“Disappeared” is how Argentines and Chileans talk about the citizens kidnapped by military regimes of 80s and 90s. Today Mexicans use it to refer to those who vanish in the cartel war. “Disappear” is a verb, noun & adj: When ppl are disappeared, they become los desaparecidos—the disappeared

Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · 2y ago

We gotta find better ways to describe these arrests, man. "Detained" ain't cutting it. Getting your car window busted out and getting dragged away isn't "detained." Getting stopped on the street and disappeared for writing an OpEd isn't getting "detained." The language needs to match the action here

Liverpool SolFed were out supporting the Crips Against Cuts demonstration in Liverpool today, fighting against cruel government cuts to disability benefits.

these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point

While it's very politically on-brand for an Anarcho-Syndicalist to be posting Rudolf Rocker, this passage of his has been playing in my head a lot recently, for obvious reasons.

Unimaginably disturbing that people from one country are being sent to a prison 'you don't come out of' in a completely different country by the government of a country they were living in. And people were warning from the start of The War on Terror that this would happen!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

The reason that we have due process is that the authoritarians who don't care about that type of stuff are also not especially picky about targeting the "right" people.

Happy Monday from one of my favorite conspiracy theories: Tuvok Obama

"The protests have swelled to include students, teachers and farmers" When students and farmers are both protesting against you it's probably going badly. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Huge crowds join anti-government rally in Belgrade after sporadic violence

Police deployed hundreds of officers in full riot gear in and around Pionirski Park, where supporters of Aleksandar Vučić have camped this week inside a ring of parked tractors.

reuters.com

This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."

Tír gan manga, tír gan anime.

Frodo don’t destroy the ring, you’ll just be playing into their hands by reacting at all imho

In 1933, center right politicians not too different from Schumer decided to voluntarily give Hitler power of Chancellor, and later complete dictatorial power of the country. They believed that giving Hitler unlimited power would weaken his political standing, somehow. They never held power again.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.

This is a really good burn but also to a significant degree I think the Dems just agree with a lot of stuff that ordinary people find outrageous and at least some of their apparent incompetence is actually a way for them to have some plausible deniability about their own beliefs.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Democratic Party is led by the politician equivalent of the dad who went out for cigarettes and never came back

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

“The Führer has directed the Wehrmacht to draw up options for increasing the German troop presence in Poland to achieve Herr Hitler’s goal of reclaiming the East”.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is also known as invading Panama.

The same law used to justify Japanese internments during WWII, among many, many other abuses. Usually ‘justified’ (to bend that word to breaking point) by the US being at war with someone. Which raises the obvious question: just who does the Trump regime think it’s at war with?

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING via CNN: “The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days. The move is designed to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge.”

An meine deutschsprachigen Freunde und Kameraden: Es gibt einen Aufruf, die aktuellen AWMF-Leitlinien zur Transgender-Gesundheitsversorgung ins Englische zu übersetzen, siehe unten.👇

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

Labour’s reported disability benefit cuts are not just about budgeting but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else). My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a shameful British tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

theguardian.com

If you're at the point of anti-woke moral panic that you're questioning whether NORTHERN IRELAND needs public investment in equality and inclusion initiatives, it's safe to say you're out of your fucking mind.

Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 2y ago

The Department of Finance has spent almost a quarter of a million pounds on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) training and related initiatives since 2019, with a further £70,000 shelled out by other Stormont departments.

The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture

The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y ago

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

Köln: Tausende bei Demo zum 8. März Zum internationalen feministischen Kampftag hatte wieder ein lokales Bündnis aufgerufen. Auf dem Neumarkt versammelten sich tausende Demonstrant*innen und zogen anschließend über Rudolfplatz und Friesenplatz zur […] [Original post on todon.nl]

The fight continues to get the unpaid wages the #SuperAwesomeDeluxe owners owe to the 115 workers they ditched at #AlmostFamous

a lot of postwar fascism’s energy has been spent on finding points of entry, wandering around outside the liberal house and trying every window and door

Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · 2y ago

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Smoking Hot Satan@darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 2y ago

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.