Wondering OVER: 100% - of the four journalists arrested were
#NONWHITE #WOMEN and/or #GAY !!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5gy3v7opwo3bfoa7dojkfhvp/post/3mdnlirwlak26
#NonWhite
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota
are pulling many #nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their #citizenship,
according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigration agents to #Minneapolis.
There is no federal law requiring US citizens to carry proof of their citizenship,
and immigration agents are barred from carrying out indiscriminate searches unless they have reasonable suspicion to believe that someone is in the country without authorization.
And yet, one video, posted on Sunday by a Somali resident of Minneapolis,
a US citizen named Nimco Omar, shows a group of agents accosting her and asking her to show her identification as part of what they said was a “citizen check.”
https://therealnews.com/ice-show-me-your-papers-stops-in-minnesota-neighborhoods
True story. I remember being maybe 11 years old and realizing I didn't fit in. After sobbing for a while, I thought to myself, "Do you want to fit in? Or do you want to be yourself?" I knew to NOT fit in would bring more pain, and isolation... But I'm so glad I chose to be myself (mostly -- I did mask a bit, as exhausting as it was). I paid the price, but became a staunch defender of my friends -- who were #ND, or #NonWhite, or #LGBTQ, or different in other ways. I don't regret my decision...
#Conservatives have for generations used denigrating #language to describe the *conditions* of major #cities & called for greater law enforcement, often in response to changing #demographics in those cities driven by #nonwhite populations relocating in search of #work or #safety from #RacialDiscrimination & #StateViolence.
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
Even as #DC officials questioned the claims underlying his *#emergency declaration*, #Trump promised a “historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam & squalor & worse.” His rhetoric echoed that used by #conservatives going back decades who have denounced #cities, especially those with majority #nonwhite populations or led by #progressives, as lawless or crime-ridden & in need of outside intervention.
#WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #CivilRights #TrumpCoup2
The Advocate
“LinkedIn, the popular professional networking platform, has quietly stripped explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+ advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media platforms.
“The changes, first flagged by the nonprofit Open Terms Archive and independently confirmed by The Advocate, involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections. In both, references to protections for transgender people and people of color were either weakened or removed entirely.
“Before Monday, the site’s “Hateful and Derogatory Content” page included a line explicitly prohibiting the “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as an example of hate speech. That language has now been deleted. The same page still states that LinkedIn prohibits content that “attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred” against individuals based on characteristics including gender identity and race. But misgendering and deadnaming, terms that refer to deliberately using the wrong name or pronouns for a transgender person, are no longer explicitly prohibited.”
#Transgender #NonWhite #PeopleOfColor #LGBTQ #LGBTQPlus #Queer #HateSpeech #Harassment #LinkedIn #SocialMedia
https://www.advocate.com/news/linkedin-transgender-deadnaming-misgendering-policy
The lack of or rareness of #images of #nonwhite #skin in the #medical #literature is due to society’s longtime #racism. It’s a big problem, and it has only recently started being addressed in #research. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8072497/ 😔
I didn't mean to leave anyone out.
The U.S. is uneasy with us all.
#Latina
#Latino
#Latine
#Asian
#PacificIslander
#nomads
#stateless
#TheDispossessed
#nonwhite
#minorities
#BlackFriday
#BlackMastodon
#PeopleOfTheGlobalMajority
First #Trump Targeted #ProPalestine #Students. Now All Kinds of Foreign Students Are at Risk.
Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “#NonWhite” Students for Deportation
Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.
By Jonah Valdez, April 8, 2025
"With little or no justification, the Trump administration is revoking the visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of international students under the Student Exchange and Visitor Program, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation, according to attorneys representing international #scholars who have filed new lawsuits against the Trump administration."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/08/trump-immigration-international-student-visas-deport/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Dt7JN
#MarcoRubio #KristiNoem #USPol #TrumpIsABully #Deportations #Braindrain
America’s Forgotten History of #ForcedSterilization
By Sanjana Manjeshwar on November 4, 2020
"In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) detention center in #Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary #hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained #ImmigrantWomen. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people denouncing it as a #HumanRights violation and yet another example of the current administration’s cruelty towards women and immigrants. Many people, including prominent liberal politicians and public figures, viewed it as something distinctly un-American and at odds with our country’s values — a common refrain that echoed in response to the allegation was 'This isn’t the America I know.' There were countless comparisons to #NaziGermany and other #totalitarian, human rights-abusing regimes, as well as a pervasive sense that the United States was engaging in a uniquely cruel and unprecedented act. Unfortunately, this is a misleading impression.
