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The problem is that they don't stop - Early June 0205
And perhaps is even more following on from the work being done to make sure that people know about the contributions of African women to their societies, and that many old societies in Africa had reading, writing, mathematical knowledge, and were otherwise the opposite of the colonial narrative that wanted to paint them as barbarous and uncivilized so they could be enslaved without disturbing the colonizer's conscience.
Brian Wilson, best known as a member of the Beach Boys and a pioneer of a specific style of pop that came from it, has left the world at 82 years of age. The details of his personal life, as well as some of the more experimental turns and albums that Wilson did, are a stark contrast to the sounds and the easy commercial co-option that has happened to the Beach Boys music and sound. We are all more complex than we appear on the surface.
( More governmental entities behaving lawlessly, more kidnapping, and more inside )
Last out for this post, highly-decorated, multi-gold medal winner, multiply-Olympic champion, and first to perform several maneuvers that now bear her name in the Gymastics Code of Points gymnast Simone Biles read undecorated, grievance-profiting, Fox News-supplicating, and all-around mediocre swimmer Riley Gaines for filth when Gaines posted about a softball team with a trans girl on it winning a championship. Gaines attempted to clap back by calling Biles a "male apologist," but I couldn't hear it very well over the sound of all that hardware clanking. Biles did eventually post something clarifying her comments as being about competitive equity and inclusivity and not singling out individual athletes for public scrutiny, but it has the feel of "people concerned about my brand made me do this 'clarification' " rather than a genuine change of position from Biles. Because that clarification makes it sound like Gaines might have had a point, and that's objectively untrue.
A libertarian-leaning, eye-catching eyesore has been bought, along with the land under it, by a local Native tribe, so hopefully the billboard will have a better sense of humor, or a better sense of politics, or both.
The National Hockey League's candidates for the Stanley Pup, thirty-two rescue dogs (one for each team in the NHL) looking for adoption, and all of who have great facts and team material available for them. Think Puppy Bowl, but hockey.
And the deliberate decision to lean into cringe in the Murderbot television series and buck the idea of people who never have human moments as protagonists. Combined with the performance of gender by SecUnit, and how that performance becomes meaningful once it's a choice instead of a requirement.
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Let’s talk “Remigration”
Farty McShitgibbon squirted out another racist authoritarian shart on Pravda Sotsialnaya late Sunday night, blowing off steam caused by his frustration at protests and over his shitty birthday parade. It’s a screed of lies about Democrats being sick in the head and not actually Americans, sending more waves of cops and military at us, and about cheering on mass deportations. Like y’do, if you’re a fascist fuckhead.
But let’s pay particular attention to this bit:
…I have directed my entire Administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came…
CAPS as in the original. Bold added.
Remigration pretends to be but is not actually a subtle word.
Remigration means ethnic purge. Ethnic cleansing, if you insist – but I hate that term, because there’s nothing cleansing about it. It’s an ethnic purge. It’s violent, it’s bloody, it’s repression, it’s expulsion at the point of a gun, based on your ethnicity.
Remigration means ancestry-based expulsions of people who aren’t white, for being not white, and not for any other reason. Just for being not white. Legal status means nothing; being a citizen means nothing. Not white? Get the fuck out, at gunpoint. That’s how it went during Operation W*tback; that’s how he wants it to go again, and now he’s just saying it.
This is not a question; this is not up for debate. If you feel like debating it with me, screw you you fascist-apologist fuck, and sit the fuck down. In this context – in any context outside academia – that’s what it means. Go read Wikipedia if you want the definition and history.
“Remigration” in this context absolutely and only means ethnic purge. All the leading haters in his administration – Miller, I’m looking in your direction – know damn well what it means. They used the word on purpose.
So I’m asking you not to discuss this shart of a statement without going directly to what REMIGRATION means. Do not let anyone lie and pretend it means something else, because that’s bullshit. Remigration is why they’re revoking every legal status they can; remigration is why they’re trying to end birthright citizenship; remigration means a violent ethnic purge.
And that’s what he’s told ICE – or more generally, “ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, the Patriots at Pentagon and the State Department” – to make happen.
So. What do we do, in particular, right now?
First off, make sure people know what this word means.
