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politijohn · 2 days
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A complete disgrace for the residents of Flint
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mysharona1987 · 11 hours
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Community notes are fundamentally doing good for society.
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captain-casual · 2 days
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Damn, guess voters were too smart to fall for the ol’ “I’LL AIRDROP AID so i don’t have to stop giving israel weapons lol”
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brendanjharkin · 2 days
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Shamrocks for Palestine Ireland marches once again in solidarity with Palestine. As Irish politicians from the largest political parties travel to the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Joe Biden, protesters from across Northern Ireland gathered to march to the US Consulate in Belfast, calling for a White House boycott and an immediate ceasefire. When a Councillor from Sinn Féin took the stage she was subjected to intense booing from the crowd throughout her speech for the party's decision to go to the White House with the right wing political parties.
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workersolidarity · 3 days
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THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS HIT THE STREETS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE IN THE GAZA STRIP
📹 Scenes of thousands of protesters hitting the streets of San Francisco in the U.S. to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people under blockade, siege and bombardment in the Gaza Strip.
More than 31'553 Palestinian civilians have been killed as a result of Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, more than 25'000 of which are assessed to be women and children according to the United States Pentagon, with an additional 73'546 Palestinians wounded since the beginning of the current round of Israeli aggression beginning on October 7th, 2023.
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justsomeantifas · 2 days
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The US Senate posted a little outreach survey anyone can finish regarding issues ranging from the USA’s NATO membership, to a cease-fire in Palestine.
So if you’d like to fill this out to tell the senate your thoughts on Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians you can find that here:
But the thing that’s sending me is …
Remember when the biggest argument against communism for the past 20 or so years was that it didn’t work and there were no examples of it
And now congress is back out here like “Communism works and is a threat to US Capitalism Right Now.”
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The wording on this entire survey is actually so wild, but I digress. You’ll see it when you see it.
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cute-catts · 3 days
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troythecatfish · 1 day
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thenutoriouspbj · 23 hours
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The true map 💕
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totallynotcensorship · 23 hours
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tags update: US politics is 3rd on trending with tiktok ban trending under it
for context:
the US house of representatives passed a legislation on Wednesday last Wednesday and it is currently at the senate for being "a national security risk".
tiktok(while i don't like it my self for many reasons) has been useful to spread news of ongoing atrocities around the world and for driving donations for places like palestine, congo, sudan, ect. banning it constitutes an act of censorship. and while such a bill has been suggested for years now the hastiness of it's passing around the same time the site is flooded with content covering an on going genocide the US is complicit in is specious
while yes, tiktok does collect your data and is obligated to send it to the Chinese government if it ask. the data collected is equivalent to the data collected by american companies like meta or google. it is a matter of who you would rather your data be with, companies who will exploit it for profit that then will be used to fund this genocide or the chinese government(who aren't saints btw. the persecution of the uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in xinjiang is an ethnic cleansing in EVERTHING but name, and their acts of censorship are arguably even worse)
the best answer is neither. but "how to protect your data online" isn't the subject of this blog
DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE
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odinsblog · 3 days
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THIS WEEK, WASHINGTON’S top Israel lobby is rallying its supporters to go to Capitol Hill and falsely claim to lawmakers that people aren’t starving in Gaza and Israel isn’t blocking aid shipments, according to talking points obtained by the American Prospect.
Israel has led a brutal siege on Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis and kidnapped more than 200. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed, 2 million have been internally displaced, and hundreds of thousands are at imminent risk of famine, according to the United Nations.
The powerful lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is working to maintain support for Israel’s war, amid increased protests and public outcry. This week, AIPAC convened in Maryland for its annual policy conference, which it uses to marshal its donors and supporters to serve as a grassroots lobbying army in the halls of Congress.
The Prospect obtained a copy of AIPAC’s talking points for supporters heading to the Hill — and they are extreme, to say the least. The documents instruct supporters to claim that “reports that people are starving in Gaza are false,” and say that “Israel is not blocking the delivery of aid to Gaza.”
