Yayael (Politics)

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”

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This is why it's important not to take any information literally, but rather, to use several sources and filter bias based on what's most likely to happen.

"landed on the ground after being pushed..." is incorrect.

"The state used violent and potentially lethal force on a young woman." is correct

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

Today ICE has a new plan of attack.

They're calling it "Operation Freaky Friday". They're going to steal "unaccompanied" minors 14 and older. If this works for them, then they're going to start targeting kids as young as 10.

Please check out the video.

#SheShed #FreakyFriday

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

They always say the same basic thing. They are always wrong. And we should do what we have always done and do the thing that needs doing anyway, which this time around is universal basic income and healthcare, and a 4-day workweek.

I see the pain and suffering of my friends and family. I see the hurt of a people abandoned, lost and confused. I see children being murdered by the believers of a god I once believed was all good. I see blood-stained concrete consuming all that was once beautiful. I feel rage against all of it.

⚡️ 🟠URGENTE:

Aviões de guerra israelenses bombardearam o Centro Noor para Cegos, afiliado à UNRWA, no bairro de Rimal, na Cidade de Gaza, o primeiro ataque depois que Trump pediu a Israel que parasse de bombardear Gaza.

Precisely.

As long as capitalism exists (violence, divisiveness, and hatred exist in such large numbers because it is profitable), nothing will fundamentally change.

Also, even if a person could inite many, the government is known to assassinate people rallying others if it's against the elites.

Red poster with a big fist that says "Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"

I say we go a bit further than just impeach trump.

We need a cultural and national scale of this:

(Addendum for 3: Culture war is "safer" than real war, so now most people are just gonna post memes while the government takes over.)

3. Apparently, we'd rather engage in tribalist culture wars over pronouns and the freedom of speech (to harass people without consequences).

We've been duped, and now we're paying for it.

The reason the U.S. has arrived at this point because of three things:

1. Billionaires fund think-tanks to make people vote against their self-interests while also violently crushing pro-human movements.

2. We allowed the government to become heavily militarized without much resistance.

The government isn't afraid of its citizens(unlike in various gun-controlled, freedom-minded countries). It WILL shoot them for protesting its reign.

The problem here is that the United States is rapidly spiraling towards authoritarianism.

By advocating for gun control laws in an AUTHORITARIAN government, the only difference in mass shootings after they're implemented is WHO does them.

You might bring up Australia and how they have extensive gun control laws.

Australia is also a relatively democratic and free place where you likely won't be killed for speaking against the government.

The people are generally safer because of both a functioning democracy AND gun control.

Russia has extensive gun control laws. They are also an authoritarian state that uses militarized means to murder civilians that protest against its government.

People are still not safe despite the gun control laws.

That begs the question:

How are you going to defend yourself from the (increasingly authoritarian) state if you allow the state to regulate (control) your means of defense against it?

How are you gonna stop the kidnapping gangs from breaking into your house and shooting you?

I want to know.

Democrats need to be explicit that it’s a totally clean bill that will be voted on or none at all. The shutdown is HIS mess. Sure he will blame them, but he will anyway. The fact is the GOP alone is responsible for this mess if a shutdown happens and Democrats can and must relentlessly message that.

Whenever a gun control activist argues that removing guns will make the country safer, they intentionally neglect the fact that the countries they use to support their claims aren't actively trying to raid people's homes to kidnap them in plain sight.

Gun control + authoritarianism = no safety.

ICE doesn’t want folks filming their abuse.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

Today your voices were heard. We will need to be loud throughout the shutdown and continue to put pressure: No anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the final negotiated bill. Only clean bills that don't throw trans and queer people under the bus.

Kicked butt today y'all. Good work.

Sex-fundamentalism is the abusive, draconian dogma that viciously asserts that the concept of biological sex (i.e. "male" "female") is an unassailable, God-given axiom; a sacred, unyielding bedrock that must be enforced to safeguard the natural order and preserve civilization itself, thereby aggressively demanding the total apartheid of all legal rights, social functions, and public life.

To defeat the enemy, we must know who they are, so I defined Sex-Fundamentalism and the general beliefs of its loyal cultists(e.g. MAGA, gender-"criticals", the Manosphere).

37 Democratic Senators Voted To Pass Anti-Trans NDAA. Here Are Their Names. The vote came after most of the same Democrats refused to allow an amendment on the floor to remove the anti-trans provision in the military spending bill.

Last December, Senate Dems had no anti trans provisions in their NDAA and the house did. Many thought the Senate Dems would stop those provisions.

They didn’t. Last minute, 37 Dems voted for it.

We must take no chances with the appropriations fight.

My story from last December.

does anyone else notice that when these people talk about "free speech" it's almost never about the freedom to challenge power and systemic abuse, and almost always about the freedom to denigrate marginalized people without being criticized for it?

You are not entitled to special protections based on your status. (e.g. your job, your reproductive role, how much money you have, how famous you are.)

"BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SINGLE-SEX EXCLUSIVE SPACES??"

Those are privileges, not rights.

Establishments (businesses, sports leagues, etc.) should be able to determine the rules of their own domain.

As for the public? Everyone should be able to use public resources as needed.

You should have full control of your own body, and you should have your needs met.

If a society has failed to accommodate for everyone's basic needs, it has failed its most basic task.

To clarify:

If you need access to abortion, you should be able to do so because your self-sovereignty is a human right.

If you need surgeries, for whatever reason, you should be able to do so for the same reason.

If you need food, water, and shelter, those are human rights, too.