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And yet, they’re not even talking about stopping a genocide or stopping their complicity. But still feel fit to make this conditional. Palestinians have endured nearly two years of blockade, military assault in on top of the violence and oppression since 1948. And this is the govt’s move?

30.07.2025 22:28 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

The urgency to stop complicity in a genocide should be unconditional. The urgency to stop genocide should be unconditional.

30.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 49    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

It’s intellectually insulting on top of being morally insulting to treat the public like fools who don’t see this for what it is, in service of a genocide.

30.07.2025 22:22 — 👍 41    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The correct course of action is to abide by international law, stop selling arms to Israel, use economic and geopolitical mechanisms to put pressure on this occupying power to in order to stop the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

30.07.2025 22:21 — 👍 79    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

There’s so much to be said about how cynical, how bloviating, how utterly beyond the pale this is, but the thing coming up for me most is the audacity to put such conditions on a symbolic gesture that actually does nothing to address the immediate mass starvation and genocide of an entire people.

30.07.2025 22:18 — 👍 268    🔁 99    💬 7    📌 3

Horning In Satirical politics is a family affair for this second-gen Rhino, but does politics still have room for humour?

I wrote this for Maisonneuve two years ago but a lot of it still feels relevant—on the Rhino Party, electoral reform, satire in politics, voter burnout, the @longestballot.bsky.social initiative, and my wonderful weirdo dad:

maisonneuve.org/article/2023...

16.04.2025 19:55 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages. “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

The acting director of ICE told the Border Security Expo that his dream is to make the deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

He added, “We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

The depravity of these folks knows no bounds.

t.co/sF7TqcqfF8

09.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 480    🔁 198    💬 34    📌 92

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today.

Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

06.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 1558    🔁 429    💬 32    📌 29

“We were told that because other Palestinians were beaten up in the settler attack, it could be considered unrelated to the film, so they felt no need to respond.”

abhorrent.

27.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

18.03.2025 08:58 — 👍 790    🔁 289    💬 29    📌 22

a small step, but long overdue and deeply necessary. all kudos to the Aamjiwnaang residents and leaders who have fought for acknowledgement of these issues through years—decades—of spills, leaks, and states of emergency.

12.02.2025 15:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0