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naturalized US citizen born in soviet bloc. our world requires a radical response, at every level. who we are is less important than what we want and we want everything, for everyone. @OldSquida2@kolektiva.social
"An Intercept analysis finds that every member state of the Board of Peace has been rebuked for human rights violations."
"[A]llegations that [25] of the 27 foreign Board of Peace member states [.] [committed] arbitrary killings or torture."
#USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Belarus #Genocide #Torture
for March 8, Intl Women's Day, the Women's Culture & Art Movement of the Golden Crescent organized an event in support of the Women's Defense/Protection Units, YPJ, at the Mihemed Şexo Culture & Art Center in the city Qamişlo, Rojava/NE Syria
02.03.2026 16:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."
![A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreifsl2nf4xp4efqwydrwybswqhnsk2t2mykrbnk5yojrg2xmlb434u@jpeg)
A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."
A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.
A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a “health care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."
Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.
02.03.2026 16:26 — 👍 1128 🔁 557 💬 58 📌 83we don’t
02.03.2026 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thank you!
02.03.2026 16:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“hundreds of thousands of Iranians are more than determined to confront the United States. ‘Death to America’ they say.”
02.03.2026 16:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pousser l'Iran à un point de non-retour où il serait prêt à déstabiliser toute la région : voilà comment un État génocidaire (Israël) et un État impérialiste (États-Unis) idéalisent la « paix ».
Les peuples du monde doivent se débarrasser le plus vite possible de tous ces fascistes.
on the 3rd day of war between the United States, Israel & the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1,500 people have been killed so far, including 200 civilians.
02.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
now
“Skyscraper in Bahrain hit earlier is now on fire.
Obviously NOT a war target.”
The first visuals and an explorer for the ICE contract data by @micahflee.com:
--> micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/ <--
Look up contractors in your area. Protest. Divest. Defund ICE contractors.
In killing Ali Khamenei, Donald Trump aims to install himself atop the power structure in Iran, just as he did in Venezuela.
He is cynically taking advantage of the brave protesters who resisted the Iranian government under Khamenei. They will have at least as much cause to resist what is to come.
The crimes and harms of the administration are inexcusable and will hang over the US forever. It will take a century to recover from the damage to the US' reputation caused by this administration
02.03.2026 06:26 — 👍 44 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0Beauty is not in and of itself resistance and there are fascistic and police modes of beauty, but any beauty that falls outside the profitable, the ordained, the dominant is an affront to them, a fearful sign of a world without them
02.03.2026 06:36 — 👍 99 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
“…firearms, weapons and a notebook outlining alleged attack plans were seized from his home, with authorities claiming he was motivated by white supremacist ideology…[he] was plotting to attack [WA parliament], police headquarters and Muslim faith places of worship”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Ryan's face
Ryans's social media
Sterling Martin
Seen: PDX Feb 28, 2026
The idea that Occupy -- a liberal shitshow widely shit-talked and almost entirely boycotted by the anarchist movement for a thousand reasons -- was "anarchist" is one of those insane-making historical revisionist narratives that I will be suffering until I die.
02.03.2026 08:36 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 0
Thread as an article:
queersatanic.com/on-losing-ho...
**Bluesky Exclusive**
Day 1 of Revealathon is none other than Bristol Patriots steward, Julie Stokes based in Radstock. Even using illegal pyrotechnics at a protest, which police let them get away with of course. 4 more days to follow! Wonder who is next.
Searchlight reviews an extraordinary play in London, about a photo album from Auschwitz which was donated to the Holocaust Museum in the US.
But the pictures were not of prisoners, or violence, or the machinery of murder...
new zine added to the website: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
“AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the data-centers will be shuttered or sold for parts.”
“Save the Children has called for the protection of all children and civilian infrastructure, especially schools and hospitals, following the escalation of violence in the Middle East and wider region, with reports of more than 100 children killed in strikes on two schools in Iran.”
02.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
On This Day in Working Class History mini podcast episode for 1 March: The Strike That Shook Nazi-Occupied Italy. Listen at www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
02.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
TOMORROW about the #Prairieland Protest Case after its first full week at trial
Join us for an update
Monday, March 2nd
5:30 PM PST, 7:30 PM CST, 8:30 PM EST
Link to join the call is:
meet.jit.si/moderated/00...
We keep a supply of necessities on hand for when new arrivals stop by. Even though we aren’t getting many new immigrant families, there is still an occasional need!
02.03.2026 02:33 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Israeli airstrikes target the center of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
02.03.2026 00:15 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.
It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.
Re-upping this older thread on trans gentry's reflexive disdain for the rest of us, particularly the rush to condemn trans communities for "going too far."
Sadly, it does not just apply to Sarah McBride.
Xiarhos, a Republican who represents Cape Cod, is a Gold Star Father whose son, Nicholas Xiarhos, was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. "I know the pain, and I wish it didn't happen, but I want everyone to know freedom is not free. It's not just a saying, so I ask everybody to pray for these families and try to put country over politics right now, especially," Xiarhos said.
Sorry, you don't get to do "freedom is not free" when it's in relation to an entirely avoidable illegal war that involves blowing up children
www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
