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Not The Onion
Wait, aren't gun fetishists always whining that anyone who wants any sort of gun control doesn't know anything about guns so they can't speak on the subject?
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IMPORTANT!!!
I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there
Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide
Things included are
- The symbol for anarchy
- ACAB and 1312
- The three arrows pointing down in a circle
- Eat the rich
Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist
So if you live in the US please be careful
Oh my god thank you for telling me!
@safety-pin-punk idk if you’ve seen this yet but tagging you in case u haven’t
Hey what the fuck
NAZIS GO HOME IS A SYMBOL OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM????
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Israel breaks ceasefire again
The only real and lasting ceasefire is the abolishment of this apartheid state that cannot exist without killing Palestinians. Its entire identity is based on the erasure of Palestine and we need to be honest with each other.
woooahhhh that's crazy maybe they should consider hmmmm idk giving us our 24 people back just a thought
Israel didn't break the ceasefire. Hamas has been breaking it for weeks, and they broke it by withholding hostages. This is a choice by Hamas.
They knew what would happen. They knew Israel would retaliate. They put Palestinian lives at risk because they wouldn't just admit defeat.
Hamas doesn't give a damn about Palestinian lives
Check the date. 2 weeks ago. Israel blocked humanitarian aid. Not to mention, Israel failed to meet with Hamas commanders to proceed with phase 2 of the ceasefire, probably emboldened by Trump to be aggressive, hence why Hamas withheld the hostages.
But before that, Israel has violated the ceasefire over 265 times since February.
And delayed the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners.
Or withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor.
All of which are stipulations of said ceasefire.
But sure. Believe that Hasbara, fuckfaces. Absolutely fucking delusional motherfuckers.
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Remember when the UN reported that Israel weaponized sexual violence
Trigger warning: this is talking about vivid descriptions about rape that Israel has done and how they systemized sexual violence. It’s going to be heavy.
I wanted to talk about this report because you’d think this would have hit like GNX after the Kendrick and Drake beef. But there was a whole lot of silence on this. Why? Well it was reported on by mainstream news outlets but let’s say the headlines said a completely different thing.
This is what the New York Times had as the their headline and sub-headline about that very same report. They do not cover the mass rape that the report is actually talking about until the last paragraph.
France 24 did the same thing.
CNN did not report on this report at all. In fact, the next fucking day, they report on the Congo’s use of sexual violence. It’s like it didn’t happen.
Even Al Jazeera for fuck’s sake. And I had to make sure I wasn’t tripping and read the report myself. Either they read the first half and decided to make it out that is what the report was actually about and just didn’t read the whole thing, or they are being wildly disingenuous.
Yes, the report does cover instances of Israeli forces bombing and targeting reproductive health facilities in Gaza, that is like the first 10 pages of the 60 page article.
Raping men with cattle prods to the point that they had burns in their anuses. Using brooms, vegetables, and etc to rape them. Using a metal stick to insert into another man’s penis.
Basically an Israeli detainment center made Oz look like a joke. What I found off about the testimonials with women is that they’d describe in detail of women in duress but stop short on claiming rape. For example
Several instances of passages like this were the situation where threats of rape occurred and apparently not followed through in situations that were dubious. Instances of a woman being stopped at checkpoint, being told to go around a hill with three soldiers, be told to be strip searched for hours, and then… it’s left blank. It’s weird how often that occurs regarding the women testimonies.
I do not know how to describe this. It’s like they are silencing themselves from admitting they were sexually assaulted. Sure, the Palestinian Authority claimed rape of several female detainees, but something feels off. Like it described in detail how Palestinian men were sexually assaulted and abused physically by Israeli men and women, soldiers and civilians. There were autopsies to medical examinations highlighting the abuse. But Commission gets these testimonies that never go that far with women. It just stops short. It’s like they are omitting themselves. This is something that unsettles me.
