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Tattered

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Time for a proper introduction. I am a literature teacher, mostly retired. I love reading, music, baking, nature & cats. I am learning to boost a lot, which includes my passion for a truly inclusive world, so lots of support for Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Women, Working Class, & other rights. I understand users who want Mastodon to be a quiet corner, but I am more concerned about what happens if we look the other way when people suffer.

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benb, to Ukraine
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If Ukraine is defeated in the war, the U.S. will have to send troops to fight Russia's further aggression, former Vice President Mike Pence said on the Hugh Hewitt Show on July 5.
"I have no doubt that if (Russian dictator) Vladimir Putin overran Ukraine, it would not be too long... before the Russi https://kyivindependent.com/pence/ source : Martin Fornusek

Tattered,
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@benb Rich, coming from a guy who was complicit in hanging Ukraine out to dry, and revealing that he thinks the US will have to fight after Ukraine falls.

It is possible to loathe Trump and agree with his opinion on Pence, I guess.

gbhnews, (edited ) to fediverse
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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH News bringing you the world from . It's 74F at Logan Airport and visibility is 6 mi.

Speaking of Logan, the shutdown of one of the two tunnels leading away from the airport has begun. Officials haven't yet suggested just going to TF Green Airport in .

1 in 5 United Methodist churches have left the denomination because they don't want to affirm individuals.

An man just won his 7th straight Key Lime Pie eating championship.

Tattered,
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@gbhnews How about banning eating contests until no child goes hungry?

TheConversationUS, to USpolitics
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This weekend, stop using and as synonyms.

🇺🇸Patriotism encompasses devotion to the country as a whole – including all the people who live within it.

🇺🇸Nationalism refers to devotion to only one group or people over others.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-difference-between-nationalism-and-patriotism-208170

Pictured ⬇️
A 1950 poster shows Superman – a refugee from another planet and a character created by two Jewish immigrants to the U.S. – teaching this lesson to school kids.

Tattered,
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@TheConversationUS It is so easily subverted, though, isn’t it? As in HUAC.

RickiTarr, to random
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I hope that there is still room for idealists, who think we can and should still strive for a government for the people and by the people. Real change is slow and generational, it isn't flashy, it's hard work.

I don't know exactly how to celebrate my country right now, but I'll raise my glass repeatedly to the people who are still trying when it feels hopeless, to the true patriots who fight for human rights and not corporate greed.

There is goodness in the world, even if it doesn't always feel like it, so I'll celebrate courageous acts of kindness, people who defend those who cannot defend themselves, people who stand up when others tell them to sit down, thank you for your service.

Tattered,
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@RickiTarr It seems that if you really want rapid and meaningful change, all you have to do is buy the Supreme Court.

Better start saving dimes while the climate still supports life.

petergleick, to random
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Just a reminder that this Supreme Court isn't failing to give us rights we should have, they're actively taking AWAY rights we already had.

Tattered,
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@petergleick When your culture makes “progressive” a slur, it only has one way to go.

codinghorror, (edited ) to random

"It is worth noting that segregation was defended [by the US Supreme Court] as a deeply held religious belief." 😱

Tattered,
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@codinghorror I will never be shocked by anything that religious people do. After all, they openly divide humans into “saved” and “damned”.

tzimmer_history, to random
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An attempt to weaponize nostalgia around an exclusionary vision of the past in which discriminatory traditional hierarchies of race, gender, and religion were much more strict, imposing a much clearer order on society.

A perfect encapsulation of what the Right is all about.

Tattered,
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@tzimmer_history This strategy worked in England. Beware.

Skepticat, to random
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Nikki Haley recently said how life was so easy back then...we can get there again if we vote them out blah blah blah or something like that.

I remember needing my husband's signature for a credit card.

I don't want to do "back then" again.

Let's make sure it doesn't happen.

Tattered,
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@Skepticat If it was so easy back then, she could change her name back and see how popular she is with her fellow Republicans, eh?

NationCymru, to random
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Starmer says Labour Government will not raise income tax for top earners https://nation.cymru/news/starmer-says-labour-government-will-not-raise-income-tax-for-top-earners/

Tattered,
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@NationCymru Well, there’s a surprise. Tory Starmer true to form again.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Rich vs Poor

Tattered,
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@Radical_EgoCom More than this. They will prosecute ships that come to help the poor.

