"When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC
"My colleagues and I are relieved and grateful to share that, after eleven days of uncertainty, our students and their mother are returning home," Sackets Harbor Central School District Superintendent Jennifer L. Gaffney said in an email to NPR. School and local officials say the family is on its way back to Sackets Harbor.
This one family appears to be safe for now, largely because their community physically rallied for their release. Others are not.
If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.
The MAGA people are still gonna be around in your Perfect System and a very large proportion of them are still gonna be Like That. We can discourage antisocial behaviour through laws and education and changing cultural norms, but if plans for future society involve [group I'm opposed to] magically not being part of it so the Good People can Do Things Right, well.
✨No Bad Guys Here✨ - how do you want to enforce that.
Honestly, I think this concept of The Revolution is to some leftists what Armageddon is to some Christians: an easy excuse to not try and grapple with difficult problems like hunger or poverty or injustice or climate, because any day now the Great Reckoning will come and wipe the slate clean.
#well you see america was founded on [original sin] which makes it irredeemable and any effort to improve it ultimately pointless#the only hope for salvation is to wait for [armageddon] to destroy it and cast down the unrighteous so the rest of us can [reach paradise]#voting for example is an act of interacting with and investing in this world which is too evil and tenporary to be worth it#not when The Great Reckoning is on its way to wipe the slate clean
@blujayonthewing you can't leave these in the tags
With the news of Cohost’s closure and Tumblr’s continued mistreatment of its users, those looking for an alternative platform may want to consider Pillowfort. In this post I’ll go over some of Pillowfort’s policies, setup, and emphasis on community to help prospective users decide if it’s a good fit for them.
With the uncertainty about tumblr’s future and people talking about other social media, I really really recommend Pillowfort.
It has long-form text capacity, with a tumblr-like layout and tags. It has image hosting. It has the ability to hyperlink things in text. It has a threaded comments section to talk to both OP and others without getting confusing or jumbled up. It had communities before tumblr did!—and honestly I like Pillowfort’s implementation better. It has post-by-post privacy options. It has no ads, and is funded by users, not the whims of petty CEOs. AI generated content is entirely banned.
It is hands down my favorite social media platform I’ve ever used. I’m active there, and it’s a great community. Crafting, photography, book discussion, and aro and ace discussion are particularly vibrant. As well as furry artists.
I have invitation codes if anyone wants a Pillowfort invite, to check it out and maybe crosspost some of your tumblr posts you like!
>censors all existing data on trans healthcare
>orders a study
I'm sure this will be completely unbiased
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
They are targeting adults.
US people:
Prepare in advance, stockpile what you legally (or in minecraft) can, find diy that you trust.
They are going to take your medically required medication from you. This study is expected to start in about six months, and will likely be bullshit that only takes a couple months after that. There is still time.
However, I would predict an almost guarantee of a major federal legal restriction on adult HRT access in the 6mo-1yr from now range. I don't want any of the bullshit I got at the time of the election about "fearmongering". I stand by everything I said then.
here's the updated version of diyhrt.wiki, diyhrt.info. the old one is no longer kept up with. please spread this site instead. also, check out r/TransDIY and r/estrogel on reddit for info on homebrewing hormones.
On a day like this, April 9th, 2003, Baghdad Museum was destroyed by US forces. they opened the gates of the museum to looting
"Although the U.S. has been actively repatriating artifacts—Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned more than 1,200 items between 2008 and 2015 alone—it has also let some things slide. “It is worth noting that there were no follow-up congressional hearings or independent investigations to pinpoint the parties responsible for the negligence connected to the museum debacle,” Archeology Magazine reported in 2013. What’s more, as the Chicago Tribune reported in 2015, “American military members, contractors, and others caught with culturally significant artifacts they brought home from the war there largely aren’t prosecuted.” It’s not known how many Americans brought home artifacts as souvenirs or war trophies, but one expert suggested to the Tribune that the known cases—a defense contractor who brought back gold-plated items from Saddam’s palaces; a U.S. employee who shipped home an Iraq government seal; a Marine who bought eight ancient looted stone seals off the street—are just “the tiniest tip of the iceberg.”"
