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25 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Donald Trump is tweeting proudly of a letter thanking him "for announcing that religion is essential." The organizers apparently spent 5 months and could only get 13 rabbis to sign. In contrast... Image
In contrast to Trump's 13 rabbis, here are more than 50 Orthodox rabbis on Trump's hate speech and authoritarianism. utzedek.org/rabbinic-state…
Here's 1500 rabbis denouncing Trump's anti-refugee politics and policies. haaretz.com/us-news/1-500-…
And here are more than 600 organizations representing over half of all American Jews saying in a full-page New York Times ad, "Unequivocally, Black Lives Matter." bendthearc.us/american_jews_…
Oh, also:
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3 Jun
Remember that the correct answer to any question posed by a cop or an FBI agent is "I refuse to say anything without my lawyer."
There is some controversy about whether the US government actually used the phrase "premature antifascist" to describe people who were actively antifascist in the 1930s, especially those who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain.
Whether or not the phrase was used officially, it is known that the US military denied commissions to people who would otherwise have been officers in World War II on the basis of their antifascist activities before the war.
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25 Mar
1. I just retweeted @BreeNewsome quoting this tweet with the very correct indignation that in a time of crisis, people like Tim Scott are more worried about preserving economic precarity than actually helping people. Let me put this in some historical context.
2. The American welfare system, such as it is, has been based since the colonial period on the distinction drawn in the Elizabethan Poor Laws (Elizabethan as in Elizabeth I) between the worthy and the unworthy poor.
3. The very idea is a fiction: that there are "worthy" poor who are poor despite themselves (mostly disabled people, and the temporarily unlucky) and the "unworthy" poor who are poor because they are lazy.
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20 Feb
A distinguished German political scientist who studies far right extremism has been denied a visa. He was supposed to come to UVa this term as a visiting professor, but Trump’s State Department won’t let him. cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/0…
Eyal Weizman, one of the founders of Foresic Architecture and a human rights activist-architect, has also been denied a visa. archpaper.com/2020/02/eyal-w…
It’s important to note that visas are denied all the time to scholars from South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, both for reasons of their personal politics and racism. (And students from East Asia also routinely run into visa problems.)
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15 Nov 19
Joe Hill is a hundred and four years dead today, but Joe Hill ain't never died. Where workers strike and organize, Joe Hill is at their side.
Joe Hill is in a bit of a weird position, because he's a songwriter known best for a song about him, rather than by him. (Although, my, what a song! Here's Bruce Springsteen's version of Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson's song.)
I grew up on the slightly abbreviated Joan Baez version of the song (she sang it at Woodstock 50 years ago) but I'd say the canonical version is Paul Robeson's. Here's a newsreel about him singing it 70 years ago to Scottish miners.
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25 Jun 18
1. The question of whether to serve Sarah Sanders in a restaurant is a question of whether we allow systematized child theft and imprisonment to be a political option in this country.
2. If you think child-theft and child-caging are within the pale of democratic society, something to be politely debated, then of course civility demands you serve her.
3. But if you think they are beyond the pale, you are morally obliged to enact that belief. You must prevent Trump and his minions, from top to bottom, from engaging with polite society.
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24 Sep 17
1. One of the things I teach my disaster studies students is that disasters replicate whatever structures of inequality exist in a society.
2. The effects of the 3.11 Triple Disaster in Japan, for instance, were shaped by two preexisting cleavages in Japanese society:
3. Rural depopulation (as people from the country move to cities, especially Tokyo) and the demographic crisis (few babies, many elderly).
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