"While the allegations against ICE are undoubtedly horrific and must be investigated, they are not at all unprecedented or un-American — in fact, they are very American. The United States has a long, egregious, and largely unknown history of eugenics and forced #sterilization, primarily directed towards #PoorWomen, #DisabledWomen, and #WomenOfColor.
"The American #eugenics movement originated in the late 1800s and has always been undeniably based in #racism and #nativism. The word 'eugenics' originally referred to the biological improvement of human genes, but was used as a pseudoscience to justify discriminatory and destructive acts against supposedly undesirable people, such as extremely restrictive #ImmigrationLaws, #AntiMiscegenationLaws, and forced sterilization. The ultimate goal of the eugenics movement was to 'breed out' undesirable traits in order to create a society with a 'superior' genetic makeup, which essentially meant reducing the population of the #NonWhite and the mentally ill. The eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society well into the 20th century, and was not at all relegated to the fringes of society like one might expect. In fact, most states had federally funded eugenics boards, and state-ordered sterilization was a common occurrence. Sterilization was seen as one of the most effective ways to stem the growth of an 'undesirable' population, since ending a woman’s reproductive capabilities meant that she would no longer be able to contribute to the population.
"The Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) decided that a Virginia law authorizing the mandatory sterilization of inmates in mental institutions was constitutional. #CarrieBuck, a 'feeble minded woman' whose mental illness had been in her family for the past three generations, was committed to a state mental institution and was set to undergo a sterilization procedure which required a hearing. The Supreme Court found that the Virginia law was valuable and did not violate the Constitution, and would prevent the United States from 'being swamped with incompetence…Three generations of imbeciles is enough.' The Court has never explicitly overturned #BuckVersusBell.
"California’s '#AsexualizationActs' in the 1910s and 1920s led to the sterilization of 20,000 disproportionately #Black and #Mexican people who were deemed to be mentally ill. #Hitler and the #Nazis were reportedly inspired by #California’s laws when formulating their own #genocidal eugenics policies in the 1930s. When discussing the Asexualization Acts of California, Hitler wrote, 'There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the #UnitedStates.'
"Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. #Black women, #Latina women, and #NativeAmerican women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in #PuertoRico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as '#LaOperación (The Operation)' among Puerto Ricans.
"Black women were also disproportionately and forcibly sterilized and subjected to reproductive abuse. In #NorthCarolina in the 1960s, Black women made up 65 percent of all sterilizations of women, although they were only 25 percent of the population. One Black woman who was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during this time was #FannieLouHamer, a renowned #CivilRights activist. Hamer described how nonconsensual sterilizations of working-class Black women in the South were so common that they were colloquially known as a '#MississippiAppendectomy'.
"Additionally, many Native American women were sterilized against their will. According to a report by historian Jane Lawrence, the Indian Health Service was accused of sterilizing nearly 25% of #Indigenous women during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the year that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court, supposedly ensuring reproductive rights for all American women, the reproductive rights of thousands of Indigenous women were entirely ignored as they were forcibly sterilized.
"Forced sterilization, especially in exchange for a sentence reduction, occurs often in the criminal #LegalSystem today. Government-sanctioned efforts to prevent incarcerated people from reproducing were widespread in the 20th century, and still continue today. In 2017, a judge in #Tennessee offered to reduce the jail sentences of convicted people who appeared before him in court if they
'volunteered' to undergo sterilization. In 2009, a 21-year-old woman in #WestVirginia convicted of #marijuana possession underwent sterilization as part of her probation. In 2018, an #Oklahoma woman convicted of cashing a counterfeit check received a reduced sentence after undergoing sterilization at the suggestion of the judge. According to a report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, almost 150 women considered likely to return to prison were sterilized in California prisons between 2004 and 2003. Although they had to sign 'consent' forms, the procedure, when posed as an incentive for a reduced sentence, generates an ongoing debate about whether or not consent actually exists in these situations. Proponents of the sterilization of incarcerated individuals often cite a lack of 'personal responsibility,' when in reality, many of these individuals face a lack of support and resources. Even if incarceration was somehow the singular determinant of one’s morals and character, sterilization as part of a prison sentence is still a fundamental violation of the right to #ReproductiveAutonomy — something judges and prison officials choose to ignore."
