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Kent State University

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

solarpunkcast

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

captain-rez

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

saurons-optometrist

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

bando--grand-scamyon

What in the absolute fuck

wuh2k

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

hekeepsmeworm

I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up

jheselbraum

I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it.

When I was 21.

beautifultoafault

i never heard of this…… and i live in this country……… WTF

fuckyouformakingmedothis

Welcome to America. If you want to learn some actual history, then research it yourself

prismatic-bell

I feel like it needs to be pointed out that to this day, nobody knows exactly what happened.

I don’t say that to absolve the National Guard, either. I say it because if you read about the minutes leading up to the shooting, it is extremely obvious the ONG was an absolute fucking mess. Orders were not being passed along correctly, unclear and contradictory orders were being given. At least part of what happened next was due to individual members of the Guard being agitated and on edge due to having no fucking idea what was going on or whether there was danger from armed students.

It’s important to know this because it’s important to understand what a breakdown in communication and discipline looks like on a military level, especially as we move into an era where military presence can be expected to increase at protests and demonstrations. I don’t know how different 4 May 1970 would have looked if the Guard had received clear and consistent orders. I do think it would have looked different, though. I think there’s a possibility nobody would have died. There were students who were out of order, yes (rocks can be considered lethal weapons, there’s a reason stoning to death is a thing), but not one of them deserved to pay for it with their lives.

If you’re going to protest in the face of the military, know what a breakdown looks like. It’s important.

pagecommando

Kent State was literally in our textbooks. That picture was literally in our textbooks. At a certain point you have to stop drawing sexy naruto or whatever and pay attention, and then when you graduate, you should probably keep learning about stuff. Like the Beslan School Massacre.

The roots of Putinism were already evident after the massacre of 334 people in a school in Russia in 2004.

afurioushawk

“The government doesn’t want you to know about this”

[presents literally one of the most famous college photos in all American history]

voluptuarian

That photo of the Kent State shooting is super famous. Most textbooks discussing the 60s include it, any deeper coverage of the 60s or the counterculture of the period discusses it, it is still frequently referenced and talked about, part of the reason the Kent State “gun girl” is in such bad taste is that she was doing all that on a campus where students had been very famously gunned down within living memory and that was brought up at the time, Crosby Stills & Nash have a goddamn song about it

aurosoulart

hi all, I’ve just moved to San Francisco to pursue work and am currently unhoused as of 6/16/25

I’ve opened a ko-fi tier for monthly support to help me get back on my feet

I’m connected with potential housing resources (this city has many), but I’m working to become independent for the first time in my life.

this ko-fi will serve as an intermediary step towards reopening Patreon, where I’ll sell tapestries as soon as I’m able. (you’ll also get personal sketches and process vids as I work on new Celestial art!)

please reblog and help me find reach if you feel moved to. 🙏 it helps….. more than I can express. 💖

aurosoulart

current timeline as of 6/17/25:

use current Ko-fi goal to stock tapestries → reopen and distribute via Patreon → use Patreon funds to open proper shop + additional stock via my website!

you can also support me via buying prints from my INPRNT 🙏

(and, of course, reblogs are immense support right now, too. even likes. nothing is too small a gesture.)

zooophagous

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

splend-42

She's not allowed to promote it?

Well then, I guess we'll have to do it for her.

Read "Careless People A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams available from Rakuten Kobo. **'Devastating . . . funny . . .

elfspectations

It's available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It's on the front page of the B&N website and they're advertising $5 off currently.

Also request it at your local library if they don't already have a copy!

bundibird

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

mariacallous

tzikeh

Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as preside

dare-to-dm

The list of things that Biden's team has accomplished is impressive. I went ahead and made a bullet list of the things that affect me/my loved ones personally:

Over the counter birth control now available. This is especially important to people in states like mine where abortion is entirely inaccessible. Opill can be ordered online with no doctor visit and is currently available at $50 for 3 months worth, which is not bad. Could help a lot of people! (they're also trying to make it so your insurance would have to cover this)

Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is one of the first major steps towards gun control we've seen in a long time. Also awarded one billion dollars to support student wellness and school mental health professionals (which is the field I work in)

Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado river. There's something simply existential about a water crisis, and I have a lot of family living in the affected area, so it's nice to get some progress on this.

