The 1 person on Earth most responsible for the spread of #COVID19, the deaths of 207K+ Americans, & the immiseration of millions more is experiencing the painful reality of this virus &--for once--the consequences of his choices.
This is good. This is right.
It's ok to say it.
Months hampering relief efforts, botching testing/tracing, politicizing help to blue states, mocking science, using DOJ to challenge lockdowns/mask orders, watching asylum seekers die in ICE custody, ridiculing mask-wearers--and he doesn't deserve this? In what moral universe?
"...because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically."
The New England Patriots had to resupply Massachusetts w/PPE in a secret deal after the federal government *hijacked the supplies that our state tax dollars had purchased* and rerouted them to Trump loyalists.
Scared to die in your special Presidential hospital suite surrounded by personal security? Imagine the terror of #COVID19 while locked up in ICE custody, on a native reservation with no ventilators, or while living under a bridge after your eviction
Just a few days ago I celebrated the 13th anniversary of a painful day in which I was sure I was going to die. It changed me, forever & for the better.
Could it do the same for someone this monstrous? I doubt it, but even he deserves a chance at the redemption he's denied others
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1/ The especially frustrating thing about the right-wing opposition to #KeepingFamiliesTogether is that I sincerely believe that even most MAGAs would be fine with it if they only understood what it actually is and why it is necessary.
2/ "If only they knew" is not something I would usually say. I am of the opinion that you can't fact-check bigotry, but even a lot of bigots could be persuaded on this one because it is
(1) definitely legal and (2) addressing a very real (but little understood) problem
3/ Immigration through marriage to a US citizen is, famously, one of the easiest ways in. So long as you originally came on a visa (typically as a tourist) you can live/work in the US unlawfully for decades and still have a fairly easy path to residency through your spouse.
Me, a very clever human: write a @alyankovic parody in the form of a 15th century madrigal about the collapse of FTX and the crypto market
*two seconds later*
#OpenAI: alas tis a lamentable day, the visions of riches have become mere wishes, etc
A notably less weird Al here but otherwise am I the only one who thinks this is all kind of terrifying
I will not print it here but it cheerfully spit out an '80s party rap anthem denying the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust just because I asked it to.
The word "orgy" was consistently censored out of my prompts though so I guess we're looking out for what really matters
N. B.: the author of this fascist manifesto is not some Roman statue "Western chauvinist" account with 76 followers. He is the senior editor of the closest thing the American right has to a journal of record.
"save the country"
"rebuild and in a sense re-found"
"getting used to the idea of wielding power, not despising it"
"compromise with the left is impossible"
when I say this is fascism I mean this literally, it is literal fascism
Very few people outside the system know this, but you need to:
US asylum law knowingly & intentionally requires the deportation to certain death of people who have been on the wrong side of the criminal legal system.
First: I didn't know her, but this is the only publicly available news re: the murder of Melissa Nunez--and more importantly, her life. She was, among other things, a determined advocate who loved horses and traveling and dreamed of living in Puerto Rico
From information available online, I gather she was convicted on charges brought from defending herself against anti-trans violence. This conviction constituted an "aggravated felony," a class of offenses which bar someone from receiving asylum.
This @ similar questions from the @MarshallProj sheriffs survey linked below get to one of the most fundamental problems holding back progress today: a belief that past (white) immigrants had it harder & had to do more to "earn" a place than today's. It's exactly backward
It's only human to want to believe that your ancestors were better and smarter and worked harder than today's immigrants, because that kind of generational progress is such a fundamental part of the golden era American immigrant story. Which is to say the *white* immigrant story
But the reality is that it was hardly any trouble at all to immigrate before 1965--& absolutely no effort before 1921--& the system had nothing at all to do with today's. We are in NO WAY doing anything to make it easier now, only much much harder