@cdarwin@c.imTo 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.socialJust 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
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis 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.
🧵
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/the-gops-new-new-jim-crow/
@hex@kolektiva.socialWhat 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
@nitpicking@mstdn.party"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.
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialPanorama: 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.
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.socialManche 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.
@lilmikesf@c.imThe 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
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAh 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.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialIf you're truly principled about rejecting #racism, #fascism, #extremism (or at least not monetizing it), it sure seems weird to still be using
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialDer 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.
@johl@mastodon.xyzYou know what was released on the #InternetArchive yesterday?
Johannes Grenzfurthner‘s documentary movie “Hacking at Leaves” about US history and the racism that built it, the Navajo Nation, hackerspaces and hacker culture, COVID-19, and much more.
It’s now free to watch, share, and talk about!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterYep, this is what I have been saying. The way to defeat the flag-shaggers is not to spend hours ripping down the flags or getting court injunctions.
Reclaim the symbolism, strip it of its power to cause hate and racism.
BBC news article: a mosque / Muslim community centre in Wirral found a Union Jack tied to their railings. So they removed it .. and hung it up again in their window with a sign saying they're proud to be British Muslims.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7yqez74ylo
@davej@dice.campThis isn’t rocket science: March for Australia are terrorists and should be treated as such. Ask your quisling MP what they’re doing to keep our streets safe for ALL Australians. #auspol https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115114
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-racism-cities-dc-takeover-baltimore
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p22#a250823p22
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL to continue end zone social justice slogans including 'End Racism' in upcoming season: Report https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6554825/2025/08/14/nfl-end-zone-slogans-social-justice-end-racism/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsPolitics, racism
When another person decides to use the genocide of Moscow or Israel to justify racism, you should really ask them if they also want to be judged by the politicians from their country. Especially if these politicians were actually selected in free elections.
It's easy to be a smartass. Yet I know that if I lived in totalitarian regime, I doubt I'd be brave enough to speak up publicly.
#politics #racism
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@servelan@newsie.socialTrey Reed’s Death—and Its Swift Labeling as Suicide—Demands the Scrutiny Ida B. Wells Called For - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/10/21/trey-reed-lynching-suicide-black-racism/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL teams will again stencil messages in the end zone, including 'End Racism' and 'Choose Love' https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-teams-will-again-stencil-messages-in-the-end-zone-including-e…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialHarvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension
In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly. In a blistering resignation letter, Rashid accused Harvard of enabling anti-Muslim bias by failing
@rachel@norfolk.socialI can't quite decide if this article is Wes Streeting simply taking the absolute piss or finally realising he fucked up and now might be thinking of walking back somewhat.
Either way, he was part of causing all this hatred.
#ukpolitics #trans
@cdarwin@c.imDeplatforming 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.
https://…
@gwire@mastodon.socialDeploying an AI-curated encyclopaedia, turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI 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
@joxean@mastodon.socialThe usual racism in Israeli press in Hebrew today is magnitudes worse than usual.
@anneroth@systemli.socialDie Konsequenz müsste sein, neue (Informations-)Technologien bei der Einführung viel stärker zu kontrollieren und Konsequenzen für die Gesellschaft zu prüfen, statt jeden neuen Schritt zu bejubeln.
Die Bundesregierung will das Gegenteil: Noch mehr Freiheiten ('Bürokratieabbau') für 'Innovationen'. Politik für Unternehmen, nicht fürs Gemeinwohl.
Shock Report: Meta’s AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold ‘Sensual’ Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialOn 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. . https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/201664/vivek-ramaswamy-turning-point-racism-ohio
@steve@s.yelvington.comI don't want to hear another word from the "they should have come here legally" crowd after Trump moved to extort $100,000 from H-1B visa applicants.
Your racism is showing.
