CW: transphobia.
See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤
This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.
But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.
In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.
Paragraph 175 and 183.
MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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How do these AI evangelists not understand that part of becoming an expert in any subject area involves developing a personal capacity for discernment?
"I’ve been reporting on the criminal justice system for more than a decade and have spent time in cities with a lot of law enforcement. I’ve also lived in an authoritarian country overseas, yet I’ve never experienced a police presence like this."
“my heart is mine in the house of hearts, my chest is mine in the house of chests, my heart is mine, and is content with me.”
verleden week nog een pogingkje gedaan:
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
(uiteraard slechts één aspect van de veelvoudige ellende)
“eist” is een vreemde woordkeuze voor iemand die voor haar eigen veiligheid vecht, vluchtelingen zijn zich er doorgaans acuut van bewust dat ze weinig te eisen hebben. het klinkt bijna alsof haar vraag voortkomt uit veeleisendheid, ipv een thuisland dat trans mensen steeds meer in een hoek verft
de Nederlandse pers rept er ook met geen woord over dat de Amerikaanse overheid — langdurige bondgenoot van Nederland — burgers die hun grondwettelijke rechten gebruiken in anonieme busjes ontvoert
www.calonews.com/communities/...
darf ich fragen, was in dem Bereich lesenswert ist? ich kenne mich kaum aus und es würde mich sehr interessieren