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The Crisis of Missing Migrants

Jun 26, 2021

A few years ago I wrote an essay titled "The Cruelty Is The Point" on Trump's approach to politics and policy. On Tuesday, my book sharing that title is being published. Today in the

@nytimes

, I explain why Trumpist politics didn't end with his defeat. nytimes.com/2021/06/26/opi

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Florida has used Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” to block AP African American Studies from its schools Florida’s Department of Education said the curriculum “is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.” rollingstone.com/politics/polit

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Thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East have disappeared on the journey to Europe; some are in unmarked graves in Italy. Their families never know what happened. I wrote in this week's

@NewYorker

on the crisis of the missing:

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What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?

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Jonathan Archille, an incarcerated man in Louisiana, works for no pay in the state capital. He tells a reporter he’s been called a slave by prison staff. Prison denies it. A few days later he’s placed on lockdown as punishment for talking to a journalist.

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‘You’re a slave’: Inside Louisiana’s forced prison labor and a failed overhaul attempt

In recent years there has been a growing movement to prevent forced labor in prisons for little or no pay. But in a state that has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, the debate is...

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"Filling out tax forms eats up 6.5 billion hours of work a year, for an economic cost of something like $313 billion,"

@ryanlcooper

writes. "There’s a better way—but for depressing reasons, the United States probably won’t take it."

The Greatest Tax System in the World

Why can’t America be as great as the Faroe Islands?

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"The once–richest man on Earth took over a company losing $220 million a year and multiplied its losses by 10, if not more,"

@AnnieLowrey

writes:

Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?

Twitter isn’t heading toward a happy financial equilibrium.

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, we are now publishing an archive of the documents, gathered by

@itscaitlinhd

through extensive litigation, on the Trump administration's family separation policy. They explain how a heartbreaking policy came to life.

The Family-Separation Files

Made public here for the first time, a collection of key internal government documents related to the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance policy

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MILLEY says there were discussions about recalling and court martial-ing retired military officers who wrote op-eds critical of Trump. govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP

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*over immigration specifically

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If you can rationalize race purity laws as “not race hatred” you can rationalize anything at all

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Laws against race mixing were a form of protection from Black culture? Rod what the FUCK are you talking about man? theamericanconservative.com/a-darkness-rev

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Supreme Court leaves in place Title 42 border policy for now

Dec 27, 2022

The apolitical Supreme Court is merely following the letter of the Constitution, which states that presidents have near unlimited, unreviewable power if they’re a Republican and no discretion at all if they’re a Democrat.

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The Trump-era policy allows quick expulsion of migrants from U.S. borders without the chance to seek asylum.

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Here

so completely dismantles the "FBI paid Twitter to censor" claim—citing relevant law, govt practices, and communications shown in the Twitter Files—that anyone who still buys the conspiracy theory is either duped (and wants to be) or lying.

techdirt.com

No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’

Sigh. Look. I want to stop writing about Twitter. I want to write about lots of other stuff. I have a huge list of other stories that I’m trying to get through, but then Elon Musk does someth…

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How did #Andor depict insurgency in Star Wars? How did that depiction differ from other Star Wars media? In our new episode,

joins

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to discuss the series' nuanced portrayal of revolutionary action.

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Hoth Takes #34: Snitches Get Stitches Here On Andor

Andor won critical acclaim for its gritty and nuanced portrayal of rebellion in Star Wars, but what makes its depiction of insurgency so special? In this episode, The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer joins E…

Photos: Argentina’s World Cup Victory Celebration—via

@TheAtlPhoto

Photos: Argentina’s World Cup Victory Celebration

Images from Buenos Aires, where so many fans came out to cheer for their champions that they had to cancel the parade midway through

“Abbott Elementary,” “The Dropout,” and “Severance” are among our 15 best TV shows of the year. Selections from

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The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022

The year’s most essential series

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episode for you.

Hoth Takes #34: Snitches Get Stitches Here On Andor

joins us to talk about how #Andor portrays insurgency, motivations for rebelling, and the role of class in Star Wars characters' political choices.

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Soccer is where mini monarchs reign supreme.

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The secret to cat furniture is that it has to be just a little smaller than it should be

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And another one

The Sport of Short Kings

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The rise in births as a result of post-Roe abortion bans won't be equally distributed,

@quasimado

reports. These births are likely to be concentrated among the poorest of the poor, in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health:

We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies

The post-Roe rise in births in the U.S. will be concentrated in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health. Plans to improve these outcomes are staggeringly thin.

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Photos of the Week: Frosty Morning, Meteor Shower, Surfing Santa - 35 images from the past seven days, including the splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a candlelit procession in Jerusalem, a 100-million-year-old fossil in Australia, and much more theatln.tc/vTiYINP4

You have a right to say what conservatives want you to say.

Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’

You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.

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A great piece from

on the new rules of “free speech” twitter, which are: you get banned if you say something the owner doesn’t like.

techdirt.com

Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions...

Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme cou…

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When club friendlies are back before the season starts up again

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What should you read next? Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev's book, "Spin Dictators," about the world’s emboldened authoritarian leaders, offers an important warning to Americans:

The Atlantic 10: 2022’s Most Thought-Provoking Books

The books that made us think the most this year

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Some Twitter thoughts: 1. Elon Musk owns the company and has the right to do what he wants with it (within the law). If he wants to come up with flimsy pretexts to suspend critics, he can do that. There's not much point to examining the rationale he uses to backfill his whims.

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Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company

Musk joined a Twitter Space to say the suspensions were related to new rules banning private jet trackers. Twitter suspended an account that tweeted the whereabouts of his plane.

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You have a right to say what conservatives want you to say.

Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’

You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.

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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:

@Donie

O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's

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. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

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This story really makes me furious. Remember the avalanche of bad faith nonsense about this?

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Video Footage of Attack on Paul Pelosi Shown at San Francisco Hearing

David DePape, the man accused of bludgeoning the husband of Nancy Pelosi, told the police that he also had Gavin Newsom and Tom Hanks on his target list.

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Just infuriating: The deal to protect 2 million dreamers and overhaul our asylum system is dead. McConnell told Sinema and Tillis he wouldn't attach it to the omnibus, and other sticking points arose, sources tell me. Here's the ugly, awful inside story:

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | The untimely, infuriating death of the deal to save 2 million ‘dreamers’

How the door slammed shut on a real opportunity for progress.

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Elon Musk has maintained that he is a political centrist. But his tweets, actions, and associations say otherwise, writes

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Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist

One tweet says it all.

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