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Sehenswerte Ausstellung über die #Dreyfusaffäre im Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme #MAHJ - die Statue von #Dreyfus des Künstlers #Tim (Louis Mitelberg) steht ohnehin dort im Innenhof. Ich fand sie schon immer eindrucksvoll. Das bei der Degradierung zerbrochene Schwert verdeckt das Gesicht von Dreyfus und man versucht quasi vergeblich, etwas zu erkennen. 1/4 #Paris

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Tim Golden:
Your use of the word “emancipatory” is compelling in that CRT is engaged with American history,
in particular the history of American chattel slavery.

Before elaborating on this point, it is important to note that there are various iterations of CRT,
which relate to different ethnicities who find themselves at the bottom of the “white-over-color ascendancy”
(racial hierarchy with whites at the top)
that Delgado and Stefancic reference in the lead-up to your question.

For example, there are Asian, Latinx and Indigenous forms of CRT.

And there is also an African American iteration,
which is the one that I will be discussing here.

Again, your use of the word “emancipatory” resonates with American history
and its enslavement of Black people,
and hearkens back to the formation of the American republic
and its central founding document,
the United States Constitution.

Drafted in 1787 and eventually ratified through a series of compromises that maintained slavery for the foreseeable future
— at least until 1808
— CRT, in its African American iteration, with Derrick Bell as its principal expositor,
has argued that those compromises set in motion a machinery of government that is dangerously and perpetually compromised
in its tolerance of anti-Black racism.

CRT’s critical and emancipatory aims, then, are to show how American law and politics maintain systems of racial oppression.

CRT does this in at least two ways.

⭐️First, by showing how the compromises at the American founding have set the tone for a morally lax American political ethos
which benefits African Americans,
not because of any genuine recognition of moral harm done to them,
but rather because their interests coincidentally converge with those of American whites.

This is what Bell referred to as
“interest convergence,”
and it is a sort of utilitarian moral calculus
less concerned with doing what is right
and more concerned with doing what is expedient.

For example, President Abraham Lincoln, Bell would argue, did not emancipate
— there’s that word again
— the slaves because it was morally right,
but rather because the Union had to be restored.

And President Barack Obama was not elected because America had suddenly become any less racist in its view of Black people,
but rather because so many upper-middle class whites were bleeding large sums of money from their retirement accounts in the financial crisis of 2008,

and because Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin appeared to them to be incompetent to handle the fledgling economy.

I have written of this in the introduction to my book on Derrick Bell.

⭐️A second way that CRT advances its critical and emancipatory aims is through
a trenchant critique of abstraction in American constitutional law.

CRT, through the work of Bell and others, has demonstrated how the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,
ratified for the purpose of helping newly freed slaves shed the legacy of slavery,
is now interpreted in ways that make such remediation illegal.

CRT points out how,
through an abstract understanding of “equality,”
liberal democratic theory,
with its emphasis on a symmetrical concept of “rights,”
generates absurd notions of “reverse racism,”
in which whites can now claim legal harm pursuant to a constitutional amendment that was ratified,
not to protect whites,
but rather to remediate the harm that whites have done.

CRT’s work in law is thus critical and emancipatory in its exposure of racial oppression in American constitutional law.

#Black#History#CRT

Celebrating #Black #History Month means honoring the importance of Black knowledge production
and emphasizing the deep and enduring themes of Black life,
from structures that continue to oppress Black people
to courageous forms of political and existential resistance.

With this understanding in mind, I think it is crucial that we focus on critical race theory ( #CRT ) and its founder,
#Derrick #Bell, who in 1971 became the first Black tenured professor at Harvard Law School.

Today, there are many distorted characterizations of CRT
and attacks against its study.

Far right activist Christopher Rufo has championed this assault,
arguing that CRT is
“being weaponized against the American people.”

Clearly, many of the field’s current critics have no idea,
no clue, about the true meaning of CRT,
which consists of indispensable scholarship produced to rigorously conceptualize and fight against systemic forms of racism.

Indeed, CRT is absolutely necessary to heal this fragile democracy.

To seek clarity here, I turn to the important philosophical work of #Tim #Golden,
visiting professor of philosophy at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

He is the editor of "Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism",
and his most recent book is entitled, "Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and the Political".
truthout.org/articles/why-the-

Truthout · Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race TheoryBy George Yancy

Groups in #Russia created and helped spread viral #disinformation 👉targeting Democratic vice presidential candidate #Tim #Walz, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday.
The content, which includes baseless accusations about the Minnesota governor’s time as a teacher,
contains several indications that it was manipulated, said the official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Analysts identified clues that linked the content to Russian disinformation operations, said the official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity under rules set by the office of the director.

Digital researchers had already linked the video to Russia, but Tuesday’s announcement is the first time federal authorities have confirmed the connection.

The disinformation targeting Walz is consistent with Russian disinformation seeking to undermine the Democratic campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz, her running mate.