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every single discussion about the fucking signal groupchat makes me feel so insane. "what a display of incompetence! what a failure! let's all make accidental groupchat mistake jokes now" what the fuck are you talking about. it worked. the fact that THIS is the conversation now is literally the point. jeffrey goldberg literally did it again. selling the bombing of the middle east to the public is the entire purpose of his career as a "journalist"
former iof prison guard who spent the past year fully deepthroating the genocidal boot and famously sold the invasion of iraq as something that "will be remembered as an act of profound morality"? "journalist" who literally built his career on manufacturing consent for bombing arabs "accidentally" invited to a top secret group chat about bombing arabs oh no how could this happen? what are you TALKING about. fork found in kitchen! likely place for him to be! my god
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, has been at the center of a national story after he was “inadvertently” included in a group Signal chat with administration officials as they planned a deadly bombing in Yemen. Much of the coverage has focused on the mishandling of military secrets, rather than the impact of the bombings themselves, targeting the poorest country in the Middle East, which the United States has helped bomb and blockade for over a decade. Goldberg is not just an observer: He is contributing to this disregard for Yemeni lives, and his dismissiveness sheds light on why he was an administration media contact to begin with.
In an interview that aired on March 26, Deepa Fernandes, one of the hosts of NPR's “Here and Now,” interviewed Goldberg about the “group chat heard 'round the world” that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance. During one portion of the interview, Fernandes did something few other journalists are doing. She asked Goldberg about the Yemeni people who were killed in the bombing, which took place on March 15.
Deepa Fernandes: There's little talk of the fact that this attack killed 53 people, as we mentioned, including women and children. The civilian toll of these American strikes. Are we burying the lede here?
Jeffrey Goldberg: Well, those, unfortunately, those aren't confirmed numbers. Those are provided by the Houthis and the Houthi health ministry, I guess. So we don't know that for sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're, well, I don't know if we're burying the lede, because obviously huge breaches in national security and safety of information, that's a very, very important story, obviously. And one of the reasons, you know, it's a very important story is that the Republicans themselves consider that to be an important story, when it's Hillary Clinton doing the deed, right? So that's obviously hugely important.
But yeah, I think that covering what's going on in Yemen, the Arab and Iran backed terrorist organization, the Houthis, that are that are firing missiles at Israel and disrupting global shipping and occupy half of Yemen, and all kinds of other things in the US, you know, and the Trump administration criticizing the Biden's response and Europe wants Trump to do more. I mean, yeah, there's, there's a huge story in Yemen. But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists. So maybe this becomes like a substitute for a discussion of Yemen. I don't know.
Goldberg not only seems unconcerned about the death toll and eager to cast doubt on its veracity, but he also appears unprepared for the question. It’s as though it didn’t occur to him that the substance of the Signal exchange itself—the bombing—might be a legitimate topic of conversation, and he seems eager to move on.
This is despite the fact that there is evidence in the exchange itself that the United States hit a civilian site in the bombing. Waltz wrote in the Signal chat that the US military had bombed a residential building. “The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote in the chat, to which JD Vance replied: “Excellent.”
Yet, as Nick Turse noted for The Intercept, “So far, however, there has been little focus on the specifics of the attack, much less discussion of the fact that one of the targets of the March 15 strike was a civilian residence.”
The story of US belligerence in Yemen should be a huge one. Since 2015, the US-Saudi coalition has used American manufactured bombs to hit wedding parties, factories, a school bus, and a center for the blind. It’s difficult to know the exact death toll, but around three years ago, the death toll from direct and indirect consequence of war surpassed 377,000. Direct bombings by both the Biden and Trump administrations threaten a wider war, and have occurred in lockstep with US support for Israel as it has ruthlessly bombed and attacked Gaza since October 7.
Goldberg, of course, was included in that group chat because he was a contact of someone on the administration’s thread, and his history of laundering the US military’s mass atrocities is a good indicator of why. In the lead-up to the US-led war on Iraq, Goldberg was central to peddling the disproven conspiracy theory that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda, a key lie of the George W. Bush administration, used to justify the invasion. One month before the US started the war, he went on NPR to discuss “Possible Links Between Iraq and al Qaeda and Evidence That the Iraqis May be Trying to Evade Weapons Inspectors.”
Goldberg has a long career of uplifting the media narratives of the United States and its allies, including a big piece in 2010 where he floated justifications for a possible Israeli war on Iran. Like many of the Iraq War pushers, Goldberg’s lies about Iraq did not harm his career, but marked its ascent. Under his tenure, the Atlantic has shut out Palestinian voices and stories, as the US has helped Israel wage genocide in Gaza.
Goldberg’s dismissal of Yemeni deaths is not a small detail of this blockbuster story, but a central component. One way to get on the speed dials of high-level officials is to have a proven career of doing their bidding.