"The looting, Al-Hamdani said, was clearly precipitated by the invasion. The war forced archeologists to stop work at their sites and leave behind hundreds of impoverished locals whom they’d trained and employed as excavators. Desperate and out of work, these locals began to earn an income the only way they knew how: by excavating—and selling their finds."
"But even aside from looting, some of the Iraqi artifacts that stayed in the country were badly damaged by the U.S. invasion. The Babylonians’ famous Ishtar Gate, built in 575 BC south of Baghdad and excavated in the early 1900s, offers a stark example. In 2003, U.S. forces established a military camp right in the middle of the archeological site. A 2004 study by the British Museum documented the “extremely unfortunate” damage this caused. About 300,000 square meters were covered with gravel, contaminating the site. Several dragon figures on the Ishtar Gate were damaged. Trenches were cut into ancient deposits, dispersing brick fragments bearing cuneiform inscriptions. One area was flattened to make a landing pad for helicopters; another made way for a parking lot; yet another, portable toilets.
“It is regrettable that a military camp of this size should then have been established on one of the most important archaeological sites in the world,” the study noted. “This is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain.”
To say it’s “regrettable” is an understatement to someone like Al-Hamdani, who noted that because civilization got its start in Mesopotamia, its archeological heritage represents the origins not only of Iraqis, but of all people. Wrecking that, he said, amounts to “looting the memory of humankind.”"
i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.
I saw a police body cam video today that pissed me way off. There were a few guys sitting in the bed of a truck parked on the shoulder of what looked like a small highway. They were white, probably in their forties, and presumably from the rural South. They were drinking beer, possibly because their car stalled out or maybe just for fun, and the cop immediately pulled over and called for backup. At one point he said "this is some hillbilly shit." They drove away, pelting the cop car with beer cans (illegal, I know), and the video was posted for laughs.
The comments were full of mockery, especially from leftists. They made fun of the mens' weight, clothing, and attempt at a getaway. A bunch of people presumed they were right-wing on the spot and slammed them for it. Nobody pointed out that the cop immediately assumed that they were intentionally breaking the law and radioed for backup to assist in a possible confrontation. Nobody considered why the men would be so immediately hostile to police involvement, drunk and law-breaking or no.
Now, I'm a young and relatively attractive queer woman. I don't have an easy-to-place accent, and I'm on the upper side of middle class. If I got drunk and threw beer cans at a cop car in some city, and one of my friends put a video of it online, I'd be criticized by conservatives and probably applauded by laughing leftists. But men doing the same thing in a rural area were mocked by those same leftists in that same online space.
I'm not saying that "the left is just as bad," but I am saying that we have a real problem with stereotyping and exclusionary behavior - especially online. We've seen it with the people saying Appalachia deserved to be hit by Hurricane Helene, we've seen it with the people saying veterans who voted for Trump deserve to lose access to healthcare, we've seen it with the people saying pro-life women deserve to be raped and forcibly impregnated. It's not radical, it's not productive, and it's not kind.
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always so touching and vibrant when you remember people a hundred years ago had profound lives full of fun and love
my great grandparents met because they were both telephonist-telegraphists and they used to communicate in spoken morse code so that their kids wouldn’t understand the dirty jokes they were saying. And my great-aunt was telling me the other day about how her father would sit with his kids during stormy nights and hug them as they looked out the window and he pointed out how beautiful the lightning was. Because he didn’t want them to be afraid. It isn’t far away but it’s easy to forget that people are people are people
isn’t it cool that we still take silly pictures where we pretend to put our baby niece for sale or where we pretend to officiate a funeral on the beach? I think that’s neat
In one of my family’s old photo albums from around the 1910’s-20’s there’s a picture of a dog sitting on a chair and wearing a hat.
This is my great grandma and her friends on a beach in Connecticut in 1918.
some of my faves are the ones where people have a new outfit or car, maybe even a hot date or the squad’s looking good tonight and they just had to capture their own coolness on film
Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.
Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).
So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.
Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."
After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.
Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.
The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."
The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.
There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.
The wedding episode is also great because Nani is set up as his wife to be, to both of their horror.
And when Jumba attempts to take one for the team as the bride, Pleakly is delighted to see him instead of Nani
ASAN is deeply concerned about the Executive Order (EO) “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections." This explainer from AAPD talks about the EO, what's going on with voting right now, and how this impacts disabled voters.
