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As explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.

@pre@boing.world
2025-12-26 08:40:32

Nice to see a UK party leader demonstrate some actual compassion and care this Christmas. I'm so fed up with politicians pedaling hate and division trying to pander to terrible racism and xenophobia, trying to pick up the votes of the hateful.
This is what political leadership really is. Not following the right wing media hatred but countering it.
Zack Polanski's Christmas message is less than five minutes.
#green #christmas

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-27 09:12:22

I broadly agree with this except that in many seats it is the #Greens (despite being soft on European militarism and the EU neoliberal treaty) that is best placed to lead the charge/benefit from tactical votes.
Pochin’s poisonous diatribe – how do we turn the tide against rising racism? | Morning Star

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-09-27 12:26:53

Day 4: Adiba Jaigirdar
Thought I'd mix things up a bit in terms of intensity & genre. Jaigirdar has written several lovely sapphic teen romances that grapple with parental acceptance in Muslim Bengali immigrant culture, along with racism and other aspects of second generation immigrant life in Dublin.
I've discovered a few other Southeast Asian authors at my local library who will appear on this list, but I'm putting Jaigirdar first because of just how enjoyable her books are, and because I generally find queer romance to be more engaging than non-queer romance. Jaigirdar's characters are sympathetic and convincing, and their problems are both dramatic and a little funny. "Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating" is probably my favorite by Jaigirdar, but I also enjoyed "The Henna Wars" and "Rani Choudhury Must Die." "A Million to One" is a bit of a departure from her other books, as historical fiction with a heist plot, but it still engages with Irish culture, immigrants, and queer romance.
#20WomenAuthors

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-11-25 16:25:56

RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress
Louis Armstrong called it his "antidote for racism" — might that explain the rise in use?

From 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-26 04:10:17

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-21 16:18:25

Trey Reed’s Death—and Its Swift Labeling as Suicide—Demands the Scrutiny Ida B. Wells Called For - Ms. Magazine
msmagazine.com/2025/10/21/trey

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-10-25 23:28:37

Quietly gathered some fire starter from the counter of a local restaurant.
#misinformation #disinformation #racism #antiimmigration #vaccines #rightwingextremism

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2025-12-23 04:40:53

The police describes the accused as a "white British national", a "black British national" an "Asian British national" – how is the colour of their skin relevant to the crime they are accused of? Or is it pure racism?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-20 18:53:54

No, please, tell me again how the United States of America is not a fascist country. masto.ai/@Nonilex/115583505315

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 15:05:47

Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump's Political Power? (Dahlia Lithwick/Slate)
slate.com/news-and-politics/20
memeorandum.com/251217/p39#a25

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster
2025-11-21 21:55:42

On top of everything else, it turned out that Seal was a clairvoyant:
🎵 Don't you know that racism among future kings can only lead to no good.
#TOTP

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2025-11-21 14:23:07

I cannot recommend *Drystone - A Life Rebuilt* by Kristie De Garis highly enough. This is one of those rare memoirs that manages to be simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, raw and beautifully crafted.
De Garis writes with brutal honesty about topics many of us struggle to articulate: racism, intergenerational trauma, undiagnosed ADHD, addiction, and the blunt realities of motherhood. Set against the stunning landscapes of rural Scotland, she portraits her journey of self-discove…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-11 20:15:35

On the one hand, this is amusing af. On the other hand, not so much. Vivek Ramaswami wants to be governor of Ohio. MAGAts say, but you’re not Christian. . newrepublic.com/maz/post/20166

Photo of a nice goldfinch so as not to sully your timeline with the ugly MAGA mug. August 2025
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-16 18:40:14

She's suing.
'Never Were the Guns Lowered': Texas Cops Terrorized Black Air Force Vet In Uniform Over False Claim Her Truck Was Stolen — Blame Human Error, Not Racism
atlantablackstar.com/2025/11/1

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 04:44:57

Just another video of Trump racist shill, Kristi Noem, getting caught red handed lying about not deporting any veterans in the middle of her testimony.
#trump #KristiNoem #racism

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-11-17 10:11:46
Content warning: racism, bigotry

#TIL but not surprised that the Dewey Decimal Classification, like many old things, is racist and bigoted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_De
On

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-17 19:22:30

More local cops arresting federal agents please? fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app
(PS still true that ACAB)

