This headline is ridiculous. The US is currently cracking down on the people who harvest US tomatoes and sending them to a swamp concentration camp with no representation and due process, and publicly hoping people get eaten by alligators.
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#cymraeg #cymru #politics #Ty_Hywel #welsh #parliament #senedd #pembroke I notice the #fash #tories all wear the combo badge 🏴 🇬🇧 #justsaying I just wear my tatts! 🇪🇺 
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Lula Says 2026 Has Begun and Rejects Handing the Country "Back to Neo-Nazism"
#politics #brazil #eleições2026
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2025/01/lula-says-2026-has-begun-and-rejects-handing-the-country-back-to-neo-nazism.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw
Everyone assumes they would be the one pulling the lever but in reality that is someone else
#Meme #TrolleyProblem #Ethics #Capitalism #Capitalist #Politics
Now the Home Office is threatening to prosecute & deport two children of Brazilian parents (an eleven year old boy & eight year old girl) while allowing their parents to remain.... even though the children have lived in the UK for most of their lives.
Once again the British state demonstrates its callousness & inhumanity, being happy to rob children of their parents.
I may be funding this through my taxes but this is not being done in my name!
Well, I got something written before the start of work today.
There are so many other scattered thoughts I haven’t been able to set down properly over the last two weeks, but hopefully this piece explains at least some of the futility I’m moving through these days.
I hope it will offer some clarity and language to any others also trying to figure out what to do with the anger-in-grief they might feel these days.
#BetterWorldsTheory #MediaLiteracy #Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/overcoming-anger-at-the-ongoing-derangement?r=1ii76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#politics #LGBT #LGBTQ #equality #cruelty #discrimination #trump #fascism #alt #canada #mentalhealth
CORRECTION POST ON CANADIAN LGBTQ HOTLINE FAKE
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I tried to make a longer rant than my usual clips. So this is more practice than anything else.
A rant about when you're in a bad neighborhood, the only nice looking buildings are run by the government. The only park within a short walking trip of my home (about a mile and a half) is only there as the courthouse, library and #police station needed to look nice.
If the #usa cared about its people, everything would be like this.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said: 'These last weeks have sent shockwaves of fear rippling through every neighborhood and had a direct impact on our economy. My message is clear: We will stick together during this time and we will not turn our back on one another'.":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/la-dodgers-ice-raids.html
#immigration #sports #politics copy: @renewedresistance
Nations baffled over President Trump’s trade policies, including 30% tariffs on European Union, Mexico.@AssociatedPress reports:
#News #WorldNews #Business #Politics #Trump #EU #Mexico #Canada
Netanyahu has tried for two decades to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran & finally found a president stupid enough, narcissistic enough, and easily manipulated enough to do it.
#war #IllegalWar #UnconstitutionalWar #UnprovokedWar #Netanyahu #Israel #Iran #politics #Dictatorshit #Nazis #FascistAmeriKKKa
Wise words from Timothy Snyder: "Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics."
Madman #politics: "He’d already been having a rough few weeks: adverse reactions to his mass deportations & step-by-step imposition of martial law, the slow crumbling of his foolhardy tariff regime, growing opposition to his "big beautiful bill." & now this. Anyone could see it was more than a man, esp. a narcissist, could take."
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/22/with-strikes-on-iran-has-chosen-a-path-of-insanity/
Many of you may already be aware of the important thoughts shared by #FrankWilhoit in his March 2018 blog comment "There is No Such Thing as Liberalism".
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
It provides political framing I find useful. I propose using it as a test or "razor" (à la Occam) when evaluating political actions and legislation:
👉 Who does this action or law bind? Who does it protect? 👈
The best answer is the people who are bound are also protected. That would be a sign of that the action or law is a good one.
The worst answer is the people who are bound are not protected. This almost always means the action or law is a bad one.
As with all politics and compromise there are shades of grey, but this rule of thumb can help find the better action or law.
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/commentary/wilhoits_razor/index.html
I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.
This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!
#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Meta #Politics #internet #Web
The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word
by #CaitlinJohnstone
Jul 15, 2025
The #NewYorkTimes has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what #Israel is doing in #Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.
It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.
In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and #genocide studies named #OmerBartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out #Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow #Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#BDS
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine
"It's interesting to me how clearly this isn't a choice for her. She doesn't waver."
As a bonus on my Patreon, I shared excerpts from my recent interview with an #Austin mother of a #trans teen girl:
(this one is totally free, no login needed)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-interview-133908707
#LGBTQIA+ #politics #USpol #news #healthcare #health #MentalHealth #transgender #SCOTUS #Republicans #fascism #news #Texas
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Headline: ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
Subtitle: A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
Hopefully we know by now...
Source: https://www.themuse.com/advice/20-essential-twitter-rules-youve-probably-never-heard
@politicalmemes@lemmy.world
#memes #twitter #politics
Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?
Barbara Jordan—a Black woman from Houston’s Fifth Ward—crossed every line drawn to keep her out: the color line, the gender line, the sexuality line, the Mason-Dixon line. And when, 49 years ago this week, the nation asked who would speak for America in crisis, she answered. With conviction. With the Constitution. And with a voice they never forgot.
1/ 20 #history #politics #histodons #blackandwhite
#photography #blackmastodon
Image: Barbara Jordan DNC keynote speech, NYC, July 12, 1976. AP.
MAGA Sooo Angry......
Trump not interested in naming a special counsel for the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House says
Some of Trump's most prominent supporters had promoted the idea of Trump naming a special counsel to review the case
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
wants to read A Pocket Guide To Passively Resisting Tyranny
Found on Mastodon: https://beige.party/@photovotary/114756656832562859
The best trick the wealthy 1% have ever pulled off is to convince the politically vocal (and influential) next 20% that one day they could be super wealthy too, and so increases in tax on the current wealthy, are really increases of tax on their future wealth....
By the time the 20% realise the 1% have made sure they'll never get that wealthy a new generation is waiting to be hoodwinked!
LA Times: L.A. Army veteran with Purple Heart self-deports to South Korea under threat of deportation
"...An Army veteran who grew up in Van Nuys and was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea this week as he was threatened with being detained and deported by federal immigration forces.
On Monday, veteran Sae Joon Park, who legally immigrated from South Korea when he was seven years old, grew up in Koreatown and the San Fernando Valley and held a green card..."