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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Debt-Limit Terror” Is No Way to Run a Superpower</strong> - On the latest round of the Republicans’ dangerous game. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/debt-limit-terror-is-no-way-to-run-a-superpower">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Erdoğan Prevailed in a Battle of Competing Turkish Nationalisms</strong> - As the country heads to a Presidential runoff, will the aftermath of a devastating earthquake hold more sway than old narratives of grievance? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-erdogan-prevailed-in-a-battle-of-competing-turkish-nationalisms">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Debt-Ceiling Fight’s Collateral Damage</strong> - Last week, dozens of members of ADAPT, the disability-rights group, forced their way into Kevin McCarthy’s office to protest his proposed cuts to the social safety net. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-debt-ceiling-fights-collateral-damage">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Far-Seeing Faith of Tim Keller</strong> - The pastor created a new blueprint for Christian thought, showing how traditional doctrine could address the crisis of modern life. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-far-seeing-faith-of-tim-keller">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Title 42 Is Gone, But What Are Asylum Seekers Supposed to Do Now?</strong> - It’s hard to imagine an area of federal policymaking more vexed than immigration, generally, and asylum, specifically. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/title-42-is-gone-but-what-are-asylum-seekers-supposed-to-do-now">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The case for shame</strong> -
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Maybe the world doesn’t need to know every thought you’ve ever had.
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“The basic experience connected to shame,” wrote English philosopher Bernard Williams, “is that of being seen, inappropriately, by the wrong people, in the wrong condition.” Scrolling on my phone, I find myself thinking it is a good thing that Williams died in 2003 because an hour on any social media platform might have otherwise killed him. To be seen inappropriately (say, simulating sexual intercourse) by the wrong people (for example, the other tourists around you and also the entire internet) in the wrong condition (on a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CiYX0elMp3X/?hl=en-gb">bridge in Venice</a>), has become the goal for increasing numbers of people.
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Somewhere over the course of the past 10 years, we decided everything should be normalized; that to be cringe was to be free; that you should not only wholly accept but also share every thought or experience you ever have, no matter how embarrassing or repulsive. Why not take to <a href="https://www.vox.com/twitter">Twitter</a> to loudly and proudly announce that you have never made a woman orgasm or that you don’t wash your ass in the shower, with absolutely no prompting? The dominant culture of the internet has endeavored to convince us that all our emotions are valid, with increasing numbers of people further affirmed in their wrongness by therapy-speak they apply selectively to make themselves look and feel better. Shame, for its part, has come to be regarded as an inherently toxic, destructive emotion: a stand-in for self-loathing and unaddressed childhood trauma.
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To be clear, it’s good that some things have been normalized: not wearing a bra, homosexuality, oat milk. But the flipside of living in a world where you are repeatedly told you shouldn’t be ashamed of anything is one in which a <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23550867/spare-review-prince-harry">literal British prince</a> — heretofore the most stiff-upper-lipped, shame-filled demographic in all of history — has been convinced that he needed to publish a memoir detailing, among many other things that I have learned against my will, the circumstances in which he lost his virginity in toe-curling detail. When did it become so undesirable to have secrets?
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Shamelessness and attention-seeking behavior are two sides of the same coin, and as fame in and of itself has become the endgame for an increasing number of people, we have turned shame into a dirty word, accusing those that have it of being scared to be their “true” selves. The currency of our time is attention, and a need for public affirmation and a sense of shame do not generally go hand in hand.
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Having no shame has become synonymous with fearlessness, a way of signaling that you are true to your desires and don’t care about what others think of you or your actions. But … what if you did? What if I told you that a sense of shame can be good, actually; that it can signal self-respect and dignity rather than self-loathing. Shame can help you remember that regardless of what that <a href="https://www.vox.com/spotify">Spotify</a> playlist wants you to believe, you’re not the main character of the world — you’re one in 8 billion and you should at least try to live in a way that honors others too. In a world with a stronger sense of shame, wearing a small piece of fabric on your face in order to possibly save the lives of others would never have become a contentious issue.