Invested millions of federal funds into cancer research, with the goal to halve death rates over the next 25 years. I unfortunately know several people who have/have had cancer, and it could happen to anyone, so it's always nice to see progress made in this area.

Made it harder for companies to engage in union busting. This doesn't directly affect me yet as I'm not currently in a union, but I sure hope to be someday!

The infrastructure deal is pouring 1.2 trillion dollars of investment into roads, bridges, airports, waterlines and broadband networks. Hey, I use those things!

Making airlines pay up when flights are delayed or cancelled. I've lived through the tragedy of a cancelled an non refunded flight, and hopefully I'll never have to do it again.

liberalsarecool

Regulate Wall St and Hedge Funds out of the rental housing market.

cadyrocks

Personnel is policy, and this wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the Biden administration taking the strongest anti-monopoly stance of any president in my lifetime. (Granted, the bar is low, but this is genuinely good stuff.)

zetto52sd

So a couple of extra things:

1. Biden’s allowance of aggressive pursuit of anti-trust practices is exactly why this is happening. Not only are they doing what previous administrations couldn’t or didn’t do, but they’re seemingly casting a wider net on what is deemed “anti-competitive”. In this case, it’s information sharing between landlords. This leads into point #2.

2. In 2022 ProPublica published a story about RealPage, a company that operates a software used to set market prices for rentals. How it works is that landlords that use the software offer up the information they have about their local rental market, and then that information is shared with whomever else has the software and they adjust their prices accordingly.

The issue is that not everybody has access to the software, creating an unfair advantage. Unfortunately, when one property owner raises their prices, others are likely to follow suit, meaning that even if they don’t have access to the software, the prices still go up as a reaction to “market pricing”.

The DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases. Questions also swirl around a 2017 merger deal with its la

According to this politico article underneath, “While the RealPage probes could yield a traditional price-fixing lawsuit, they are also emblematic of the Justice Department’s increased focus on information-sharing agreements across the economy. Last year the antitrust division withdrew guidance giving safe harbors to certain information sharing in health care. And the sharing of anonymized data in the chicken industry is the focus of a separate DOJ antitrust case.”

The investigation adds to the legal difficulties facing the housing sector and highlights an issue Biden hopes to push on the campaign trail

This is a thing that will continue to happen under the Biden/Garland DOJ.

crankydevon

If you or your friends can't afford housing, please reblog and then please vote for Biden. Nobody else in this election cycle (2024 presidential) will help you afford an apartment/house.

halalchampagnesocialist

Israel is literally killing Palestinians in a multiple amount of ways. As we’ve witnessed, Israel has used restricting food and water as a weapon of war which has not only caused a famine but has allowed indirect causes of death such as disease to develop and devour. Israel is not just using a single killing machine but air strikes, snipers, and drones/quadcopters to execute Palestinians. The massacres are just really the tip of the iceberg. On top of that, Israel is taking Palestinians hostage and torturing them, some to death. That’s not only even in Gaza but the West Bank too. There is no single method to genocide.

artemis-pendragon

Queering the Map in Gaza and the West Bank

27-moons

Hello Friends: We are The Sameer Project (@TheSameerProject): A donations based aid initiati… Hala Sabbah needs your support for Support

“Hello Friends:

We are The Sameer Project (@TheSameerProject): A donations based aid initiative working to supply emergency funding to the displaced families in Gaza.

The “Sameer Abu Salim Tent Initiative” (named after one of our team member’s martyred father) was formed to secure, purchase, and distribute tents in Southern Gaza, with the hope of expanding very soon to the North as well.

