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Apr 27 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Asian American & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month starts May 1st! I'll be doing posts each day in May #AAPIHeritageMonth focused on legal & other contributions by AAPIs - good time to remember: Asian American Studies curriculums began 50 years ago but still hard to find.
We have close to 4000 colleges degree granting colleges & universities in the United States today but only about 32 offer Asian American Studies curriculums.
Students have always been the catalyst starting in 1968 with a 5-month strike led by the Third World Liberation Front - a coalition of student groups demanding the creation of academic programs focused on histories of people of color.
nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…
Kudos to the students at Texas A&M continuing the tradition of student led change - making our school teach to recover the histories of people of color.
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What's really stopping criminal prosecution of Donald Trump & his inner circle after the Mueller Report & Jan 6 panel investigation? Hint: it's what former Attorney General Bill Barr used to shield Trump & an essential part of every criminal case...
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Apr 29
Elon Musk tweet: "the far left hates everyone, themselves included" shows common misunderstanding. The "left"questions existing institutional biases & ends up disagreeing about nature of those biases & solutions. That's not hate. It's free thinking expressed as free speech.
In contrast "the right" conservatives seek to conserve exiting institutional power so often more united in view points - holding aside Lauren Bobert & Marjorie Taylor Greene type disagreements - their common effort to preserve racist sexist oppressive structure is more hateful.
Preserving power more easily veers toward hatred because it so based on fear of losing power & fear is what generally leads to hate. Elon Musk's tweet fudges by using the terms "far" left & "far" righ but use of that term is usually just speaker masquerading as a centrist.
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Indefensible: Sen. Rand Paul's argument today to Secretary of State Tony Blinken about how countries attacked by Russia had been part of Soviet Union since 1920s implying that Putin had perfect right to attack them. Rand Paul can hide behind his supposed "libertarian" views but
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Rand Paul speaking for Putin true in 2017 & true now as posted by @WUTangKids:
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Trump being fined $10,000 per day for contempt of court in NY court indicates state court Judge Engoran fed up with delay tactics by Trump legal team in failing to produce documents to AG Letiticia James subpoenas. Trump lawyer says they plan to appeal but
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Wheels of justice turning albeit little creakily...
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Thread: Marjorie Taylor Greene testified poorly today in Georgia case brought by voters seeking to disqualify her from re-election under the 14th Amendment The judge will only make a recommendation to Secy of State but win or lose our democracy needs more lawsuits like this one.
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