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.
Wow, this chart is wild!! Also, UK Ministers are dropping like flies, which means Starmer is going to be gone soon.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1e2n923v1lt
So a Palestinian facing genocide autocompletes a hashtag incorrectly by mistake (#doctor -> #doctorWho) and you jump down her throat?
How about you get some fucking perspective, Angela?
#Gaza …
For years, whenever I'd share links to my Wordpress posts on social media the preview image would be seemingly pulled at random, usually ignoring the first image. Finally fixed it yesterday by installing a plugin called "Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags", then checking the box that says,"First image from the post/page content" in the settings. I'm sure there are better ways to fix but it worked for me. Sharing in case anyone still blogs and has the same problem. #wordpress #blog #blogging https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/
In case you wonder what #theology is like in 2026 AD ... this is the final (!) slide of the lecture "The Fate of Religions if #Aliens Arrived" - #FermiParadoxon.
OHBOY! CHECK OUT THIS JUDGE'S SMACKDOWN OF A HOMELAND SECURITY AGENT!
This is a beautiful, beautiful smackdown of a Department of Homeland Security agent’s request for 5 search warrants in the case in which Don Lemon and colleagues were arrested for going into a church
(you remember that, right? From back in January?)
Keep in mind that the pastor of that church was also an ICE agent.
Following the arrests, Special Agent Timothy Gerber asked the Court to issue fiv…
Wenn du Kaffee in der Sonne trinkst und die Schokoladenkekse dazu miese Stimmung verbreiten *tia* ☀️☕🍫😅
#kaffee #schlechtelaune #schokolade