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Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature
Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO
And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.
With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.
Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.
I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies
Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito
I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.
their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!
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random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
I THINK LOVE IS SOMETHING / THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE - Michael Gray Bulla
they can basically kill you for not smiling and grinning and performing btw
The Europa Center food court, Berlin, as it was in 1991. Scans from the German booklet 'Berlin - Faszinierende Städte'
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Enlightened mushroom columns... star-filled sky... neon-outlined ornaments and filled with plants 🌿 This is the way to design hospitals for children. Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, circa 1995
Solarium kitchen, designed by Four Seasons Greenhouses (1990s)
Scanned from 'The Kitchen & Bath Color Book' by Melanie & John Aves (1999)
Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever.
This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.
This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:
White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.
--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963
It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.
So we know land back is Indigenous sovereignty Native agency and Indigenous stewardship yes. Land back is them respecting treaties they promised to respect ages ago but didn’t. Land back is them respecting the agreements they made with sovereign nations but broke instead. Land back is us going back to our ancestral lands. Land back is referring to Indigenous land by native names not colonizer ones. Land back isn’t a ethostate or deporting people Or whatever fever dream settlers have that’s cuz of settler colonizer projection and guilt.
“If you're American, you've almost certainly heard about how Indigenous reservations were and are located on whatever land the US doesn't want anyway. That they're just a way to whisk away undesirables until the land becomes useful to the US. That's the two-state solution.”
Two state solution is living side by side with people that tried to exterminate you with land theft genocide ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism When we say land back We mean all land stolen by settler colonizers Not just half of it to appease colonizers or respectability politics
“it’s worth mentioning that the proposal of a “two-state solution” is exactly what was offered to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by European settler colonizers as a peaceful way to coexist.”
Land back. Indigenous 🪶 agency, sovereignty, and stewardship. All land back. Turtle Island, Hawaiʻi, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Sisam Moshir (Ainu term for mainland Japan), Ryukyu/Luchu (Okinawa), Samoa, Guahan (Guam), Papua, Éire(Ireland), Alba (Scotland), Borikén (Puerto Rico), Maohi Nui (French Polynesia of Tahiti Bora Bora and Marquesan Islands,) Aotearoa (New Zealand), Palestine Etc. Etc. End to all settler states.
Like. Just actually read Talia Bhatt.
Have the guts to stare into the abyss of radical feminism's past failures and say "No. Here's where you went wrong, and here's how we're going to clean up the mess you made."
Or like, as Talia said it
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
that family who runs the local foreign cuisine restaurant you enjoy, they struggled a lot getting a visa to stay in your country. they had to wait for years, learn an entirely different language to be taken even a little serious, even then their accents were mocked. could you do it? move to an entirely different place with no proper money on you, learn an entirely different language and wait 10 years to be considered a citizen, a person? have your accent and personhood mocked as you do? you'd have to do it, if you woke up one day and your purchase power had fell by %400, only to fall further, if you woke up and your street, your home was bombed to pieces. that family wanted a better life for their kids, and they regularly have to see news of little kids like their own getting murdered by people of your country. do you think that's what they prefer? do you not think they maybe would've preferred to live in their homeland where thats not a worry, where they won't struggle with language, where all their family and friends were, where their children should've been safe, where they'd be considered human? but they had no choice, because your country and their allies ruined their country to pieces, bombed it, assaulted it, raped it. and here they are now, their "better" chance at a safer life being serving in the country of their assaulters and offering you a piece of the home they had to leave. they consier themselves among the lucky ones who weren't killed trying to come here, who could at least get a visa to be considered semi human. you should be kind to them, but don't think your kindness makes up for the tragedy
I agree that migration shouldn't be made harder. It should be much easier and safer. But that sentiment, while decent, doesn't go deep enough. The real goal shouldn't just be making the journey safer; it should be making people's home countries safe so they never have to flee at all.
The fact that the United States is a place people flee *to*, and the fact that people are forced to flee *from* their homes, are not separate problems. They are cause and effect. The second happens largely because of the first.
Let me give a simplified but structurally accurate example, and I'll walk through exactly why the misery is profitable. Picture a giant U.S.-based fruit company operating in an imperialized Latin American country. With the backing of the U.S. government, it helps overthrow popular leaders, supports the torture and murder of activists, and installs a brutal comprador regime, a local ruling class that serves foreign interests in exchange for a cut of the spoils. In return, that regime rewrites the laws so the company can operate with near-zero costs for labor and safety.
