Absolutely sucks that transition didn’t cure my mental illness, undo decades of repression and trauma, and make me into a different person. It just made me “me but woman.” Which is great! I love it! But I wanted a magic fix to all my problems, dammit.
During Panel 3, @rondeibert.bsky.social (Citizen Lab) will present "Silenced by Surveillance: The Impacts of Digital Transnational Repression on Journalists, Human Rights Defenders, and Dissidents" (co-author: Siena Anstis).
No wonder her and Starmer got along so well... Also spare me all the "uh, protests are a waste of time" discourse when the repression against them is only ramping up everywhere.
Alors de la part du premier flic de France qui a plus qu’institutionalisé la répression massive des manifs en France, avec son collègue Valls, je sais pas si j’ai vraiment besoin d’entendre son avis sur la gauche.
Bernard Cazeneuve : « A force d’excommunication des plus raisonnables à gauche, on finit par devoir subir la vraie droite »
Dans un entretien au « Monde », l’ancien premier ministre juge l’alliance entre l’ancienne majorité et la droite « incongrue au regard du vote des Français » et pointe la responsabilité des socialistes dans l’échec du rapport de force après les…
At one of the Secret Policeman’s Balls, Clive James read out ‘apologies from celebrities who couldn’t make it,’ and Mozart’s went something like ‘I wholeheartedly support Amnesty’s work on behalf of the victims of repression around the world. The victims, the victims, the victims. Around the world.’
Auch das steht im Kontext von Wut und unterdrückter Gewalt im Osten, der sich leider eben auch in einem irrational-paradoxen Wahlverhalten ausdrückt. Ich kenne persönlich Opfer von Stasi-Repression, die seit Jahren jeden Satz von Wagenknecht bejubeln - ausgerechnet Ex-SED-Wagenknecht.
de la cruz definitely supports an arms embargo. but she does tend to use the language of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism & liberation, which may come off as a less explicit call to defund & disarm. this is from her platform (and unlike stein's, it doesn't say "until israel [does x, y & z]"):
In the nineteenth century, this labor was supplied by Black Americans. The conditions on Navassa were so brutal that Black workers protested, only to be met with violent repression by the white management of the Navassa Phosphate Company, prompting a revolt in which several white men were killed.