I know it's more nuanced than this but I think having a hard policy of thinking anyone who genuinely hates one group of queer people for their identity might as well hate all of us and thus I should block any queerphobic queer person I see can do a lot to save you from believing anything exclusionists say.
"bomb that kills all-" "I just don't get bi women bringing their-" "pansexuality isn't a real thing-" "all lesbians-" "trans men really are men bcs they're all misogynistic predators-" "theyfabs-" "pfft aroace people are cringe-" "nonbinary people are actually all-" Instant block. Goodbye. Not listening. It's for both solidarity with your fellow queers AND to protect yourself, because once a person is convinced to hate one group for their immutable traits they can be convinced fairly easily to hate another too, and thus I do not trust them.
Just block these people the second they pop up, they aren't your allies and nothing they have to say is worth listening to.
Shane Wiigwas is very cool, and I keep telling my partner how he reminded me of Kayanesenh Paul Williams, an attorney and author who has been devoted to protecting Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Wabanaki land and people. I was introduced to him through his legal text Kayanerenkó:wa --The Great Law of Peace, and to that text by Twin Rabbit who gave a deep dive on Indigenous Anarchism.
The legal text was responsible for a really big shift in my ability to conceptualize life outside of the European (and subsequent Canadian and US-American) frameworks of law, morality, justice, and people's relationships to each other and the land they live on.
Not only did this work reshape my understanding of the law as a then-student of law, but it changed how I imagined what is possible to do with society, and how the perspectives of colonization do not represent the dearth of what has been possible and what is possible for communal living and society-building.
Shane's actor, Dallas Goldtooth, is also an environmental activist, and was a major public figure in the opposing the Keystone and DAPL pipelines, being a visible face fighting the good fight at Standing Rock.
I need to actually read more of the original survivors' lore I swear. I'm so sorry Yui I was not familiar with your advocacy and women's empowerment game
If the only thing that has kept you going was outliving Mitch McConnell, imma need yall to pick a new person to outlive and fast. Your mission is not over.
Been enjoying decorating things we have in our apartment lately, and one of those were these two coasters featuring Nea and Yui, both in their default outfits and in a favourite outfit combo of mine :)
there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.
Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:
(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)
Anyway, in brief:
Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances
He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election
He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion
His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.
the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.
and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.
I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.
Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.
I wanted to create this piece to pay respect, justice, dignity, and compassion to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and to his family. Rest In Peace, señor 🕊
Abolish ICE yesterday….Abolish ICE forever…and get ICE the hell out of our city and every city. I live in Houston, and the rage and grief is only bringing our community together.
DHS has a track record of lying about the people ICE officers shoot.
Matt Shuham at HuffPost:
Witnesses to an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on Tuesday are currently in ICE custody and being pressured to “self-deport,” according to a representative of their families, raising concerns about a potential “cover-up” related to the incident.
The men — Víctor Hugo Salgado Araujo, the deceased’s brother, as well as Daniel Tirado Pantoja and José Trinidad Rojas Pliego — were in the same work vehicle as Salgado Araujo when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer opened fire Tuesday and killed him, said Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, to HuffPost on Thursday. Proaño was speaking for the families of the three men.
The Department of Homeland Security has claimed — so far without any evidence — that the shooting was in “self-defense.”
“We’ve been in contact with the families of the men” who were in the vehicle at the time of the shooting, Proaño said. “We know specifically that they have been pressured to sign self-deportation orders.”
Worryingly, the men do not yet have legal representation and seem inclined to sign the voluntary departure orders, Proaño said.
“We’re working really, really hard to see if we can find representation for them — and to make sure that we can get their witness statements, their accounts of what actually happened,” he said.
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“What we fear is that this is another effort from ICE to cover up something that they did very, very wrong,” said Cesar Espinosa, co-founder and executive director of the civil rights organization FIEL Houston, to Democracy Now. It is unclear whether Espinosa had spoken directly to the family members of the detained men or was relaying others’ reports.
At a press conference Wednesday, Salgado Araujo’s family and community advocates called for full transparency from the Trump administration, as well as an independent investigation of the shooting.
Salgado Araujo’s eldest son, Ronaldo Salgado, said that his father had been prepared for the possibility of being stopped by ICE personnel given recent immigration enforcement activity in the area. Salgado said his family, including his father, had “so many conversations” about what to do if approached by immigration officers: He would not sign anything, and would instead work from detention with family and lawyers to secure his legal release.
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In the Department of Homeland Security’s telling, ICE officers on Tuesday “attempted to conduct a vehicle stop” of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who then “attempted to evade arrest.”
Citing “information we are receiving,” the department’s statement then said that Salgado Araujo “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle” and “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.” The statement also said the DHS inspector general’s office was leading an investigation into the “agent-involved shooting,” and that “FBI Houston is leading an investigation into the potential assault on a federal law enforcement officer.”
Witnesses to the ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are currently under ICE custody and are being pressured to “self-deport.”
with so much mislabeling like, trans guys and intersex people as terfs, you occasionally stumble on someone flagged who is like
Femxle Wombyn, 24. Girl. Pink. My pronouns are Adult Woman.
And I'm like oh! There you are. You'd think with the bullshit that trans radfems spew that yall had been hunted to extinction but alas, you cunts are still alive and kickin, huh? Guess we better focus on being shit to other trans people instead of like...being bothered by people like this anymore. top notch
