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world’s greatest terrorists strike again

#us politics #global politics

sometimes i love it here

#youtube #south africa #g20

bff0f7

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

adamtheredbeard

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

afronerdism

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

doobiebenson

butch-bakugo

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

churchoftheconfusedchicken

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

ifiknewiwouldtellyou

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

gayvampyr

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

nothingweirdhere

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

#palestine #hind rajab #Youtube

#palestine #Youtube

#palestine #netanyahu #zapiro

#palestine #Youtube

*thousands of palestinians dying of forced starvation*

the bbc:

#palestine #global politics

guldaastan

this is how us soldiers and people from the iof talk.

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[Image ID: Tweet from RD Hale (@/ RD_Hale) reading: A kid threw a stone at me today (and missed) so I climbed into a fighter jet and blew up his entire street with an air-to-surface missile. I'm sure you will agree I acted in self-defence. /End ID]

i have yet to see a single bbc article condemning israel, including in articles containing eyewitness testimony from their own journalists, including in stories where their journalists have been amongst the martyred

#palestine #politics

merrilark

Good US news because I think we all could use some of it:

The Marines are to be withdrawn from LA. The extreme escalation many of us feared did not happen thanks to the people of LA and the soldiers themselves who said "no".

The "Good Trouble Lives On" protests may not have been as big as the previous "Hands Off" and "No Kings" protests (likely due to heat + being planned on a weekday), but still 1.6k protests were held across the USA with thousands joining in with the peaceful protest.

The Trump administration has been ordered to restore $6.2 million in grant funding to nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related nonprofits. This is fantastic.

Pittsburgh City Council has passed bills to protect its LGBTQ+ citizens.

California has stepped up to partner with and support The Trevor Project. Let's go, Cali!

Another win for California: Reports show that California is powered by two-thirds clean energy. This is a historic first and it keeps getting better!

The ACLU of Louisiana has secured the release of two wrongfully detained Iranian LSU students.

The Republican governor of New Hampshire has defied her party and shot down a book banning bill.

Shareholders have pushed back on corporations' anti-DEI proposals, forcing companies to face the fact that diversity is good for business... And reminds us that the majority does not agree with the removal of DEI, no matter what MAGA wants us to believe.

Since November, 69 of the 110 Supreme Court lawyers tasked with defending the Trump admin's policies have quit.

Don't let anyone tell you that there isn't hope, that there aren't people fighting and working and just as scared and angry as you are. You are not alone. Peaceful protests, contacting reps, and simple non-cooperation is how we sustainably and successfully push back against authoritarianism.

"We're cooked" is the devil talking. Giving up, rolling over, and perpetuating the idea that we've already failed is exactly what MAGA wants. Don't give them the satisfaction. Don't make it easy. Continue to look after each other and support your communities where you can. Keep protesting, keep calling, keep writing, keep loving. The heart is a muscle the size of your fist; we can get through this as long as we continue to stand up and say "no".

hungwy

Nice

vintagewildlife

Bison herd By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

vintagewildlife

It feels so gross to call this group of 20-something bison a "herd" but I didn't know what else to call it.

Before bison were wiped out (as a deliberate tactic to starve the Plains Indians), small bands like this would only exist in the non-breeding months, throughout fall/winter. But as spring approached, they would join other bands on their migration, eventually forming herds that could number up to 4 million heads.

So numerous were bison, that it's estimated a herd could lose 20,000 individuals in a single river crossing without making a dent in the population. For comparison, this is the Atka Bay emperor penguin colony, numbering 20,000. Imagine this many bison corpses, solely due to one river crossing, without impacting the population:

(Photo by Bertie Gregory)

Diary entries by colonizers describe in graphic details how dead bison would cover the river banks for miles upon miles:

(Excerpts from The North American Buffalo (Frank Gilbert Roe, 1972, 2nd edition), one of my favorite books)

With no exaggeration, the American prairie was covered in bison during the summer. There's no other migration today that can match its size. The closest thing we have are the wildebeest migrations of East Africa:

(Left photo stock, right photo by Gail Woloz)

But even that doesn't come close. The greatest wildebeest herds 'only' number a little over 1 million. A wildebeest herd of that size may live behind 4000 drowned bodies. Imagine the size of this bison herd that left behind over 7000 bodies:

They piled bison skulls three stories high, and turned the prairie white with death, but it should've made no difference. There were millions of bison.

But somehow it did. The bison population was brought down from possibly as much as 60 million to a mere 600. So today a gathering of 20-something heads might as well be called a herd.