@ErikUden@mastodon.dedue to the crackdown of any leftist discourse surrounding charlie kirk's assassination, bringing into context his own statements, viewpoints, and what they had to do with his demise, huge social media accounts are being banned on twitter, instagram, and bluesky.
for a friend of mine who's running “punkwithacamera” on Instagram, this also meant having the identity and address of doxxed, to the degree where even a member of the house of representatives of the united states of ame…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSurprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/201664/vivek-ramaswamy-turning-point-racism-ohio
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p146#a251010p146
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 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
@servelan@newsie.socialAmericans believe anti-Black racism is widespread, poll
https://chicagocrusader.com/americans-believe-anti-black-racism-is-widespread-poll/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itMore local cops arresting federal agents please? https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3m3ftrslvk22k
(PS still true that ACAB)
@seav@en.osm.townNot surprised at all.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialyes, 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
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgCurrently making my way through this podcast, S4, which is all about how the USA was founded, and how its supposed ideals have played out since then.
It strikes me that the root problem, before the genocide, the slavery, the exploitation and racism, is oligarchy.
#history #AmericanHistory
@yaya@jorts.horsejust got called fucking Lanthe by the doordash guy
he had a southern accent so I'm gonna chalk this one up to racism
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialI'm reading "Drystone - A life rebuilt" by the marvelous @…
It's tough. It's brilliant and intimate. It's embarrassing as a man and as society when she writes brutally honest about abuse and racism and sexism and many other atrocities.
She's got an incredible talent to put in words what she has endured.
@UP8@mastodon.socialWalking back to our car from the car show at Little York Lake we saw this couple holding hands with shirts reflecting a positive Christianity
#photo #photography #religion
@markhburton@mstdn.socialStand Up to Racism warned that members and former members of the nazi terror group Combat 18 and the neonazi party Homeland have been organising or attending many of the protests.
‘This is a dangerous moment’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dangerous-momen…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caQuietly gathered some fire starter from the counter of a local restaurant.
#misinformation #disinformation #racism #antiimmigration #vaccines #rightwingextremism
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialHarvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly. In a blistering resignation letter, Rashid accused Harvard of enabling anti-Muslim bias by failing to respond to “racist” and “false” statements against RPL by Harvard affiliates.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI remember like 10 years ago when fascism and racism were seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”
@markhburton@mstdn.socialUK police forces are advised (by the "Police Chiefs' Council') to reveal ethnicity of people charged with serious offences.
So the xenophobic mob can riot if they aren't white. The police chiefs appear to have forgotten that the accused is innocent until found guilty.
Lives will be ruined and lost.
#racism
@servelan@newsie.social"The Radical Left Stole My Teeth." A Sermon on How Racism Can’t Find a Mirror
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/the-radical-left-stole-my-teeth-a
@cdarwin@c.imCurtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women (Anna Gifty/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-lisa-cook-racism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p10#a250906p10
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialVia @…
Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
N. K. Jemisin.
Incredibly powerful writing and writes science fiction and fantasy that I actually enjoy reading after getting disillusioned with the Tolkein lineage for its deep racism & colonialism. Her Stone Sky series is wildly creative in terms of world building, had an excellent epic plot to rival any of the other greats you could name, has complex and compelling characters, and a satisfying conclusion. She's won the right awards, and I hope that that translates into a lineage of people building in her ideas as rich as Tolkien's.
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated again to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am double up on my donations to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
https://www.splcenter.org/
We still have so much racism injustice for the …
@chiraag@mastodon.online @maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialwell, that escalated quickly ...
https://www.threads.com/@chosennj/post/DOYmfZZkfd5
@cdarwin@c.imMore #nokings slogans
Stop pretending your racism is patriotism
https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmedia.org/post/3m3ids76r7s2n
@markhburton@mstdn.social'MONDAY’S High Court decision, that asylum-seekers must be removed from the Bell Hotel in Epping, has been correctly described by Stand Up to Racism co-convener Sabby Dhalu as a “terrible concession to racist protests organised by fascists.”'
The far right has now won a significant victory against asylum-seekers | Morning Star
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIn Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-section-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p73#a251016p73
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialAmazing - no #shame, no sense of #embarrassment - this is #ReligiousBigotry and #Racism bearing fruit, dehu…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialAmazing - no #shame, no sense of #embarrassment - this is #ReligiousBigotry and #Racism bearing fruit, dehu…
@servelan@newsie.social'Martyred mascot of racism': Writer tears into 'canonization' of Charlie Kirk - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk-2673990166/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 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
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caToday 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
@cdarwin@c.imKavanaugh began by accepting the government’s claim that one in 10 residents of LA is an undocumented immigrant.
