#greatbooks — Public Fediverse posts
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25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
Thomas Jefferson thought of policing in terms of “constables.” Now police are bristling with military technology and are a standing army that occupies the United States. The irony: consider that Jefferson thought that even a national military was unnecessary. #Jefferson #GreatBooks
There is no “low” hometown. There is HSAC. The sirens you hear off in the distance are an agent’s yapping dog that is just staring around to take a bite out of our kids! Starving people are called criminals while jackboot Responders collect tax as comfortably protected military child-molesters. They get all the tech; we get all the poverty. What we need is not Federal slimming so much as a reduction in the predatory and wasteful spending that goes to abusive local departments.
Tangles, WebLoc, #geofencing #FusionCenters
Carpenter V. United States (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council
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https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/dhs-8th-anniversary-fact-sheet.pdfbanks more dangerous than "standing armies" as if that was a given
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Someone hold my hand. My senior got into #StJohnsCollege and it's her first choice and I want it for her but it's financially draining on both her and us before she even gets to grad school. If she just did a standard #liberalArts degree and not the #greatBooks program, we have another college acceptance that would get her through undergrad debt free. Yes, I grasp the extent of our #privilege but we still have to choose. #johnnies perspective would be welcome