Read more:
https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony #USHistory #WhiteNationalism #Genocide
I've seen this on #facebook & even IRL. 15 years ago I would have loved it. I love me some absurdist humor but...
I imagine the person desperately hiding, hoping nobody will make them take a position current issues
...which include #genocide, denial of rights to #trans people, demonization of #immigrants, anti-#gay #hate, #oppression of #Black, #Hispanic, #NativeAmerican, #Asian, and other #nonwhite people, normalization of #conspiracyTheories, #science & #climateDenial, #misogyny, #ableism.
Please read this post by @VayLarkin@disabled.social about Black users on Mastodon, and the replies by @futurebird
https://disabled.social/@VaylLarkinPoet/113686199660721424
[Edit: Just saw that OP is asking for responses from #BlackMastodon users only, so FYI]
This is some great thinking (I think, anyway), going beyond easy categorizations and "oh well" responses.
The fediverse is currently a certain shape and flavor. It could be a different shape and flavor--I think this is laudable and possibly even a moral imperative--but it won't get there with the way we currently do things (obviously?).
I don't know what changes need to be made, how big they need to be, or even whether the big ones are about fedi (vs. the outside world/context). It just feels like we have limitations and I'd prefer we work on that.
#fediverse #mastodon #diversity #gatekeeping #elite #tech #discussion #black #hispanic #asian #nativeamerican #brown #nonwhite #poc
The next president will also alter the courts’ #racial, #ideological & #professional makeup. Under #Trump, 76% of judicial nominees were #men, & 84% were #white…. Many had ties to the #FederalistSociety, a *#conservative* #legal group. #Biden’s appointees have been 63% #female & 61% #nonwhite. He has prioritized nominees who served as #PublicDefenders & #CivilRights lawyers, & his picks have tended to be more #liberal than those of past Democratic presidents.
Took a mainstream outlet a whole month to write about how a small group of people freaking out about #nonwhite, #LGBTQ, &/or female roles are harming genuinely good shows. Another reason this is happening is the people controlling show budgets agree with them at least in part
#JesusGrifter Mike is really asking for a vote on the ban of #NonChristian - #NonWhite voters. Non-Citizen voting is already illegal (for the most part). #GriftersGonnaGrift in #Trumpistan.
#USElections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/sep/17/donald-trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-kamala-harris-us-politics-news-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url
Texas's #DeathStar bill’s sweeping, alleged purpose is stated in its opening sections: “returning sovereign regulatory powers to the state where those powers belong.”
However, the legislation’s real intent is both narrower and potentially more profound than just upending city ordinance-making powers:
👉 First, it is a laser beam aimed at a small group of progressive ordinances improving worker and tenant protections—local victories won through hard-fought campaigns over the course of more than a decade.
👉 Second, and more importantly, it’s a bid to permanently hamstring municipal democracy in Texas, especially in its big blue cities.
Cities are where most Texans live; they are increasingly #liberal, their populations often majority #nonwhite, and they are the level of government most #responsive to ordinary citizens.
In essence, the Legislature decided there was ** too much Democracy ** afoot in Texas, so it did something about it
#Jan6 is a deep undercurrent in American society, that has always felt that the participation of #nonwhite people, and particularly #BlackPeople, was somehow contradictory, somehow not consistent with the idea of who this #democracy is supposed to be for and about. Our #SupremeCourt basically said that #AfricanAmericans can never be citizens because of their #enslavability-#Crenshaw
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
Looking for some #WritingAdvice with #Black characters in a #fantasy setting...
So, in this setting, Humans all come from the same part of the world, but are from an initial population with a wide variety of skin tones. #SkinColor based bigotry is virtually non-existent among humans, for reasons, and racism-memes are towards other sapient species. (elves, goblins, lizards, etc)
What are some ways I could convey that I intend for characters to have #nonwhite skin without it sounding weird?
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