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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
Another brick in the fascist wall that Trump is building. The mission statement of the USCIS has change to become an anti-immigration agency. Source: U.S. agency’s new mission statement: America no longer a ‘nation of immigrants’
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
https://twitter.com/tsengputterman/status/966103266491846660 This Conor F. is part of *the* *press*. He writes for The Atlantic, which is a liberal magazine/website. He should know better, or someone there should be schooling him. He doesn’t know that Asian people were denied a path to citizenship from 1868 to 1952 century. Eighty-four. 84 years of (at least some) immigrants…
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
This feels like a good snapshot of why so many organizations are uniting against SB 827, the upzoning law that gives away a lot of value to landowners and developers, without capturing that value, and without protecting tenants. via The Most Dangerous Myth I’m also looking into the history of property ownership by people of…
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
This page is a summary of research conducted to understand the movement for rent control in Long Beach. Long Beach is large city with around 60% renters, located in LA County adjacent to Orange County. It’s long been a conservative/centrist city government, but has shifted more liberal in the past couple decades. The downtown area…
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Libertarians on Immigration
I was reading some random web pages, and came across an article (not linked) advocating that libertarians should support immigration controls. It was a baffling article, and stuck in my craw, because the old school libertarians were for open borders. They’re way past where the Democrats and some socialists are. They’re way over in anarchy-land.
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
The mapping of around 60,000 buildings in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala has revealed a civilization much larger than previously estimated, at an estimated 10 million people. See how this compares to Los Angeles County, an area with 10 million people.
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
I was participating only lightly in Facebook before 2009. I had gotten a job that required more social media interaction, so I started to post partisan political material on my account. I had some before, but, that’s been deleted. Now I’m deleting this old stuff. February 24, 2009 I don’t check this account often. Please…
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
I hadn’t listened to this show before, and my first introduction was the episode before this one. Titled “How Democracies Die”, it irked me, not only in the big picture idea that the center holds things together, but in the particulars of how they picked out Hugo Chavez as their example of an anti-democratic demagogue,…
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Facebook Memories
Every day, Facebook shows you an old post, hoping you will retweet it. I usually delete the originals, and ignore it forever. Now, I’ll archive some of them, here. Return and refresh for updates.
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The End of Facebook
It’s not the end of Facebook, but it’s been increasingly unsatisfying for the past year or so, and I cannot quite pinpoint why. Perhaps it’s the weird feeling of annoyance I get when a post surfaces three days late, or I poke around profiles, and see interesting stuff, while my feed is not always that…
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Marxist Feminism
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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February Links
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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Inventing Black and White
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes