Y'ALL!

@bhasic made a printable version of their #Project2025 highlights meme.
https://mastodon.social/@bhasic/112765071987952343

COME AND GET IT!

the #AltTxt of this image starts here:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112764379435197727

which is part of this post
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112758979781261964

i started with the original image.

🗣️ SPREAD FAR & WIDE

1865: The 13th Amendment codifies prison slavery, so racists passed vagrancy laws to criminalize people on the street—forcing many formerly enslaved people back into prison slave labor.

2024: SCOTUS criminalizes homelessness, forcing people on the street into prison slave labor.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — the U.S. Supreme Court has been the single biggest blockade to progress and justice in America. They’re proving it again this session.

Stellar Jay [OC]

https://literature.cafe/post/10963934

""I could have you arrested," he said. Which is to say "One of your son's earliest memories will be watching the men who sodomized Abner Louima and choked Anthony Baez cuff, tase, and break you." I had forgotten the rules... One must be without error out here... Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't... But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, real or imagined - With Eric Garner's anger, with Trayvon Martin's mythical words, with Sean Bell's mistake of running with the wrong crowd... A society, almost necessarily, begins every success story with the chapter that most advantages itself, and in America, these precipitating chapters are almost always rendered as the singular action of exceptional individuals. "It only takes one person to make a change," you are often told. This is a myth. Perhaps one person can make a change but not the kind of change that would raise your body to equality with your countrymen...I am ashamed I made an error, knowing that our errors always cost us more."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me, pp. 95-97

"Chain migration" is the BEST kind of immigration. You want people who move to you country to have a local network and support. You want new immigrants to bring their family, and the economic activity they generate and the value they add to communities to be in YOUR country.

I can't believe we let them use it like a slur. It's good and do it more.

What? They brought their elderly parents? That's good for US and for them (the new American we want to be successful and happy.) RIGHT?

Boomer: At your age in 1970 I paid off college and bought a house with hard work.

Millennials: At your age in 1970 college was 5% of median salary—Now it’s 44%. A median home was $24K—Now its $417K. The top marginal tax rate was 70%—Now its 37%. You worked hard—and then closed the door behind you.