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<q>When did it become so undesirable to have secrets?</q>
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“We have to be careful with distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy forms of shame,” says Taya Cohen, an associate professor of organizational behavior and business ethics at Carnegie Mellon University, when I present her with my theory. “A lot of the work that has painted shame in a negative light has conflated feeling bad about ourselves and [social] withdrawal, but in some cultures, those aren’t as closely linked. You could feel bad about yourself or anticipate that you would, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to hide. That’s more of an individualistic [culture] thing.
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“The problem with shame is it can be motivating because people want to avoid it, but once a person feels it, it can be problematic if they don’t think they can change,” she adds. “The prevailing thought is that shame is feeling bad about yourself as a whole person, whereas guilt is focused more narrowly on feeling bad about a more specific behavior.”
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In cultural anthropology, different cultures have traditionally been categorized based on whether they are primarily ruled by guilt or shame, terminology popularized by Ruth Benedict in her 1946 book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysanthemum_and_the_Sword"><em>The Chrysanthemum and the Sword</em></a>, in which she describes America as a “guilt culture” and Japan as a “shame culture.” Guilt has come to be seen as the Western (and therefore rational) emotion, tied to law, punishment, and a moral code held up by one’s conscience. In Eastern “shame cultures,” where the emphasis is on concepts such as pride and honor, punishment is doled out in the form of social ostracization and a loss of face. And while it’s obviously unhealthy to live consumed by fear of what others think of you, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the hyper-individual, atomized culture in which we are told not to care what anyone thinks of us or our actions is not working out so well either.
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The exaltation of guilt over shame has led us to a place where accountability never seems to go beyond a Notes app apology. White guilt, guilt around calorie consumption, guilt about our carbon footprint, middle-class guilt, fake Catholic guilt suffered by reactionary e-girls looking for meaning in their empty lives — it’s an emotion that is for all intents and purposes nothing more than a big “oops.” Simply confessing to feeling guilt seems to be enough to alleviate it.
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An inherent sense of shame, on the other hand, prevents you from doing the things that can later cause you guilt or embarrassment: overstaying your welcome at someone’s house, boasting about not tipping your UberEats driver, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@calabasaswings/video/7192758389707918597">volunteering to your 1.7 million followers that you willingly live with a mouse problem</a> in a deranged stand against wealth.
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In their paper “Emotion: A Multidimensional Approach to the Relationship Between Individualism-Collectivism and Guilt and Shame”<em> </em>(2019), Cohen and a team of five other researchers studied over 1,000 people from five countries (the United States, <a href="https://www.vox.com/india">India</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/iran">Iran</a>, and Spain) and found that “individuals culturally socialized to be more interpersonally oriented (i.e., horizontal collectivism) are more motivated to engage in reparative action following transgressions, whereas those culturally socialized to be more attuned to power, status, and competition (i.e., vertical individualism) are more likely to withdraw from threatening interpersonal situations.”
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In other words, in the United States where the culture is individualistic, it is possible to withdraw and hide from other people because you’re not so embedded in the collective. This is in contrast to more communal cultures where you have to face up to what you’ve done if you want to be included in the community, something that is in itself a higher priority.
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A healthy sense of shame can act as a bridge between the personal and the collective in a culture that pushes us to valorize the ego over the other. Perhaps the proliferation of shamelessness is linked to the erosion of community — in a world where we are increasingly alienated from people around us who would traditionally have acted as arbiters of taste and acceptability, it is no wonder people are <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@garett__nolan/video/7163776578311441710?lang=en">squeezing pineapples between their thighs and then drinking the juice</a> for online attention. The social bonds of the collective have been replaced with the approval of an unseen audience.
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“In the past, if you wanted to fit in within your local community, you had to act in a way most people thought was appropriate. On the internet, a person can behave in ways that the vast majority of people find completely unacceptable, but they’re getting positive feedback in the form of people sharing it,” says Cohen. “It does suggest that maybe we’re tacitly accepting it, and tacitly accepting the person who has done it — because they’re not feeling ashamed, they haven’t been ostracized. In fact, the opposite has happened.”
