long john curry

long john curry

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coco melonist, phd candidate (he/him)

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everybody involved in running jbouie off the platform needs to drink some water and go sit in the corner to reevaluate their life choices, fucking hell 😔

great read! when it comes to policy, the simplest answer is rarely the correct one. this is most useful not as a defense of biden (those aiding and abetting genocide do not deserve to be defended) but rather a course correction on how to tackle mass incarceration in the us

My latest is up now in Slate. It’s an election year where crime is an issue, so essential to raise this issue sooner than later: THE 1994 CRIME BILL DID NOT CAUSE MASS INCARCERATION. It didn’t. It. Just. Did. Not.

Joe Biden’s Most Infamous Law Still Haunts Him. For All the Wrong Reasons.slate.com Thirty years after it passed, it’s still totally misunderstood.

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Israel's purposeful destruction of Gaza's economy has been going on for years. A thriving agricultural exporter since antiquity, Gaza was known for its citrus crops, as was neighboring Jaffa. Israel's occupation in 1967 destroyed that, using bulldozers, herbicides, and water and trade restrictions.

Opinion | What lemons and oranges prove about Israel’s occupationwapo.st Palestinians’ economic plight is not the result of failed aspirations or a lack of effort.

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www.gofundme.com/f/help-jourd...

Help Jourdain Survive The Year, organized by Jourdain Searleswww.gofundme.com Since I moved to New York City from Georgia in 2014, I have been helping support my fa… Jourdain Searles needs your support for Help Jourdain Survive The Year

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When I say I'm anti-Zionist, I mean I'm anti-Zionist. I am opposed to the creation and maintenance of an apartheid ethnostate in historic Palestine, or anywhere else in the world.

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Was asked to comment on Rafah and possible ceasefire for Prospect magazine: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

In Rafah, the seeds of mass violence are being sownwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Israel’s assault on Gaza only makes the conflict with the Palestinians more zero-sum

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pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride. pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride. pride was started by black trans women. pride was a riot. no cops at pride.

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"We see the hierarchies of traditional rural society, and because it’s alien and exotic, we see it as natural and idyllic, instead of merely a different system for organizing labor and wealth." good analysis on the political economy of pastoral fantasies nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

The Moral Economy of the Shirenathangoldwag.wordpress.com Who paid for this? There's a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, an...

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Sarah J. Jackson

The massacre they survived lasted two days so today is also the anniversary. Here is a gift link on the case for reparations in Tulsa

Opinion | Everything They Owned Burned, and They Still Can’t Get Restitution 102 Years Laterwww.nytimes.com After the Tulsa Race Massacre, the courts refused to punish the attackers or offer redress to hundreds of newly destitute people. This injustice continues.

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www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/...

Israel has encroached on 32% of Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation showswww.aljazeera.com Gaza’s territory has been shrunk by a buffer zone that winds around its boundary and wide axis torn through its centre.

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To complement the read below, I just saw this documentary and it has the suppressed footage of police absolutely wailing on people (ie nothing's changed) www.pbs.org/video/memori...

www.chicagohistory.org/memorial-day...

Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 - Chicago History Museumwww.chicagohistory.org In this blog post, CHM curatorial fellow Elizabeth Barahona recounts the police violence against Republic Steel organizers in what came to be known at the “Memorial Day Massacre” with a focus … Learn ...

Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried | Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried (Preview) | PBSwww.pbs.org When police killed ten union activists in Chicago—and the film cover-up that followed.

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Jake i (nephew crawling arc) 🇵🇸 ✡️

the thing about the nazi comparisons when many better comparisons exist is that at the root is always at least one of two things a) decontextualized generic "bad thing" ignoring nuance for an argument b) ah! the tables have turned! - both in varying degrees antisemitic

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James Baldwin made a similar point about white racism: "You give me a terrifying advantage. You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"You just don't understand Christians" LOL excuse me but I live in America. I have no fucking choice. Frankly, as the people who fantasize about by death, I understand you better then you do.

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Just a reminder that today is a good day to pick a family or org in Gaza to help promote- Operation Olive Branch has a whole spreadsheet full of vetted fundraisers to choose from- some people want to evacuate, some people want to rebuild, some are providing aid on the ground linktr.ee/opolivebranch

Operation Olive Branch | Instagram, TikTok | Linktreelinktr.ee Grassroots movement to support & amplify aid requests of Palestinian families.

with the icc and icj being hot topics of discussion again, like to point out that every us official involved in the decades long american occupation of afghanistan (and iraq) belongs in the hague www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/w...

America’s Monsterwww.nytimes.com How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan.

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It's the great Yuri Kochiyama's birthday and there's a new digital exhibition about her life and legacy: learn.aasc.ucla.edu/kochiyama/cl...

Digital Exhibit Part I – Yuri Kochiyamafacebook icon linking to A A S C websiteinstagram icon linking to A A S C accounttwitter icon linking to A A S C accountyoutube icon linking to A A S C accountfa...learn.aasc.ucla.edu

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“Dentures were thrown away and coping isn’t something I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth.”

The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones. www.propublica.org/article/albu...

Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policywww.propublica.org The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photo...

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Have not spoken to a single person at UCI who saw anything besides kids sitting around chanting. Some of that chanting moved into a lecture hall, when no classes were in session, at which point the Chancellor decided it was now a "violent protest" and called in the goon squads to knock heads.

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*looks directly at camera*

UNC trustees voted this morning to reallocate the university's $2.3 million DEI budget to campus police. Budget vice chair: “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination. We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

UNC-Chapel Hill BOT votes to divert DEI funding, redirecting it to campus public safetywww.wunc.org The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of diversity, equity and inclusion funding to public safety and campus law enforcement