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he/him. oxford grad student researching anti-colonial solidarity
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces.
jewishcurrents.org/inside-yale-...
a sketchy medieval drawing of a bat
this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral π₯°π₯°
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Odessa, Texas has voted to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law that applies to PRIVATE bathrooms.
This means even in queer spaces.
If a cisgender person encounters a transgender person, they can sue them for $10,000 or more.
This is the first law of its kind in the nation.
oh my god. the blocklist feature is actually a game changer
20.11.2024 23:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When government uses bureaucracy to brutalize a peopleβwhen they try to hide oppression behind the normalcy of governmentβany representative worth their office must stand in opposition.
Thank you, Te PΔti MΔori.
what also really fucks me up is that tdor is right before my birthday. every year, i mourn members of my community lost to deliberate interpersonal and state violence, right before celebrating making it through another year. itβs so jarring
20.11.2024 22:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i went to a vigil today and iβm feeling incredibly emotional but i think whatβs most isolating is that so many people were just able to disconnect. they went to the vigil and then 5 minutes later, they were fine, laughing and moving on. for me, itβs been hours and i still feel hazy
20.11.2024 22:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0whatβs the hardest to parse is that itβs not an accident. the world is DESIGNED to eliminate us. from state bureaucracy and medical gatekeeping, to economic violence, to media outlets talking about us as if weβre a debate, to politicians using us as pawns. none of this is set up to help us live
20.11.2024 22:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0every year, i go to trans day of remembrance vigils and every year, the list of names grows longer and longer. it really feels overwhelming just how much the world hates us
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a textbook page showing lines of text about the emergence of puritanism as the hegemonic American Ideology: Winthorp's utopian goal, of course, was supremely unconcemed with those who already lived in America. North America was a vast continent occupied for many. many thousands of years by (according to recent estimates) perhaps ten to twelve million native Americans north of Rio Grande. How could the Puritans make lasting bridgehead among so numerous a people? Already, in 1616, English fishermen visiting New England had brought the European discase bacilli which, assuming epidemic proportions, had annihilated probably half of the Indians of New England, who had numbered 25,000. "Their bones and skulls," an Englishman wrote "made such a spectacle. it seemed to me a new found Golgotha." Rather than regard this event as a tragic human disaster, the English in general looked upon it as a proof of God's wishes: that the land be made empty for them. And then came a second devastation, smallpox, shortly after the Puritans' arrival, which in the carly 1630s killed thousands of more Indians. What had happened over the past century in Mexico, where a population of perhaps twenty-five million had shrunk to less than one-twelfth that number, was occurring around the Puritans as well. The weakened local Indians therefore made room for the Puritans in turn stated that since the land was not "occupied" or "claimed," it could berightfully taken. Besides, the English said, they were a "civilized" people and the Indians "inclose no land, neither have any settled habytation, nor any tame Cattle to improve the Land by ..... So the Puritans simply moved in and established their settlements. Later they made purchases of great tracts from the Indians, but only to establish a "legal" title to the land so that the Dutch of fall New Amsterdam (later New York City) could not.
The more you read about the foundation of the States, the more all of its policies on international politics makes sense.
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