Grad school, year 2, day one, ... with equal amounts dread, lacking support, and IDGAF all mulling on a low simmer.
I'm ready!?! Well, anyway, it's here, and so am I.
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President Biden's announcement today about student loan debt relief has upset some people who believe it's unfair. I acknowledge that resentment, and also, while we're on the subject of unfairness, I have some thoughts for your consideration. (thread)
Orientation and Intensive sessions complete. Came out to cohort. Two papers on this experience due by end of week.
I guess I'm really doing this whole grad school thing!
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It's possible getting neurodivergently beat down about how you never think the right way your entire life enables you to understand others more easily because you're deeply accustomed to the idea, "Maybe how I'm thinking about it's wrong" & people who've "never" been wrong don't.
I spy something left out of my music history courses in college
Nazi rules for #jazz. This is AMAZING. Partial list below, click through for the rest. [via @roygrinker and @TheAtlantic] theatlantic.com/entertainmen…
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In the past week, conservatives have signaled they're coming for:
✅Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage)
✅Griswold v. Connecticut/Eisenstadt v. Baird (birth control)
✅Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage)
✅Lawrence v. Texas (gay sex)
They're telling you their plan!
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a far-right legal group that writes many of the anti-trans bills around the country, tells the Washington Post states should have the right to criminalize sodomy.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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There really is no excuse for police to hide from the public the names and prior records of officers who’ve harmed people. It’s just another part of a system that is designed to avoid accountability at every level.
The only two cents we should be concerned about from our oligarchs
.@ewarren discusses the responsibility of billionaires to invest back in the society that helped them get wealthy.
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trans people aren’t being unrealistic for begging an administration that campaigned on its support of their rights to do literally anything to help them
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This is not the first time Portland Police shared inaccuracies as facts. Should they be held accountable - yes. Will they be held accountable by the Commissioner in charge of the Bureau - the Mayor? No bc when has the Mayor ever held Portland Police accountable?
There was a mass shooting and zero people I talked to in Colorado today knew anything about it.
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For the Japanese American community, today is a solemn day. It's the Day of Remembrance, the anniversary of FDR's Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were citizens of the United States.
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Kim Potter, a white police officer, was just sentenced to less than two years for killing Daunte Wright.
This is the same system that sentenced Crystal Mason, a Black mother of three, to five years for voting when she didn't realize a past felony conviction made her ineligible.
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Minnesota police have killed 3 people in the past 66 days, all of which were Black men.
You cannot reform this system @DocumentingMN @MnUrising
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"You just come out and say this and expect us just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true," said @APDiploWriter. cdreams.news/3GrMFJ7
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Veterans and people on Medicaid are still not eligible to get free at-home COVID-19 tests through their insurer.
bit.ly/3opGoaD
White People Chairs
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