The AIPAC talking points additionally claim that Hamas wants people to believe Gazans are starving in order to “exert pressure” on Israel, and argues the “United States must not fall into Hamas’ trap.”
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These claims from AIPAC are false. Gazans are starving on a massive, unprecedented scale. According to the United Nations, 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza — almost the entire population of the region — are facing “crisis or worse levels of food insecurity.” Half a million of those included in that figure face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) — a leading food security analysis and advocacy group — classifies the Gaza Strip as being in Phase 4 “Emergency” status food insecurity, with a high risk of imminent famine conditions.
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phoenixyfriend · 2 days
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I feel like I need to look at a lot more analyses of the recent Chuck Schumer speech.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., strongly criticized Netanyahu in a 40-minute speech Thursday morning on the Senate floor. Schumer said the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists and “as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.” “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” Schumer said. The high-level warning comes as an increasing number of Democrats have pushed back against Israel and as President Joe Biden has stepped up public pressure on Netanyahu’s government [...]. Schumer has so far positioned himself as a strong ally of the Israeli government [...].
There are... I want to say four? possible interpretations, generally:
A moral shift in response to circumstance: The situation in Gaza has escalated to such a point that he feels morally obligated to change his rhetoric, whether for Palestinians' sakes or Israeli's own sakes.
A moral shift in response to persuasion: Fellow Democrats and Independents have successfully begun to convince him that a change in rhetoric is needed.
A pragmatic shift in response to constituents: Voters from New York State have been blowing up his phones to argue him into putting conditions on aid to Israel, and he felt this was a good 'middle ground' to appeal to them without losing his pro-Israeli base.
A pragmatic shift in response to national trends: Continued protest votes like Michigan are starting to worry him and fellow 'traditional' Dems.
Or, most likely, some combination thereof.
Ethically, I hope it's one of the first two, and the Schumer has realized how ethically barren Israel's government currently is.
...in terms of 'can we actually affect things,' though? I hope this is a pragmatic shift. We cannot predict how individual Senators will change up their morals and philosophy, but if this change is in response to pressure from voters, then that means we can push them farther left.
Anyway.
Call your reps. Here's some suggestions on what to say.
EDIT: To clarify, I am not saying that Schumer is concerned about his own reelection. He is old and he isn't up for reelection until 2029, so it's even odds if he'll even run again. However, as the Senate Majority Leader, he is at least in theory required to take his party's opinions into account, and to worry about what is going to happen to the executive branch in November. Whether or not Schumer has any real power come 2025 is very heavily dependent on who the president is, and he is very aware of that.
He may also be worried about his actions causing backlash against Gillibrand (NY's junior senator).
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captain-casual · 2 days
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finalgirlfall · 2 days
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Neoliberalism denies society's power to shape human subjectivities, instead imagining a free-willed, autonomous individual unaffected by material circumstance. It also decontextualizes and dehistoricizes human agents and their objects, in effect de-culturing the world in a way that allows commodities (and, according to Olivier Roy, religions) to be sold and consumed transnationally by diverse individuals in sundry places. At its core, then, it depends upon a fancifully imagined human subject that is completely unfettered by its history and social locations. Neoliberalism, write the anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff, "re-visions persons not as producers from a particular community, but as consumers in a planetary marketplace: persons as ensembles of identity that owe less to history or society than to organically conceived qualities."
Sean McCloud, "Haunting Desires: Agency in an Era of Possessions," in American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015), 107.
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TERF has become so synonymous with bad person (which is true btw, not claiming it isn't) that people stopped thinking critically about what TERF actually means. Like I just blocked a blog that had TERFs and lesbian men in their DNI. You are still vulnerable for falling into TERF thinking if you keep a strict binary thinking about sexuality and can't imagine multigender people IDing in contractionary ways or trans people having a different relationship with sexuality than you think they should have based on their gender. Just saying TERFs DNI does not make you immune for their thinking or automatically right about your opinions about trans people. Yes, TERFs are bad people, but people have to start thinking critically about what it means to be a TERF...
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