#world events

[squirreljc2]

Imagine being so bad of a catholic that the pope publically says you’re the worst one and then promptly dies after meeting you in person

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[marithlizard]

Congratulations to the people of Hungary!

If you want to feel happy today read this thread from someone on the scene in the capital, as the voters managed to throw their dictator out of power after sixteen years of repression. Here's hoping this leads to positive change for them, for the EU and for the world.

[batboyblog]

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to impose martial law collapsed after 190 Members of Parliament barricaded themselves into the National Assembly chamber and voted to end martial law while the military tried to break in to stop them before they could vote. Many members had to climb a fence at the back of the building to break in to get a majority of the 300 member body in the room to vote.

[thebibliosphere]

I’m not sure what emotion I’m feeling right now so you’ll have to bear with me while I figure out how to express this, but, every time I mention returning home to the US after my dad’s chemo is done, my notes get a smattering of people acting confused as to why I’d return to the US after “escaping” and…

I know there is a lot going on in the US right now to be afraid over. I am afraid. I am afraid every day. I just don’t talk about it online because I am purposely avoiding creating digital paper trails for the activism I do under my govt name. Maybe that’s too much paranoia. Maybe it’s not. I don’t care. I don’t need people to see me performing goodness to know what I’m doing irl is important and impactful.

But to act as though other countries are also not doing horrific things to their own people and those seeking asylum in them is… ill informed.

Being in the UK might make me safer in some aspects because it removes my immigrant status. But staying would mean being separated from my husband—which would mean losing my entire support system—and staying in an environment that is not safe for me, either emotionally or physically, in a country that cannot adequately treat my health conditions despite having free healthcare, because the system has been gutted by a government that would prefer that disabled people like me not exist. In that regard, I do not feel safer here. And I would still feel compelled to argue and fight the govt here because so many things happening here are also Not Okay.

And that is because there is no inherently safe place in the world.

Truly, I hate to say it. But safe places just do not magically exist because some governments are benevolent and kind. They exist because we, they ordinary people, force them to be.

So yes. I’m going home to the US. Maybe there will come a time when I won’t want to be there. But here and now, it is my home. And I’m not going to give it up without trying. I’m a cis white woman. I’m not the main target. I can however be a speed bump. A very loud, very annoying speed bump.

And if enough of us get in the way, we can slow things down enough for it to matter.

And it does matter.

Don’t ever think it doesn’t.

[frontmansdefender]

[helsinore]

Hello US Americans. The news is fucking dire today if you haven't checked it. Orange man has issued a threat to wipe out the entire of Iran's civilization by 8 pm EST (that's eastern standard time, the time zone of New York City), if Iran does not open the strait. They have already been preemptively striking. He has already said he does not care if war crimes are committed, and that he does not feel like saying whether or not civilians will be targeted. AP News: Source. Please call your representatives and demand that they do their fucking jobs. Courtesy of Alejandra Caraballo on Bsky

Here's the number for the congressional switchboard. Please call your reps and senators. This man needs to be removed from office now. [phone]

You can also sign this petition by the ACLU.

Remember, Americans: If you feel powerless, imagine how the people who don't have the opportunity to ask their politicians not to do this feel. Remember the people at your mercy.