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Alexander Karn
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Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing any employer. Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical justice, historical dialogue, reconciliation, museum studies. Commentary: Salon, The Progressive, HuffPost. Resist Much, Obey Little. #RMOL

Stray thoughts:

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There are motherfuckers out here STILL calling the MAGA GOP a conservative movement.

These are the fuck Congress people.

These are the fuck the courts people.

These people went to DC in their tri-cornered hats at Minuteman costumes with their nooses and scaffolding bleating “Hang Mike Pence.”

This is an anti-Constitutional insurrectionist clique.

You’ve completely lost the plot if you think Conservatism is right word for their violent stupidity.

Did you know that Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides for unimpeded access to “scientific advancements and their benefits?”

So when the unqualified and un-credentialed Robert Kennedy, Jr. says he will revoke approval for the polio vaccine, he’s also saying, “Please, someone, drag my ass to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights#:~:text=Article%2027&text=Everyone%20has%20the%20right%20to%20the%20protection%20of%20the%20moral,which%20he%20is%20the%20author.

#UDHR #humanrights #science #democracy #uspol #polio #MAGA

Mad love for my social dem friends and all the climate justice activists, but if you're lumping the Dems and GOP together, and you can no longer observe what difference their respective leadership means, then you've lost the plot in my book.

Many of us, of course, want progress and change, and we get that the stakes are now extraordinarily high.

But if your plan involves nothing more than shouting from the sidelines or ramming your platform through without majoritarian support, count me out.