2025-12-28 12:51:01
Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting (Phil Williams/WTVF-TV)
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-sheriff-defends-jailing-liberal-activist-for-posting-trump-meme-about-school-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p103#a251029p103
In style, as in life, timing is everything:
Brigitte Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
https://www.…
Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91 (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-french-screen-legend-and-animal-rights-activist-dies
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p28#a251228p28
The Soccer Mom Who Strikes Fear Into the Heart of ICE | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/angie-vargas-ice-chaser-los-angeles/
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…
Activist gets 8 days in jail for the grave crime of… “squeaking near the face" : r/Sakartvelo
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sakartvelo/comments/1p3ywa2/activist_gets_8_days_in_jail_for_the_grave_crime/
Ad Astra, Alice Wong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Wong_(activist)
"Some of the mistakes we have made, some of the unforced errors have given a sense that we are not on the side of ordinary people."
I imagine Leo is of the Roman persuasion too.
Who is new deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev1d3
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
Mamdani economic advisor is reparations activist who says 'devaluation of Black lives' ingrained in US system (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-economic-advisor-reparations-activist-who-says-devaluation-black-lives-ingrained-us-system
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p122#a251125p122
So “MAP activist” and self admitted groomer Katie Cruz is mass reporting and privacy striking anyone who covers her. Spread the word, but be careful. She’s already threatened one YouTuber’s life over it. #fediblock #psa
„It’s possible that what I have to say is how to live with defeat, or how to live with despair, or how to champion a lost cause. I do not think there is such a thing as a victory even for the rich. They are stuck in an imaginary where we are going to cease to exist. But we are not going to cease to exist.“
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115766665024442971
The author (Edmund Berkeley) is the co-founder of the ACM (I’m a member), he definitely did some other good stuff like being a peace activist and coming up with concepts that highly influenced the personal computer revolution 25–30 years after the book was published.
But the extreme toxic positivity about computers that “will solve all social problems” because “humans are so irrational” remains a huge problem with AI stans since the late 1940s.
A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …
In my journey as a climate activist, I've grappled with the contradictions of my lifestyle. I consume meat, I fly on planes, yet I advocate for sustainable practices.
For a while, I felt like a hypocrite. But, I've realized that the climate movement doesn't need to be a space of perfection, but a space for ordinary humans with their contradictions.
Can we be climate activists while still having contradictions in our lives?
this is kind of amazing: a handdrawn 2002 attempt to map every #surveillance camera in times square & midtown #nyc, by the surveillance camera players, activist/prankster group. feel like these #maps would bot…
Rare court victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/24/victory-against-israeli…
@… I will probably also post on the original thread when it reopens, but I just wanted to post my thoughts about this thread here as well: https://comm…
No Kings II rally - Washington DC - over four hours of news coverage
#news
Climate activist Greta Thunberg
has been arrested in central London
at a demonstration in support of the Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike in prison.
Ms Thunberg, 22, can be seen holding a sign reading
“I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide”
in a video shared by Prisoners for Palestine
COPS: Arkansas Anti-LGBTQ Activist Staged [disabled] Daughter's Kidnapping In Order To "Teach Her A Lesson" [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/cops-arkansas-anti-lgbtq-activist-staged-daughters-kidnapping-in-order-to-teach-her-a-lesson-video/
“‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.
Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy’ – a scene described with disbelief a…
"A reporter once asked A.J. Muste -- a social activist who, during the Vietnam War, stood outside the White House night after night -- 'Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?'
"'Oh,' Muste replied, 'I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.'
"When I am willing to cross the line of how much I think I c…
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82 (Paul Vitello/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p72#a251123p72
Even Malala's been ghosted: '"not one of them picked up the phone, or replied to my messages [regarding her pleas to evacuate Afghan partners]. To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op." [...] She notes, pointedly, that female politicians did.'
Deeply reflexive piece on her unrelenting efforts on the right to education. Personal, political, professional. From child activist to global woman leader.
At 28 she has done more than most will in our life…
This seems very grim: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden The Israelis appear to be trying to make an example of Thunberg. So brave of them 🙄 . (<-total sarcasm) It feels distinctly like the world - especiall…
Michail Chkhikvishvili,
a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”,
did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist,
despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned,
such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech:
close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses…
"Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish
I wish they'd stop platforming TERFs, so I could start giving them money.
Weren't these humanitarian activists captured by Israelis on the high seas, in clear contravention of international law? That's #Piracy !
https://www.theguardian.c…
The Rev Jesse Jackson,
longtime civil rights activist and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition,
is being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the neurological disorder,
supranuclear palsy.