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Thanks to the internet, more people have also gained access to a framework of words that used to be the preserve of the few who sought professional counseling or were freakishly into self-help books. Those few have become many, and while it’s great that therapy has been normalized, its language has taken on a life of its own and trickled down so far into the mainstream that during last year’s <em>Love Island,</em> outraged viewers started incorrectly <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/ekin-su-meme-love-island-gaslighting-b2103369.html">calling out a female contestant for “gaslighting”</a> (she was merely doing what she had to do). Its lexicon is increasingly used to justify antisocial behavior, with almost anything able to be excused under the umbrella of “self-care.”
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The platforms themselves, the algorithms they employ and contemporary standards they create, favor those who are willing to push the boundaries of social taste and self-promotion, whether that is making a <a href="https://www.vox.com/tiktok">TikTok</a> of yourself aggressively <a href="https://twitter.com/blushiree/status/1649858719532941313">humping the side of a pool</a> with your fellow content creators or reposting every mention of your latest piece of work to your <a href="https://www.vox.com/instagram-news">Instagram</a> story like a child who has received a gold star at school and wants their mum to stick it on the fridge. We are incentivized, in the eternal quest for attention, to share everything, no matter how boring or ill-advised.
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In the interests of being nice, I will stop short of arguing for social ostracization, although I do personally think that most people who feature on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/favetiktoks420/?hl=en-gb">this account</a> should be locked inside one big house (call it a hype prison) and forbidden from interacting with the rest of us until they have thought about their actions and made earnest front-facing camera apologies. In a world increasingly defined by soaring levels of loneliness and disconnection, a healthy sense of shame can be a powerful moral force that rebinds the social and communal fabric through a belief in a common good and a desire to avoid harming others. It allows us to remember our humanity. Instead of doing everything we can to run from and bulldoze over feelings of shame, perhaps it’s time to learn to sit with our mistakes and the discomfort they can make us feel, instead of living in hope of unearned absolution.
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<em>Niloufar Haidari is a freelance culture writer from London who tries to spend as little time there as possible. </em>
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Migrants with CBP One app interviews are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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The expiration of Title 42 has put migration front and center in US politics. Can a humane policy also be a winning political one?
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US immigration law belongs <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/6/28/23187056/san-antonio-migrant-death-truck-border">fairly</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22848851/ice-immigration-detention-omicron-vaccine-booster">high</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22451177/biden-border-immigration-enforcement-detention-deportation">up</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22346509/humanitarian-border-crisis-biden-unaccompanied-children">there</a> on any list of injustices in the world. Many people mostly reject the idea that someone’s legal rights should depend on who their parents are or what color their skin is, but accept that it is effectively illegal to hire anyone who doesn’t have the right paperwork, which is <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/18080710/immigration-immigrants-reform-us">incredibly difficult to get</a> if you didn’t happen to be born in the right country.
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Most economists think the country would be much <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22933223/work-permit-uscis-backlog-immigration-labor-shortage">richer and better off</a> if it were significantly easier for people to get permission to live and work here, but instead it’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23177446/immigrants-tech-companies-united-states-innovation-h1b-visas-immigration">nearly impossible</a>. And millions — arguably billions — of people who want to live and work here live in <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/06/14/global-migration-can-be-a-potent-tool-in-the-fight-to-end-poverty-across-the-world-new-report"></a><a href="https://www.vox.com/poverty">poverty</a> elsewhere instead because we have made it illegal for Americans to choose to <a href="https://documentedny.com/2022/11/02/work-undocumented-immigrant-legally/">hire them</a>.
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And on top of all that, enforcement of immigration law is <a href="https://documentedny.com/2023/04/04/immigrants-sue-ice-new-york-racism-orange-county/">typically</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-guards-systematically-sexually-assault-detainees-in-an-el-paso-detention-center-lawyers-say">excruciatingly</a> <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/01/separating-immigrant-families-cruel-means-cruel-end?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw04yjBhApEiwAJcvNoWpxZSuuutUWYEJGpW_ILRPGcHDCCYsyMfQ3gM0aJBYbyrwYjbUbWBoCMx0QAvD_BwE">inhumane</a>. Children are taken from their parents. Widespread brutality and sexual assault take years to address, if they’re addressed at all. <a href="https://news.usc.edu/188485/ice-deaths-custody-detention-medical-standards-violated-usc-study/">Most of the people who die in ICE custody are young and healthy and should not have died</a>. Some of the worst elements of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>’s immigration enforcement have since been changed — for example, after a 2018 outcry, there were <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-justice-department-officially-rescinds-trump-zero-tolerance-migrant-family-n1255762">changes to the policy to take young children from their asylum-seeking parents</a> — but families are still routinely sundered forever by deportations, and the US-Mexico border is still effectively enforced in part by “you will probably die of dehydration while trying to cross it on foot,” and the legal system surrounding immigration is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/01/29/the-path-to-legal-immigration-in-one-insanely-confusing-chart/">confusing</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/26/18235347/us-work-visa-o-1">expensive</a>, and often <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/us-immigration-laws-unconstitutional-double-standards/599140/">deeply unjust</a>.
