a second time, but "belief" isn't the issue here. Even if a majority of Americans want an end to the violence, U.S. policy encourages it. Israel's attack on Lebanon only motivated a lame-duck president to send an undetermined number of troops to the Middle East.
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In the past decade, at least 163 California police agencies have executed clean-record agreements concealing misconduct allegations against 297 officers and deputies. While the precise terms of the agreements varied, most promised to either destroy disciplinary records, hide them in confidential folders or change them to reflect an alternate outcome. In many cases, the deals ensured that only certain information would be released to a potential future employer. At least five officers secured clean-record agreements from multiple agencies.
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r/KaceyMusgraves Okay let's settle this - what's KM's fanbase called? @someredheadchick (6mo) Twitter says we are High Whores lol. I like Musgrats
Imagine that your health care required objective justification, if access to birth control or erectile dysfunction medications required proving that you were having monogamous sex, or good sex, or sex at all. Or if fertility care was provided only if you could prove that becoming a parent would make you happy, or you would be a good parent. Or that abortion would be available only if you could prove that it would improve your life. In a free society we agree that these are private matters, decided by individuals and their families, with the support of doctors using mainstream medical science as a guide, even when they involve children. We invite politicians and judges into them at great peril to our freedom.
The City Council wasted more than four hours on the subject Tuesday, giving the floor to sometimes vitriolic speakers — many of whom might not have even been city residents — with opinions on something that will have no effect. In the end, the conservative majority on the council voted to go forward with an ordinance.
“News organizations were quick to report on the incident, but most failed to note that the targeted employee has done nothing wrong, and that Yarbrough had no good-faith concerns,” the coalition said. “The notion that queer people are out to “indoctrinate,” “groom,” or “recruit” children is a prejudiced falsehood that dates back decades in America and has led to innocent queer people losing their lives and livelihoods,” the statement said. “This kind of rhetoric further divides our state, has no basis in reality, and has historically led to violence,” said Andrea Trenaman, a member of the Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition. “It is additional fuel poured on the flames of moral panic gripping the right wing of American political discourse, based only in fear and misunderstanding.”
"We're trying to take the Times out of circulation for a day," Harry, a participant in the action who did not want to give his full name for fear of professional consequences, told me shortly before setting off for the action Wednesday night. "People view it as this repository of objective knowledge, but it's actually at the forefront of manufacturing consent for this war. We want to challenge that, and create a vacuum where other things are possible."
The efforts we have seen to erase Bushnell’s motives are unconscionable, which is why I began this piece by stating a truth so undeniable, so heartbreaking, and so unpredictable in its impact that the stenographers of genocidaires and their apologists felt compelled to suppress it: Aaron Bushnell died for Palestine.
Adoption as a system is supposed to be about finding homes for children who need them, not about finding babies for parents who want them. I also think that as more and more of our adoption in the United States is transracial adoption, the promise of white parents adopting children of color becomes this post-racial bona fide. I don’t think that’s why most of them do it, but I do think that there’s this idea that we can form families: biology doesn’t matter, race doesn’t matter, communities of origin don’t matter. Love is what makes a family. That’s this progressive liberal idea, and it’s not actually born out in the impacts that we see for adopted people and their families.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade while you were working this book. How will (or won’t) Dobbs change the adoption industry? We saw from the Turnaway Study that when you deny people access to abortion, the vast majority of them are parenting. So you’re not going to have a huge surge in adoption. [The number of adoptions] is going to be vastly outnumbered by the number of people who are parenting children that they did not intend to parent at that time in their lives. And so this raises the question: How are we actually going to support these families?
Farouky told the Guardian he did not regard the issue as one of freedom of speech. “Obviously, there’s a red line and and I think Ted are applying the same values that you would to, say, a debate about space exploration to a 21st-century live stream of someone who defends genocide, and it’s just failed miserably,” he said. “A generous reading is that the organisation is just terrible at making moral judgments about who they invite. I think they want to have slightly edgy or controversial speakers in the belief that they can do an interview on stage that might challenge them. But they’re just not equipped for that.” Farouky gave the example of the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s appearance at Ted in 2022, which he described as “a puff piece”. “The whole setup of the conferences just has no capacity to really interrogate ideas. It’s a celebration of the individual. It’s not a space for free debate at all,” he said.
Humphrey apologized but then doubled down. He said: “I apologize for using the word Hispanic, but I was not wrong. Again, these are Hispanic. Reality is they are Hispanic. There’s nothing to be ashamed with.” Humphrey said he will go back to the bill and amend the language from “Hispanic” to “undocumented here illegally, or something like that”. If passed in the Republican-controlled legislature, the bill would become law and take effect on 1 November. Humphrey did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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“While the Senate seems overly preoccupied with what students are saying, they’re deafeningly silent about genocidal statements from those in positions of power: Israel’s defense minister’s dehumanizing reference to Palestinians as ‘human animals’, the threats from an Israeli major general of total destruction, Senator Lindsey Graham’s callous statement that Israel should ‘level the place’ and Representative Max Miller’s outrageous demand for Gaza to be transformed into a parking lot with its inhabitants displaced.”
[Excerpt]: George Loewenstein, a titan of behavioral science and a co-author of Ariely’s masturbation paper, has refashioned his research program, conceding that his own work might have contributed to an emphasis on the individual at the expense of the systemic. “This is the stuff that C.E.O.s love, right?” Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago, told me. “It’s cutesy, it’s not really touching their power, and pretends to do the right thing.” At the end of Simmons’s unpublished post, he writes, “An influential portion of our literature is effectively a made-up story of human-like creatures who are so malleable that virtually any intervention administered at one point in time can drastically change their behavior.”