ESQUIRE: Our Lawless President Is Trampling Still More Laws to Build His Big, Beautiful Wall.

BY JACK HOLMES.
8/29/2019.

So the president is promising to pardon his subordinates if they have to break the law to carry out his orders to build the Big, Beautiful Wall, the latest spasm of abject lawlessness from someone whose lifelong principle is that the rules do not apply to him. This is not the best attribute to have in the world's most powerful man, particularly with a supine Congress—where one body is controlled by his lackeys and the other is run by Democrats afraid of their own shadow—and a court system increasingly stuffed full of Federalist Society dependables who can help enact conservative priorities from the bench. That's the same court system that OK'd his phony national emergency, which he admitted was phony while announcing it. ITALICS ARE MINE- DAVID.

Call for submissions: Panel Discussion at the 2020 APA Eastern Division meeting. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the APA.

Dear DAVID,   The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the APA is now accepting abstracts for a panel discussion on navigating academic philosophy as a first-generation and/or low-income graduate student at the Eastern Division.   Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher Many philosophers have highlighted the lack of diversity amongst professional philosophers, and there are several active initiatives aimed at encouraging greater diversity, a great portion of which are aimed at supporting diverse undergraduates students on their route to graduate study. One dimension of diversity that often gets overlooked in these efforts—and which overlaps and intersects with other axes of oppression in important ways—is working-class, low-income, and first-generation status. This session aims to provide voice to the experiences of philosophers who come from poverty, identify as low-income, or are a first-generation university student.   Abstracts addressing the following questions are of particular interest: How do philosophers who are the first in their families to attend university learn to navigate the academic lifestyle? Does impostor syndrome ever go away, or at least get better? How do low-income and first-generation philosophers deal with the sense of double-alienation, both in academic spaces and when they return to their families or first homes? How does class intersect with other underrepresented identities to further marginalize certain philosophers in the field? Have class and socioeconomic status been adequately theorized by philosophers? Are low-income and/or first-generation students encouraged to pursue philosophy (by their families? Mentors? Professors?) and adequately supported if they decide to do so? What unique challenges arise for graduate students from low-income and/or first-generation backgrounds?   This session seeks to explore some of these questions and others, and to provide a space for discussion and community building among those philosophers who have experienced socioeconomic disadvantage along their route to graduate study and/or professional philosophy.   Topics of discussion may include (but are not limited to) the following: Alienation Stereotype Threat Impostor Syndrome Overcoming Stereotypes Returning Home and Cultural Code Switching Researching SES/Class Intersectionality & Class Struggle Deciding to Pursue Philosophy While Poor Class Bias Race & Class, Gender & Class, Sexual Orientation & Class The Intersection of Immigration Status and First-Generation Status and/or Class Struggle Obstacles to Pursuing Graduate Study Moving for Graduate Study as a Low-Income Person Conferences as Exclusionary for Low-Income People Navigating Academia's Elitism as a Low-Income Person Learning the Norms Hidden Curriculum, Social Expectations, and Navigating Academic Spaces Mentoring Low-Income/First-Generation Students Cultivating Support Systems and Community Building Submissions Abstracts for talks of 15-20 minutes prepared for anonymous review should be sent to both Arianna Falbo (arianna_falbo@brown.edu) and Heather Stewart (hstewa27@uwo.ca). In the body of the email, please include your name, institutional affiliation (if any), position (if any), and contact information. Please attach an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words describing the primary focus of your presentation and what you hope for the audience to take away from it. The organizing committee hopes to select panel participants from various stages of the procession, including graduate students, post-docs, as well as junior and senior faculty. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer any funding for selected speakers.   Deadline for Submissions: September 30, 2019   Selection of Presenters: Early October   If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Arianna Falbo at arianna_falbo@brown.edu or Heather Stewart at hstewa27@uwo.ca.   For more information about the Graduate Student Council of the APA, please visit our webpage.   Find us on Facebook, or e-mail us at contact-gsc@apaonline.org.   Thank you,   Sahar Joakim APA Graduate Student Council Chair

Trump's most blatant assault yet on LGBTQ rights. JENNIFER WEXTON.

I’ve made it a priority to fight so that Americans no longer face discrimination because of who they are or who they love.

And David, I’m enraged by the latest actions of Donald Trump against the LGBTQ community. His administration is taking steps to allow private employers to fire employees based on sexual orientation.

As reported by Buzzfeed News on Friday:

The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers based only on their sexual orientation. An amicus brief filed by the Justice Department weighed in on two cases involving gay workers and what is meant by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination "because of sex." The administration argued courts nationwide should stop reading the civil rights law to protect gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers from bias because it was not originally intended to do so.

This is a blatant attempt to legalize bigotry against LGBTQ Americans, and we need to speak out immediately against it.

I want to get 7,500 citizen co-signers on board. Please add your name and tell the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s efforts to allow employment discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.

ADD YOUR NAME ➞

The Trump administration’s outrageous legal filing is only the latest step in their campaign against LGBTQ rights. They’ve made it harder for same-sex couples to adopt. They ended an Obama-era rule that protected transgender Americans in public housing programs from discrimination. And they’ve let Mitch McConnell hold up a Senate vote on the Equality Act for months.

The media spends a lot of time on Trump’s erratic behavior, tweets, and offensive statements. At the end of the day, what’s even more disturbing to me are his policies -- because his policies go right against the values of liberty, fairness, and justice that I’ve fought for my whole career.

His administration’s argument for employment discrimination should be condemned across the political spectrum. And that’s why I need your help today so we can raise our voices as high as possible.

Add your name now and demand that the Supreme Court stand on the side of equality.

Thank you,

Jennifer

 

APA- September 3 is the deadline to submit a paper to the 2020 Pacific Division meeting.

Dear DAVID, Paper submissions for the 2020 APA Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco, California, are currently open. Submissions close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, September 3. If you have a paper you would like to present, please submit it as soon as possible at the paper submissions website. We urge you to submit your paper before 2 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, September 3, after which there will be nobody available at the national office to provide technical assistance. Here are a few important reminders about Pacific Division submissions: All authors of each submitted paper must be current members of the APA. The author’s name must not appear anywhere in the paper file or the abstract. Both colloquium and symposium submissions require an abstract of no more than 150 words. Both colloquium and symposium submissions require a 750-word synopsis, which should be clearly labeled within the paper document, before the body of the paper. The Pacific Division allows only one type of submission: poster, colloquium, or symposium. Submissions of multiple types are not accepted. Abstract, synopsis, notes, and references do not contribute to the word count of your paper or poster. The new paper submission system uses your login information from the main APA website. To submit a paper or to participate in the meeting program, all authors must be current members of the APA. Please be sure to renew your APA membership. Before submitting, we recommend that you review the paper submission guidelines, since papers that do not comply with these guidelines will not be reviewed. If you have any questions about paper submissions, please contact me. All the best, Mike Morris Deputy Director

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