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This has affected many people I know personally. These are incredible people who want to work on important problems, and who have employers eager to hire them, but who happen to have been born in the wrong place and so will never have the opportunities I was born with.
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I’m mad, sad, and frustrated about <a href="https://www.vox.com/immigration">immigration policy</a>. And one question I think about a lot is how journalists and citizens can productively demand better. In the last week, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/5/14/23723108/title-42-immigration-policy-abbott-desantis-eric-adams">Title 42</a> — a temporary <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19">coronavirus</a>-related order put in place during the Trump administration — was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-border-title-42-mexico-asylum-be4e0b15b27adb9bede87b9bbefb798d">repealed in favor of a new, Biden administration policy</a>, which will allow asylum seekers to apply online but turn them away by the tens of thousands at the border. It remains to be seen how it will work in practice, but it has a bit of an air of a <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/170063/biden-asylum-compromise-humanitarian-parole">political compromise that satisfies no one</a> (is applying online really an option for the people in the greatest danger?) and will likely still leave us with a perpetual humanitarian crisis at the border.
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Talk to people within the Biden administration about this dilemma, and often they’ll agree — but argue they’re <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167538264/biden-has-only-difficult-options-for-dealing-with-migration">caught between a rock and a hard place</a>, especially when it comes to enforcement of immigration law at the US-Mexico border. The rules seem tremendously unfair and in no one’s interests, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/3/31/8306311/prosecutorial-discretion">enforcing them</a> might require lots of deeply inhumane <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy">policies</a>. I don’t get the sense that anyone in the administration is happy about the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/us-mexico-border-crossing-deaths/index.html">horrifying recent spike in deaths crossing the border</a> or leaving people to die for being born in the wrong place.
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But expanding admissions of asylum seekers is <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/title-42-ending-immigration-biden-problems/">politically unpopular</a>, and people in the Biden administration suspect that if they take too many steps to welcome asylum seekers, they’ll lose the next election. In the cold realpolitik logic here for some, it’s worth perpetuating an <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hundreds-of-migrant-children-remain-separated-from-families-despite-push-to-reunite-them">unjust system</a> to keep approval ratings from slipping in order to stay in power, so that it’s later possible to change the laws that are the whole problem.
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How should we think about logic like that? I don’t like it. I tend to be very skeptical that anyone who says they just need to hold onto power first, then make things better, will actually make things better. It’s too easy for that kind of self-serving logic to become all-consuming; there’s always another election to win.
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To be fair, there are important respects in which the Biden administration’s immigration law is less capricious and stupid than that of his predecessor: more <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569848/how-to-sponsor-refugees-welcome-corps-biden">refugee resettlement</a>, more permanent visas, and so on. Some of that progress is because Trump made a lot of things worse in reversible ways, and because the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/immigrant-visas-consulates-backlog.html">pandemic temporarily made everything much worse</a>, rather than Biden making a lot of things better. It would be bad for just immigration policy if its proponents gave up on doing politically popular things, picked a bunch of unwinnable fights, provoked a backlash, and lost.
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Any policy role involves some balance of trying to accumulate power and trying to spend it — hopefully on making the world a better place. No matter how important a problem is, you’re going to spend some of your time trying to get the power to do something about it, and then some of your time trying to do something about it. It’s a setup ripe for deception — or self-deception — about how much you need to sacrifice for your own political position.