Russia also has spread disinformation aimed at stoking discord and division ahead of voting, officials said, and may seek to encourage violent protests after Election Day.

apnews.com/article/walz-russia

AP News · Russia is behind viral disinformation targeting Walz, intelligence official saysBy DAVID KLEPPER

#Tim #Dunn and #Farris #Wilks, are two Texas billionaires who made their fortunes in the oil industry.

🆘 Over the past decade, the pair have built the most powerful political machine in Texas
— a network of think tanks, media organizations, political action committees and nonprofits that work in lock step to purge the Legislature of Republicans whose votes they can’t rely on.

Cycle after cycle, their relentless maneuvering has pushed the statehouse⚠️ so far to the right that consultants like to joke that Karl Rove couldn’t win a local race these days.

Brandon Darby, the editor of Breitbart Texas, is one of several conservatives who has compared Dunn and Wilks to Russian #oligarchs.

“They go into other communities and unseat people unwilling to do their bidding,” he says. “You kiss the ring or you’re out.”

Texas, which has few limits on campaign spending, is home to a formidable army of donors.

🔥Lately Dunn has outspent them all.

Since 2000, he and his wife have given more than $29 million to candidates and PACs in Texas.

🔥Wilks and his wife, who have donated to many of the same PACs as Dunn, have given $16 million.

🧨Last year, Dunn and his associated entities provided two-thirds of the donations to the state Republican Party.

The duo’s ambitions extend beyond Texas.

❌ They’ve poured millions into “dark money” groups, which do not have to disclose contributors; conservative-media juggernauts

(Wilks provided $4.7 million in seed capital to The Daily Wire, which hosts “The Ben Shapiro Show”);

and federal races.

⚠️Dunn’s $5 million gift to the "Make America Great Again" super PAC in December made him one of Donald Trump’s top supporters this election season,

and he has quietly begun to invest in efforts to influence a possible second Trump administration, including several linked to Project 2025.

propublica.org/article/tim-dun

ProPublicaA Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
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At about the same time that several of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters were warning that #Laura #Loomer’s access to the former President
💥threatens his presidential bid,

#Tim #Walz was in Grand Rapids ❇️ mocking how easy it is to manipulate Donald Trump

Jewish space laser conspiracist Marjorie Taylor #Greene scolded Loomer about➡️ attacking Kamala Harris for her Indian ancestry
(after which MTG went back to making racist attacks on migrants again).

Lindsey #Graham, a sometime hawk who makes excuses for Trump’s apologies for Russia,
agreed that ➡️Trump should distance himself from Loomer and the incendiary comments she makes
emptywheel.net/2024/09/14/the-

emptywheel · The Laura Loomer Problem Is the Same as the Vladimir Putin Problem - emptywheelTrump's anonymous aides, complaining about Laura Loomer's access to the former President, are making the very same argument that Tim Walz warned about. Trump's narcissism and his ego make him vulnerable to any person willing to use flattery to win their objectives. 

Broadening his attacks beyond the Trump-Vance ticket,
#Tim #Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate and a former high school football coach,
joked at a campaign fund-raiser in Boston last night:

“I feel like one of my roles in this now is to be the anti-#Tommy #Tuberville, to show that football coaches are not the dumbest people.”

Tuberville, a Republican senator from Alabama, was the head coach of the Auburn University football team.

nytimes.com/live/2024/08/15/us

The New York Times · Biden and Harris to Visit Maryland as Trump Holds News Conference: Live UpdatesBy Simon J. Levien

Free meals v hungry children:

is this the school lunch election?

The humble #school #meal is having a moment.
With the nomination of Minnesota’s governor, #Tim #Walz, as Kamala Harris’s running mate,
many voters and pundits are suddenly talking about school meals.

And that’s good, because the stakes are high for the national school lunch and school breakfast programs since the campaigns and their parties have very different records and plans.

Since Walz became the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, an image of him has frequently circulated.
In the photograph, he’s surrounded by smiling children hugging him after 🔸he signed a 2023 bill making school meals universally free for all Minnesota children. 🔸
His was the fourth state to commit to feeding all children at school;
now nine states have done so,
and more are considering similar measures.

No more forms to fill out to prove your income,
which busy parents can forget or that get crumpled in a backpack.

No more penalizing children when their parents fall behind on lunch accounts.
Every kid gets fed, powering them up for their day’s work learning and growing.
By most measures, the Minnesota program has been successful and popular.
Participation in the meals program soared, increasing 15% at lunch and 37% at breakfast compared with the previous year.

Due to those increases, the economies of scale improved, and some 🔹districts have been able to invest more in scratch cooking with ingredients from local farmers. 🔹
It turns out that♦️ relieving cafeteria staff of the duty to go after parents who fall behind on lunch payments leaves them more time to focus on food quality.♦️

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election?By Guardian staff reporter

Montana GOP Senate candidate #Tim #Sheehy touts his business.
-- It’s losing millions.

