The first step in my journey was learning that you cannot defeat fascism with the power of love.
I remember when applying for my law license, having to disclose toll violations & parking tickets from a decade prior amounting to less than $100.
Absurd that a sitting SCOTUS justice claims a $150K vacation didn’t require disclosure or recusal.
Where is the accountability?
The United Kingdom is crisscrossed with public footpaths where the public holds a legal right to traverse.
Many of these paths are centuries old. Many of them are probably even older, dating back thousands of years to the Neolithic or older.
They predate virtually every extant property claim that could be leveraged against them. They have belonged in common to the community that uses them since before there was a British state.
And yet, the British state is in the process of handing over thousands of miles of public footpaths to private owners because these paths—older than the state—have not been registered with the state. In James Scott’s terms, they are not *legible* to the state.
But carefully surveyed, delineated, discrete parcels of private property linked to individual owners—the state’s favorite—are legible to the state. So over they go.
Enclosure never really stopped.
4. But now Jeff Asher (@[email protected]) has published data revealing the plunge in the murder rate in dozens of cities
Asher calls this drop "astonishing"
But other than a piece Asher wrote for The Atlantic, the data has not merited any dedicated coverage in major outlets
Why the Right Has a Problem with #Juneteenth
Reactionaries who oppose Juneteenth are the political, ideological, and spiritual descendants of those who were defeated in 1865. They dominate today’s Republican Party.
New Democracy Americana:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with