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Maybe the frustrating and inadequate new asylum rules are the best compromise between political and humanitarian concerns; maybe they’re not. And maybe the justified sense among voters that our politicians are making unprincipled, confusing, bureaucratic compromises is part of how we got into this boat in the first place.
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Politics is about doing what’s possible, not what’s best, and what’s possible is always going to fall far short of what’s best. At the same time, if all of us are too willing to give unethical systems and the politicians perpetuating them a pass on the pragmatic grounds that their opponents are even worse, I think that makes those unethical decisions easier to keep making — even where they aren’t necessary and we can do better.
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<em>A version of this story was initially published in the Future Perfect newsletter. </em><a href="https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/A2BA26698741513A"><em><strong>Sign up here to subscribe!</strong></em></a>
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All of the proposed legislation targets issues that are particularly sensitive for marginalized areas, like elections and criminal justice. In Mississippi and Texas in particular, the legislation is targeted specifically at localities where people of color are the majority. Efforts in all three states indicate an alarming trend, in which Republican leadership is attempting new strategies to further erode democracy, particularly in majority-minority areas and Democratic strongholds.
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Some of these efforts, like the state government’s push to control policing and the court system in Jackson, Mississippi’s majority-Black and underserved capitol, have been in the works for months. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-police-teachers-bill-lee-6e41966f8d36ab56b16f68c257f5c07e">Tennessee</a> will eliminate community boards that oversee local police forces as of July 1.
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In Texas, a bill which has already passed the state Senate would remove <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/02/texas-legislature-harris-county-elections/">Harris County’s elections administrator</a> and hand those duties over to the tax assessor-collector and the county clerk, the Texas Tribune reported earlier this month. Another would allow the secretary of state to call a new election in the case that ballots aren’t available, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/19/texas-republicans-harris-county-elections/">Washington Post</a>. Yet another bill would allow the secretary of state to appoint a marshal to investigate voting complaints.
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“I think it would make a mockery of our democracy,” Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, a Democrat, told the Post. “It would be a throwback to the forties and fifties.”
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Republican Senator Paul Bettencourt said his initial bill was written to include counties with populations larger than 1 million, but that a study by his office found that Harris County was the only such municipality that repeatedly had election issues,<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/02/texas-legislature-harris-county-elections/"> according to the Tribune.</a> Harris County did not create an elections department and appoint an elections administrator to run its elections till 2020, and voters did experience problems in that year’s election, including malfunctioning voting machines, a shortage of paper ballots, and long waits at polling stations.
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In all of these cases, rather than invest in public services necessary for the functioning of communities and local democracy, Republican leadership’s apparent<strong> </strong>answer is to underfund institutions or, as the past several months have shown eliminate or curtail local control.
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Mississippi’s Republican governor and Republican-dominated state legislature have been attempting to expand the presence of the capitol police force, as well as establish an alternative to the Hinds County Circuit Court, where elected judges would be replaced with state-appointed ones — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/us/naacp-mississippi-reeves-lawsuit.html">at least for part of the city. </a>
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Jackson is a majority-Black city with a progressive, Black mayor. <a href="https://www.jacksonms.gov/departments/office-of-the-mayor/">Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/11/revolutionary-not-a-liberal-radical-black-mayor-mississippi-chokwe-lumumba">came into office in 2017 with 93 percent of the vote</a>. Lumumba referred to himself as a “revolutionary,” much like his father, Jackson’s former mayor Chokwe Lumumba Sr. The younger Lumumba had a vision for Jackson, whose Black population has long suffered from the architecture of white supremacy in the South; after decades of racist vigilante violence, Jim Crow legislation, and backlash against the civil rights movement, Lumumba hoped to build a prosperous Jackson that would strive “not only to correct the ills as we see them, but to be a model for the nation of what progressive leadership and collective genius can accomplish,” as he told <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/11/revolutionary-not-a-liberal-radical-black-mayor-mississippi-chokwe-lumumba">the Guardian</a> in a post-election interview.
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The state of Mississippi has been working against that vision in recent months,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/jackson-mississippi-policing-plan.html"> by introducing a slate of bills</a> that wrest control of Jackson’s water system, police force, court system, and sales tax allocations from the local elected government to the Republican, white leadership in the state, all of which seems to benefit Jackson’s white population far more than its Black residents, who make up about 80 percent of the population.
