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Content warning Mention of racism
Maybe I’m missing something, but the main thing I take from this is that the family who were granted asylum had the wrong colour of skin or came from the wrong ethnic group.
#Politics #Immigration #Racism
Judge who granted Palestinian family asylum made wrong call, says Keir Starmer https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/12/judge-granted-palestinian-family-asylum-made-wrong-decision-keir-starmer
"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."
#Gitmo #Guantanamo #ConcentrationCamp #BlackLivesMatter #BrownLivesMatter #Racism #politics https://www.commondreams.org/news/gitmo-concentration-camp
I wish all those books about the Third Reich weren't so terribly, terribly relevant these days.
AOC responded on X. “I represent LaGuardia Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” she wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.” https://newrepublic.com/post/190969/aoc-trump-lies-dc-plane-crash
#Project2025 #Fascism #MAGA #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #ApartheidAmerica #Trump #Elon #USPol #WhiteNationalism #CivilRights #HumanRights
As predicted, Trump's racist attack on immigrants is snagging legal citizens, incl Indigenous people, because they are targeting folks based on skin color, rather than on the presence of absence of documentation.
#trump #immigration #racism #Indigenous #ice #raids #racialprofiling #deportation
I'm looking for books about power dynamics and social hierarchies.
Book recommendations very welcome!
And reposts 💖😊
Everything from the macro to the micro.
And, I love data.
Some of the books I've read already:
"The case against competition", Alfie Kohn
"Algorithms of oppression", Safiya Noble.
"Ain't I a woman", bell hooks.
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#hierachy #capitalism #Exploitation #oppression #womensrights #racism #bigotry #Ableism
"ICE agents almost never carry judicial warrants giving them the authority to enter private homes or businesses without permission, so they often wait to make an arrest when the person they’re looking for leaves their home or car. And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start
#neighborhoods #NeighborhoodWatch #immigrant #immigration #ICE #ICEraids #surveillance #deportation #racism #USpol #resist
Interview: Naomi Klein
"The end of the bombs does not mean the end of the genocide, unfortunately.
"Gaza is a crime scene.
"I don't think we've really understood what the Nazis were originally. We in Europe & in North America treated them as a rupture, instead of as a continuation of the ideologies of settler colonialism."
#NaomiKlein #Trump #USPol #Fascism #Racism #GazaGenocideNotWar .
We're all in boxes. 📦
On giving the little people the impression they’ve “got the power”
A thread 🧵
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#Hierarchy #Capitalism #Power #Oppression #Minorities #GenderEquality #Racism #WomensRights #Marginalized #Patriarchy #BlackLivesMatter #Exploitation #Economy
infighting amongst #MAGA fans
"Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist
'Arguing that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire” and calling him a proponent of “techno-feudalism on a global scale”, Bannon said. “His aggregation of wealth, and then – through wealth – power: that’s what he’s focused on.”'
#Musk #ElonMusk #Bannon #StephenBannon #USA #America #uspol #politics #Trump #DonaldTrump #technology #racism
Given the way things are going, I think we should all listen to "Under The God" by Tin Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpi5EN8-1Y
"Racism back in rule
White trash picking up Nazi flags
While you was gone, there was war
This is the West, get used to it
They put a swastika over the door"
https://genius.com/Tin-machine-under-the-god-lyrics
https://www.bowiebible.com/songs/under-the-god/
#DavidBowie #TinMachine #racism #fascism #nazi #hate #music #AlternativeRock #AlternativeMusic
Analysis: "Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech"
Early-20thC eugenics ran a pseudoscientific campaign to prevent entry to the US of what it called “inferior” immigrants & to "push certain groups —especially disabled, non-white, & otherwise marginalized people—out of the gene pool."
Musk amplifies users who promote the lie that Europeans are biologically superior to other ethnicities.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/
#Racism #Fascism #Ableism #BigTech #Eugenics #USPol #Thiel #Musk #Trump .
Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define #healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.
Progressives have been fighting for universal healthcare for well over a century. But #racism and #profit have always come first in the American model.
It started with the leader of #Prudential saying that if we didn’t have healthcare for all, Black people would die and ”solve the race problem”, and continues with CEOs making billions by letting Americans die.
#Medicare For All would save American families thousands every year immediately and do away with the 500,000+ annual bankruptcies in this country that happen only because somebody in the family got sick. But it would kill the billions every week in profits of the half-dozen corporate giants …
Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define #healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.
Progressives have been fighting for universal healthcare for well over a century. But #racism and #profit have always come first in the American model.
It started with the leader of #Prudential saying that if we didn’t have healthcare for all, Black people would die and ”solve the race problem”, and continues with CEOs making billions by letting Americans die.
#Medicare For All would save American families thousands every year immediately and do away with the 500,000+ annual bankruptcies in this country that happen only because somebody in the family got sick. But it would kill the billions every week in profits of the half-dozen corporate giants that dominate the health insurance industry.
