@MarkAssPandi @rysiek @katzenberger

Someone should update the comparison table on Wikipedia to help people find a good search engine.

🔴 Google = AI / Ads / Tracking
🔴 Bing = AI / Ads / Tracking
🔴 Brave = Cryptocurrency / AI / Anti-LGBT*
🟠 DuckDuckGo = Ads / AI
🟠 Kagi = AI
🟠 Mojeek = Ads / AI
🟠 You.com = Ads / AI
🟡 Qwant = Ads
🟡 Startpage = Ads
🟡 Searx = Complicated
🟢 ???

* Brave CEO has previously financially supported anti-gay marriage law campaigns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

#BestBuy is caving to threats by #christofascist #Republican investors, and will stop contributing to #LGBTQ non-profit organizations — including blocking their employee resource groups from making donations to those groups.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/best-buy-offers-screen-lgbtq-nonprofit-donations-conservative-pressure-rcna145603
#bigotry #discrimination #boycott #BBY

Here's where KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors

An account called "A Wider Lens", the name of the #podcast run by #ConversionTherapy proponent Stella O'Malley has been quietly editing the #Wikipedia entry for Michael Shellenberger, co-author of the so-called #WPATHfiles. That account has also modified the #Genspect entry, of which O'Malley is the founder. She has also co-founded Killarney Group, which seeks to write an "alternate standards of care" for trans youth. #Trans #TransRights #transgender #lgbtq #wiki #wikimedia

Texas can’t ship migrants up to northern Democratic cities anymore (as it has been doing under Operation Lone Star) since the state will be taking responsibility for arresting and deporting them.

/1

#MyThoughts
#immigration #migration #Texas
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-ruling-deportation-texas-sb4-f8328b6d?st=m0tbqlbd82e4v12&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

So what stage of "it's not a pogrom, you're just hysterical" is "mass surveilling trans people receiving medical care, publishing the data in the aggregate every 6 months, and maintaining lists of trans citizens?" Waiting for Very Serious PeopleTM to weigh in on this one because I couldn't possibly know they're out to get me and people like me, on my own:

https://jessk.org/blog/the-burgeoning-anti-trans-surveillance-state

*hard stare*

#TransRights #Transphobia #Fascism #Ohio #surveillance

Have you heard about the #WPATHfiles

WELP now you're going to, from me. I spent all day looking into this collection of hundreds forum posts from WPATH members, which has been widely touted by anti-trans activists as a blockbuster expose of WPATH.

I analyzed them all, independently, and what I came up with is that they're completely unremarkable and these nutty activists wasted my whole damn day with this shit. #trans #news

Full story:

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wpath-nothingburger-waste-of-time

I don't like doing this, but it may need to be done. My E supply is running low (7 doses left) and I can't locate another source of E locally that can last until I get my Medicaid letter in the mail. So it is #TransMutualAid time for money to afford a #transwoman her estrogen.

I'm working on getting a job and have had plenty of interviews, but just haven't gotten hired yet.

https://www.venmo.com/u/adrienne-harper-115

#mtf #trans #transgirl #transfemme #transfeminine #transfemale #transbian #translesbian #transgender #update #charity #mutualaid

And on this front, there are many many links in the chain, a profusion that surges into physical spaces in incessant refusal.

But they/we are part of a far greater legacy than I knew even two months ago.

#Providers:
Conservatives cant make medical determinations no matter how much they wanna cosplay as doctors.

And that ESPECIALLY includes perverting the concept of "reasonable suspicion of abuse": that is a medical, clinical, or academic opinion.

I would never, ever, report a family to a Nazi state for pursuing life-saving, validating, gender-affirming patient-centered care.

Not once.

Any #Texas professional who does so is siding with Nazis Paxton/Abbott.

#TransgenderCare #fascism #TX

This is my new favorite meme

The forsythia and some daisies bloomed today in the eastern European city where I am right now. It is 28 February. Scary.
#ClimateChange #ClimateDestruction #Climate #ClimateEmergency #Klima #Klimakrise

On March 12th to 14th Seattle will host the 2024 Aerospace and Defense Supplier Summit at the Seattle Convention Center. This conference will bring together suppliers and subcontractors from around the world, including Boeing, to network and show off products that will be used to build weapons that will murder people in wars of colonial expansion in Palestine and around the world.

A call was recently made by a coalition of leftist organizations in Seattle to mobilize  to disrupt this conference on its opening day, Tuesday March 12th.

While A large and visible opposition to this conference is important, it will take lots of small crews with individual plans for disruption to actually make it significantly harder for the war profiteers inside the convention center to do their networking.

This is a call for autonomous disruption and a combative response to the Defense Supplier Summit. It is a call to gather a crew, talk about how you will help disrupt the summit, and then make that plan happen on March 12th.

What do we mean by autonomous disruption? 

This call out is an invitation to be more intentional about attending a large public rally with unique contributions – recently this has looked like people wheat pasting, doing graffiti, chalking, stickering, handing out flyers.

