According to Justice Department’s own account, 15 arrested by federal government in Minneapolis this week are responsible for denting gov F-150 (by kicking), & tipping tailer (owned by accused). That’s it.
Why hasn’t potus nuked Minneapolis from space? /s
Attack on Americans & 1st Amendment makes me think we’re not free country I thought we were & realize perhaps never were, I was “lucky” not to notice before.
Just ran across this article on the perpetrator's history with law enforcement:
#AbolishThePolice #PoliceAbolition #Anarchy
The Silence Camus Refused to Domesticate: Hazel Barnes, The Myth of Sisyphus, and the Cost of a Sympathetic Misreading
Hazel Barnes was one of the most careful American readers of French existentialism in the twentieth century. She translated Sartre's Being and Nothingness in 1956, a labor that shaped how generations of American students encountered Continental thought. When she turns to Camus, though, something interesting happens on the page. Her summary of The Myth…
Finished reading "The Trees" by Percival Everett.
Absurdist crime fiction as a vessel for some of American history's worst crimes.
In Money, Mississippi, a series of murders targets white residents, each leaving behind a corpse resembling Emmett Till. Two black MBI detectives investigate as the killings spread nationwide.
Detectives Jim & Ed's dry humor keeps it light enough for the horror to land harder. Haunting & thought provoking.
4/5 st…
My Language Is Not English: A Deaf Educator Answers JB Mitchell
I have taught American Sign Language at New York University since 1991. My credentials and history sit on the public record: first Deaf graduate of CUNY Lehman College in 1992, Master's in Deafness Rehabilitation from NYU in 1997, SCPI rating of Superior Plus, Iowa School for the Deaf from first grade through twelfth, twenty-three years as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for Deaf services at the New…
It’s time Canada starts building its own sovereign tech software. From operating systems to text editors. Education CMS’s to mobile apps.
Trump and AI needs to mark the end of American domination of all things computer software.
That needs to start at colleges and universities.
#canada #digitalSovereignty #AI #CMS #HigherEd
Preventative Medicine, or the Manufacture of Patients?
There is a sentence every American patient has heard at the dentist's chair, the cardiologist's office, the primary-care visit, and the pharmacy counter. It arrives in a tone of grave responsibility: We caught this early. What follows is a crown, an echocardiogram, a statin, a stress test, a referral, a follow-up appointment, and a copay. The word "preventative" has come to function as a moral shield around a…