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Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
I just think the UK’s ‘trust me bro’ approach to legal positivism is much more sketchy at a time when far-right actors are getting dodgy international bungs which no one seems to know how to address or resolve at the same time civil disobedients are being arrested and charged as terrorists. YMMV.
Zweitens: "mehr Sicherheit bedeutet weniger Gewalt". Diese Idee verkennt die Realität der Sicherheitsapparate in denen wir leben. Gewalt geht häufig von Behörden aus. Nicht nur die Polizei, die Protestierende verprügelt. Behörden die trans Personen "begutachten", queere Geflüchtete abschieben.
In fast allen Beiträgen wird so argumentiert als ginge queerfeindliche Gewalt nur von Extremisten aus. Die Realität queerer Menschen ist eine andere. Gewalt ist leider eine Alltäglichkeit. Sie ist tiefsitzender Teil unserer Demokratien. Viel Gewalt geht dabei vom Staat aus. bsky.app/profile/tabo...
Tarik Abou-ChadiBeing queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
Die Sicherheitsdebatte nach dem Angriff auf den CSD, die weit über AfD und Union hinausreicht, macht zwei fundamental falsche Annahmen über Sicherheit und Gewalt. Sie sind generell falsch, aber besonders für queere Menschen. Erstens: "Gewalt geht von Extremisten aus, der Staat schützt vor Gewalt"
Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
ashley 🌹trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
I mostly just find this odd as a rhetorical strategy because it seems fairly obvious to me that, however bad I am persuaded that "hypocritically ignore genocides B and C" is as a politics, "consistently ignore genocides A B and C" is straightforwardly more dogshit
Christopher WebbJust wondering, where all the “say it’s a genocide” folks have been when it comes to Sudan and Myanmar?
as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden
Hemant MehtaEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
Auch ohne die drohenden Wahlsiege der AfD stünde es einer Demokratie gut zu Gesicht, solcherlei darauf zu prüfen, was es in den Händen derer ermöglicht, denen man das schlimmste zutraut.
Tagesschau Bot"Präventivhaft für Gefährder zwingend notwendig" #Dobrindt #CSD #Anschlag
The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal finds Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal findsExclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on warwww.theguardian.com
Colby like many other American leaders and analysts is fundamentally Cakeist in assuming that the United States can sustain the same level of authority it had in Europe during the Cold War while contributing far less to European security
Ulrike FrankeUS undersecretary of defence Colby announces that the US forces’ “Europe Posture Review” has begun. This is about creating a “NATO 3.0”, aka NATO with less US.
Sources within the universities say the refusal rate this year is in marked contrast to last year, when more than 80 Gazan students left Gaza in an evacuation organised by the Irish Government.
Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan studentsConcern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.www.rte.ie
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
The Examiner have edited the copy to Saoradh, but haven't added any note to say they initially got this (so badly) wrong. stealth edits like this are wrong, if you fuck up you have to acknowledge it
Tony - Pod Guy - GrovesSo Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.www.ms.now
Donald Trump could personally nuke every oil well in the world and oil traders would be like "masterful gambit sir, surely this will restore supply in roughly 5-10 business days"
