(Bluesky's nuclear block function means the original post isn't visible here, but the context is yet another leftist doing the "Dems bad, don't blame us for refusing to support Dems, etc., etc." song and dance)

You know, the second to last post is true for a lot of these Very Online leftists, I think. They actually do know the parties aren't the same, deep down, but they can't possibly risk being seen as Cringe and a bootlicker by saying so, leaving them to hope everyone else acts like an adult and does the work for them

It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."

He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."

It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.

From the page:

It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.

just read the sentence “if you didnt listen to hozier in middle school-” and i stopped bc i blacked out. im loggin off. how fucking old are you guys

I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.

He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.

Trump's desire to get Greenland is a direct attack on indigenous lands and it needs to be framed this way a lot more. Greenlandic Inuit make up about 90% of Greenland's population; they're frequently under attack from Denmark's government and now they're facing the US president threatening war just to tear their lands apart.

Under attack from the danish government??????

Elaborate on that?

Greenlandic Inuit face many of the same issues that other indigenous groups face under colonialist powers (and Denmark IS a colonialist power), such as loss of language and cultural identity, forced displacement, extremely high poverty and suicide rates, attacks on their lands for its natural resources, and ongoing battles for sovereignty.

Current battles for Greenlandic Inuit involve trying to get full control over mining rights in Greenland, reviving cultural practices like traditional fishing, and keeping custody of their children. Greenlandic Inuit parents face Danish-centered parenting tests, often in Danish which many of those parents can't speak and based around Danish parenting styles, and Inuit children are disproportionately removed from their families and placed in Danish households. Which is a form of cultural genocide for anyone who isn't aware.

hi y’all i just wanted to put you onto this fundraiser for the buffalo nations grasslands alliance. they’re trying to recoup some of the funds for black-footed ferret conservation on tribal grounds that the trump/musk administration has frozen, which is impacting not only the conservation efforts themselves but the livelihoods of the people working on them. the frozen grant is 1.1 million but this fundraiser has a goal of 50,000.

the fundraiser has 24 days left and has only reached 2% of its goal with 11 donations. black-footed ferrets are an endangered lazarus taxon that was thought to be extinct from 1979-1981 before being rediscovered by accident. they’re a miracle of conservation and it would be horrible to lose them for good, not to mention (again) the impact of people working with these animals losing their jobs which is outlined in the fundraiser link. indigenous-led conservation efforts are extremely important for a wide variety of reasons and as someone in the zoology area i feel obligated to share this fundraiser to contribute to those efforts.

i know that things are hard right now and there’s a lot of people and organizations all across the world that need help, so don’t feel pressured BUT if you have extra money and you can contribute to this fundraiser or share it with people who can that would be great.

super cute black-footed ferrets ^

Still genuinely mind boggling even after all of this time that there are people who can, with a straight face, espouse logic like "I'm not antisemitic, I just think that literally half of the planet's Jews are evil and genocidal and deserve to be punished horribly and painfully for this because of the country they live in."

Fucking ludicrous.

Or say they support indigenous rights and Land Back movements and then call Israel an imperialist colonialist settler apartheit state 🙄

They say these things because it sounds good and righteous but the logic doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Turns out, words mean things 🤷🏻‍♀️

Someone on Wattpad is accusing me of being a Nazi because I said I don't like Gal Gadot, and when I answered with the fact I don't like her as an actress and that she's a Zionist, this motherfucker with Voldemorts fucking surname attacks me with, and I quote, "what's wrong with wanting Jews to live safely are you a nazi supporter or something"

honey pie my family was almost entirely wiped out by the Nazi's. My family has lost countless sons, cousins, brothers to those beasts. I've been antifa since I learned about WW2 when I was like 4.

Then I went on to explain the stance of the Torah to her but idk if she will read it. Any Jewish person can correct me but I googled and I gathered that the Torah is not supportive of the State of Israel and that the actual one will rise when the Messiah comes. Like, if it survives until then, cool, but if it doesn't, they're basically indifferent about it.

And I just went and utilized what I've been pushing into my head for the past month and said that Jews are as well protected in any country under the chapter about hate speech against religions in basically every goddamn constitution in the world.

