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This seems unlikely to end well.

The National Parks Service has a long history of displacement and ethnic cleansing.

The National Parks Service has a long history of displacement and ethnic cleansing.

Well, of course it’s called Denali. It’s always been called Denali, since long before the President of the United States signed anything. The announcement didn’t change anything about the name of the mountain; it just changed something about the U.S. government refusing to hold on, against all evidence, to an idiotic old plan to change the name in favor of a plutocratic warlord who got himself shot.

Here is a person who really enjoys their work.

Here is a person who really enjoys their work.

Intuitions poll: Is it possible for the work someone does under coercion to count as “slave labor,” even if the person does not, as a matter of permanent social status, qualify as being a slave? Or does forced labor only count as being slave labor when it is performed by people who are members of a recognizable slave class?

christ did I just sign myself up to do a lit search on all the recent publications on African-American naming patterns for this assignment.

Sheridan or Sinclair?

Babylon 5 S01E09, “Deathwalker.”