Lara Stapleton
Author, The Ruin of Everything, Paloma Press. Prof., BMCC of CUNY. Mixed Filipino-Am. I love: books, my students who have excellent brains & deserve the world, historical linguistics, Austronesian brilliance, bingewatching, decent humans. Art is everything
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- Americans, we are living in a time of viciousness. We are living in a time where speaking the “wrong” language or having the “wrong” skin color puts you in danger. Congress must disband ICE and impeach Kristi Noem.
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- In regards to Epstein’s victims: thank you for calling them children. That’s what they were, and too often, language has been used to pretend otherwise. The repeated effort to soften that word has always served power, not truth.👇
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- Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
- Here's an effective way to fight back against ICE fascists. As ICE terrorizes cities nationwide, a group of city prosecutors are coordinating their efforts to criminally prosecute ICE's abuses. You can confidentially support them via the ICE Accountability Fund: app.oath.vote/donate?p=ice...
- "No one is illegal on stolen land." - Billie Eilish, Grammys acceptance speech
- Bon Iver says he is wearing a whistle at the Grammys to honour the peaceful observers in Minneapolis
- “Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out. We’re not savages. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.” — Bad Bunny, accepting his Grammy tonight. I love Benito. ❤️
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- Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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- On tonight’s White House agenda: Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports. Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
- A major victory. A federal judge has ruled that ICE must stop targeting peaceful protesters and legal observers who are not suspected of any crimes.
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- Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator. n.pr/3J8XXJN
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