There is no citation for this figure, and there’s some evidence that it’s wildly inaccurate.
But it undergirds Kavanaugh’s entire legal theory, so he wasn’t about to factcheck it!
“Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers,
US immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area,”
he went on, noting
“t…
@servelan@newsie.socialBrett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kavanaugh-ice-racial-profiling
@cdarwin@c.imIn Washington D.C. the National Guard arrived at their headquarters Tuesday
-- For many residents, the prospect of federal troops surging into neighborhoods represented an alarming violation of local agency.
It echoes uncomfortable historical chapters when politicians used racism to paint historically or predominantly Black cities and neighborhoods with bigoted narratives to shape public opinion and justify aggressive police action.
@servelan@newsie.socialThe comments point to the racism Substack supports and recommend against it. 👍
Substack Offers Craft Businesses More Than Just a Newsletter - Craft Industry Alliance
https://craftindustryalliance.org/substack-offers-craft-businesses-more-than-just-a-newsletter/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialMass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz== message/quote continues ==
Here's the list of the stalls that the Green Festival have been forced to cancel under pressure from the Insurers
Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Amnesty International
Bahš’ís of Nottingham
CND, Nottingham / Stop the War Coalition
Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Nottm
Friends of the Earth, Nottingham
Global Justice Nottingham
Greenpeace, Nottingham Support Group
Keep our NHS Public (KONP)
Make Votes Matter
New Lucas Plan /Just Space
Nottingham Anti Capitalist Resistance
Nottingham Climate Assembly
Nottingham Friends of Standing Together
Nottingham Green Party
Nottingham Labour Group
Nottingham Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group
Nottingham Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
Nottingham Stand Up to Racism
Nottingham Unite Community
Nottinghamshire Trades Council (TUC)
Open Homes
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
People for Palestine
Refugee Forum, Nottm & Notts
Socialist Party, Nottm
Soka Gakkai - Nottingham (SGI-UK)
XR Extinction Rebellion
== end of message / end of quote ==
I must say, I feel very unimpressed by this behaviour from the insurers. Is it not obvious from the start that something called a Green Fest is going to be "political"??!! eleventy!
#Nottingham #GreenFest #environment #UKPol #insurance
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIsrael is the absolute worst kind of colonialism. (not that there is a good kind)
Literally masked bandits running people (Palestinians) off their land with the IDF providing cover
#Israel #Palestine #Colonialism #Imperialism #Racism
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo
@servelan@newsie.socialBrawls, racism and cocaine: Lawsuit reveals life inside Tesla plant where Musk was directly involved with HR decisions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-lawsuit-elon-musk-california-b2804549.html
@servelan@newsie.socialTypical, given LAPD's history of racism.
L.A.P.D. Stops Security Services for Kamala Harris - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/lapd-kamala-harris-security.html
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Decelerate Blue" written by Adam Rapp and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro. It's a dystopian graphic novel that I found... not that great. Maybe the best thing about it was the world-building around the propaganda language everyone is forced to speak, but overall I found the plot construction and characters to be underwhelming.
Despite being a book about resistance to fascist oppression, it doesn't meaningfully engage with any major axes of oppression like patriarchy, racism, capitalism, or colonialism, and it doesn't offer an interesting lessons on how to conduct resistance or what long-term outcomes one might hope for.
First graphic novel I've checked out in a while that I didn't really like that much.
#AmReading
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Punk Rock Karaoke" by Bianca Xunise. It's a really cool graphic novel about a high school punk band's journey as they graduate and try to juggle shifting responsibilities. It's #OwnVoices with a Black queer protagonist and has a relentless optimism and no-nonsense vibe, plus great facts about racism in music history, and probably if you are into punk music, a cool discography woven throughout (I hasn't rally heard of any of the songs mentioned to set the mood, but then again I'm not exactly a punk aficionado).
#AmReading #Punk
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIf you had any doubts about
a) how perfectly in sync Charlie Kirk's and the US Administration's hate rhetoric is.
b) how important the 'youth' demographic is to the US Administration/GOP's long term plan.
this should dispel them.
#Trump #GOP #Racism #RightWing #CharlieKirk #AntiTrans #Hate
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckge487nr6ro
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialUspol
"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSpeculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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