Why is this so profitable? Otherwise, a company has to pay decent wages, provide insurance, maintain safe facilities, and properly handle toxic chemicals. Those are all costs. Under the puppet regime, the company can legally pay workers a few cents an hour, far below survival level. It can skip insurance entirely. It doesn't need to spend on safety equipment because if a worker is injured or killed, the company has no legal liability. It can spray pesticides from the air straight onto workers and nearby communities, causing cancer and birth defects, and face zero consequences. Instead of paying to manage toxic waste, it simply dumps it. Every one of these horrors is, in cold accounting terms, a cost eliminated.
The result is fruit produced at a tiny fraction of its real cost. The company ships that fruit back to the imperial country and sells it cheap in supermarkets. Because the price is low, it captures huge market share. The gap between the crushed production costs and the selling price, even a low one, is enormous. That gap is superprofit, profit so large it would be impossible without extreme exploitation backed by state violence.
The chain is simple: imperial state violence installs a puppet regime, that regime eliminates worker protections, labor and safety costs plummet, production becomes dirt cheap, goods sell cheaply in the imperial core and seize markets, and the profit margin swells far beyond normal returns.
Crucially, those cheap goods don't only benefit the company. They flow into the imperial country's economy, keeping prices low for consumers. Ordinary working people in the U.S. can fill their shopping carts with affordable fruit, coffee, clothing, and electronics. That material benefit, cheap goods bought with foreign blood, helps build consent for the entire arrangement. Some working people in the imperial core can feel a small stake in the system because their cost of living is subsidized by misery in the imperialized world. This actively undermines solidarity between working people across borders, because the system makes it seem like their interests are opposed.
Now back to the imperialized country. Because a repressive government has been installed, groups that were already vulnerable face even sharper abuse. Then, in a truly vicious twist, this doesn't just make those people more vulnerable to both local and foreign exploitation, but also creates instability and social breakdown that the company and its regime create are later held up as reasons for more imperial intervention. "Look at the savages, we have to step in." The very wounds inflicted by foreign corporate power are used to justify further domination.
This isn't just about fruit. It's the pattern for whole economies. So what happens next? Some people reach a breaking point and try to flee toward the imperial centers that helped destroy their homes. Many die trying. Their desperation isn't random. The imperial country is a wealthier place to live *because* the imperialized country has been made poorer. The high standard of living in the imperial core and the destitution of the imperialized periphery are produced by the same machine.
When migrants do arrive, if they survive, they are slotted straight back into exploitation. They become a vulnerable, easily threatened workforce, undocumented, unable to demand fair pay or safe conditions, always deportable. The restaurant owner who clawed his way to stability is one of the lucky ones. Many are funneled into dangerous industries, trafficked, sexually assaulted, or worked in conditions no citizen would tolerate. This is not a glitch; it is a design feature. The imperial economy needs a layer of desperate, exploitable labor. The migrant escapes exploitation in an imperialized country only to be fed into a new form of it in the imperial country, which they endure because, compared to the engineered desperation back home, it is still the lesser evil for many- though kidnappings are also common.
This is why simply demanding "make immigration safer" runs into a structural wall. The current imperialist order needs migrants to be a vulnerable category. Even if some reforms soften the edges for a few, the migrant's function as cheap, precarious labor remains locked in. And the fundamental question still towers over everything: Why did they have to uproot their lives and risk death in the first place? Even if the destination were made more humane, is it acceptable that entire regions are deliberately kept miserable so their people have no choice but to leave? What about the millions who cannot flee, left to live in the wreckage?
The real answer isn't to manage the pain more kindly or to tinker with immigration rules. It is to remove the need to flee altogether. But here we must be absolutely clear. This system is not a malfunction of an otherwise decent capitalism. The superprofits that flow to the imperial core depend directly on the immiseration of the imperialized world. The entire machinery of imperialism, the puppet regimes, the labor aristocracies, the reserve armies of migrant labor, exists because capital accumulation across borders requires it. You cannot reform this away with nicer trade deals, better labor standards, or friendlier immigration policies. Capital will always break or co-opt those reforms because its core drive for superprofit demands a hierarchy of nations. It is also part of a reason why we are currently seeing more immigrants drowned in Europe, more put into camps and treated even worse globally including in the US
The only way to stop the machine is to smash it. The wealth and technology already exist to provide a decent life for everyone on the planet. The obstacle is not scarcity; it is an economic order that concentrates profit in a handful of imperial centers by bleeding the imperialized world dry. That order cannot be patched up; it must be overthrown. The only solution is socialism: an economy organized around human need and planetary solidarity, not private profit, where no nation is deliberately kept impoverished to subsidize cheap goods for another, and where no one is forced to abandon their home because the global gap between exploiter and exploited has been abolished. That requires a revolutionary break with capitalism and imperialism. There is no other road.