“What they refuse to consider is that neuroses concerning food might be driven by meaningful factors beyond pressures on vanity (assumed to be feminine).”
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“Although Cal’s Scotland looks a lot different than Shuggie’s or Mungo’s, his story continues the theme of the first two novels, expanding the hardly fictionalized economic and cultural decimation of Margaret Thatcher’s primacy
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Thanks to the politics of sanctuary and abolition, the multiracial city is, perhaps, challenging authoritarian power, even as liberal democratic institutions have faltered utterly against the rise of right wing, white ethnonationalism.
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“Immigration law is a zone of exception where many American constitutional standards, the supposed safeguards against government abuse, simply do not extend.”
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In the 1990s, lawmakers—including Schumer, Biden, and Clinton—invoked civil rights ideals, even while they narrowed legal protections from detention, deportation, and policing.
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“These two laws are inseparable. Together, they form a ‘prison-to-deportation pipeline’ that subjects Black migrants to a ‘double jeopardy’ of systemic racism.”
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