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Hey y'all, my name is Bailey. I'm just a Midwestern transgirl getting through this thing we call life. Here's some of the good, the bad, and a whole bunch of random stuff!

[forpalestine-deactivated2024020]

Updates on what's going on in Palestine:

Date of writing: June 2nd 2021

A palestinian worker was injured after an Is*aeli bus hit him.

2 Palestinian children were detained by the IOF (ages 16 and 17)

Is*aeli settlers set fire to Palestinian villagers' crops.

The IOF demolished many Palestinian commercial facilities in North East Jerusalem.

15 palestinians lost their homes due to the demolishing and confiscation of their tents and homes.

Multiple Palestinian children were detained in a checkpoint on their way to school.

(video of journalist Zaina Al Halawani after being released)

Reblog. Speak. We need to keep spreading awareness. Stop normalizing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Stop normalizing the genocide that Is*ael is committing. Stop normalizing detaining innocent Palestinians, assaulting, and even r*ping them. It's not normal. It was never normal. It will never be normal. Speak up!!!

[thehairiestfeminist]

[cultofthespaghettimonster]

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Ramps should be the standard.

Automatic doors should be the standard.

Elevators in multi-story buildings should be the standard.

ASL interpreters at events should be the standard.

Braille menus at restaurants should be the standard.

Accessibility should be the standard.]

[pomeg-juice-and-rinds]

rb this version bc accessibility should be the standard

[whitepeopletwitter]

[old-primavera-cerezos]

it would take 2.3 million years for Jeff Bezos to earn his $183.3b net worth working 24 hours a day at New Mexico’s $9/hr minimum wage.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

That’s 11.5 times longer than the human race has existed.

[splend-42]

Not long enough.

[endreal]

What if we gave it a twist? Rather than earning that amount of money, what if it was to save that amount while still paying bills and feeding himself?

[architeuthisducks-blog]

And since it IS hell, his car starts making a Noise about once a month.

[ishayashelton]

LMFAO

[twirlgirl2197]

And lower his pay to the national minimum wage - 7.25$ per hour

[karmic-punishment-deactivated20]

Have taxes been accounted for tho?

[coyotequeencesca]

Give him student loans in default, a number that will never get him back on track, so he never gets a tax return either

[whitepeopletwitter]

[themoufofthesouth]

[radicalurbanista]

10.10.20. Portland

Local police disregard a federal temporary restraining order against police dispersing press and legal observers. Police arrest almost everyone minutes after a protest began without declaring unlawful assembly.

[juchestoner-deactivated20220412]

@hamptonthink @comradebirbpodcast #repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLBe2CFhh4/?igshid=1pfphg8coagyp

[wumblr]

last night in portland (oct 11), activists refused access to cameras and livestreamers while they used a blowtorch to take down roosevelt and lincoln statues in the park blocks. they additionally targeted the oregon historical society, smashing their glass doors, splattering a mural or the lewis and clark expedition with red paint, and hanging a banner that read “stop honoring racist colonizer murderers.” the lincoln statue was marked “dakota 38,″ in commemoration of the largest mass execution in US history, under lincoln’s directive. roosevelt’s plinth was marked “stolen land”

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/10/protesters-topple-portland-statues-of-theodore-roosevelt-abraham-lincoln-in-day-of-rage.html

chants included “kill the pipeline, save the land” and “no coastal gas link on wetʼsuwetʼen territory”

https://www.newsweek.com/portland-rioters-topple-abraham-lincoln-teddy-roosevelt-statues-day-rage-against-columbus-1538202

[radicalurbanista]

But how do we stop evictions when politicians won’t respond to our needs? By shutting down the courts 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

direct action works, and it’s all we can count on. The working classes only have each other to rely on

[justsomeantifas]

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

[robobun]

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

[justsomeantifas]

💅

[aggrokawaii]

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

[amuseoffyre]

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

[notanadult]

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

[murderxbaby-deactivated20190102]

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug. 

[dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek]

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

[torukun1]

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

[shipitbabyonemoretime]

[intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020]

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

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Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

[iamthecutestofborg]

Wow

[juchestoner-deactivated20220412]

ABOLISH ICE, FREE THEM ALL, HOMES FOR ALL! ALL IS FOR ALL! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD UNITE! @official.general.strike.2020 #repost You are not alone. Don’t strike alone either! Info for #generalstrike #generalstrike2020 in image or contact [email protected] @generalstrike_20_20 @official.general.strike.2020 @general_strike @generalstrike2020 [email protected] Covid-19 community resources: http://whatcomcovid.shoutwiki.com DSA petition to cancel rent: https://tinyurl.com/cancel-rent If your landlord breaks the current rent moratorium, get legal help: https://nwjustice.org/get-legal-help Follow these comrades #repost @official.general.strike.2020 @hamptonthink @bay.tanc https://baytanc.com/abolition-now/ #rent #strike #rentstrike #rentstrike2020 #rentstrikeresources #generalstrike #generalstrike2020 #cancelrent #covid_19 #covid19 #fucktherent #cantpaywontpay #whatcomtenantsunion #union #unionstrong #tenants #tenantsrights #strike2020 #educate #agitate #organize http://chng.it/8LWPVZCV https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ #blacklivesmatter #freethemall #abolishice #acab #fuckthepolice https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLM4CMlmaa/?igshid=168azatjxyvtq

[juchestoner-deactivated20220412]

ABOLISH ICE, FREE THEM ALL, HOMES FOR ALL! ALL IS FOR ALL! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD UNITE! @official.general.strike.2020 #repost You are not alone. Don’t strike alone either! Info for #generalstrike #generalstrike2020 in image or contact [email protected] @generalstrike_20_20 @official.general.strike.2020 @general_strike @generalstrike2020 [email protected] Covid-19 community resources: http://whatcomcovid.shoutwiki.com DSA petition to cancel rent: https://tinyurl.com/cancel-rent If your landlord breaks the current rent moratorium, get legal help: https://nwjustice.org/get-legal-help Follow these comrades #repost @official.general.strike.2020 @hamptonthink @bay.tanc https://baytanc.com/abolition-now/ #rent #strike #rentstrike #rentstrike2020 #rentstrikeresources #generalstrike #generalstrike2020 #cancelrent #covid_19 #covid19 #fucktherent #cantpaywontpay #whatcomtenantsunion #union #unionstrong #tenants #tenantsrights #strike2020 #educate #agitate #organize http://chng.it/8LWPVZCV https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ #blacklivesmatter #freethemall #abolishice #acab #fuckthepolice https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLOB4gFY-F/?igshid=pa68wcl6kyxq

[alwaysbewoke]

[sweetcribs]

the last one thooooo! THE LAST ONE THOUGH!!! somebody said it. thank you!

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[bubonickitten]

I’d also like to drop recommendations for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

They both tackle the historical evolution of modern-day mass incarceration (e.g. slavery giving way to convict leasing giving way to the modern prison-industrial complex & for-profit prisons) and how it relates to voter disenfranchisement.

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

[saddayfordemocracy]

“Stranger Fruit,” Jon Henry Photography,

Jon Henry’s Stranger Fruit series, named after the well-know song originally by Billie Holiay, was created in response to the murders of Black men across the US by police.

In Stranger Fruit, Henry photographs American mothers with their sons in a pieta-like arrangement, reenacting the pain for loss that is too common for Black families in the United States.

The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.

[macgregor13mathers-deactivated2]

Radical abolitionist John Brown.

“His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.” -Frederick Douglass

[crownedpatriot]

People be forgetting this man went to people’s homes and killed them

[holy-ghost-fire]

Slave owners aren’t people

[solarpunkcast]

They forfeitted that distinction when they decided to enslave and dehumanize other people to the extent of creating slave husbandry and handbooks on how to best “handle” them

[la-laborista-republiko]

I think that John Brown breaking into people’s homes and killing them was very brave and sexy of him, personally

[biff-donderglutes]

where else should he have gone to kill them??

[identifythefash]

KING

[meowstic-seer-of-the-future]

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

Fun fact, John Brown was the first person ever to he executed for treason in America, and if that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about how evil this country is then quite frankly there’s no helping you

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[liberalsarecool]

Never normalize Nazis.

[fanfckery]

I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.

6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.

Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.

[suicunesrider]

Like don’t get me wrong, that’s nicer than the idea that Americans are split pretty 50/50 on such issues…. but that’s still 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.    6% is a nice, softened way of saying “over 1 in 20 people”.

[shoshanah-ben-hohim]

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

Let that sink in. Then think about how your Jewish friends and neighbors feel right now, and have been feeling all this time.