Listening to the audiobook of Louis Menand's massive new history of Cold War art/thought while getting ready for my afternoon & lol'd at the otherwise-very-good narrator confidently reading off the title of John Cage's most famous composition as "Four Feet Thirty Three Inches"
Strong recommend on the book, though! It's very long, but changes focus between people/ideas quickly enough to keep it lively with a lot to think about

m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-free-wor…
this is absolutely my bougiest tweet ever, I regret nothing
And it happens at least three more times within as many pages! It's really jarring, especially considering what a masterwork this book is otherwise

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22 Jun
NATIVISTS: immigration is a net negative

ALSO NATIVISTS: immigrants contribute so much that we can't afford to pay back the money they've already put into the system
"We simply can't afford to stop exploiting these people" has always been just beneath most opposition to mass regularization--a normal and recurring feature in the system right up to 1986--but it's still wild to see this naked depravity right there in actual words
One indeed may unclefucking object
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20 May
the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, but a blueprint and an inside man can get you a long way to planting the C4
Also, to anyone from DHS reading this: hi! I hope you enjoyed this tweet. It's based on a metaphor from Audre Lord, who you should read, but I promise you can keep letting me into federal buildings. Ok ty
*Lorde, sorry
Read 5 tweets
18 May
Suicide rates are up 100% among Black Americans; as of 7/2020 40% of LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S. had considered ending their own lives within the past year.

True #JusticeforMikaylaMiller is doing whatever we can to keep vulnerable kids from becoming the next #MikaylaMiller
100%. That's the actual increase in Black suicide rates. This is a public health crisis that *no one* is talking about.

capradio.org/articles/2021/…
Suicide is very personal for me, & this story hit hard as I watched Twitter run wild w/speculation rather than confronting the significant evidence (& more to come) that this choice was hers alone. In a very real way, the conspiracy theories denied Mikayla's agency in any of this
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13 May
It is neither legally possible nor socially desirable to have a publicly "transparent" investigation of something as sensitive as a juvenile death investigation, especially when that death was a suicide. The loudest voices on this absolutely know better
A "transparent" investigation would presumably require releasing:

-thousands of Mikayla Miller's *deeply* personal communications, incl many w/her gf during a breakup

-names of juveniles interviewed (and already exonerated w/hard evidence)

-name of person who found her body
Also: the autopsy report can never be made public pursuant to MA law under any circumstances.

Pretty much everyone promoting the "lynching" narrative doesn't know the first thing about how a death investigation is conducted and who these rules protect, & it truly shows
Read 5 tweets
4 May
Most misdemeanors in Massachusetts can be decriminalized simply by asking that they not be treated as crimes, or even just at the whim of the judge.

It's my opening bid in most minor criminal cases--bc why wouldn't it be--and every time it works it feels like actual magic.
To name only one benefit: the difference between a criminal drug conviction and a civil drug infraction can be life-changing for US citizens, and life-*saving* for non-citizens for whom even the smallest possession case means mandatory denial of residency and deportation
This 26-yr-old statute is far from perfect. It still excludes offenses relating to sex work, operating under the influence, etc from decriminalization--and decriminalization itself is just a band-aid against so many things which shouldn't be arrestable offenses in the first place
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29 Apr
like so many #immigrationlaw rulings before it, today's #SCOTUS decision on the "stop-time" rule in deportation proceedings (1) can't be described to someone not already familiar in fewer than 3 paragraphs, (2) will make you lol if you think about it too much, (3) will save lives
All you really need to know about this extremely-specifically-important ruling is that it gives possibly tens of thousands of families a chance to stay together in the US who wouldn't have had that chance before. That's it. That's why it matters.
So that's the good news! The bad is that the same bad law still requires applicants to show that qualifying family members (but not themselves) will suffer "exceptional & extremely unusual hardship" upon deportation--eg, substantially beyond what other close families would suffer Image
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