The Sameer Project also supplies cash envelops on an “as needed” basis to allow families the independence to secure the specific aid they require for themselves.

The vast majority of Gaza Strip has been bombed and destroyed which has lead to the death of over 40,000 people (including 15,000 children) and the displacement of around 2 million people.

Most of the people in Rafah (Southern Gaza) are sheltering in tents. However, the quality of these tents varies and the high-quality, portable and reusable tents (Emirati & Qatari), that were originally intended to be given out for free, end up on the secondary market sold for $800 a tent. This is due to war profiteering and people capitalizing on the desperation of people in Gaza. The benefits of purchasing these particular tents are listed below.

We have been securing tents for the last few months and managed, through your donations, to purchase 181 units and deliver them to families in need. However, with the looming Rafah invasion and the increase in bombardment, the demand is at an all time high. Our list has upwards of 250 families, so we need your help to purchase and distribute more! We work with an incredible team on the ground to source, purchase, store, and distribute to families, many of whom are currently without any type of shelter.

With your donation we can provide a degree of safety, shelter, and dignity for these families who are in desperate need of assistance.”

eastsidepapi

Pray for Sudan 🇸🇩 || Free Palestine 🇵🇸

fiercynn

[image description: tweet saying "please know the difference between the flag of sudan and the flag of palestine" with images attached of both flags shown vertically.

sudan: from top to bottom (left to right if flag were horizontal), the flag has a green triangle pointing down, then three equal-width bands that are black, white, and red in that order from left to right

palestine: from top to bottom (left to right if flag were horizontal), the flag has a red triangle pointing down, then three equal-width bands that are green, white, and black in that order from left to right

the original tweet is quote tweeted by another that reads, "after you know the difference pray for both of them." both tweets have the name of the person posted them blacked out.]

somethingaboutsomethingelse

Violence in Sudan threatens to throw the troubled nation into chaos. A scholar of the region explains what is going on and what’s at stake.

Fighting intensifies in South Kordofan state and also threatens Gezira state, to where hundreds of thousands of people have fled

Sudan’s medical sector is on the verge of complete collapse, humanitarian organisations say, along with rising hunger.

yujateaandpi

please also remember that both of these crises have been ongoing for generations, these are not new, they’ve just been allowed to escalate such an extent that we can’t ignore them anymore. Please please learn the histories, spread news, talk about if even though it’s hard.

emmaharwoods

As most families in Gaza, my family was hurt by the war. Our house was bombed, 2 members of my family were martyred, and others were wounded

shayma and her family of 15 are evacuees from gaza at risk of being evicted from their new home in egypt in 9 days. they're around $4k away from their goal so please donate what you can and share the campaign widely

grickle14

Nocturnal neighbors.

johaerys-writes

Finding out that ALL of my works, including those that are on-going and some that were deleted, have been uploaded to some random "Archive" without my information or consent is definitely not how I wanted my day to go

elveny

I’m boosting this.

Memento Archive, an archive for the recovery of deleted fanfiction.

Apparently they scrape (scraped?) AO3. Many of my fics are there and apart from Jo’s and mine, I’ve found those by @kunstpause @curiousthimble @pikapeppa @thebibliosphere and @captainderyn as well - others definitely also will be there.

This has been done without consent or notification.

I sent them a takedown demand, don’t know if they’ll honour it. But WTF. There’s a reason my fic is on AO3 and AO3 ONLY.

And the banger? “An archive for the recovery of deleted fics” - none of them are deleted. And if so? FOR A FUCKING REASON !

thebibliosphere

Ugh. Thanks for the tag. Time to lock Ao3 again.

ecologiadigital

Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL

— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016

daggers-drawn

Nice try fuckers.

steeleman

$175K wasted with every reblog.

Let’s make sure they DON’T get their money’s worth.

#ooc post

imogen-mangle

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

lanotteviene

the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.

sayruq

The IDF also designated Al Mawasi a safe zone

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