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Jill Scharr | Abolish ICE

@jillscharr.bsky.social

Narrative Chef, Magic Soup Games. Prev: Lead Writer, The Lamplighters League; Writer, Destiny (Forsaken, D2, RoI, TTK). Tax the fucking billionaires. She/her.

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huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d ago

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy. Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

it’s very validating that there’s no one who’s extremely pro-Israel but then otherwise a normal, kind person. it’s all guys who are disgusted by children’s hospitals.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Jill Scharr | Abolish ICE@jillscharr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bragging to my friend about how good I am at knowing when to use hyphens. She laughs awkwardly. Well forget her, the 5-year-olds at this Paw Patrol birthday party love hyphens. And the armfuls of popcorn I just walked in with. But definitely mostly the hyphens.

Jill Scharr | Abolish ICE@jillscharr.bsky.social · 4w ago

The book is "Exocoetus," free on Scribblehub! Check it out, it's great! www.scribblehub.com/read/2423688...

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Dana Nightingale 🏳️‍⚧️@danaenight.northsky.social · 4w ago

Another day, another twenty typos, word misuses, hyphenation issues, and sentence structure malfunctions spotted by @jillscharr.bsky.social 😌🙏 Plus the ones pointed out by SpongeeJumper and mallory263 Given that 117,675 words have been published so far I am impressed they haven't found more

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last mo.

Not wanting to attend a large public event in the presence of a Muslim man isn’t a valid opinion, even if something terrible and tragic happened to you. You are free to feel it, but not free to have it treated as acceptable

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.