Perpetual projects and daily obsessions.
"Of all the prospects raised by the evolution of digital culture, the most tantalizing is the possibility that technology could fuse with politics to create a more civil society."
— Jon Katz, Wired 5.04, Apr 1997
Still the best tech writing out there at the time.
Obama pledged before leaving office to only speak about Trump's policy moves “where I think our core values may be at stake.”
So that took 10 days.
A spokesman said Obama “is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country.”
The Dulles airport CBP continues to hold detainees without access to lawyers, deporting two, both in defiance of specific federal court order.
If the CBP continues a refusal of unambiguous Federal court orders, then this is serious, serious beyond the scale of anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes: it’s the Department of Homeland Security saying that if Trump tells them to do one thing and the courts another, they will do what Trump says and best of luck to the courts trying to enforce that. Which is to say, they’re establishing a precedent that DHS actions are not subject to any sort of court review, or to anything other than the personal fiat of Trump – including their right to detain people, deport them, or hold them incommunicado.
And the Trump Administration removed the link for The Judicial branch of the federal government off the White House website.
But I will buy Starbucks every goddamn day if they do this.
(I still may not drink it, but I'll buy it.)
We need to nail Trump to the wall on this.
As the night wore on, it became increasingly clear that CBP was defying Brinkema’s ruling. Lawyers concluded that that meant someone was in contempt of court. The judge could theoretically send in federal law enforcement officers to force CBP to let the lawyers meet with the detainees. But sending in the U.S. Marshals—who are part of the Department of Justice—to take on Customs and Border Patrol—which is part of the Department of Homeland Security—would have been a bureaucratic clash of the titans. And, like everything else that night, it would have been unprecedented. It didn’t happen.
Then at around 11:45 pm, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker showed up.
Booker stayed back there for about half an hour, and then he pushed through the crowd of roaring protesters and—flanked by glowering policemen—addressed the crowd. After a few opening words, he held up a copy of Brinkema’s order.
“I am now of the belief that though this was issued by the judicial branch, that it was violated tonight,” he said. “And so one of the things I will be doing is fighting to make sure that the executive branch abides by the law as it was issued in this state and around the nation. This will be an ongoing battle.”
“They told me nothing, and it was unacceptable,” he said. “I believe it’s a Constitutional crisis, where the executive branch is not abiding by the law.”
Legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority Muslim countries found themselves detained as they landed at Washington Dulles International Airport as President Trump’s half-baked Muslim ban went into effect over the weekend.
Trump reorganized the National Security Council to, along with other changes, give Bannon a regular seat on the principals committee — the meetings of the most senior national security officials, including the secretaries of defense and state.
That memo also states that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will sit on the principals committee only when the issues to be discussed pertain to their “responsibilities and expertise.”
Yeah why would you need the director of national intelligence sitting on the National Security Council. Waste of time. Clearly.
The president held a series of calls Saturday with world leaders and restructured the National Security Council.
We are the empire, breaking apart families and driving innocents to despair.
We're the people with ridiculous make-up and hair in the Hunger Games.
We are the benign racists, who swear we don't hate people of color; we just can't be bothered to care when our choices will ruin their lives.
You can lie to yourself – and you will have to, to deny this – but it doesn't change the new reality.
We are the bad guys.
A woman distraught over being forced back to her native country attempted to kill herself inside Kennedy Airport.
White millennials voted for Trump 48% to 42%
White women voted for Trump 53% to 43%
White college graduates voted for Trump 49% to 45%
Black men voted Hillary 82% to 13%
Black women voted Hillary 94% to 4%
Latino men voted Hillary 63% to 32%
Latino women voted Hillary 69% to 25%
Black millennials voted Hillary 85% to 9%
Latinos millennials voted Hillary 68% to 26%
Non-white college graduates voted Hillary 72% to 22%
All of these numbers are from the same CNN exit poll.
It is hard to find a single white demographic that did not come up with a Trump majority (white college-graduated women come up 51% for Hillary) and there is not a single non-white demographic that came up with a Trump majority or came anywhere near the polling margin of error.
Statistically the strongest defining feature of the Trump supporter is whiteness.
Does this mean the majority of white people actively hate people of color and voted for Trump because they wanted a racist in charge?
No. That’s not how racism works.
What it means is that, as a result of unconscious racism, a LOT of white people who do not consider themselves racist ignored Trump’s racism and voted for him anyway.
They simply did not care about people of color enough to not vote for Trump.
That’s racism’s biggest effect: apathy to the point of allowing people to die because you can’t be bothered to keep them safe.
