🎉We're honored to announce the winner and finalists of the 2025 MOLLY National Journalism Prize. This annual contest celebrates the best in impactful accountability reporting and narrative storytelling.
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“Palestinian Liberation has always shown us that everything is interconnected.”
Out today in Deceleration: San Marcos' city council wouldn't acknowledge the genocide in #Gaza, so Amanda Rodriguez ran for city council and won. My interview with her and others from Palestine Solidarity SMTX. https://deceleration.news/gaza-ceasefire-vote-a-first-in-texas-san-marcos/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #GregAbbott #Palestine #democracy #solidarity #activism
NBC: Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season
Trump also said he planned to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-fema-wound-hurricane-season-rcna212307
Good on him.
Bruce Springsteen Escalates Trump Feud With New Music Release
“Springsteen released the new EP “Land of Hope and Dreams” on Wednesday, featuring four songs and two anti-Trump speeches he recorded during his Manchester, England tour”
#politics #Music
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bruce-springsteen-escalates-trump-feud-with-new-music-release/
Hey everyone,
With all the craziness going on, please check out and share:
http://www.dontcallthepolice.com
It’s an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to contacting law enforcement if you need help with DV, mental health, housing, LGBTQ+ support, protecting your vote, crisis management, addiction, etc.
#politics #uspol #ice #Police #mentalhealth #housing #lgbtq #votingrights #addiction
"Dear White People:
It takes a lot of white privilige balls to stand on this stolen and occupied continent and complain about IMMIGRATION."
#IndigenousPeoples have lived in the Americas for more than 23,000 YEARS! white colonizers have been here for several hundred years
CNN:
Newsom's blistering speech on Trump:
“He's declared a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself. Databases, quite literally, are vanishing. He's delegitimizing news organization and he's assaulting the First Amendment… He's dictating what universities themselves can teach, he's targeting law firms and the judicial branches that are the foundations of an orderly and civil society."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJzM49ldI
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The 20th of May this year was the day that the UK overshot its Earth resources limit. A limit for keeping our Earth safe for habitation.
A limit that when exceeded makes the UK into a nation that thumbs its nose at its own young, who’s future it ignores!
Tell that to Fartage, Kemical or even Starmercenary, then see what bullshit you get back!
Hearing more reports from people I know of ICE chasing down farm workers in fields in Oxnard. This is all not very good, for countless reasons, but mostly for snatching hardworking citizens of this county for no reason but racists in the WH. #VenturaCounty #ICE #politics #agriculture
Thousands Of Chicagoans Take To The Streets To Protest ICE Raids, Trump Immigration Policies
#politics
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/10/thousands-of-chicagoans-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-ice-raids-trump-immigration-policies/
The BBC is shocked when Israeli soldiers – illegally occupying Syria – identify its film crew, point guns at their heads, strip-search them, then blindfold and interrogate them.
Might it encourage the BBC to report the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists in Gaza?
Most of the focus on the House passing the budget bill is on the numbers. (It is a budget bill.)
But this, as the screenshot says, should it survive the Senate, completes the transition of the US to a dictatorship.
We were warned. We didn't pay enough attention.
No-one will be surprised that MI5 has been lying to those who are supposed to regulate (oversee) its conduct, inlacing the courts.
You may be more surprised to see its a BBC journalist who has been working to push that out into the open...
As before, claims by the Secret Services that they need to keep their secrets but are working fairly & honourably don't survive contact with reality.
The Limitations of Professional Psychology - Tuning In
This is just an overview, a summary, of my thoughts from over three decades of study and practice in positive psychology to describe some limitations of contemporary professional psychology. What do you think? What have I missed? I’m eager for any comments, disagreements, or other perspectives.
#Psychology #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Politics #culture
http://www.ajschuler.com/blog/the-limitations-of-professional-psychology
The story of this exodus—of men and women who had once been enslaved—is one of harrowing survival. The Black Loyalists fled to the British not out of fealty to a distant crown, but because the British offered what the American Republic did not: freedom. And now, in the winter of 1782, they waited. Waited to see whether freedom, once granted, could be taken back.
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Image: Black Loyalist Richard Pierpoint, artist, Malcolm Jones, Canadian War Museum.
#history #canada #Blackmastodon #politics
This was never about “protecting” college seats for US citizens. It has always been about fear—about sending a chilling message to undocumented youth that they are not welcome, no matter how long they’ve lived here, or how much they’ve already given back.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dream-act-paxton-trump-immigrant-rights-movement/
It's a little strange how The European Union does not condemn the harshness of the actions of the US regime towards the rioters, does not call the protest peaceful, does not demand to start a dialogue, does not send deputies and officials there, does not threaten the US and its leadership with sanctions and a cooling of relations, does not talk about curtailing democracy and reforms, does not condemn the use of the National Guard against protesters. 🤔
58 years ago:
“Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
For this refusal—for standing on faith in a country that demanded obedience—he was made an example. The response came swift: they stripped him of his title, suspended him from boxing, fined him $10,000, and, on June 20, 1967, sentenced him to five years in federal prison.
#History #Histodons #Politics
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Video: Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction, April 28, 1967.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z2xrr2OuoYg?si=sgOcYyfS8d5ZJq1Q
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Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
Over 100 years ago, El Paso became the first city in the USA to ban marijuana. Now, #Texas is renewing its commitment to tradition with a bill that will destroy 10,000s of jobs if it goes into effect, fully banning all products with THC despite years of normalization of their usage in our state.
My latest for the @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
#drugs #health #cannabis #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #law #police
On May 1, 1865, in the 1st spring of freedom, Black Charlestonians held a procession to honor Union soldiers buried in a mass grave.
They came with roses. With hymns. With children.
It was the 1st Memorial Day.
But America gave the credit to others & buried the memory.
#MemorialDay #History #Histodons #Politics #photography #blackandwhite
#blackmastodon
#blackandwhitephotography
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Image: Black American Civil War Memorial, Spirit of Freedom statue by Ed Hamilton 1997, NPS Photo Washington DC.
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NPR: 'Bring Carol home:' ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-in
"...Mayorga, whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, has been detained in jail under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since late April. She’d traveled from Kennett, Missouri, her home for nearly two decades, to St. Louis for what she thought was a routine meeting to renew her employment authorization document.
The document, issued by the federal government, allows her to work legally in the U.S. and is set to expire in January 2026.
Originally from Hong Kong, Mayorga said she was used to the meetings. But when she arrived, things were anything but usual...."
https://www.stlpr.org/law-order/2025-05-24/missouri-kennett-woman-ice-deportation-visa
As Nicola Sturgeon observes:
'How much better the world might be now if we had leaders with an ounce of the self-awareness that, alongside her empathy, courage & intelligence, Jacinda Ardern has in abundance'...
She may not have achieved everything she promised or aspired to but a world led by leaders such as Aedern & Sturgeon would be preferable to the one we find ourselves in right now - not perfect, certainly, but better!
#politics
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/nicola-sturgeon-jacinda-ardern-offered-a-different-template-for-politics
How Thomas Nast’s Cartoons Transformed American Life And Culture
By Kaleena Fraga
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-nast-cartoons#34
The Man With the Carpet Bag
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Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
#politics #USpol #journalism #RIP #Texas #media #history #news