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-10-18 17:00:24

yes, that was me on the corner of jackson & stadium holding up my POWER to the PEOPLE sign, flashing peace signs to enthusiastic supporters in passing cars, filled with hope and inspiration from the crowd and the noise
power to the homeless, to the refugees, to the victims of racism and poverty, of oppression and injustice, power to the people right now

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-24 13:52:52

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-10 23:31:05

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
newrepublic.com/post/201664/vi
memeorandum.com/251010/p146#a2

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-10-09 18:28:09

I remember like 10 years ago when fascism and racism were seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-12-11 17:04:15

They see an SUV. “Is it ICE??” They see a car slow down. “I bet it’s ICE!” They see tinted windows. “I saw ICE!!”
ICE is the boogeyman to little kids now. Just in case anyone out there is in ICE is starting to wonder, “Are we the baddies?,” well, you are literally terrifying the children.
And in case you’re in it for the racism and relishing the thought of little Black and brown children being scared — no, you are the boogeyman to •all• the kids. They’re not afraid of drug dealers now. They’re afraid of you.
2/2

@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-10-14 17:24:54

just got called fucking Lanthe by the doordash guy
he had a southern accent so I'm gonna chalk this one up to racism

@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 20:58:20

Manche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-12-19 22:28:03

Perfectly normal #Republicans
city-journal.org/article/manha

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 07:24:51

Terrible, racism and discrimination are institutionalized in the US now
nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-14 04:01:30

The ethnic cleansing of the United States will destroy it | Heba Gowayed | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-11 10:28:15

Report Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity freefree.ps/@faab64/1155305168

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2025-12-06 15:30:43

The Trump administration says Europe faces "Europe faces “civilizational erasure” from immigration.
Pure Nazi racism, straight from the diseased mind of Stephen Miller.
Magats voted for this.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-05 00:56:01

Alleged Pipe Bomber's Family Sued Trump DHS Over Illegal Immigration, Asked Biden DOJ To Address Racism (Luke Rosiak/The Daily Wire)
dailywire.com/news/alleged-d-c
memeorandum.com/251204/p125#a2

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-05 07:48:42

#MAGA isn't "newly" buying into #Trump's racism, greed & immorality.
Their worldview is ALREADY about racism, greed & immorality: There's no 'listening & rationalizing' that will change their opinion. It's who they are.
We need to educate the nex…

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-10-14 22:05:46
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-11-06 16:49:47

"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-11-06 16:49:47

"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…

@drgeraint@glasgow.social
2025-10-02 00:40:20

Panorama: misogyny and racism in the metropolitan police.
I'm waiting for the panorama report that highlights excessive bias for promoting Nick Griffin/BNP, Nigel Farage/UKIP, Reform; Boris Johnson/Tory and suppressing the comments of anyone to the left of Labour.

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 12:44:41

Der Skinhead in der U-Bahn mit riesigem "fuck racism"-Aufkleber und jede Menge "Oi!" an der Bomberjacke, und dann stieg auch noch eine wunderschöne Transe mit Sofia-Loren-Sonnenbrille zu.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-12-15 00:47:30

Just finished "New Kid" by Jerry Craft. An excellent graphic novel about navigating middle school as one of only a few Black kids at a rich private school. I love how clear Jordan (the main character) is about the racism he encounters and how it affects him and his friends. Even though his parents have done a good job of preparing him for the realities he'll face, getting through them isn't easy. Still, rather than a book about "learning how racist the world is" this is a book about "navigating the expected racism" and it's a refreshing difference.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-11-05 03:51:23

Andy #Cuomo is a racist shit stain and his concession speech demonstrates his hypocrisy. No racism in #NYC unless he’s serving it I guess.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-03 07:16:35

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

More #nokings slogans
Stop pretending your racism is patriotism
bsky.app/profile/assignedmedia

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-10-23 19:49:42

Today former Conservative BC MLA Dallas Brodie introduced a bill to ban territorial acknowledgments from public events and places including schools and the legislature itself.
You can find her proudly posting about it on X (at Dallas_Brodie) I won't link it.
It's as bad as you think it would be.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and respect the fact that people lived in BC/Canada for millenia before European's got here.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and try to repair the deliberate harm that was done in that process.
(the bill was voted down at first reading by a voice-vote)
#racism #FirstNations #Colonialism #BC #BCPoli #BCCPC #BCNDP

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2025-10-29 16:13:33

#Zeteo

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-02 03:29:42

The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" is a declaration of war on the so-called “radical left, and accuses any critic of law enforcement, or gov't activities of basically fomenting “violent revolution.”
The Trump administration’s designation today of antifa as a terrorist group allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of #antifa

@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-11-03 18:09:54

"Anti-Woke" literally means "in favor of racism and sexism and bigotry." I wonder if most of the anti crowd know that, until vkc makes them think.

