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How protesters implement solidarity against persecution of immigrants.
In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, & bigotry.Laurie Woodward Garcia (People Power United: America's Voice for Progress & Actions)
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LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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I made that switch in ~2014, and I've had no use for Microsoft Office ever since.
My employer, on the other hand, is still using the full MS Office suite, and it makes me wonder how much HIPAA-protected patient information we're feeding into the AI slop machine.
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Yes, I think many (not just “some”) would support this:
“the government needs to ban Nazi sites like X altogether. Existing hate speech laws would suffice”
It seems the US has no equivalent to our bans on hate speech etc - in place to protect people, especially vulnerable people.
It really does seem to be a jungle over there, in the US - but that’s no reason why it should be like that here in Australia & our near neighbours & friends.
Thanks for saying this so clearly. 🙂
If there were any competent adults leading Texas - they'd listen...
"The U.S. government’s fifth National Climate Assessment, released in November 2023, says that “the number of days with extreme precipitation will continue to increase as the climate warms” and that “these changes in precipitation patterns can lead to increased flood hazards, impacting infrastructure, ecosystems, and communities.'"
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(Thank you @TexasObserver for doing this work!)
Officials are reporting more than 100 fatalities in Kerr County, including 28 children.Arcelia Martin (The Texas Observer)
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One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with itMehdi Hasan (The Guardian)
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Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic
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In a landmark judgment, Justice Angus Stewart of the Federal Court of Australia ruled that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism…
#AntiSemitism #AntiZionism #CourtRuling #Not #Antisemitic #CriticiseIsrael #Isreael #Jews #NotSame
In a landmark judgment, Justice Angus Stewart of the Federal Court of Australia ruled that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. The ruling comes after a Sydney-based Muslim cleric, Wissam Haddad, was sued by two senior members of Australia’s peak JewisIOL Reporter (African News Agency)
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"You know what—[if I was working] for the government right now, and I was given one of those letters of, 'You’re going to get fired or you can resign,' I would have walked out with some documents that day." texasobserver.org/reality-winn…
#whistleblower #Texas #politics #USpol #news #Trump
The NSA whistleblower, with a memoir coming later this year, faces the barriers for Texans with felony records.Kevin Limiti (The Texas Observer)
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I was entirely unprepared for April's 24 Hours of Cross Stitch weekend, but luckily had this long-hibernated project within arm's reach as an emergency backup plan.
Little did I know how educational it would end up being...
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Let Molly Ivins walk you through some of the oddest news from our beautiful home ... in Strangest State.
Browse more from the May/June 2025 issue of our magazine: texasobserver.org/issues/may-j…
#news #comics #weird #Texas #culture #animals #drugs #science #ElonMusk #SpaceX
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"In 2007, when I was just a girl, Texas had around 80 Planned Parenthood clinics. By 2011, about a third had closed. In 2025, only 39 remain—and none of them can provide abortion care. Even before Texas banned abortion entirely, 96% of our counties already didn’t have a provider." texasobserver.org/cuts-women-h…
#abortion #healthcare #HumanRights #politics #USpol #Texas #news #Trump #medicaid
"Texas taught me contradiction. It taught me how to love a place that doesn’t always love me back."Ana Flores (The Texas Observer)
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#hamilton #canada #UNSC 📢 Palestine's envoy to the #UN criticized the US veto Wednesday of a draft Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian aid in #gaza
📰 A report by Merve Aydogan for Anadolu
JUN-05 👇🏽
Cc @EndIsraeliApartheid , @palestine
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'This draft resolution had a simple goal...to stop the genocide,' Riyad Mansour tells UN Security Council - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
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I've been planning a post with this very title, but Cory
beat me to it.
Pluralistic: America is a scam (28 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/05/28/che…
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Nous devons agir de toute urgence : les enfants de Gaza sont délibérément affamés. Appelez l'UE à suspendre son accord commercial avec Israël, à mettre fin aux exportations d'armes et à sanctionner les auteurs de crimes contre les droits humains.WeMove Europe
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“When we began, there was a silence in #Texas about racism, poverty and corporate power. ... we ranked dead last among the major states and next-to-last in the South in education, health care and programs for the poor. … We were Texas, a backwater braggish and bigoted and brutal, slow and rich and poor.” texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugge…
#journalism #history #media #news
The Observer's crusading founding editor—a profilific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas liberalism—has died at 95.Joe Holley (The Texas Observer)
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À Las Cruces, la Pink House accueille des femmes, notamment venues du Texas voisin, voulant avorter. Et tente de tenir bon face à l’offensive anti-IVG.Les Jours
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The president railed against four of the biggest names in entertainment in a wild new rant.Ed Mazza (HuffPost)
20/04/2025 : Phare de Gatteville, vu du Raz Barfleur
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Judge Orders Release of Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri From ICE Detention
#ImmigrationPolicy #ICEDetention #Gaza #JudicialOrder #GeorgetownScholar
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The Trump administration claimed Suri’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza made him a national security threat.Chris Walker (Truthout)
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Usually it's because they burned the old one at the stake.
This time, I think it was donors.
Les 2 millions de Palestiniens qui vivent dans l’enclave font face à un risque critique de famine. Avec le blocus total imposé par le gouvernement d’extrême droite de Benyamin Netanyahou depuis le 2 mars, la faim est utilisée comme une arme de guerre…Vadim Kamenka (L'Humanité)
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"Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" is my new podcast for CBC about the enshittogenic policy decisions that gave rise to enshittification. Episode two just dropped: "ctrl-ctrl-ctrl":
cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135…
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🤖 Another data centre to be deployed in Aragón (Spain), nearby a desert. And this time, it is going to destroy Roman archeological remains:
"One thing is what they say, and another thing is what they do"
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Marysol Ruberte no podía creer lo que estaba viendo en la televisión. El presidente de Aragón, Jorge Azcón, acababa de anunciar que el fondo Azora construiría un gran centro de datos en su pueblo, Villamayor de Gállego, a las afueras de Zaragoza.Telegraph
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Y como no, el presidente de la comunidad es del PP.
Me jode por la perdida de patrimonio cultural pero, disfrutad de lo votado.
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And, obviously, the president of the autonomous community of Aragon is from the PP political party.
It pisses me off the lost of cultural wealth but, enjoy what you voted for.
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Or, if you prefer a smaller bookshop:
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There is a subset of people in the world who think it's an act of bigotry to point out the supreme hypocrisy of a nation that was established to provide refuge for a group of oppressed people who were subject to genocide, using its own military might to subject *another* oppressed group of people to genocide.
If the comparison with a well known genocidal fascist regime of the past is so upsetting, maybe you should just sit with that feeling for a bit and reconsider who and what you support.
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Or you could just use DARVO tactics and turn other people's critical observations of one's support for something so unjust and terrible into an excuse to portray yourself as the true victim.
This, by the way, is a common approach of oppressors everywhere.
It's hard to look in the mirror, isn't it?
"But it's wrong to use the fascist regime of the past who subjected members of that nation to genocide as a means of criticizing the hypocrisy of this nation subjecting another group of people to genocide."
Your sense of "wrong" defies logic, ethics, and common sense empathy for others.
This is a YOU problem.
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And you can (and will) reflexively label this as bigotry because it's a useful thought-stopping action and an ass cover for your own support of brutality, abuse, and horror.
You don't have to think about the nature of what you support if you can just reach for that convenient response.
You're covering for the murder of others by doing this.
And that's EXACTLY why you are doing this.
THAT is the bottom line here.
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Germany gets weird on it…
Qassam have never said it intentionally mimics the anti fascist red triangle that was reclaimed after WWII, but calling their use of it "revisionist" is beyond ironic
screenshot from a DW article dw.com/en/germany-debates-bann…
Once worn by political prisoners in Nazi camps, the symbol has recently been associated with Hamas, but also with pro-Palestinian activism. Opinion is divided on whether Germany is justified in mulling a ban.Julie Gregson (Deutsche Welle)
"Us? How dare you!"
It always seems to come down to some version of, "But my abuse, exploitation, and murder of others is just different. I HAVE REASONS."
Yes, I'm sure you do. But you're still acting like a nazi and you're a murderer.
A majority of Australians support the idea that gas exports should be taxed, a policy proposed by both the Liberal Party and the Greens during the election campaign, regardless of who they think proposed the idea.glenn (The Australia Institute)
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