The 84-year-old was moved from the intensive care unit Monday after being admitted last week.
The regime's paramilitary disappeared community activist and US Citizen Leo Martinez today.
Unidentified masked men purposely rammed their unmarked car into Leo, abducted him, and then attacked concerned community members in Oxnard, CA
Source: https://v.redd.it/yq1wb68gojvf1
Activist Laura Loomer blasts Pentagon over planned Qatar military facility in Idaho (Phil Stewart/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/activist-laura-loomer-blasts-pentagon-over-planned-qatar-military-facility-idaho-2025-10-10/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p42#a251011p42
Looking for a citation. I used to have it and cannot find it. This diagram of two half circles depicts a world ending and a world emerging. I saw it on a poster in a video of lady giving a talk. I don't think it was a Youtube. I've searched through my history and my files and I don't where I put this info.
She is an activist. Anyone know who she is? Or have an early source of this diagram? (I'm less interested in folks who have ripped her work without citation). Thank …
A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/…
Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It https://www.404media.co/man-charged-for-wiping-phone-before-cbp-could-search-it/
A few thoughts about the new US national security strategy, especially the part about the growing influence of ‘patriotic’ parties, whose growing influence the current administration endorses:
https://bsky.app/profile/rikefranke.bsky.social/post/3m7ab2nreps2e
🚨𝗖𝗔-𝟮𝟮 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘:
𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆.
Randy is refusing corporate PAC money and running to represent working families in the Central Valley -- not billionaires.
But now, national Republicans are pouring dark money into this race to protect GOP Rep. David Valadao.
Bernie said it best:
We need more working-class people in Congress who aren’t beholden to special interests.
This …
Great interview with @… about #enshittification
(You don't need to watch part 1, which is in today's main episode, but feel free, everything from Democracy Now is great.)
Source: Laura Loomer has been credentialed to cover the Pentagon, joining a new cohort of right-wing media that have agreed to the Pentagon's new press policy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-…
Genevieve Taggard: Poet/Feminist/Activist/Teacher Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal --Special Issue
https://ift.tt/0Zq3Sb8
updated: Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 10:23amfull name / name of organization: Nancy Berke / City…
via Input 4 RELCFP
UK anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson thanks Musk after being cleared of terrorism charge (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-anti-islam-activist-tommy-robinson-thanks-musk-after-being-cleared-terrorism-2025-11-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p50#a251104p50
The stages of enshittification.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist
Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are
“legionnaires of the Antichrist”
in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
https://bsky.app/prof…
Fears grow for Scottish flotilla activist Yvonne Ridley, abducted by Israeli soldiers and held in famous Ktzi'ot prison camp
Kidnapped | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kidnapped
Stephen Miller has activist's phone seized as incendiary leaflets sent to neighbors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-2674261914/
Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media.
“We did it, everybody,”
says Leslie Manookian,
the woman in the middle.
She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho.
Her group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.
With Manookian in the video are
two of her allies, the leaders of H…
It’s definitely a long shot.
But Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer, minister and dues-paying member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
is making her move, throwing her hat into the ring for mayor of Los Angeles.
The virtually unknown candidate is the deputy director of Housing Now California,
a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the state and local levels.
Huang, who announced a campaign launch on Sunday, i…
Meet Ziada Kassimu: a medical assistant doctor and climate activist in Tanzania working to empower women and girls through the REPower Afrika campaign. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
A former Clemson University professor is claiming his firing over a post about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Friday.
Joshua Bregy, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences,
was one of three employees at Clemson fired for making social media posts critical of Kirk after the activist was shot and killed Sept. 10 during a speaking event at a Utah co…
Genevieve Taggard: Poet/Feminist/Activist/Teacher Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue
https://ift.tt/kSCc4sq
updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:13pmfull name / name of organization: Nancy Berke / City…
via Input 4 RELCFP
"Whether through the People’s Assembly, “Your Party,” the Greens or union organisations like trades councils, we need mobilising vehicles that will take the fight to both Labour and Reform. How to do that should be the focus of every socialist organisation and activist."
The Morning Star take on Labour conference 2025 | Morning Star
Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine with a group of trans women,
including Catholic trans activist Alesia Nobile,
during a Vatican lunch this Sunday, November 16.
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist
who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel,
which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination"
cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
https://www.
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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)
filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday,
accusing him of abusing the powers of his office
and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles.
In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy,
who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist,
“has turned his back on…
Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …
Dangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …