#Govs

[gkingmusik]

Subsidy removal: 36 govs given 7-day ultimatum to disclose details on spending of N2bn palliative Written by Kelechi Ofor

#govs #palliative

[moonfrosttheelf]

[OUTDATED INFO] Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.

UPDATE: This information is outdated. There have been some revelations regarding the situation, please watch this video for the update. I would also like to remind everyone that I did not and do not intend to mislead -- I made this post with only Jones' tweets to go off of three hours after the incident.

Outdated/original info under the line

-------------------------------------------------------

Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.

Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”

They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.

These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.

Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried -- it’s already happening.

#politics #political #important #important post #please reblog #rebekah jones #jack jones #gov. ron desantis #ron desantis #desantis #florida #activism #activist

[radlymona]

GREECE LEGALISED SAME SEX MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

#I genuinely didn’t believe it would happen so soon after the gov started discussing it #I’m - #🥹🥹🥹 #this is such a good shock I’m soooo happy #Greece

[khizuo]

the whole thing about israeli settler "leftists" not being truly "left" due to them upholding their illegitimate settler state is also true for usamerican "leftists" who don't fight for the full decolonization of turtle island btw

#like the settler socialists who just want to replace our illegitimate settler gov with a socialist one #btw i am a settler myself. #my text #decolonization #settler colonialism

[palipunk]

I want to know what universe some of you are living in

#this is the same ‘nobody hates the us military more than veterans’ shit with a different font #like I guarantee you Palestinians hate the Israeli gov more than the people who have benefited off our oppression #just saying #palestine

[reiverreturns]

probably a good thing i don’t live in london because i might be inclined to hunt this man down and kill him with my bare hands xox

#i am so sick of this island lmao #PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO EAT OR HEAT THEIR HOMES #CAN'T AFFORD TO PUT SHOES ON THEIR CHILDREN'S FEET #'we all have to do our bit' while our gov passes multmillion £ contracts to their rich pals #ruining our public services while someone lines their pockets #large corporations consistently dodging tax and getting away with it #this IS the bad place honestly #fuck the tories

[shmreduplication]

Do Americans even know that the Israeli government is extremely right wing and essentially hijacked by an ultra-religious group who's a minority of the population that hates Muslims and Arabs, or are they too excited to stop suppressing their antisemitism that literally anything they disagree with that Israel does they just go "it's a Jew thing to be doing this" instead of "it's an 'extremely right wing government that has essentially been hijacked by an ultra-religious group who's a minority of the population and hates Muslims and Arabs' thing" ?

Because seeing some people say they're never voting for Biden again when the alternative is an American version of an extremely right wing government that has essentially been hijacked by an ultra-religious group who's a minority of the population and hates Muslims and Arabs tells me that Americans don't know. Also, you know, everything else about everything else tells me that too

#i/p #jumblr #trying hard not to post/reblog about the whole thing but like. #do Americans know that the Israeli gov is extremely right-wing? you should know this. it's important that you know this

[dawnbreakersgaze]

The fact that Dr Zayne is saving people who want to live

And Dawnbreaker Zayne is mercy killing people who want to die

And both are obsessed/disturbed with each other across space and time

Really has me fucked up in a lot of ways and I'm not okay about any of this

#play love and deepspace they said itll be fun they said #love and deepspace #lads #l&ds #love & deepspace #zayne #zayne love and deepspace #li shen #its about dating cute 3d men and also some combat #BITCHES LIED #ITS ABOUT DEPRESSION #LOVE AND DEEP DEPRESSION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME #fuck.. #😭😭😭😭😭 #also imma need yall to quit calling poor dawnbreaker a serial killer that poor man is just trying to help people the only way he can #which is more than their gov or whatever is doing #.... double fuck i hate this god damned game 😭😭

[petitesmafia]

random thought but just picturing the silence after the Meursault prison break finally ended…Chuuya and Dazai just standing there like so. is someone gonna come pick us up or

Dazai: squat down Chuuya: why Dazai: I’m tired lemme get on your back Chuuya: ??? I’m tired too Dazai: my frail legs…and oh! a headache…I feel faint…I wonder whose fault that is… Chuuya: be so fucking fr

Chuuya, yawning: I’m gonna fly first class back I need to sleep Dazai: hey Chuuya: you don’t have your passport with you bc your ass was in jail LOOOL Dazai: hey Chuuya… Chuuya: oh so now it’s “Chuuya” and not “dumbass” huh Dazai: I was just kidding…you booked first class for me too right…hey…

Chuuya: book your own fucking flight or ask doc glasses Dazai: I don’t have any money Chuuya: tbh when do you ever have money Dazai: Ango always puts me in economy Dazai: Chuuya…you and I are destined to take this journey home together Chuuya: can you let that go

#ena.hc #enarchive: skk #bsd #post meursault #soukoku #Ango said sorry the gov budget only allows for economy #we got city wide repairs that are gonna cost bank

[fire-bay]

Doodles of the guy

#firebay #my art #oc #gov #god of vitality #original character

[queencaramilflinda]

I hope Kipperlily Copperkettle isn’t actually evil or the big bad or anything, instead I want her to just be annoying as fuck and get in the way of everything the Bad Kids do. Just like my actual high school experience.