SHE LITERALLY HAS FICTIONAL HITLER'S FUCKING SURNAME IN HER USERNAME WHAT THE FUCK ANNALISE.

You're wrong. On many levels.

For one, why even bring up the Torah? Israel is a country that exists, like every other country in the world.

For two, what is this "actual Israel', Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948.

For three, "Jews are well protected in any country" is a lie, plain and simple. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Antisemitism is a huge problem in many countries and burying your head in the sand about it doesn't actually make that problem go away.

And as a side bar, Judaism is not indifferent to Israel. You have understood nothing of what you read if you came to that conclusion. So not only are you wrong about the situation on the ground, you are wrong in your attempting to twist the importance of Israel and Jerusalem.

OP, not only is everything you said wrong, it's so wrong that's hard to identify where to start correcting it. To pull out a term that I haven't used in a while, you are fractally wrong.

If we examine any one of your claims, it's wrong all the way down.

Like, for example, "Jews are as well protected in any country under the chapter about hate speech against religions in basically every goddamn constitution in the world."

The Maldives, where one must be Muslim, would like to know where you got your information from. Ditto for Saudi Arabia, where Jews are banned. In Yemen, it's literally not a crime to kill a Jew. I can go on and list over a hundred countries where being a Jew would result in violence or execution, but I'll just leave it there, because then I might be tempted to continue on with the rest of your incorrect beliefs about Jews, Judaism, and Israel, and they're all just as incorrect as your belief that Jews are "safe" everywhere in the world.

I mean, apart from the wrongness - which is indeed incredible, I mean, how to know where to even START correcting this shit - this is an excellent example of the fandomization of "activism".

"She has Voldemort's surname in her username so we know SHE'S the real fascist!" What, Riddle? That is. A common word. In fact, while it's an uncommon surname, it's not a SUPER uncommon one. It could be this person's real, actual, RL surname for all OP knows.

But nooo, they associate it with Harry fucking Potter, and thinks that means something.

pain box

“Put your hand inside the box.”

“What’s in it?”

“Pain.”

“......”

“...it’s bread?!”

“Oui.”

actually this counts as a canon-compliant grandma joke because they do speak French in Dune sometimes but only to be annoying

Nothing like the word "Zionazi" to show that the person doesn't know the meaning of either word.

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

March–April 1944.

1,300 Jewish children taken from the Kaunas Ghetto.

250 orphans seized from French shelters.

All murdered — just for being Jewish.

Some cried for their mothers.

Others whispered prayers.

They were only children. We remember them.

Unpacked Media

the photograph of the two young brothers from Kovno garnered quite a bit of attention in February, because Yad Vashem shared it on their account the day before Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned in coffins.

I shared it then, but want to attach it here too, so their names can be remembered.

I saved this on the day of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir’s funeral:

I don’t believe nothing has changed, because we have changed. the world cannot burn us away, no matter how many times it may try.

Avraham and Emanuel didn’t get the chance to be held up across the world, and so many children lost to the Holocaust remain unknown to us. it’s impossible to quantify them. like those two small boys 80 years ago, Ariel and Kfir were not the only children murdered in this time by a brutal ideology that wishes to eradicate Jewish life, but they’ve become the representatives of that loss, symbolizing them all while remaining their individual selves too. say their names, hold their memories. their lights shine on and we will make that mean something.

through days like these, when we’re united in such painful collective grief, remember that it comes from collective love.

"Vibes" are not a basis for justice. "Everyone thought he was creepy and weird so we should've known he was a serial killer" is a stupid as hell thing to say, lots of people seem creepy and weird to their neighbors and are just completely average people. Stop pushing narratives that kill people, especially neurodivergent people and men of color.

I've said it before but a lot of self-declared leftists on tumblr give off very strong "would join a lynch mob in a heartbeat" energy. Maybe because many of them have explicitly said they would join a lynch mob.

"Why does Group A deserve human rights if Group B doesn't have them?"

Both groups deserve human rights. That's how human rights work.

Anyone who convinces you to barter one group's rights against another is not interested in giving them to either group.

fml we gotta do everything ourselves here

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