I actually think that they‘re having real mil/intel/law enforcement orgs LARP the fake ones in Sicario (which I explain in the end of my Good Authority piece from today)

Teaching soc movements and pol protest this semester and my late gen z students have not described anything as cringe (that’s prob slightly older folks), but keep calling things performative. Finally I was like: guys, it is performative...it’s literally a performance. This had not occurred to them.

Read this essay in Santo Domingo, where everyday I walk by a pet shop/vet office with cages of budgies, love birds, and cockatiels always joined by a few to many pigeons on the cages and the ground nearby eating the caged birds’ cast off seeds.

@indivisibleononcty.bsky.social

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Just a heads up, if it’s chronic, in addition to celebrating, write down all the asinine things that you did that worked because you’ll have to go through it all again next year.

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This has bothered me about the coverage of the Salvadoran CECOT - it’s not a gulag, it’s a modern prison. There are a million reasons we shouldn’t be sending people there, but not because it’s an institution out of some faraway and foreign past. It’s actually an exemplar of a heinous modern prison.

Soon by @benehrenreich.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com

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My guess of what makes this an actual diplomatic problem- and another reason none of these people should be in CECOT- is because there’s no human rights monitoring and no one leaves so no info exists about actual unscripted conditions. Bukele would surely be pissed about such high profile release.

Just got around to this post and can't stop laughing imagining an advice blog for my 4 tendencies cat, someone who resists both outer and inner expectations. Perhaps finished phd/got tenure solely driven by a burning desire to avoid becoming a win for the patriarchy by falling out of the pipeline.

True, but sometimes this white bread:

The whole concept *is* wrong

And screaming for the people in the back, Tren de Aragua does not use tattoos. They don’t even fucking use tattoos - not as part of initiation or for identifying one another.

So unsurprised. It’s awful. I wrote an explainer about the broader situation that, for example, my mom sent to her entire church list serve and I’ve been getting nice notes from church ladies all day, so if it’s at all useful for you in explaining this to folks, feel free to share:

Good fucking grief- moving so fast to get those planes in the air, guess they just crammed whoever on them.