A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
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If Palestinians invaded Israel & did this they’d be labeled as terrorists.
Israeli settlers are on Palestinian land doing this and…silence.
“Hundreds of armed Israeli settlers stormed a village in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to several homes and cars. IDF did not stop the attackers but stopped Palestinians.”
In a blood feud there's always someone pointing and saying, "They did it first." There are very few saying, "I don't care where you're from, let me help you."
it has never been about Hamas, or the PLO, or terrorism. It has always been about dispossession of Palestinians and the securing of that land for Israelis.
The other US illegitimate child, #Turkey, has been doing even worse to #Kurds for much longer than #Israel. #Turkey gets on everyone's throat if they dared provide refuge to Kurdish activists branding them terrorists by "birth".
Since last municipal elections #Turkey replaced all pro-Kurdish mayors elected with its own fascist thugs.
Sweden had to deport Kurdish activists to Turkey for lifetime torture and prison, just to join #NATO
IDF isn’t there to police, they are there to protect the interests of Israel (and therefore the settlers). The Palestines are their enemy. Why would you think otherwise?
is it my imagination, or did the U.N. break up the British colony of Palestine into two regions, the initial modern state of Israel with a recognized government and international support of all kinds, and a neglected region with no recognized government and no international support of any kind? That seems like a baffling oversight. In context the focus on Israel seems reasonable, but the failure to simultaneously establish a viable state in the rest of the former colony does not
Ever notice how those who support genocide (ie, in both Palestine and Ukraine) always expose themselves as far-right and homophobic? It's almost as if there's a connection (look to Germany, for one). That name is no coincidence, I'm sure.
According to Glenn Kirschner on The Legal Breakdown show he does with Brian Tyler Cohen, the firing of the lawyers ploy won't work. The judge can just tell them to sort out any differences they are claiming to justify the firing. And he can force the lawyers to continue, as they are agents of the court, I think.
Sudden memory of an internet famous woman about 13 years ago telling me that if I got a *medically necessary otherwise I was gonna die* total hysterectomy, I was no longer a woman.
Jack Teixiera, 21, took on an online persona seemingly at odds with his military career, and made racist and antisemitic statements while firing a rifle in a video.
Pop quiz: what do you call someone who says racist things as a joke?
The answer is racist.
Because the only people who think racism is funny? Are racists.
Getting real tired of WaPo dedicating endless column inches to quoting a racist asshole's racist friends about how he's not *really* racist; he's a devout Catholic who just happens to be obsessed with guns and spouting racism. Come the fuck on, WaPo.
Did you know that an autistic professional is up to 140% more productive than an average employee when properly matched to a job that fits their skills? Yet, discrimination against neurodivergent people continues.
The German CEO of Europe’s largest media publisher tried to use his flagship tabloid, Bild, to influence the outcome of Germany’s last election and fed the newspaper his personal views attacking climate change activism, Covid measures and the former chancellor Angela Merkel, leaked messages suggest. The internal chats, emails and text messages published by the German weekly Die Zeit on Wednesday clash with the public presentation of Axel Springer SE’s chief executive, Mathias Döpfner, who recently said he wanted to bring “non-partisan” journalism to a too-polarised US media landscape through his acquisition of the English-language title Politico.
In one of the messages quoted verbatim in Die Zeit, from 2017, Döpfner says: “I am all for climate change,” seemingly arguing that human civilisation in periods of warm climate was always “more successful” than during cold-climate periods. “We shouldn’t fight climate change but adjust to it.”
The comments are part of a longer message in which Döpfner sums up his foreign policy views as “Free west, fuck the intolerant Muslims and all the other riff-raff.”
Döpfner, who holds a 22% share in the Berlin-based company Axel Springer and sits on the board of directors of Netflix, repeatedly voiced his distrust of the population of the formerly socialist states of eastern Germany. “The ossis [east Germans] are either communists or fascists. They don’t do in-between. Disgusting.”
