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Happy Juneteenth

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one fight at a time

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(cartoon Steve Sack)

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[hope-for-the-planet]

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Six environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 20. Known as the “Green Nobel Pri

From the article:

This year’s winners fought to protect a rare bat in Nigeria by training community members to prevent wildfires; won a court ruling in South Korea forcing the government to set stronger climate targets; stopped an oil drilling project in the U.K. after a decade of legal battles; pressured a global mining giant to clean up a toxic abandoned mine in Papua New Guinea; blocked the largest proposed open-pit mine in North American history in Alaska; and helped prevent commercial fracking from taking hold in Colombia. “While we continue to fight uphill to protect the environment and implement lifesaving climate policies — in the US and globally — it is clear that true leaders can be found all around us,” said John Goldman, vice president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation. “I am especially thrilled to honor our first-ever cohort of six women, as this is a powerful reflection of the absolutely central role that women play in the environmental community globally.”

[not-terezi-pyrope]

I feel like a lot of the discourse I hear about "all cops are bastards" or "there are no good cops" is fundamentally missing the point of what is meant by it. It's not a statement about the average, everyday moral character of individual police officers, it's making a practical observation that, when you agree to become a police officer, you are agreeing to undertake all of the contracted duties of a police officer when required, some of which are just straightforwardly morally evil.

This also is not making the claim that everything done by police is morally objectionable. In fact a lot of work that ends up being done by police departments is pretty unambiguously prosocial. But even if it were the case that most or almost all of it were, if you take a job at a food kitchen where the contract stipulates you need to shoot every 1000th client, you're still the guy who just agreed to murder a bunch of folks for your boss. "But 99.9% of it was just serving nutritious food to my community!" is not a good defense to the charge leveled especially when you could in your own time dedicate yourself to serving your community without also agreeing to wield violence against it.

For the record I don't think that the percentage of police work that is "good" is actually that high, but the point is that it is immaterial. The point is that intrinsic to the role is the use of state violence to uphold unjust structural power. That's the point; not that every cop is an asshole in an interpersonal way, or personally evil in their every day life (although many are). But I'm just as sure many are extremely personable or even typically fairly kind people who are uninformed or have bought the propaganda, to the point that they can ignore the reality of what they are doing.

Still acting as a state bastard when they help toss you in a cell for nonviolent drug crime, though. The system is evil and they have accessed to acting as its agents.

[isdantah]

My new Transformers zine about Protesting when work condition in "the mines" are too heavy and "your supervisor" trying to keep you quiet :3 is out! As usual, you can find the printable pdf on my Ko-Fi profile!

NOTES: Feel free to download for yourself or to distribute around for free, but please credit me (don't erase my name) and don't make it a business (this download doesn't give you a commercial license, but is ok if you ask money for charity). If you want to tips is a nice way to support but you can take this for free ;) Instruction: print first one page and then the other with the Poster. Is done to be folded without the classical cut in the middle!

[isdantah]

My new Transformers zine about Protesting when work condition in "the mines" are too heavy and "your supervisor" trying to keep you quiet :3 is out! As usual, you can find the printable pdf on my Ko-Fi profile!

NOTES: Feel free to download for yourself or to distribute around for free, but please credit me (don't erase my name) and don't make it a business (this download doesn't give you a commercial license, but is ok if you ask money for charity). If you want to tips is a nice way to support but you can take this for free ;) Instruction: print first one page and then the other with the Poster. Is done to be folded without the classical cut in the middle!

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[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[pamrak]

Then... Whatever marks she left on you, I'll erase them all.

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