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Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) indicated that he and other Republican lawmakers
were exploring ways to reinterpret the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause,
following the Supreme Court ruling last month against Donald Trump’s attempt to do so through executive order.
In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Johnson cited the dissenting opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas,
who argued that the 14th Amendment o…

Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, Still “Looking at All Angles” to End Birthright Citizenship
A recent poll reveals around 7 in 10 Americans agree with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship.

Regarding my “Islands & Continents” map¹ that I posted last February 2025, I double-checked and I actually missed Taiwan which I first visited on a transit stop at TPE airport in 2012. Oops.
So here’s an updated map correcting this oversight.
¹ https://en.osm.town/@seav/11397806761734…

Filing: regulators in Australia and New Zealand cleared Paramount's WBD acquisition, which Australia says is "unlikely" to substantially lessen competition (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Cleared in Australia
The mega-merger is "unlikely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in relation to the wholesale supply of films for theatrical release in Australia."

Want the world to change? That's easy from the couch.
But do you actually enjoy the changing part when it shows up in your own life?
The uncertainty we fight against is the same thing as the possibility we want. They're not separate. They're one thing felt from both sides.
What if the falling apart is the doorway?
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if you want to change the world, you gotta learn to love change ✌️
the hardest and best lesson I've ever learned about embracing my inner chaos monster

Privacy Becomes You, Bayou State: A Look at the Louisiana Data Privacy Act
https://fpf.org/blog/privacy-becomes-you-bayou-state-a-look-at-the-louisiana-data-privacy-act/
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The Far-right Louisiana Attorney General who threatened to 'take out' Democratic New Orleans Mayor in a coup
has been indicted on 16 felonies.
In the weeks prior to MAGA’s April 30th coup in Louisiana
(When a 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 was declared to cancel elections
-- all to remove a Black Congressman)
MAGA did something awful that received far less attention…
In 2025, Calvin Duncan,
a wrongfully incarcerated man,
who fought for his release…

Jamie Davis for U.S. Senate — Opportunity In Unity. One Louisiana.
Jamie Davis won the Democratic primary with 47% and carried all 64 parishes. The runoff is June 27 — chip in and get involved.

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

Does journalism face its gravest danger yet?
Christiane Amanpour speaks to reporter Amy Goodman and filmmaker Tia Lessin, about their new documentary exploring the fight for an independent press.
Then: A powerful new exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till was denied. Historian Sarah Lewis and the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. join the show to discuss.
And: Long before Silicon Valley dominated our lives, Paulina Borsook warned of its growing power. Michel Martin speaks to the …

A congressional candidate from Louisiana who was the subject of a police report accusing him of rape says he is hoping to again “earn” Donald Trump’s endorsement
as he considers precisely where to run amid redistricting.
The candidate, Blake Miguez, is weighing running in one of two districts,
neither of which he lives in
but in which he is allowed to run.
He has been mulling that choice after the supreme court’s landmark decision in Callais v Louisiana prompte…

Louisiana House candidate accused of rape says he hopes to again ‘earn’ Trump endorsement
Republican Blake Miguez is weighing what district to run in after state redrew map following supreme court decision

I am one of only 4 Black men to ever represent Louisiana in Congress.
If MAGA successfully passes all white districts, I will be the last. 
Following the suspension of our elections, fmr. Reps. Jefferson & Richmond,
along w/ current Rep Carter, and I,
-- the only four black men to ever represent LA,
just testified against a new map that erases our two black majority seats and replaces them w/ all white districts. 
In a state where Black folks make up …

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