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This is both dumb and dangerous.

'And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through...'

David Bowie, 'Changes'

This is such strange framing given that Trump can’t shut up about how he did “what no one thought could be done” in facilitating the end of Roe. Harris isn’t blaming Trump. She’s stating an unassailable fact.

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:

Props to this kid, but this is not a feel-good story. School lunch should be free for every student. No child should be thinking about the burdens of debt.

Serge Schmemann in NYTimes:

White supremacy, Mr. Dean. White supremacy is what's wrong with America.

Whatever state-sanctioned horror that you think can't happen here is already happening here.

He was yanked from behind by Texas state troopers, thrown to the ground while holding his TV camera, and arrested for doing his job.

What do you call it when cops start doing this to journalists?

This happened two years before the Kent State massacre, but history has all but erased it.

Stop criminalizing health care.

This horrible story will get, at best, cursory coverage even though the majority of this nation's mass shootings are acts of domestic violence.

From Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈: Unprecedented doesn’t begin to describe the bizarre moment of seeing a former president stand trial — and it’s only just begun. trib.al/o983ukl

Geniuses. Icons. The world lost so much on April 21 — Nina Simone in 2003, Prince in 2016

Sometimes I randomly think about Laura falling in love with and marrying Luke, the man who raped her on 'General Hospital,' how no one questioned equating sexual assault with romance, and how they became the most popular couple on daytime TV.