Other options to consider include what can be accomplished away from the big public demo that might cause disruption inside. This could include but is not limited to sneaking in and yelling at the presenters, flipping over tables, making the toilets unusable, stealing their catered lunches and distributing them to your houseless neighbors. There is an infinite amount of possibilities for disruption when a couple of friends get together for a scheme. Choose something that feels within you and your crew’s comfort level and that you feel like you have an appropriate ammount of trust with your crew to actaully pull off, and make it happen!

Working together, Not against each other.

Many groups are currently organizing against the Defense Supplier Summit. It is inevitable that organizations and crews with different tactics and ideologies will be present at this mobilization. People are doing a particularly good job of creating space for a diversity of tactics in their organizing in Seattle recently.

As autonomous groups are organizing around this summit, it would be helpful to think about the Saint Paul Principles, which were created in 2008 during the mobilizations against Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota in order to facilitate cross-ideological organizing with the shared goal of shutting down the RNC.

The Saint Paul principles:

• Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics and the plans of other groups.

• The actions and tactics used will be organized to maintain a separation of time or space.  

• Any debates or criticisms will stay internal to the movement, avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events.

• We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance, infiltration, disruption and violence. We agree not to assist law enforcement actions against activists and others. 

We encourage those organizing autonomously and those within the large organizations planning the mobilizaton to think of these principles not as rules but as tools to help brainstorm what successful actions might look like. The goal is to create as much disruption as possible while building solidarity and our power to continue disrupting and shutting shit down. We as anarchists uniquely understand the role of autonomous organizing and direct action, and have a legacy of experimentation in our toolbox to implement.

See you in the streets,

Some anarchists

source: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/27/seattle-march-12th-a-call-for-autonomous-disruption-of-the-aerospace-and-defense-supplier-summit/

#anarchism #northAmerica #seattle

I need to remind to everyone that Trump would try to ban the most common and safest form of abortion immediately in all 50 states by executive order -- in addition to trying to ban abortion nationally through the Supreme Court. And everyone needs to know that. https://thecause.substack.com/p/donald-trump-is-a-walking-abortion

Seven years ago, on January 20, 2017, police surrounded and arrested over 200 people in the vicinity of a confrontational march against the inauguration of Donald Trump. Prosecutors brought identical felony charges against almost every single arrestee in one of the most dramatic escalations of state repression of the Trump era. For a year and a half, people around the United States mobilized to support the defendants and beat back this attempt to set a new precedent in repression. The J20 case was one of the most important court cases about the freedom to protest in modern US history—and the defendants won.

Now, in response to the movement to #StopCopCity, prosecutors in Georgia are trying something similar, pressing RICO and domestic terrorism charges against dozens of people who were arrested at random. We strongly recommend reading this overview of the legal support strategy that defeated the J20 prosecution.

"We’ve Got Your Back: The Story of the J20 Defense"

https://crimethinc.com/J20legal

A beautiful, sad, and justifiably angry essay from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) about people continuing to ignore the climate crisis...
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Today I watched a math professor and climate activist named Eliot Jacobson talk to CNN about global temperature records and arctic sea ice. He sums it up in the simplest terms. Climate scientists are shocked at what’s happening. None of their models predicted any of this. A mass extinction usually takes millions of years. As he said, “We’re going to do it in a hundred.”

For Jacobson, the collapse of global industrial civilization has become a certainty. A recent column in The Guardian says the same. We’re already breaking through the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement. Scientists are telling us to brace for 2C or even 3C of warming. All of the books I’ve read make it very clear: That kind of warming will turn the planet into something humans have never seen. Large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable for us.

Even the gloomiest climate scientists are left speechless by the disasters unfolding this summer. Climate activists who’ve been urging for an emergency declaration are saying: “I thought we had more time.”

The scenarios scientists were predicting for 2050 are happening now, and they don’t know how much worse it’s going to get. They’re starting to admit, they can’t predict anything anymore.

It’s hard to plan for a future when not even the climate scientists know what’s going to happen next.

Best not to think about it, right?

Nobody wants to talk about reality. They want to talk about Barbenheimer. They want to pretend we’ve still got time. If you face the truth of what’s happening, then suddenly the vast majority of what we’re forced to do makes no sense anymore.

Maybe that’s why people get so angry now when we talk about climate change. They know, but they want to spend however long they’ve got left chasing and consuming whatever pleasure they can. Part of them knows their time is growing short, and they don’t want to spend it angry or depressed, or even trying to stop it.

When you understand the full scope and gravity of what’s happening, most jobs don’t make any sense. It doesn’t make sense to plan a vacation when half the world is burning. It doesn’t make sense to save up money to send your kid to college in ten years.

But it’s easier to ignore it all.

It’s easier to keep working and going to movies while you wait for the wildfire, the flood, or the heat wave that kills you. It’s easier to delay the realization of your climate death as long as possible.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.li/hGjWt#selection-327.0-327.16

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

This is a pretty damning indictment of Threads already: https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

80 years ago today, Willem Arondeus was executed by Nazis after he bravely bombed a building to destroy 800,000 identity cards.

He was an openly-gay Dutch artist who forged documents for Jewish people.

His last words were "Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."