In a message from October 2019, the top executive ponders writing an article on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in which he calls for rescinding reunification and turning the former GDR into an “agrarian and production zone with uniform wage payments”. “My mother always said it. The ossis are never going to be democrats.”
Susan B. Anthony gets kicked out of a meeting for bringing an unnamed Black woman to address the crowd as an equal. Buffalo Evening Courier, Nov. 25, 1863. #histodons #suffrage #womenshistory
We win by earning the ear and the trust of the public, and we do that by communicating honestly, frequently and directly. We must not lose sight of that mission. I’m afraid it’s a lesson we haven’t yet learned.
A new bill introduced in Congress calls on the U.S government to focus on combating misinformation. The “zero draft” of a proposed international pandemic treaty calls on member states to do the same. The FDA is zeroing in on misinformation.
Question for people who speak #Spanish. I've recently come to understand how #language influences #culture and #perception and even what you can think. I've been learning Spanish & something interesting I've noticed is how parts of the body are not referred to as "the" instead of "mine" or "yours" like they are in English. Me duele la cabeza - the head hurts me, instead of my head hurts. What does that imply if anything? More #spiritual focused maybe? #psychology, #spirituality, #philosophy
Does not imply anything. It just is. "Me duele la cabeza" is correct. Mi cabeza (mine) would be obvious and redundant. Of course its yours, else it wouldn't hurt you.
NEW: Some Are Jailed in Mississippi for Months Without a Lawyer. The State Supreme Court Just Barred That. ==
Criminal justice reformers have long complained that the state’s rules on appointing public defenders leave poor defendants without a lawyer as they wait to be indicted.
*Published with Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Marshall Project*
Russian propagandists call @tuckercarlson a “colleague.” But Tucker is no ordinary propagandist. His propaganda lies—absurdly portraying US traitors like Teixeira & insurrectionists as “heroes”—makes Russia’s anti-US propaganda credible.
Note: Putin locks up/kills such “heroes.” --- RT @JuliaDavisNews Russian propagandists agree with their "colleague Tucker Carlson" and start portraying Jack Teixeira as a “mini-Trump” and a “heroic… https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1646907873476198401
Many are comparing the situation with Clarence Thomas to the situation with Abe Fortas, who was forced to resign from the Supreme Court over his ties to a wealthy benefactor. But there is one crucial difference: Fortas was appointed by a Democrat.
Daniel Perry, convicted of murder, wrote of wanting to kill protesters, Muslims, Black people, new court docs show
Daniel Perry, who was recently convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester and is making national headlines in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott saying he wants to pardon him, sent private messages for years containing racist memes and defending the killing of protesters and Muslims, a newly unsealed set of court documents shows.
The 76 pages filed by Travis County prosecutors also reveal messages dating back years in which Perry, an Army sergeant, talked about killing people — several times referencing a desire to kill Muslims.
In a 2019 message, for example, Perry wrote it was "to [sic] bad we can't get paid for hunting Muslims in Europe."
The documents released Thursday were filed on March 27, when prosecutors announced their intent to introduce messages and posts they'd gathered from Perry's cellphone. Some of Perry’s messages were presented during his trial, including a May 31, 2020, social media post where he said he might have to kill people. But the newly unsealed filing contains dozens of other posts and messages that weren’t presented publicly.
A 76-page filing reveals messages from Daniel Perry in which he spoke of shooting people. Gov. Greg Abbott's office has touted potentially pardoning Perry.
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The last few days Sprockles has napped a lot in his Tree House, which would be okay but I can’t hug him when he’s in it 🥺 #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Tripawd #Sprocket
Ah fantastic, so our French Constitutional Council just confirmed we’re not a democracy, since it seems that using every article that limits democratic debates, removes modifications to laws, and generally prevents any kind of discussion around a law, and any form of real vote, all at the same time is totally legal and constitutional.
Maybe it’s time to move on from our current form of Republic. It was created for a military dictator in the 50s, and is clearly unsuited to the modern world.
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