Tootfinder

Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.
It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.
That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.
Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".
Be kind to one another. 🧡

2026 RSF Index: press freedom at a 25-year low | RSF https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low

RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories; Norway holds the top spot (Reporters Without Borders)
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low…

🔓 Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet
#mexico

Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet
The Tor network is used by millions of users daily to securely access the internet, safeguard their right to information and freedom of expression, and avoid censorship or government surveillance.

While Starmer and the far right condone USAsrael
'Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Iranians "deserve to live free from a brutal regime", but Trump's "unilateral and illegal military action won't deliver freedom, peace and security".'
'Referencing reports that a strike had hit a girls' school and killed dozens, Green Party leader Zack Polanski said "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that…

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

Judge Aileen Cannon permanently bared DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report on Trump documents
Advocacy groups will likely try to consolidate all the issues into one appellate case.
So far, they’ve collectively raised 1st Amendment and common law right of access claims, as well as Freedom of Information Act-related claims.
@weareoversight.bsky.social

Someone tried to send this cartoon to me via Gmail, but it was blocked! So she sent it through protonmail. No freedom of speech at Gmail.

Sonnet 046 - XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all t…

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I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

"The OP is right!"

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