This past weekend, it was announced that former Michigan Governor Rick “let’s throw an opulent secret birthday party for my wife while people are dying in Flint” Snyder had been named a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School. And, as you might imagine, this didn’t sit well with some of us who remember his aggressively […]
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Rick Snyder, the man responsible for the Flint water crisis, lands at Harvard, and people are rightfully outraged
Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged #NoSnyderFellowship, A. Alfred Taubman, clean water, conspiracy theories, fellowships, Flint, Flint River, Flint water crisis, FOIA, Harvard, incivility, Kaitlin Popielarz, Kennedy School, lame duck, lead, Legionnaires' disease, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sotheby's, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, water, Wayne State, WBUR 25 Comments
You can’t argue that Obama imprisoned child immigrants while also arguing that he had an open border policy
I’d like to preface this post by saying that, as a result of economic insecurity, climate change, authoritarianism, and any number of other factors, the United States will almost certainly see more immigration over the coming decades, as an increasing number of people, quite understandably, begin gravitating toward more stabile, less dangerous countries. And, as […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged ACLU, Amy Kremer, anti-Muslim, authoritarianism, bone spurs, border wall, cages, child abuse, child cruelty, Climate Change, CNN, complexity, conspiracy theorists, cult of victimhood, Diane Feinstein, Donald Trump, due process, economic insecurity, Einstein visa, fact check, family separation, fascism, fear, fifth amendment, fourteenth amendment, FOX News, gerrymandering, harassment, human rights, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, ICE, illegal immigration, immigration, immigration refom, Ivanka Trump, Jeh Johnson, Judicial Branch, Latin America, Maxine Waters, Melania Trump, Mike Huckabee, MS-13, Nazi analogies, Neil Gorsuch, open borders, Paul Ryan, post-fact, professional victims, racism, reality television, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, shithole, Steve King, Supreme Court, The Red Hen, the short attention spans of Americans, threats to Democracy, travel ban, Trumpism, unaccompanied minors, unconstitutional, undocumented workers, white victimhood, Women for Trump, zero tolerance 58 Comments