Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
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@BootsChantilly The upside for me is that when asked what I did on Blk Friday and I answer, "Stayed home drank coffee, napped." Instead of being a douche, I'm a hero!
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland
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And suddenly Albania VPN use is through the roof. (I understand there are a number of other countries that also ban ads…)
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The fact anyone thought this was a good idea... https://www.comicsands.com/ai-teddy-bear-pulled?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
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With apologies to all of the actual crazy uncles out there, America's crazy uncle president needs to shut the fuck up. #politics
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The Netherlands canceled a concert by pianist Elizaveta Leonova after discovering she performed for russian military families in moscow on November 21.
Muziekgebouw cited a policy against artists supporting russia’s invasion, despite her Austrian citizenship.
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Interview: "The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right"
Borsook wrote Cyberselfish, which warned about "the rise of Silicon Valley authoritarianism & technofascism decades before Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, & the far-right tech elite took power."
"How Silicon Valley’s toxic libertarianism evolved into a global far-right propaganda machine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA
#PaulinaBorsook #TechFascism #USPol #Neoliberalism #Sexism #press #fascism #racism #toxicMasculinity
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Police tech doesn't predict crime. It predicts policing.
Fed on flawed police data, so-called 'crime-predicting' tech automates racism and discrimination against overpoliced communities.
The Safety Not Surveillance coalition spread the word that this tech must be banned!
Watch now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/5wPH31FDt7Lzm17jZ7Musk
#SafetyNotSurveillance #BanCrimePredictingTech #police #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #surveillance #justice
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My BF has ADHD, one of his tics is bouncing his leg. When it starts to annoy me, I put a hand on his knee and he stops. An unspoken thing between friends, of which the guy next to me on the train knew nothing about. He was sure surprised to get my hand on his knee.
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Putin can save himself by paying reparations, returning Ukraine's children & POW's, and giving back every inch of Ukraine's territory, including Crimea, Sevastopol, and Donbas.
Trump's corrupt Republicans aren't going to be in power for too much longer.
Even Americans are ditching their fossil fuel dependency by going to balcony solar panels, buying EV's, and getting improvements in battery storage.
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Putin wants Ukraine to cease to exist.
The Ukrainians want Ukraine to exist.
But according to Marco Rubio we are very close to bridging these two positions.
When will we stop listening to the fools of this world?
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"Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID.
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.....
Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
“Anyone can make that,” she recalled another agent saying. "
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REMINDER tomorrow is ”DON’T MAKE JEFF BEZOS NOR HIS CONSPIRACY OF #TECHBROS RICHER” day.
#blackout #blackFriday and don’t give your money to fascists.
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Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that clean energy can be cheaper, more stable, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.
Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas,
renewables outperformed on every front:
halving costs,
creating 50,000 jobs,
and protecting the economy from price shocks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
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Instead of calling it Secret Santa, can we not call it Nondisclosure Claus?
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