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 22:39:16

A sense of total injustice is what's bothering everyone.
Republicans have, however, managed to suppress that sentiment in favor of racism, greed, violence & ego.
And that's what you see from Trump, ICE, tariffs & his military invasions of American cities.
Original post:

ICE Out of MN!
Solidarity Event
Saturday, December 20
11:30am – 2pm CST
East Lake Street & Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407
mobilize.us/indivisibletwincit

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-09-28 23:31:11

Ah yes, classic "important backstory" that turns out to be half-assed personal attacks against a OSS maintainer; meanwhile no syllable lost about a millionaire who is speedrunning racism.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-08 13:15:36

Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
publicnotice.co/p/trump-somali
memeorandum.com/251208/p23#a25

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-11-02 15:47:59

This piece from @… is especially good. None of the pieces should be entirely unfamiliar to anybody who’s been paying attention — racism, how power self-perpetuates, the past, the future, denial — but Larson brings the big picture into focus with unusual clarity.
🧵
damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/th

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-04 06:51:22

This is your reminder that Trump is a blatant racist. Here's yet another example on video.
#trump #racism

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-16 18:10:57

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sup
memeorandum.com/251016/p73#a25

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 13:36:54

It's good that this alliance, against the #POX of fascism and xenophobia has come together..But if all they are doing is planning a demo, in London, in March, it will be wasted effort.
New Together Alliance can help resist the growing forces of division and racism | Morning Star

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-11-05 03:51:32

Andy #Cuomo is a racist shit stain and his concession speech demonstrates his hypocrisy. No racism in #NYC unless he’s serving it I guess.

To hear JD Vance talk,
you’d think the only people who ever see a doctor in the U.S. are undocumented immigrants.
He insists that Democrats are refusing to support a Republican budget bill because
“they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
As Vance repeats the lie, the number gets bigger.
He’s even claimed that it’s a
“trillion dollars for medical benefits for illegal aliens.”
By the time you read …

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-12-16 12:30:40

Just finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-04 07:11:32

What everyone on Team Blue needs to learn, comprehend & accept.
#trump #maga #racism

@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-12-05 01:34:48

Note to #Target: no, I'm not getting glasses from you. I don't subsidize intolerance and racism. Keep on sending me envelopes if you will: it's pure waste of your money.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-04 14:30:51

A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)
thenation.com/article/politics
memeorandum.com/251204/p35#a25

The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-04 17:25:55

Reform deputy leader dismisses claims of Farage's past racism as new witnesses come forward (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/politics/2025/
memeorandum.com/251204/p61#a25

One thing to understand about US racism, is
anytime you leave something "up to the states,"
Black people are going to get cheated.
-- Mekka Okereke
c.im/@cdarwin/1156353224787465

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-03 22:01:30

Just finished "Look on the Bright Side" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Sequel to "Go With the Flow" about a group of highschool friends who become activists to get their school to stock free mensuration products. I really enjoyed the first book, and this one was also great, with some discussion of LGBTQI issues and a but more focus on romance. As with the first book, there's a layer of explicit pedagogical material included that makes summer scenes a but less natural, but that's fine and useful. As with the first book, it models making & growing past mistakes, which is great.
I find myself drawing a comparison to "Does my Body Offend You?" by Mayra Cuevas. Both deal with highschool friends doing feminist activism to change their schools, by where Cuevas deals more directly with topics like sex, sexual assault, and racism, Williams & Schneemann avoid those topics while still including a lot of the same friendship struggles.
#AmReading

Deplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed
-- it worked.
Elon's replatforming of all of these people
and allowing actual Nazis around
is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.
This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-12-04 17:03:37

The Quw’utsun (Cowichan) First Nation was exactly right in 2017:
""We don’t want to argue about settlers' interests versus First Nations' interests — we want to argue about what the Crown did wrong.””
They knew that if the case was framed as ‘taking over private property rights’, that it would be politicized and a lightning rod for racism and misinformation when that was not the point of their claim, which was against the Crown.
""It would be wrong. It’s wrong morally, it’s wrong legally. It’s pitting interests against each other when the person who caused the problem is the Crown.””
Another excellent report from CBC's Jason Proctor.
#FirstNations #Cowichan #PrivateProperty #Indigenous #RightsandTitle #Land