Culture

Protester Privilege and Its Corresponding Kingmakers 0
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- June 15, 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s army of COVID-19 contact tracers will not be asking New Yorkers if they attended a protest in recent weeks according to a city officials. “No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest,” de Blasio spokesperson Avery Cohen told THE CITY. The 1,000 strong “Test and Trace Corps”
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Breonna Taylor’s Death Shows Why ‘No-Knock’ Warrants Need to Go 0
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- June 15, 2020
Amid the nationwide focus on the death of George Floyd, another tragedy has unfortunately fallen by the wayside. We should not forget the death of Breonna Taylor – or the dire need to abolish the “no-knock” warrants that caused her death, trample property rights, and routinely endanger Americans. Here’s the sad story of Taylor’s death.
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The Return of Brutalism 0
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- June 15, 2020
The lockdowners probably had no idea what they were about to unleash. On paper, their plans all seemed fine. Keep people apart. Make them stay home. Only essential workers should go to work. Government can do the rest. Church, theaters, sports, bars, schools – everything has to give way to rule by disease mitigators. Let
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It’s Time to Raze the Colosseum 0
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- June 12, 2020
A number of statues have recently been destroyed or vandalized to protest racism and slavery. I thought that it might be good to think big and work towards eliminating the biggest monument of all, the Colosseum. I’ve created a petition at change.org. If you agree, please sign it. Below is the text. Memorializing genocidal monsters,
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Loony Tunes Live, Radical Edition 0
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- June 12, 2020
“Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” That warning comes to us as an ancient Greek proverb. You remember the ancient Greeks, right? Those guys we once considered some of the founding fathers of Western civilization before our academic institutions tossed them and all the other dead white men out the door?
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A Revolutionary Test of Seattle’s Autonomous Zone 0
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- June 11, 2020
First came the riots and the protests. Then came the surrender and disbanding of police forces. All in response to the death of George Floyd. What started in Minneapolis has now spread nationwide. No longer is Minneapolis alone in ordering police forces to flee their home turf, now a police precinct in Seattle has also
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