Kim Gould

get a load of how excited Trump is to see Putin

This is my new favourite video! 👀😍 #bluesky

Sandwich guy was such a risk they had 20 officers and held the ballistic shield upside down

Breakfast Wrap: Does Israel want to send Palestinians to South Sudan - ABC listen Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister has denied her government is in talks with South Sudan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza. The Breakfast Wrap hears directly from her shortly after her visit to Africa...

This Sally Sara interview on RN Breakfast today is very hard to listen to. When I heard it live this morning I was torn between ‘why on earth are we platforming this’ and ‘everyone needs to hear this’. Having listened again I’m with option B. Warning: It’s horrible. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Oh, but wait! Let him meet a new emotion, let him be faced with another man's need, let him come home to a bit of moral difficulty, let life face him with a new demand on his understanding and then watch him go soggy, like a wet meringue. Watch him turn into a mess, either a fool or a bully. Just watch the display of him, confronted with a new demand on his intelligence, a new life-demand. How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species-- Nicely groomed, like a mushroom standing there so sleek and erect and eyeable-- and like a fungus, living on the remains of a bygone life sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life than his own. And even so, he's stale, he's been there too long. Touch him, and you'll find he's all gone inside just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollow under a smooth skin and an upright appearance. Full of seething, wormy, hollow feelings rather nasty-- How beastly the bourgeois is! Standing in their thousands, these appearances, in damp England what a pity they can't all be kicked over like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly into the soil of England.

From "How Beastly The Bourgeois Is," D.H. Lawrence.

Performative fascism

A screen shot of a web form with the box "White" checked, requesting additional details, including boxes for English, German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scottish, and a box to enter "for example, French, Swedish, Norwegian, etc.).

Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)

I first saw him on Maddow I think. Then I followed him here

I’m an Australian who clearly follows the US situation way too closely. I know exactly who Pritzker is, and why he’d make a great president.

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."

Today's federal presence at Governor Newsom's press conference was a clear and brazen message designed to intimidate. The message was: *Regardless* of whether California redistricts to negate Texas gerrymandering, the federal government intends to use force to sway the next election in its favor.

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Founder of Aboriginal Legal Service remembered as 'giant among heroes' Paul Coe, a civil rights activist who helped found the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Tent Embassy, has been remembered as "a giant among heroes" for the Wiradjuri people.

Paul Coe, a civil rights activist who helped found the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Tent Embassy, has been remembered as "a giant among heroes" for the Wiradjuri people.

YouTube video by withMEAA Stop Killing Journalists

This is incredibly hard to watch, as it goes on and on.
Please do, watch it all. Hear their names.
Stop Killing Journalists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...

Thats my local cinema, David I wish I'd met you there!

Aug. 13, 1955: Lamar Smith Murdered Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging African Americans to vote.

#tdih 1955, Lamar Smith, farmer & WWI vet, shot dead by white men on daytime courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Miss., for helping African Americans access right to vote. #terrorism

Film ⬇️by @keithabeauchamp.bsky.social w/ @jelaniya.bsky.social, @jmitchellnews.bsky.social,
@benniethompson.bsky.social

Sudan war: Children dying of hunger in Darfur's el-Fasher city Parents are struggling to feed their children in war-hit Sudan's Darfur region.

BBC News - Sudan war: Children dying of hunger in Darfur's el-Fasher city - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Person in cap and gown. TShirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE

Dr. Yael Harrari receiving diploma at Tel Aviv University’s School of Medicine graduation.

Shirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE

It’s amazing that Washington DC can achieve its lowest crime rate in 30 years when 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is experiencing its highest crime rate in history.

Thanks for everything David - your lovely smile and wise advice.

One of the destabilizing things about this moment is how clear it is that the folks who are actively destroying democracy and public health while openly celebrating racist/fascist ideologies and embodying truly debased values seem to have absolutely no fear of any future reckoning.

when the right say 'crime' they mean 'the presence of groups of people we're bigoted against,' they don't care about the actual stats

As I noted, the media identifies extremism on the left more readily than on the right. The quote from the Times is telling: it notes that there are precedents--albeit going back decades--for Mandani's policies. But there is no modern precedent for Trumpist authoritarianism.
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Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.

US and Saudi Arabia try to stymie global plastics deal At least 234 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists are attending the discussions on reducing plastic waste – outnumbering countries represented.

'A global treaty to cut plastic production and pollution is hanging by a thread, as the United States teams up with “petrostates” including Saudi Arabia and Russia to weaken progress on international regulation.'

www.smh.com.au/environment/...

I don't know what's happening in this video?? But, i support it... 👀😅🤣 #bluesky