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What Vance expressed to the friendly Claremont audience was a dramatically reduced vision of American citizenship.
It’s one in which having ancestors who have lived here for generations entitles you to more;
a vision of citizenship that’s long existed around the world, with a notable and aspirational exception in the United States.
“Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let’s say, of the Declaration of Independence — that’s a definition that is way ove…

JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
The day after President Trump signed a bill that throws unprecedented amounts...

Don’t hesitate to express your #anarchist values openly, even if you feel the need to navigate social norms carefully.
#Anarchy endures—No gods, no masters.
#Anarchism

👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏻 Americans prefer a more diverse society, argues a new study
#survey

Americans prefer a more diverse society, argues a new study
At a time marked by debate about identity, migration and national cohesion, a new study brings a surprising message: Most Americans want a more ethnically and religiously diverse society than the one they live in today.

Joan Westenberg: "A failed state. With very good fonts." Whoah <-- read the whole thing --> https://www.theindex.media/america-is-a-failed-state-with-good-branding/

Paul Krugman says nothing here the well-informed don’t already know, but I’m quoting here because he says it so crisply:
❝Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful.…Los Angeles [minus ICE] is probably as safe as it has ever been.❞
❝The events unfolding in Los Angeles as you read this and, I fear, the events likely to unfold across much of America soon, quite possibly this weekend, suggest that the motivations of Trump and his cronies go deeper than mere (mere!) sadism. They want to use false claims of chaos to justify a power grab that, if successful, would mark the end of the American experiment.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage

“I’ve shaken the hands of American firefighters in northern Manitoba who are helping us out, and I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S. Congress to go and do the same and to hear how much the American firefighting heroes who are here, how much they loved our province.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/ambulance-chasers-manitoba-premier-fires-back-at-american-lawmakers-complaining-about-wildfire-smoke/

If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education,
the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

You say you represent my rights in Parliament? Alright, I want my rights asserted right now. Not later, not after some debate, right now.
What’s that, you can’t? Fine, then I’m done with your system. If you won’t give me my rights, I’ll claim them myself. Anarchy it is.
#Anarchy #Anarchism

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.

I’m just a baby anarchist, okay? If you start arguing anarchism with me, I’ll probably blurt out, “Chomsky,” wait, no, not Chomsky, I mean, um, oh no, did I just say Chomsky? Sorry, my bad, I meant Noam, actually scratch that, he’s not even spicy enough for the group chat.
Actually, I meant Rudolf Rocker all along. I have a crush on his syndicalist takes, if you test me on theory, I’ll just pretend I’m reading Chomsky so I can collect some extra hate from the group chat, honestly, noth…