Sheril, to ai
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It's wild to me that there's currently so much panic & fear about what might do to "destroy" humanity, yet - at the same time - so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍

Tattered,
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@Sheril It’s almost like one is a capitalist smokescreen for the other…

ethanschoonover, to random
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The story of the internet is never let the money guys in

Tattered,
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@ethanschoonover Pretty much everything to be honest…

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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The abandoned Holy Trinity Church (vertical photo, click for full view)

Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/abandoned-holy-trinity-roman-catholic

Tattered,
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@AbandonedAmerica One day, all churches will look like this, or a smoldering pile of ashes. Let’s hope there are still humans around to look back at the folly of their ancestors.

JoePajak, to random

'The Great Smog of New York Echoes The Great Smog of London, 1952'. @JessicaLexicus
'Even before the great , London had gotten used to the sight of green clouds hovering over the city. They called them 'pea-soupers'.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicawildfire/p/the-great-smog-of-new-york-echoes?r=cwb8u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Tattered,
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@JoePajak I think the clouds were yellow, like the peas in a pea soup.

pivoinebleue, to random

Good!

Kyrsten Sinema is toast - Liberal Agenda

https://www.liberalagenda.com/politics/kyrsten-sinema-is-toast/36504/

>It's bad enough for Senator Kyrsten Sinema that early polling has her in a distant third place in a three way race between her, Democratic candidate Ruben Gallego, and the undetermined Republican candidate.

Tattered,
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@pivoinebleue By selling out her voters, her party, and, more broadly, the American people, and the American version of democracy, Sinema has become richer than I could ever have been in my career as a teacher.

And it seems very much like all of that deceit and greed are entirely legal.

Ethics ≠ politics ≠ law.

Miriamm, to random
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Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. During my time living in China, I once asked my colleagues about this event, but they vehemently claimed to have no knowledge of it. This is a photograph of the aftermath, it's illegal in China.

Tattered,
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@Miriamm I was in China for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. The local party gave a presentation in our school of China’s achievements. For 1967 & 1989, the presenter showed a blank screen, in silence. Just the date. Nothing “good” happened in those years.

juddlegum, to random
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Once you start banning school library books, this is where you end up

Tattered,
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@juddlegum What if banning that book was where it started, and the dangerous delusions behind climate change denial, “pro-life”, white supremacy, and all the other christofascist nonsense was given no traction? Maybe then, no other books would be banned.

StillIRise1963, to random
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“ 'In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,' the statement continued."

What in the fuck is this supposed to mean?🤔 🙄

YouTube policy that banned election fraud lies reversed as 2024 approaches

https://www.rawstory.com/youtube-election/

Tattered,
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@StillIRise1963 It means Google are Nazis.

NickEast, (edited ) to books
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That sounds right! 🤔

@bookstodon @bookstadon @bookbubble @books
@libraries



Tattered,
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@NickEast @bookstodon @bookstadon @bookbubble @books @libraries Shame the same principles weren’t applied to food and housing and healthcare.

seldo, to random
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The guy who can't keep a blogging site running would like to implant a chip in your brain and is looking for volunteers: https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

Tattered,
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@seldo Man whose cars and rockets burst into flames would like to put chips in people’s brains.

Go ahead, Musk fanboys!

dmoser, to random
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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.”

Tattered,
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@dmoser A truly developed country has neither rich nor poor.

roxiqt, to random

DATE: [looking at menu] I don't know if this dish would fill me up

ME: [being helpful] You aren't supposed to eat the dish, you are supposed to eat the food

Tattered,
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@roxiqt Ironically,that is the essence of mansplaining…

pivoinebleue, to random

DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/ron-desantis-police-relocation-violent-records?t=B_kuciOrkmoeWIuiVOkomA&s=09

>Governor’s incentive scheme recruits officers with history of excessive violence or who have been arrested since signing up



Tattered,
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@pivoinebleue Ah, the Florida SS. American SA, your days are numbered.

Green_Footballs, to random
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CNN has been fucked up for a long time. Now they are totally fucked up.

Most of the mainstream media is eagerly realigning to enable right wing madness because that’s where the clicks are.

Tattered,
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@Green_Footballs Also, that’s where the owners are.

heidilifeldman, to random
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Clearly, forcing this particular student to wear “masculine” rather than “feminine” attire is cruel to them. But reporting on gender-based dress codes must also note their patriarchal misogyny: telling all girls they have to wear dresses is a gender apartheid as well as discrimination against a trans girl. https://www.mississippifreepress.org/33223/trans-girl-sues-over-order-to-dress-as-boy-at-harrison-county-graduation

Tattered,
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@heidilifeldman This one hits home really hard. The savagery I encountered when I taught points like this in my classroom was, and remains, life-changing. The very idea of gendered clothing is a threat to safety. Ask the girls I used to teach how many had been molested on trains in uniform. 100%

Two students started a petition for permission to wear pants in winter, an act some teachers described as “terrorism” and “unnatural”.

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