Appalachians are to Southerners what Southerners are to Usamericans, which is what Usamericans are to The Global North, you feel?

As in, there's no small portion of people who are willing to write off and scapegoat the suffering of the people who live in those zones by virtue of "they live in Regressive Suckland™️, they get what they deserve"

Anyway, global solidarity to everyone living in states of oppression and authoritarianism, we shall all be free

Feeling like picking some Gothic lit for my next read. Is Dracula as good as people say it is? Do you have any alt recs? (I've already read Carmilla and Wuthering Heights)

Stephen Miller says the White House is looking into suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detentions: "A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not."

Suspending habeas corpus would suspend the right for everyone, not just for undocumented people. So what Stephen Miller is saying here is that Trump is thinking about asserting the right to throw Americans in prison while giving them no opportunity to use the courts to get out.

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Email dread is such a bitch

Why am I anxious about sending, like, a hundred word message to some people I know?

I've made similar arguments before, but this makes them better

I would like to add though that this doesn't apply just to pedophile/rapist accusations, you'll see this sort of thing happen with people using ANY comparisons to an "inhuman" group as a line of attack.

One of the most memorable, influential examples of this was the comparison between those seeking abortions to Satanists and cannibals by fundamentalist Christians, as was influential in the Satanic Panic, and which arguably serves as a basis for a lot of q-anon adjacent conspiracy theories to date.

Fast #fashion isn’t fashion. It’s a cycle of #extraction, #production, #pollution, and discard, disguised as choice.
We can’t keep celebrating empires built on exploitation and calling it #innovation.

It’s time to rebuild, slower, fairer, cleaner.

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