#kipperlily is a 1:1 of an actual person I went to high school with #who was on student gov and would eavesdrop on me and try to get dirt on me #she was soooo pissed when I got the part she wanted in the school play #she wasn’t evil just a bitch #cienna talks #fantasy high #fhjy

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

Noah Schnapp is more powerful than the United States government

#how hilarious is it that suez canal is also trending under the second one #what an insane day #learned two wildly different pieces of information this morning #noah schnapp #us politics #speaker of the house #kevin mccarthy #as refreshing as it is to see someone ELSE's gov fall apart for a change and as funny as all the memes are #genuinely sorry to all the non-republican americans on here cause like this ain't lookin good #stranger things

[littleforestbat]

did about three double takes until my brain comprehended that YES that is disco elysium fanart being used by a seaside town in victoria for their inclusivity forum.

#LITERALLY just as im typing this up i walked by another one #does . does any disco elysium fanartist recognise rhis art and 1) was it stolen or 2) did you submit this to apollo bays local gov. #because if two. more power to you. if one uhhhhh email? maybe? i dont know theyre not profiting off it sjdjfkfl #.txt #disco elysium

[gamora-borealis]

"the fbi is going to take my phone away" "the fbi agent assigned to read our texts checked out a long time ago" dan and phil you live in london why is the united states fbi spying on you

#to be fair the us gov has wayyy to much power and surveillance at home and abroad #and they are like... international influencers... #dan and phil #dnp #also it's just funny that this is like a joke too with people who aren't usamerican

[hedgehog-moss]

Update on May 1st protests and how the french goverment handled them?

^ The May 1st protests were pretty violent esp. in Paris; two cops were set on fire (they're ok, one has 2nd degree burns), lots of destruction in city streets, and hundreds of injured protesters. The French gov is sticking to its M.O. of denying any police violence against protesters, emphasising protesters' violence and portraying it as mindless anti-democratic savagery rather than the result of their own anti-democratic policies.

There were more people protesting in the streets on Monday than at any other May Day protest in the past 20 years (by a large margin—7 to 10x more people than usual.) And the numbers are still impressive in terms of this current social movement—there were about 1.2 million people at the first protest against the pension reform in January, 900K at one of the February protests, around 1.1M on March 7 and I think 1.2M on March 23rd... We're in May and there were 800K people in the streets on Monday (using the police's probably low estimate). The first marches earlier this year were peaceful; people started destroying shit in March after the 49.3 (=the gov not letting elected representatives vote on the reform); in the following weeks we saw a brutal escalation of police violence + suppression of just about any means of non-violent protest, which results in more violence.

The vast majority of protesters are still peaceful, but in terms of providing context for the increased violence, well—people protested peacefully, peaceful protests got banned. People banged pots and pans, pots and pans got banned and confiscated. People started a petition on the National Assembly website which got a record number of signatures, the petition was closed before its deadline and ignored. MPs asked (twice!) for a national referendum on the reform to be held, their requests were denied. Electricity unionists cut power in buildings Macron was visiting, now he travels around with a portable generator. Unions tried to distribute whistles and red cards (penalty cards) to football supporters before the French Cup finale last week, so the ones who wanted could use them if Macron showed up (he ended up hiding and greeting the footballers indoors rather than publicly on the stadium lawn); the police prefecture tried banning union members from gathering outside the stadium to distribute these items (although the ban was struck down by the judiciary as it was illegal, like most bans these days...)

Confiscating saucepans was already so absurd it felt like a gratuitous fuck you, but now they're trying to prevent the distribution of pieces of red paper. Cancelling petitions that would have had no real impact anyway. Prosecuting people for insulting Macron. Arbitrarily arresting hundreds of nonviolent protesters to intimidate them out of protesting (guess who's left then?). The French gov is systematically repressing democratic or nonviolent means of making your opinion heard, and when people get more violent they're like "This is unacceptable, don't these terrorists know there are other means of expressing dissent??" Where? This week a 77-year-old man was summoned to the police station and will be forced to take a "citizenship course" for having a banner outside his house that read "Macron fuck you" (Macron on t'emmerde). Note that he would have been arrested (like the woman who was arrested at her home and spent a night in police custody for calling Macron "garbage" on Facebook) but they decided not to only because of his age.

So that's where we're at; on Monday two cops caught on fire (well, their fireproof suit did) after protesters threw a Molotov cocktail at them. (The street medic who tried to help them with their burns ended up getting shot by a cop's riot gun a few seconds later—with French police no good deed goes unpunished!) The media talked a lot more about this incident than about the fact that the cop who got most severely injured on that day (broken vertebrae) was injured by an explosive grenade that a colleague of his meant to throw at protesters (you can see it at the end of the video below). If police with all their protective gear get so badly injured by their own weapons, no wonder the worst injuries have been on the protesters' side. (nearly 600 injured protesters on May 1st, 120 severely, according to street medics.) I'm not including images of these incidents in the video but on May 1st a protester had his hand mutilated by a police grenade + a 17 year old girl was hit in the eye by a grenade fragment, may end up losing it (during the Yellow Vests protests, Macron's first attempt at repressing a social movement, 38 protesters lost an eye or a hand).

