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Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social

@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social

Omnist- Intersectional Feminist- Anti-Capitalist- whatever hurts my sisters and brothers, hurts me Mundus Sine Caesaribus- A World Without Caesars Globalise the intifada "Music is the weapon of the future"- Fela Kuti

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Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · 2d ago

melissa4congress.substack.com/p/cruelty-is... --inflicting mass suffering, on purpose, with no discernible strategic value, no anticipated endpoint, at immense cost to our moral and strategic position in the world.-- Monsters use cruelty. Monsters have no moral highground. No matter the claim.

Cruelty is Inefficient.

What sanctions regimes on Iran, Iraq, and Cuba should have taught America about power.

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Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · 2d ago

“None of us want to be in this situation, where we are dealing with these kinds of impacts from climate-change-driven drought,” CWCB Taylor Hawes. “We’re not doing this for fun. We’re doing this because our situation requires it.” #ClimateChange #CO #drought www.agriculture.com/partners-col...

Colorado Has a New, Voluntary Program to Conserve Colorado River Water. Farmers Are Wary.

As the clock winds down on a historically dry year in the Colorado River Basin, Colorado water officials Wednesday said they’re willing to launch a new state-run conservation program that would chip i...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d ago

MEMPHIS — Elon Musk says he is living in an airstream next to xAI to oversee the massive data center buildout (As it sucks up resources & poisons the air of the surrounding majority-Black community that did not want it)

Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · 3d ago

Music is the weapon of the future. -- Fela Kuti #music #solidarity

David "Double Double Toil & Trouble"@dowagerabbess.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters waded into the debate to call Sheeran a 'little prick' while praising Macklemore for doing 'the right thing', and Massive Attack also spoke on the controversy: '’Neutrality’ in the face of the slaughter of more than 20,000 children can never be neutrality'."

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · 7d ago

open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/... Small Woodford county in Kentucky holds some of the most valuable horse farms in the world. Judge-Executive James Kay said. “It’s about holding the line for the community we treasure.” “We will not allow data centers to compromise our future.” #DataCenters #horses

Newsom Takes On Social Media Companies, Kentucky Says No To Data Centers, A Judge Blocks Mail-Ballot Rule, and Lawyers Say Trump Staff Payments Broke Federal Law

A dozen documents nobody expected anyone to read. Turns out we’re winning.

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Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · last wk.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83uWoro/ Had Americans watched the atrocities of the holocaust in real time and decided to turn a blind eye THAT would have been antisemitism. Watching this continued genocide in Gaza, calling out the hypocrisy of the Zionists using US military might to erase a people is not.

‘NAZA’, a documentary about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Co-director Yuval Abraham said Israeli intelligence officers described the mass killi...

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Kat Hitchcock@RiseUP.bsky.social@rightwhatswrong.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Vote Early - Ft Collins, CO” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... I'll be walking whilst protesting against #ICE #DataCenters #AI Pick your poison as there are plenty to choose from. Time to End This is NOW.

No Kings: Vote Early - Ft Collins, CO · Mobilize

Join us for No Kings: Vote Early on October 17th The Celebration begins at Civic Center Park at 1:00 pm We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next. For more than a year, millions of peop...

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