#White#Americans: As we near May 5 & a holiday massively co-opted by the #US, many of you/us should reconsider that sombrero & learn the history of #CincodeMayo. It celebrates an epic battle w/the French won against all odds & was revived by activists from the 1960s/70s #Chicano Movement because they viewed their struggle against the systemic #racism they faced in the #UnitedStates in the same light.
#NEWS: #AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) is funding the campaigns of 37 #ElectionDeniers b/c “This is no moment to be selective about friends”. This includes a man who espouses the #racist#ReplacementTheory that #ADL called to be fired. Read the #Jewish Insider’s coverage of the controversy.
@feditips I don’t know why, but i’ve lost my ability to follow people. When I go to someone’s profile, the follow button is just a blank gray.
PS i’m still getting my bearings in the fediverse so if there was a smarter way for me to ask this question, I apologize for not pursuing it.
@JWneural@ErikaSumner@feditips Thank you so much for explaining! I’m heavily involved in public policy, govt & social justice issues & my 1st thought was that this was coming from someone belonging to a party known for threatening tactics. I clearly lost the plot when I forgot that there’s an elephant theme to the Fediverse🤣
Absolutely zero offense taken & I very much appreciate you responding. Thought I was reaching out to the @mstdn.social server admin, not the entire fediverse. #Whoops!
As someone whose family is paid reparations by the Austrian government for the murders of my family during #WWII & who once worked for the #ADL I have serious objections to the declarations & priorities of the Anti-Defamation League’s prez #jonathangreenblatt re: #ElonMusk, the #Israel#Gaza war, #freespeech suppression & #antizionism. This article covers IT ALL.
MASSIVE #SCANDAL: Leaked docs show the president of the #UN global #climate summit #COP28 secretly planned to lobby countries to increase the United Arab Emirates’ oil & gas exports. The man is the head of an #oil company & outcry when he was chosen to lead COP28 was ignored. I wish the world would learn from our #SCOTUS debacle. Conflicts of interest erode #integrity like acid.
#BREAKING#NEWS: It was just discovered that an organizer for #MomsForLiberty (the #AltRight group that “protects” children through #BookBans, by opposing #CRT, & by vilifying #drag queens as “groomers”) is a convicted #pedophile who groomed a 14 year-old. It just goes to show, peddlers of #hate are the darkest among us.
Four-points restraints are supposed to be a last resort & only to be used briefly but the #racist staff at this Illinois #penitentiary left inmates in them for days, sometimes leaving scars the inmates dubbed “The Thomson tattoo”. THEN the new warden tried to address the abuse & got a letter from inmates warning him the guards were trying to bribe them to attack him. #OverseerOfficer#abuse#whitesupremacy
If you think the insidious effects of overturning #roevwade just impacted #women seeking abortions, think again. Women across the country have been denied or delayed access to basic medications, despite not needing them for abortions. The feds started investigating chain pharmacies and now #Walgreens and #CVS are “voluntarily” signing up for training. #abortionishealthcare
"When you look at a rule like non-unanimous juries, what you see is just a constant failing & an intentional assault on people of color”. “#JimCrow juries”, created when #Black people were allowed to sit on juries, were outlawed in 2020. Yet 100s await appeals that may not come #BLM#BlackMastodon
#BREAKING : NC governor vetos #Abortion ban legislation…but their fight is FAR from over. They just had an elected switch parties to give the #GOP a veto-proof supermajority that will now vote to override…BUT if just 1 dissents, the veto stands. #AbortionISHealthcare#news
We’re WAY past the point of #White folks being unaware of the potentially fatal consequences of calling cops on #Black folks. Yet for the “crime” of walking through his gated community this #Fresno HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL dials 911 calling the girls “Section 8” & “ghetto”.
This man should not be responsible for kids. #HesGotToGo#BLM #BlackMastodon