Second – know any “good cops”? Like, relatives or something you might actually be able to reach? Show them the Wikipedia article about what “remigration” means, and only then show them Trump’s statement. Make sure they understand what Trump said, and make sure they know what they’re being asked to do. Make them understand, like… now.
Make sure they understand the criminal act they’re being asked to perform.
Because that is, absolutely, the ask, and “just following orders” … just won’t do.
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A word you need to know right now
I’ve got a post going up tomorrow (Monday) morning, but the word you need to understand right now is:
Remigration
If you don’t already know this word – or if you’re in certain areas of academia and think you do, but do not in any context outside academia – you need to know what this word means right now. And you need to make sure your friends know what it means.
Wikipedia will explain it to you.
More tomorrow.
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Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers
Apparently he dressed up like a cop, because of course he did, and residents are advised not to open the door to police unless there are multiple officers present. I'd go one step further and say that you should never open the door to an unexpected official until you've confirmed that they're supposed to be there. If they are legit, they have an ID, and you have a phone number you can call - your local precinct, if they're cops, your gas company, whoever it is. (Uh. Maybe step out the back door to call if they say they're from the gas company. I mean, use your best judgment.)
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Weirdly specific firefox question
Now, when I open a new tab by clicking a link to open a new tab it opens right next to the tab I'm on. If I do it via the address window or the new tab button then it opens all the way at the end of my tabs, which is annoying and disorienting if I'm not already all the way at the end.
Is there a setting, perhaps in about:config, that I can adjust to change this behavior so it always opens new tabs next to the one I'm on?
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OMGOMGOMG!!!!
Okay, only the first episode so far (and two pre-season teasers) but... omg.
I've summed this one up for you all before as "Everybody is gay while fighting fascism in space" and "Turns out, fascism is both racist and inefficient", so yes, that does make it the perfect thing to listen to while heading out to protest. (Speaking of....)
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photographs are important
Seeing the usual In-Love-With-Failure and/or disruptors saying don’t take or post photos.
If you’re saying this: THERE IS MORE THAN ONE KIND OF PROTEST.
Don’t take photos at a direction action were laws may be violated, of course. But this isn’t that kind of protest. This is a LOUD AND VISIBLE protest, where showing massive numbers is the entire point, and having lots of sources posting massive numbers is more critical than ever.
A flood of sources is important, because the more A.I.-generated images are used to flood the zone, the more many sources of photographs matter. We have to out-flood their flood.
Now, if you are taking photos, don’t take close-ups without permission! That’s always true. But I advise that you DO take and post WIDE AREA PHOTOS which INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO COULD FIT IN AT A MAGA RALLY.
Middle-aged white men in particular.
MAGAts don’t give a shit until it’s them. If you see someone and think “yeah, they look like they could be someone at a Trump rally,” include them in the shot. That’s what they need to see.
You want to scare Trump, make it look like he’s losing “his people” to opposition rallies in your photographs.
No time to rewrite this better, I’m out the door. See you on the streets.
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No Kings Day
Today’s the day. It’s not too late to get out there. In Cascadia, most protests haven’t even started yet. If you can’t do the mornings, some protests start late – Lake Forest Park’s protest starts at 4:30 in the afternoon.
So find your local No Kings protest and show up. More different protests are better, not worse; one huge protest is easy to crack down upon; a dozen across the same area is impossible.
All protests right now are important, but today’s is particularly important.
Get out there. Go.
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"Is there anything you'd like to tell us about yourself?"
(These people really urgently need help with this, but unless this is a Secret Test I guess telling them wouldn't help me much.)
Alternative answer to the question: "Yes, I'd like to tell you that I really need money, please give me some, with or without hiring me first."
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If there is only one (1) time you turn out, do it this weekend
Find your local No Kings protest and show up. More different protests are better, not worse; one huge protest is easy to crack down upon; a dozen across the same area is impossible.
If you’re new at protests, show up at the Event Attendee Pre-Mobilization Mass Call today, 5pm Cascadian/Pacific, 8pm Eastern.
If you’re military or ex-military or military family, here’s extra information for you – 4pm Cascadian/Pacific, 7pm Eastern.
Turn out. Show up. Be there.
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