As we see wall-to-wall coverage of the Signal leaks on supposed liberal networks like MSNBC, it’s important to remember that the primary scandal is the bombing of Yemen, a reality that the network has long obscured. As The Column’s Adam Johnson noted in July 2018, at that point it had been a year since MSNBC had mentioned the US backed destruction of Yemen. Yet during that same period, MSNBC had done 455 segments on the Trump-Stormy Daniels affair. As media reports and House Intelligence Committee hearings ignore the human toll of US military attacks, we continue to see the ascent of those who have built their careers on directing public attention away from the people the United States kills.
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Endlessly infuriating to me that cishet men can do this and still have the ability to show their faces in public, but if a queer person wears leather or drag makeup within one mile of any potential child they have "PEDO" branded on their forehead for the rest of time.
Oh, that's an easy one, the patriarchy doesn't consider girls to be children.
No, for real - they don't see girls as kids. Even the majority of women who subscribe to conservatism struggle to recognise their own daughters as anything more than free domestic labourers to be sold off to a suitable man at some point for some price (usually social status or "connections"). That's why they legitimately don't register the glaring cognitive dissonance.
Hope this helps, for the record - I hate it too.
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As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times aired a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.” On March 22, 2020, at the height of the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman coined the mantra for Trump’s back-to-work campaign, writing, “The cure cannot be worse than the disease.” By this, Friedman meant that the limited lockdowns and other public health measures then in place had to be ended and society fully reopened, to resume the flow of profits to Wall Street. As part of their commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, the Times has chosen to reaffirm their support for the ruling elites’ “herd immunity” policy, recently airing a special episode of their podcast The Daily titled, “Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?” to which they answer definitively “No.” Hosted by the chameleon-like Michael Barbaro, who always pliantly suits his narrative to serve the interests of the powers-that-be, the episode featured Princeton University academics Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee discussing their recent book, “In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.” The central purpose of this work of historical revisionism is to portray the US’ limited lockdowns in the opening weeks of the pandemic as misdirected policies, while chastising public health officials for focusing solely on reducing death rates. In addition to the Times interview—listened to by roughly 4 million people—this right-wing book has also been promoted by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and other mainstream media pundits. The absence of epidemiologists, pandemic experts, and historians in such a critical discussion raises obvious concerns. The Times’ choice not to include experts in the field of public health exposes their hostility to any genuine analysis of the systemic causes of the spread of COVID-19 from the outset.
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Whoa, you mean that a newspaper which backed the Iraq invasion and the Israeli genocide is also dishonest about covid? What a shocker!
Source: wsws.org
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reposting because i completely fucked the numbers up the first time and adding the list of reps below.
The Trump administration’s abrupt street arrests of legal immigrants, who subsequently disappear into government detention, should be a huge scandal met with swift action by Democrats in Congress. But for some reason, just 34 Democrats in the Senate and the House have signed on to a letter demanding answers about the arrest of Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts and other international students who have had their legal immigration status swiftly revoked without due process and now face deportation.
House Members:
- Representative Yassamin Ansari—Arizona
- Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton—District of Columbia (nonvoting delegate)
- Representative Hank Johnson—Georgia
- Representative Delia Ramirez—Illinois
- Representative André Carson—Indiana
- Representative Jill Tokuda—Hawaii
- Representative Ayanna Pressley—Massachusetts
- Representative Lori Trahan—Massachusetts
- Representative Katherine Clark—Massachusetts
- Representative Stephen Lynch—Massachusetts
- Representative Seth Moulton—Massachusetts
- Representative James McGovern—Massachusetts
- Representative Jake Auchincloss—Massachusetts
- Representative Rashida Tlaib—Michigan
- Representative Ilhan Omar—Minnesota
- Representative LaMonica McIver—New Jersey
- Representative Bonne Watson Coleman—New Jersey
- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—New York
- Representative Summer Lee—Pennsylvania
- Representative Greg Casar—Texas
- Representative Lloyd Doggett—Texas
- Representative Donald S. Beyer Jr.—Virginia
- Representative Mark Pocan—Wisconsin
23/213 - 10.79%
Senators:
- Senator Jeff Merkley—Oregon
- Senator Tina Smith—Minnesota
- Senator Andy Kim—New Jersey
- Senator Chris Van Hollen—Maryland
- Senator Elizabeth Warren—Massachusetts
- Senator Edward Markey—Massachusetts
- Senator Brian Schatz—Hawaii
- Senator Adam Schiff—California
- Senator Bernie Sanders—Vermont
- Senator Peter Welch—Vermont
- Senator Tim Kaine—Virgina
11/45 - 24.44%
TOTAL: 34/258 (13.17%)
i will say it's kind of sad seeing liberals around the internet react to this with "where's chris murphy?! where's jasmine crockett?! where's cory booker?!" or whoever their blorbo from politics happens to be. newsflash: they don't give a fuck. but that isn't stopping reddit from now deciding that "letters don't matter" (they don't, but this was not the consensus opinion until now) and that "there's only so much time in the day, maybe they didn't know about it!" outstanding stuff.