As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, #Montana Republican #Tim #Sheehy recounts how he
started an aerial firefighting business in his barn
and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires.
“That’s a success story,” he said in a June television interview.

Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months tell💥 a different story 💥about Bridger Aerospace, known for its “Super Scooper” planes that can remove up to 1,400 gallons at a time from a body of water to dump on a nearby wildfire.

Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that 🔸there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue,” 🔸according to public filings that show 👉 the company lost $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024.

🔷Several directors have left, including one who flagged concerns about internal auditing, as an unusually slow wildfire season in 2023 put the company at risk of defaulting on its debt.

♦️And then last month, Sheehy said he couldn’t devote enough time to running the company and resigned
— a move that Bridger, which had promoted his key role in “every facet” of the business, previously said would happen if he was elected to the Senate.

jontester.com/

⭐️“Montana will always come first for me
– and I will take on anyone, from any party, to defend our state,”
#Jon #Tester said in a statement.

“I’m honored to have the support of Montana Republicans who have stood with me to fight for our veterans, protect our freedoms, and keep the government out of our personal lives.”

yahoo.com/news/tester-campaign

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Montanans for Jon TesterMontanans for Jon TesterJon Tester is a third-generation Montana dirt farmer who brings his Montana values with him to the U.S. Senate every day.

Sen. #Jon #Tester (D-Mont.) is locked in a tight race in Montana as former President Trump boasts a wide lead over Vice President Harris in the state, polling shows.
A new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey puts Trump-backed Republican #Tim #Sheehy with a 2-point lead over Tester, 48 percent to 46 percent. Another 5 percent were undecided. 
♦️Tester is one of the most vulnerable incumbents this cycle, ♦️a rare Democrat holding office in a state Biden lost back in 2020, and 💥his race could determine which party ends up controlling the upper chamber.

The poll also marks a shift from March, when the same pollster found Tester up by 2 points over his Republican challenger. 

Because the gap falls 🔸within the survey’s 3-point margin of error, 🔸the race remains a potential tie between the two Senate race rivals. 

This week, Tester launched a
🌟“Republicans for Tester” 🌟group to rally support from across the aisle as he braces for a competitive November contest. 

At the top of the ticket, Trump is a whopping 15 percentage points ahead of Harris, but the vice president’s 40 percent support is a notable 5-point improvement from the 35 percent President Biden garnered back in March.

jontester.com

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/

Montanans for Jon TesterMontanans for Jon TesterJon Tester is a third-generation Montana dirt farmer who brings his Montana values with him to the U.S. Senate every day.

Progressives are celebrating the selection of #Tim #Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate,
praising the Minnesota governor’s policy record and ability to directly confront Republicans.

“Tim Walz is an effortless populist and represents the exact direction the Democratic party needs,”
said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

“Walz has proven that he has the necessary skills and authentic populism to go on offense
– calling out the extremist and weird Trump-Vance agenda.”

Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, said in a statement,
“The selection of Tim Walz as the vice-presidential nominee is a clear indication that the Harris campaign is listening to the voices of progressives across the country.
Governor Walz’s strong pro-labor record and dedication to working-class issues align with our movement’s goals to take on corporate power and create an economy
that works for everyone.”

– live updates
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

the Guardian · Tim Walz thanks Kamala Harris for ‘honor of a lifetime’ as she praises running mate for ‘fighting for middle-class families’ – liveDemocrats welcome choice of Minnesota governor to be Harris’s running mate in race against Donald Trump and JD Vance

Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line:
he is ‘just plain weird’

The tactic is calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are now more engaged with election

“Is Donald Trump OK?” the X message said.

At a fundraising event in Massachusetts on Saturday, Harris tried out the line again,
describing what Trump and running mate JD Vance had been saying about her as “just plain weird”.

“I mean that’s the box you put that in,” Harris said
after Trump had called her “a bum” the previous day and Vance disparaged her in 2021 as a “childless cat (lady)”.

#weird is what seems to be sticking, in part as an apparent simplification of warnings about the threat to democracy that Trump poses
– which dominated 15 months of Biden’s re-election campaign.

Minnesota’s Democratic governor #Tim #Walz appears to have started the “weird” political trendline.

He posted on X, “Say it with me: Weird,” in response to a video of Trump speaking about Hannibal Lecter.

Walz later followed up with “these guys are weird” to describe Trump and Vance.

He also said Trump could end other constitutional liberties
– but musing about his embodiment of a threat to democracy
“gives him way too much power,” Walz argued.

“Listen to the guy. He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and whatever crazy thing pops into his mind,” Walz said.

“I think we give him way too much credit. If you just ratchet down some of the scariness and just name it what it is.
Have you seen the guy laugh?
It seems very weird to me that an adult can go through six-and-a-half years of being in the public eye and when he laughs it’s at someone
– not with them.”

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line: he is ‘just plain weird’By Edward Helmore