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Jackson certainly has problems — the water system is so degraded that residents cannot drink tap water or brush their teeth with it unless it’s boiled first. Garbage collection is another recent critical issue, as are <a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/01/09/homicides-in-jackson-mississippi-top-100-for-third-straight-year/69759301007/">high rates of crime</a> and <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/jacksoncitymississippi">poverty</a>.
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Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican from northwest Mississippi who sponsored the bill to take over Jackson’s police force and court system, denied that the legislation was racially motivated during an interview with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/jackson-mississippi-policing-plan.html">New York Times</a>; his measure, he said, was instead focused on helping the city solve its problems with crime and court backlogs.
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But it’s hard to ignore the message that, “This is a thing of, ‘Black folks can’t govern. Black leaders can’t govern,’” as Danyelle Holmes, an organizer with the Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161305763/as-state-run-police-expand-into-jackson-some-welcome-the-help-others-see-racism">told NPR in March</a>.
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In Tennessee,<a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-police-teachers-bill-lee-6e41966f8d36ab56b16f68c257f5c07e"> Republican Gov. Bill Lee</a> signed a bill on Thursday which will eliminate civilian oversight boards for local police forces. They don’t exist in every city in Tennessee, but there is a Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board in Memphis, the city where Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by police officers in January. In Memphis, the CLERB “has the power to receive, investigate, hear cases, make findings, and recommend action on complaints regarding excessive and deadly force,” <a href="https://reimagine.memphistn.gov/">according to the Memphis city government website</a>.
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“Any community that’s dealing with a significant incident of police abuse — obviously the situation with Tyre Nichols was a particularly egregious and high-profile situation — but I think probably one of the most common problems that we hear of is that there’s not enough transparency, there’s not enough community access to what the city’s doing about the problem,” Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, told Vox. Community and civilian oversight boards like the kinds Tennessee will eliminate help communities access information about their police force and provide a mechanism for accountability when the police force is accused of wrongdoing.
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Tennessee’s new legislation will replace the community oversight boards with police advisory and review committees on July 1. These committees will have no power to investigate police forces, and only members appointed by the mayor will be allowed to bring complaints to the police force’s internal affairs unit. There will be no mechanism for independent investigations of police misconduct, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-police-teachers-bill-lee-6e41966f8d36ab56b16f68c257f5c07e">as the Associated Press</a> reported Thursday.
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State legislatures, too, have worked to limit the influence of Democrats in power, most notably in the case of North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/4/9/23674306/north-carolina-tricia-cotham-republican-party-switch">As Vox reported in April</a>:
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The legislative efforts in states like Texas, Tennessee, and Mississippi are specific and subtle, and are ostensibly proposed to correct real problems. But they also fit into a larger framework of Republicans attempting to wrest solidify control in whatever way they can in states where they hold legislative and executive power.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ready the Ig Nobel: Researchers incorporate used diapers into concrete</strong> - Used disposable diapers can be added to concrete without killing its strength. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1940676">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star student</strong> - AI’s ability to handle math depends on what exactly you ask it to do. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1940663">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Above the fold: The people behind the Gocycle G4 thought of everything</strong> - A fantastic design means fewer compromises from a bike you can fold up and carry. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1937068">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google at I/O 2023: We’ve been doing AI since before it was cool</strong> - Google’s “Code Red” was on full display at I/O, but it felt like AI for AI’s sake. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1938654">link</a></p></li>
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All of them are old, grizzled men who had seen their fair share of war, so the Pentagon comes up with a unique bonus system for their service. They can choose two points of their bodies and for every inch between them they would get 10k.
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First up was the Army general. He chose to measure between the tips of his middle fingers with his arms spread wide.
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Then came the Marine General. “I want you to measure from the tip of my dick to my balls.”
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“I am being serious. Now start measuring.”
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The men tried to dissuade him but he was adamant. Finally, resigned, one of the men takes the measuring tape and goes to take the measurement. When the general removed his pants the man jumped up in shock.
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“Sir! Where are your balls?!?”
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“IN VIETNAM!”
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“Jesus,” says his buddy. “Why would Bob the mailman want to fuck that?”
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Land Hoe!
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