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People are trying to bring back 1880s-era anti-ASL sentiment. Worst timeline.
You'd be surprised how often I'm told there is no interpreter at an event, there are no captions at an event, and they act like I'm asking for something absurd.
This isn't a performative dance routine interpreting what is going on.
But hey, deafies, we're woke now because we require interpreters.
This is all absolutely true. Also, to add, many deaf people receive a much worse education because the schools are unwilling/unable to invest in proper education for deaf people. So there are deaf people out there who struggle to read English because the structure of English is completely different than the structure of Sign Languages.
Also, Sign Language is NOT international. Signing in London is different that Ireland, or Paris, Toronto, Mexico, New Zealand, India-- some of the signing may be similar or even related but they are all different languages. So if you see several interpreters at an event or a news broadcast or en EU summit, and they are doing different signs, this is why.
And for the idiots who still don't comprehend that for many people English is a second language, even signers who were born in an English speaking country-- and still argue 'you get captions what's the problem' - Have you ever watched the auto-craptions on the news or a live event, or even a film on Amazon that they couldn't bother to get a human to properly provide subs? Yeah. A good percentage of the time, it's just word salad that means absolutely nothing. You're likely to just get a pile of words that may or may not have to do with anything going on in what you are trying to watch.
Some time, put on the news with no captions or sound. Put on a film or show you have never seen before, and try to lipread what is being said. Try to figure out what the plot or context is from just the actor's faces. Just try to engage when the only queues you have are facial expressions and movement on the screen-- if you can even see them talk at all, a lot of films and shows are shot over a shoulder with the back of someone's head.
Wear ear-plugs when you are out having a coffee with a friend and try to figure out what your friend is even saying. No music, no nothing-- just earplugs and trying to figure it out.
Do all of this for a week and then tell me that craptions are enough. Then tell me we don't need interpreters. After two days, you're going to be angry and frustrated because you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Interpreters do more than just tell you the exact words. They INTERPRET English language and put it into sign. They aren't just randomly throwing around their hands and looking silly. And they do it on the fly, live, as something is going. A good majority of the times, Interpreters have no idea what is going to be said. In those moments they are hearing something in English (or French, Spanish, what have you), figuring out what the best way to sign these words back to a sign-user base, and they have to do it all in seconds. It's a LOT of work.
So if you are at an event or you see two or even more signers who keep switching off after half an hour or an hour, know that the money is NOT being wasted having multiple interpreters there. They are not being lazy. They are doing a whole helluva lot, and their brains and hands and faces occasionally need a break.
So if you are hiring interpreters for an event, don't be surprised if they say you'll need to pay more to have several interpreters there. The interpreters are incredibly skilled, and they work bloody hard. If they tell you they need more than one, don't have a fit at them and try to talk them into just having one interpreter, thinking you can pay less. Understand that they work their arses off, and it's a very intense job that requires a lot of brain power and body power. So please, PLEASE be kind to interpreters.
Seconding all of this, but also to get more specific on the first point:
ASL (American Sign Language) is not only different from BSL (British Sign Language), they're not even in the same language family. Similarly, LSM (Mexican Sign Language) is different from LSE (Spanish Sign Language), and there are other regional sign languages in Spanish speaking South America.
My (hearing) kid is studying ASL and when there was a Deaf contestant on British Bake Off he said that he really didn't recognize the BSL signing. But we traveled to Peru last summer and saw some people signing at a restaurant, and he said he recognized a few signs of LSP, even as he could tell it was a different language.
When you start to understand how much signed languages are full and complete languages with specific grammar and structure, you realize why captioning is not an equivalent to interpretation.
"Why would deaf people need interpretation in a language that's their first language? Can't they just read a fast moving faux-phonetic transcript of a speech made in their second language."
Clown-ass behavior.
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They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.
They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.
Keep talking about Luigi.
“The dossier adds that the public ‘may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.’”