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Hot protest summer -> Freedom Summer

"The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. Freedom Summer launches Juneteenth. #FreedomSummer #Juneteenth #ARLTS #VotingRights"

FYI.

AND THERE IS SOMETHING JUNE 14TH AS WELL - FROM THE NO KINGS PEOPLE -

Found something for June 1-7th. Protests and action days (contacting reps) every week in June! Pass it on!

Seven Days in June: HEALTH IS PRIMARY is a decentralized, nonpartisan, grassroots-driven campaign to focus local media attention on how fund

The courts are officially useless. The Federalist Society has destroyed the judicial branch.

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Chris Hayes and a panel of his MS NOW colleagues react to breaking news that the Supreme Court's conservative majority has granted an emergency request from Alabama to allow the state to use a Republican-backed map eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black districts.

The Republicans have just reversed their previous declaration from only three years ago in 2023 in which they ruled that any racial bias in redistricting is unconstitutional gerrymandering in violation of the 14th amendment and of the equal protection clause. Let that sink in — these racist conservative cunts on SCOTUS have now overturned equality before the law and stated Whites may openly ban Blacks from equal protection including denying them representation without any restrictions! These fascist fuckers must be removed from power by whatever means necessary.

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about Justice Sonia Sotomayor's 17-page dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting ruling, which allows the state to use a new Republican-favored congressional map, as well as Lawrence's reaction to the breaking news that "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired by CBS News.

Here's another source for the Supreme Court (shadow docket, they didn't even bother to explain themselves) decision re: a map they themselves said was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander only three years ago is now A-OK even though it means Alabama will have to change which district voters belong to in the middle of an election.

The new ruling, to which all six conservative justices signed on, suggests that, in practice, almost no federal protections remain for non-w

It is bad, really bad.

Though to be honest the original post could be about any number of Supreme Court rulings. Two Americas.

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i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

#yeah...

Pete Hegseth will rot in infamy.

Happy pride 🌈

I am unable to comprehend how everyone is not sick about what is happening.

I work as a high school math teacher, one of the students here (18 years old) was taken by ICE. Is she the student in the article? She could be at Delaney, I work right outside Newark.

I listened to Andy Kim talking on the Senate floor, that 18 year old in Delaney hall is there alone, her mom comes to see her when she can, even though she's there alone she's translating for other detainees who don't speak English.

I have student in one of my classes, I have known him for 3 years and he's so smart and works so hard, he's 17 and his lawyer moved his asylum case up because they want to have it before he turns 18 and can be snatched off the street.

Guards at these detention centers have said, the cruelty is the point, I have to make your life miserable so you'll agree to leave the country. But even the ones who agree to leave are stuck waiting because we don't have deportation agreements with every country.

I'm glad Kilmar Abrego Garcia won his selective and vindictive prosecution case but ICE goons are threatening prisoners who try to organize for better conditions that they'll be deported to Uganda or the Congo, where there's an active Ebola outbreak.

Whatever you would have done during Nazi Germany, the concentration camps, is what you are doing right now. These atrocities are happening right in front of us. And for what? I watched a right wing video where the speaker said, we'll deport so many of them that we'll never have to press 1 for English again.

A total fantasy that will never happen, you can't deport history. And instructive too that these people want to commit mass atrocities because they experience what is at worst, a minor inconvenience.

Ways to support the hunger strike at Delaney Hall.

I am unable to comprehend how everyone is not sick about what is happening.

I work as a high school math teacher, one of the students here (18 years old) was taken by ICE. Is she the student in the article? She could be at Delaney, I work right outside Newark.

I listened to Andy Kim talking on the Senate floor, that 18 year old in Delaney hall is there alone, her mom comes to see her when she can, even though she's there alone she's translating for other detainees who don't speak English.

I have student in one of my classes, I have known him for 3 years and he's so smart and works so hard, he's 17 and his lawyer moved his asylum case up because they want to have it before he turns 18 and can be snatched off the street.

Guards at these detention centers have said, the cruelty is the point, I have to make your life miserable so you'll agree to leave the country. But even the ones who agree to leave are stuck waiting because we don't have deportation agreements with every country.

I'm glad Kilmar Abrego Garcia won his selective and vindictive prosecution case but ICE goons are threatening prisoners who try to organize for better conditions that they'll be deported to Uganda or the Congo, where there's an active Ebola outbreak.

Whatever you would have done during Nazi Germany, the concentration camps, is what you are doing right now. These atrocities are happening right in front of us. And for what? I watched a right wing video where the speaker said, we'll deport so many of them that we'll never have to press 1 for English again.

A total fantasy that will never happen, you can't deport history. And instructive too that these people want to commit mass atrocities because they experience what is at worst, a minor inconvenience.