What you see in the video: cops charging the front of a march to tear a banner off people's hands then retreating and drowning the street in tear gas when protesters throw paint bombs at them (protesters have umbrellas because of police drones); at 0:30, a journalist saying "They're not even arresting him, just kicking him when he's down—they kicked him right in the face!" then police spraying with tear gas protesters who try to fend them off; at 0:46 when a protester being arrested asks a journalist if he's filming and starts reading out loud a cop's ID number, another cop shoves the journalist and throws him to the ground; at 0:54, an Irish journalist runs away from the police tear gas grenades that you hear going off, at 01:08, the incident mentioned above when a cop drops a grenade he tried to throw, which explodes in his group, breaking another cop's vertebrae. There's a lot more I'm not including, like how CNN said "there's so much tear gas in Paris, our foreign correspondent can barely breathe", how another journalist was hit by a sting-ball grenade (he was also bludgeoned on the head so hard it broke his helmet—even though cops know the people wearing helmets are journalists...), and yet another journalist who was calling out a cop for aiming at people's heads with his riot gun (which is illegal) ended up having the guy aim the riot gun at his head from 2 metres away (getting shot with this "less lethal weapon" from that distance would be lethal.)

All of these videos are from May 1st (most of them from this account monitoring police violence.)

So yeah, nonviolent protests followed by violent police repression and bans of nonviolent means of protesting result in more violent protests. The French government responds by a) pikachu surpris, b) condemning violent protesters and praising violent police to the skies, c) continuing to ban everything they can think of. Confiscating saucepans didn't work but confiscating pieces of red paper will do the trick! Let's prosecute people for bashing or burning an effigy of Macron, because banning symbolic violence always works to prevent actual violence! And this week after the May 1st protests we learnt that the gov is thinking of making street barricades illegal, because that'll definitely solve everything. It's going to be interesting for history teachers to teach students about the 1789 revolution that allowed us to take down an absolutist regime and become a republic, under a government that banned barricades because they see them as terrorist anti-republican structures.

^ Statue symbolising the French Republic (on Place de la République in Paris) dressed with a 'Macron resign' shirt by protesters on May 1st.

#ask #frpol #left-wing MPs this week asked to hold a debate in the Assembly about the repression of this social movement #the Minister of the Interior (in charge of police) didn't come but sent his delegate instead #the delegate refused to admit to any problem with law enforcement and at some point walked out as a MP was asking a question #this happened 1 day after the UN Human Rights Council condemned the French gov's violent & racist law enforcement #god there's so much infuriating shit happening every single day

[stil-lindigo]

ABC News in Australia covers the story of how community groups all over the country are coming together as a community to provide for returning Gazan families.

El Rahman Inc. stands at the forefront of this community effort in Naarm/Melbourne, and on the organisation’s Instagram page, regularly posts updates on what supplies are currently needed. It accepts monetary and supply donations at drop off points (which are currently closed until the 28th Dec).

The PCIA has also been instrumental in organising resources for returning Palestinian families. For more widespread support not limited to Melbourne, please consider donating to the Arab Council of Australia, another independent non-profit which has a long history of supporting their community. They are based in New South Wales, which is home to Australia's largest population of Arabic-speaking Australians.

--

ABC's news report also highlights that between October 7 and November 20, Home Affairs granted 860 visas to Palestinians, including those seeking to depart Gaza. However, what they fail to give proper attention to is the fact that Israel has been preventing Palestinians from leaving.

[ link ]

Of the around 860 visas distributed, only 143 Palestinians have managed to successfully arrive in Australia, with the number of new names being added to 'the list' falling to a pathetic degree. To understand the grave conditions of Palestinians awaiting safe passage, this is a great article to read. And although politicians like Penny Wong insist they are doing everything in their power to help Palestine in this time, Australia still shamefully stands by its strongest ally, the US, and actively provides military surveillance of the Gaza Strip to Israeli sources through Pine Gap, a military base in Alice Springs.

In this time, it is imperative to maintain pressure on the Australian government. Protest and vocal pro-Palestine movement is the only thing that caused Australia to eventually vote for a ceasefire in the recent UN resolution, after their cowardly performance earlier. Resources like vic_socialists on Instagram, regardless of where you may stand on their performance as a party itself, has been outstanding in organising regular protest movements across all of Victoria. APAN also maintains a list of pro-Palestine events all around Australia on their website, although I'm not sure at this point if it's exhaustive.

#australia also abstained from the new naval coalition the US has sent into the red sea #which is truly the barest of bare minimums but i'm trying to see it as a good sign of our gov reevaluating our relationship with israel #i hold onto the good i see organisations like el rahman do with clenched hands #there are so many good people in the world. its a shame none of them are in positions of power. #australia #palestine #free palestine #call to action #long post #this information is also unfortunately a bit outdated. my apologies #i thought it was better to share late than never though