When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy. It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

Of course, the 14th merely amended the list of requirements for the office:

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*Storytime* My daughter (20) has been playing football for 15 years. She joined a team of good friends - 6 v 6 - for the indoor season. Her entire team is Black and Brown Muslim women. All of them played competitive soccer. Some wear hijab some don't. They are a VERY good team.

Been there, tried that.

Fox doesn't even pretend to be news it's the most vile, putrid and racist content I have ever seen in my life, especially Tucker Carlson. A sane nation would ban it from the airwaves, it's weaponized a huge swath of ignorant white losers to enrich Murdoch & his limp dicked hosts.

The coming week is shaping up to be a pretty crazy weather week in California, TBH--even more so than previously thought. Ongoing heatwave expected to be longer & peak even higher, & now we have potential influence of a soon-to develop hurricane to consider. (1/n) #CAwx #CAfire

The news calls Biden adding 100,000 cops to the largest punishment bureaucracy in world history "crime prevention." It fails to tell readers that science shows investments in housing, education, healthcare and other root causes is how to actually prevent crime.

It IS transparently stupid. Luckily we can always appeal this patently mis-reasoned opinion to the... oh shit, wait. Well at least we have a rational political system that can meaningfully address the greater problem through legisla... fuck. We're so screwed.

Not many people know this, but the reason they removed the bidet toilet seats from the Google offices is because they also became sentient.

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Ok, humankind: you get one more chance. Dogs: carry on. No notes.

Mainstream press: "There's no such thing as 'mass formation psychosis'" Also mainstream press: "'Quitagion' is a real thing"

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“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.“ - MLK 59 years later, we are facing the same tragedy.

JWST has fully deployed! This is such a huge accomplishments for our generation of scientists and engineers. I can’t wait for the first pictures 🥺🌌 🤍

Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American hero. Retweet if you agree.

Ronald Reagan said this 40 years ago.

I remember when violent video games and rock music was gonna turn us all into mass murderers, mass murder still being considered a mostly bad thing back then.