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I fucking hate it here

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For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

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save

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There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

clatterbane

Also just going to leave this here.

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

#reference #anti AI

And just like every other MAGA scam, they are begging people to buy tickets because no one wants to go.

Almost every musician pulled out!

There's counter-programming by the No Kings folks on June 14th, btw. Details at nokings.org or riseupsingout.com. You can search mobilize.us for "Rise up Sing Out" to see if there's a watch party near you or invite your friends and make your own.

Instead of watching the stupid UFC fight, do this instead.

And just like every other MAGA scam, they are begging people to buy tickets because no one wants to go.

Almost every musician pulled out!

There's counter-programming by the No Kings folks on June 14th, btw. Details at nokings.org or riseupsingout.com. You can search mobilize.us for "Rise up Sing Out" to see if there's a watch party near you or invite your friends and make your own.

For comparison, Talarico got 6600 votes.

#us politics #no kings #50501 #womensmarch #blackpowerwarroom #juneteenth

Although Mississippi had the highest Black population of any state in the 1960s, only 6.7% of eligible Black voters were registered to vote by 1964. Of course, this wasn’t due to a lack of interest in voting. Instead, it was largely the result of... violence and voter suppression efforts intended to severely repress Black political participation. To counter these measures, a coalition of civil rights organizations began planning for the Freedom Summer Project in 1963, which was set to take place the following year.

https://www.naacpldf.org/freedom-summer-ldf-legacy

Freedom Summer planners spent a year on their strategy. Many of these events are coming together on much shorter notice, NEVERTHELESS, here are some big national US protest events planned for June and beyond. We cannot give up:

June 5: Seven Days in June. "Join us on June 5 at sunset in communities around the nation to hold candlelight vigils honoring everyone who has died as a result of cuts to healthcare."

June 14th: Rise Up, Sing Out. "Across the country, communities will gather for local watch parties to sing along, make art, share food, connect with neighbors, and take meaningful action together."

June 20th: FREEDOM NOW: A Juneteenth Week of Action. "From Juneteenth Week to Election Day — a coordinated drumbeat designed to keep pressure on, shift the conversation, and turn out our communities. " The Juneteenth flagship action is in NYC and the rest of the stops on the calendar are still being built out.

June 27th: All of Us 250. "Join us on June 27th for a unifying day of marches, rallies, and protests to reject the whitewashing of our past and future."

incidentally THE NEXT BIG NATIONAL PROTEST IS JULY 27TH

A Choice Between Erasure and Equality

and i think a lot of juneteenth and july 4th local celebrations will become unofficial protests too so that's three weeks straight of protest

friday, june 19

saturday, june 27

saturday, july 4

hot protest summer.

Hot protest summer -> Freedom Summer

"The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. Freedom Summer launches Juneteenth. #FreedomSummer #Juneteenth #ARLTS #VotingRights"

FYI.

AND THERE IS SOMETHING JUNE 14TH AS WELL - FROM THE NO KINGS PEOPLE -

incidentally THE NEXT BIG NATIONAL PROTEST IS JULY 27TH

A Choice Between Erasure and Equality

and i think a lot of juneteenth and july 4th local celebrations will become unofficial protests too so that's three weeks straight of protest

friday, june 19

saturday, june 27

saturday, july 4

hot protest summer.

Hot protest summer -> Freedom Summer

"The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. Freedom Summer launches Juneteenth. #FreedomSummer #Juneteenth #ARLTS #VotingRights"

FYI.

Data centers will be the death of many towns.

Accurate except that the data centers are also a tool for massive state surveillance and mass propaganda.

The USA went from a jobs program building green energy under Biden to a jobs program building mass surveillance and concentration camps under Trump.

And what's scary is that once you build the infrastructure, anyone who controls the government will be tempted to use it. Once those prisons are built, they'll have to be filled. Once the government is using AI to automate the mass surveillance and mass propaganda we already live under in the USA, future administrations will want to continue that automated mass surveillance.

Trump is the actor hired to sell authoritarianism to the masses but it's the rich people afraid of what will happen to their money and power once climate collapse really gets going who want the prisons built and the surveillance state expanded.

#art #aesthetic #nature!!!

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Honey possum, gouache. A tiny marsupial that feeds on flower nectar

Cancel your subscription. Never watch their channels. Reject their 'news'.

#us politics #happily

Something surreal I read today:

Peter Ticktin told The Guardian that when he and Trump were on the same soccer team at the New York Military Academy in 1964, the team had a perfect 11-0 record. Turns out that isn’t true. They actually finished 3-8.

Donald Trump was sent away to military school by his father for having a large collection of switchblades in his bedroom, at age 13. Portrait of a young sociopath.