what are you here for?

i've been on this site for 10 fucking years and the fact that black people and trans women are systematically chased out and have been chased out one by one from this website is really fucking gross. I hate this website. Racist fucking website.

there used to be so many more black bloggers here prior to the "nsfw" ban, this is not a space marginalized people can use to talk about their issues, terfiest place on the internet tbh.

Even before that. I remember that for about 3 years there was an annual black out. Then when the purge of "Russian Bots" happened damn near 2/3 of all the popular black bloggers I knew disappeared from the site. And people were profoundly disinterested in questioning the validity of Tumblr's claim that the accounts were Russian agents. Didn't matter that I knew some of them IRL it fit their world view and that was that. Hardly ever see significant black blogs on here anymore.

April 14, 2025. New Bedford, MA

bernie STILL having cops throw pro-palestine protestors out of his massive rallies and saying "israel has a right to defend itself against terrorism" and absolutely not knowing how to respond to that NOT being the vibe of his audience……

at least good to see that the crowd is not with him on this. i was worried at first that they were booing the protestors at the beginning given what we saw at the dnc and every kamala rally all through her campaign but they very clearly only started booing loudly when the cops tore away the flag and started escorting the protestors out, and the entire crowd then chanting free palestine while bernie tries and fails to plow through his prepared statements "in america today— in america today—" before finally addressing it by calling it "a sensitive issue" ………… well. that's where we're at.

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

Gonna talk about the U.S. like Wikipedia talks about China:

"The situation of human rights in the United States has attracted significant criticism from foreign governments, foreign press agencies, and non-governmental organizations, alleging widespread civil rights violations such as detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, restrictions of fundamental rights, and excessive use of the death penalty."

"The American constitution states that the "fundamental rights" of citizens include freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and property rights. However, in practice, these provisions do not afford significant protection against criminal prosecution by the state. The U.S. has limited protections regarding LGBT rights."

"Although some criticisms of government policies and the ruling party are tolerated, censorship of political speech and information are amongst the harshest in the world and routinely used to prevent collective action. The U.S. also has the most comprehensive and sophisticated Internet censorship regime in the world, with numerous popular social media apps and websites being controlled and censored by state policy. The government suppresses popular protests and demonstrations that it considers a potential threat to "social stability". The U.S. additionally uses a massive espionage network of cameras, facial recognition software, sensors, and surveillance of personal technology as a means of social control of persons living in the country"

"Under US economic policy, thousands of private corporations use sensitive personal information to assign individuals a 'credit score,' a legal form of discrimination which incentivizes citizens to make housing, banking and other consumer decisions optimized for maximal profit extraction by financial middlemen"

BLACK SAILS • XXXII.

The final findings of the “horrendous” eight-year long “massacre map”, tracing the violent history of the Australian colonial frontier have been released.

The Colonial Frontier Massacres digital map project, spearheaded by the late emerita professor of history at the University of Newcastle, Dr Lyndall Ryan, officially concluded in 2022.

Since then, researchers have reviewed every site on the map, with contributions from the general public, volunteers and peer reviewers. Much of the rest of the work on the map was completed by professional and academic staff without pay.

. . .

Guardian Australia collaborated with the university team to produce The Killing Times, a long-running series telling the stories of all sides of Australian frontier history.

The project found that:

. . .

The project defined a colonial frontier massacre as the deliberate killing of six or more relatively undefended people in one operation. It did not include the many documented killings of fewer than six people in incidents on the frontier, so the numbers generated are very cautious lower estimates.

There were likely many more killed, Pascoe says, “but we had to limit ourselves or we would never have finished. It was a huge task. Finalising this work and making a stable version of the data available in an archive means other researchers can build on it and answer these and many other questions,” he says.

The work has changed our understanding of history in Australia, Pascoe says.

“Back in the 80s and 90s it was possible for people to argue that the frontier wasn’t so violent, and for them to be believed. Nobody can argue that point any more. Anybody can go and read the evidence for themselves. It’s time to move on to the next step – now that we know that these events happened, we need to understand more about them,” he says.

by Alessandro Comotti

Idt it's being emphasized enough that subjecting international students to random and not entirely predictable ideological tests based on their posting history is going to cause problems for the US higher education industry, which is a little bit of a problem since that's one of the things we actually "export" in some sense. Like the soft power from training the world is significant but the revenue stream alone is massive. If the secretary of defense's paranoia can unilaterally remove you without so much as an administrative hearing then someone with a government run by rules is going to show up and eat one of the few industries we still control.

The government is now asking that Harvard do DEI for conservatives (as well as, ofc, expel anyone who's ever expressed an opinion on Palestine to the left of what would be considered conservative in Haaretz) with a completely straight face as if this isn't the kind of thing that conservatives would make fun of you for believing would happen as recently as like 2016.

by studiosalud (2024)

They're openly going after immigration lawyers now

Correction: It was a mistake message, sent to her since she was listed as an emergency contact.

Still bad news: They're trying to scare legal immigrants into self-deporting.

"The middle class are not your enemy" "people who make 200k a year are potential allies" could they start fucking acting like it instead of turning into reactionaries cuz their home value might go down?

To be clear I've been in two different unions and done plenty of organizing. Preaching to the poorest and least secure classes of our society about how they need to be extending olive branches to those more secure and privileged than them is so deeply unserious. Were tryna fuckin eat and make she we dont end up on the street if we arent already and now you want us to also do all the leg work comforting and educating folks who could immediately and easily help us but regularly dont. Listen to yourselves

oof

ID: Screenshot of a tiktok of a white person covering their eyes. The overlaid text reads "I can't celebrate my archievements because, in my mind, it was my obligation to archive them". Underneath is the tarot card Ten of Wands. End ID.