David M. P. Freund

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Historian, author of COLORED PROPERTY, and grateful for Richard Scarry books. Money is credit and a creature of law.

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Shah Cheragh mosque/shrine in Shiraz, Iran has been a celebrated pilgrimage centre since 14th century, & is highlighted by its dazzling interior decoration of millions of tiny coloured mirrors ~ echoing its name which translates as “King of the Light” www.architecturendesign.net/emerald-tomb...

"Other companies have been making pickup trucks for well more than a century and there are reasons they’re not usually shaped like wedges." www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/b...

The Tesla Cybertruck is impressive and worrying | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com There was a time when an electric Tesla pickup, something designed to go head-to-head against America’s most popular products, the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado, seemed just the thing to take Tes...

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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I love this.

Food for thought, peeps.

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A query: Working on an educational project to address common misperceptions about the nature of money, banking, and federal spending. If you'd be interested in responding to a short (4 question) survey to assist in the design, please reply here or write me at [email protected]. Thanks, David.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster."

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Imitating aid workers in an act of perfidy is ESPECIALLY repugnant, even as war crimes go, because it makes it *much harder* for actual aid workers to operate in war zones.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur to Palestine, said that Israeli and allegedly foreign soldiers were “perfidiously hiding in an aid truck” during the hostage rescue operation. If true, and I imagine Albanese wouldn’t say this lightly, that’s absolutely perfidy - a serious war crime.

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Their actual, not-hidden argument is that the 2024 election is rigged because America is less white than it used to be. Heritage used to boast that their power was in the superiority of their ideas.

The Heritage Foundation is already declaring the 2024 election rigged beyond repair

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Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

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I teach classes in a political science dept about judicial politics & the fed courts as a part of the American political system. I show students the fed courts are political by presenting evidence. The ProPublica pieces on Alito/Thomas gifts, lavish vacations gets them every time. Basic unfairness.

I really believe it would be possible to build broad support for policies, removing federal judges, including SCOTUS judges, who receive this kind of largesse, from office. The public understands judges being bribed and understands it’s wrong.

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"Two more US officials have resigned over the Gaza war, saying that the Biden administration is not telling the truth about Israeli obstruction of humanitarian assistance to more than two million Palestinians trapped and starving in the tiny coastal strip." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza warwww.theguardian.com The officials accuse the administration of not telling the truth about Israel’s obstruction of aid to Palestinians in Gaza

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Same!

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If a man and his wife are joint owners of a piece of property called "a womb," can she do anything she wants on that property, including flying fascist flags?

And the networks will compete fiercely for exclusive rights.

Sam Alito is one week away from making a televised address in which he sits in an armchair, stroking a white cat, and announcing his plans to destroy the earth's core.

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i suppose an "In Defense of War Crimes" turn was inevitable but that doesn't make it go down any easier www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/o...

Opinion | Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?www.nytimes.com Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.

Just another headline in 2024. Move on. www.9news.com/article/news...

Colorado GOP calls for all children to be pulled from public schoolswww.9news.com The Colorado Republican Party is calling on its members to pull their children from public school, saying Democrats are using schools to “turn more kids trans."

Institutional failure, hiding in plain sight for decades now. And our students know it. Ask them. They are not stupid.

If you’re in academia, you need to read this. And if you’re not in academia, you absolutely definitely have to read this.

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There’s this implication that absent the Israel issue everyone would want to be friends with these people even though they’re the kind of people who go to the New York Times to assert their right to a friend group

Students who were pro-Apartheid in the 1980s probably also had trouble making friends in college, who gives a shit www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/s...

On Campus, a New Social Litmus Test: Zionist or Not?www.nytimes.com Some Jewish students say they’ve been dropped by old roommates and sorority sisters and ostracized from campus clubs and teams because of their views — which are sometimes assumed.

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"A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the datawww.reuters.com A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Whoa.

A lull in the Earth's magnetic field nearly 600 million years ago may have spurred the evolution of large organisms by boosting the percentage of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. physicsworld.com/a/ancient-lu... 🧪🌍

Ancient lull in Earth's magnetic field may have allowed large animals to evolve – Physics Worldphysicsworld.com Period of ultra-weak field nearly 600 million years ago could have contributed to increase in oxygen levels that favoured complex life

And he's among the privileged few who will get by without it, if it comes to that. Remember when the Desan guy argued for privatizing ALL of it?

This is like a guy who tries to renovate his own house, utterly destroys the plumbing and says, you know, running water is sort of old fashioned.

Great news. And just imagine the material this will produce!

A majority of Disneyland cast members who perform as characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and dance in parades at the California amusement park voted to unionize with the Actors’ Equity Association on Saturday, the union said. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/b...

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HBCU. Compare this to USC’s response to their valedictorian who was minoring in resistance to genocide.

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“When climate activities suddenly paralyzed traffic instead of climate activists, the criminal laws proved to be ineffective.”

Als statt Klimaaktivisten plötzlich Klimaaktivitäten den Verkehr lahm legten, erwiesen sich die Strafgesetze als wirkungslos.

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“Thank you for joining us today, Herr Gruppenführer.”

"We're gonna have to do something dramatic" -- Marco Rubio on Meet the Press says he supports Trump's plan to round up migrants and send them to detention camps. Kristen Welker then plays tape of Rubio saying in 2016 that he doesn't support Trump's plan to round up migrants.

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net "We're gonna have to do something dramatic" -- Marco Rubio on Meet the Press says he supports Trump's plan to round up migrants and send them to detention camps. Kristen Welker then plays tape of...

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Nationalize cheddar biscuits

Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

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Read this, every word. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024... (thanks to @eschatonblog.com for posting).

What it means to be Muslim at Columbiawww.columbiaspectator.com “Good morning distinguished guests, faculty, family members, and above all, the class of 2024—congratulations! My name is Noreen Mayat, and I am honored to be here today as a graduating Barnard senior...

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I still love the car!😂

peeked at a cybertruck forum and it turns out literally everything is wrong with that vehicle

Read this, every word. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024... (thanks to @eschatonblog.com for posting).