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"People's Hanging Court" is such an apt description for the horrendous way people consume media
Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Stop Asking For STLsas i'm doing anything creative, i play a fun little game in my head called "People's Hanging Court" where i am on trial and the prosecution is reading every single sentence out and if i don't have a defense ready for every choice they're going to kill me this is less stressful than social media
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.www.nytimes.com
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويدMy Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
"Total insect abundance tripled, while native bees showed a 20-fold increase in numbers." 🎉👇 Good news!
Craig F"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
