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it's kind of wild that there's a whole American rhetorical tradition built specifically for saying "this country is failing its own promises, fix it" and liberals just... abandoned it.
Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
@JerusalemDemsas
Washington, DC
Joined August 2011
- if you look back on your college admissions essay with anything other than embarrassment you're a bad writer
- This person was a legal immigrant on a student visa and was detained by ICE for the crime of *checks notes* authoring an op-ed asking her university to divest and put out a statement.Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE. A video shared with GBH News shows a man in a hoodie approach her, then grab her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.” wgbh.org/news/local/202… @sweetadelinevt @GBHNews
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You're not going to have to worry about the capital gains tax where we're going- why... would you care... if your dog was autistic...This is insane. Get your dog vaccinated.
- Gitmo for riding a bike on the wrong side of the roadReplying to @clurhealyOfficials said the "worst of the worst," "murderers," gang members, and "rapists" would be sent to the U.S. navy base. One of the men sent to Guantanamo was arrested for biking on the wrong side of the road, before he was placed in ICE custody.
- New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8. If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her.
- It's actually quite easy to have empathy for someone about to be kicked out of the country they live in. I wouldn't even call it an exercise.My friend's kid's soccer coach is getting deported. Having trouble exercising empathy here. He never attempted to get citizenship. He had the opportunity and turned it down. Didn't think he needed to do anything. Now he's gone.
- I understand why Harris isn't doing this but it's important to repeat: - Immigrants commit crime at lower rates than native born Americans - Immigrants do not reduce native-born wages - Immigrants help the economy grow - America is great as assimilating immigrants
- Replying to @JerusalemDemsasthese aren’t even people you’re close to?? that you are trying to stay in touch with??
- This is another really good article on the problem of AI cheating in schools but... I'm still left with the question of why this isn't solved by switching back to blue book essays written in class.just unrelentingly bleak nymag.com/intelligencer/…
