Name one good thing our country can proudly point to.
#hate
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This fresh tattoo stems from one of my all-time favorite movies scenes. It’s a monolog by Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.”
My entire being is consumed with the eternal struggle of love and hate. It’s fierce and rages on every day. So this scene has stuck with me since I first saw it many years ago.
As Radio Raheem says, “if I love you, I LOVE you. But if I hate you…”
Y’all. I did something.
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The move means that #transgender #ServiceMembers will now be faced with the choice of either taking a *lump-sum* [meager] separation payment offered to JUNIOR troops [regardless of their actual status] or be removed from the service.
An #AirForce [#USAF]spox told AP that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of HONORABLE service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.”
F⁕⚠︎ You! Muther f⁕⚠︎ers…
#US #AirForce to deny #retirement pay to #transgender #ServiceMembers being separated from the service
The #USAF said Thurs it would DENY all transgender #service members who have served between 15 & 18 YEARS the option to retire early & would instead separate them without retirement #benefits.
#Trump #Hegseth #discrimination #military #service #betrayal #LGBTQ #hate #bigotry #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism
https://apnews.com/article/air-force-transgender-no-early-retirement-e6a4da806f2cc2bdc05f49438cbd26fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-07-Breaking+News
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Danke für Deinen Besuch, ich habe jede Minute genossen! 
Allen, denen mein #Wissenschaftsblog „Natur des Glaubens“ zusagt, dankt bitte dem Lars! (Er gewann mich 2008 für das Ehrenamt meines Lebens.)
Und allen, die mein #Blog stört, #Hate bitte weiterhin an mich! 
Herzliche Grüße an alle Bloggenden & Fediversalen! Möge die Macht mit Euch sein! 
→ Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/
“[…] Fisher-Birch [a #terrorism analyst] told Ars that #Substack's tolerance of Nazi content has essentially turned the platform into a "bullhorn" for #rightwing #extremists at a time when the FBI has warned that online hate speech is growing and increasingly fueling real-world hate crimes, the prevention of which is viewed at the highest-level national #threat priority.”
Ars Technica · Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Wondering: when do we start sanctioning the US over human rights violations?
#ICC #humanRights #fascism
#alligatorAuschwitz #hate
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/politics-9rga37brz/-/a-peVzrTAMReKAU76Skc1-dQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0
CBS News - Nicole Sganga · Kristi Noem says "Alligator Alcatraz" to be model for ICE state-run detention centers
The pain of hurt, or pride, or shame. Maga do this. They know they are in the wrong, but they can never admit it.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987)
Trump is "allowing" federal employees to preach at you, "tell you why your religion is wrong."
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“During a break, an employee may engage another in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the non-adherent should re-think his religious beliefs,” the guidelines read.
And they can preach at you, point out your wrong beliefs when you call in for tax info.
Answering the phone.
"This is the FBI, are you a Jew?"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-memo-christian-workplace_n_688d174be4b022644fdf2aac
HuffPost · A New Threat For Federal Workers: Being 'Persuaded' About Their Religion
Linkedin has a place to explain why when deleting your account. I know no one there will read it or care but it makes me feel better to speak my mind.
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/
"To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on [January 27, 2025], Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre applauded Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza - which is widely considered a genocide - and called for unquestioning loyalty to Israel.
Corey Balsam of [Independent Jewish Voices] told [The Maple] that he found Poilievre’s speech “appalling and a perfect example of how the memory of the Nazi Holocaust can sadly be used to justify fascist and even genocidal policies.”
It is disturbing how Canadian politicians are weaponizing the memory of one genocide to support another. Never again means never again for anyone."
- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), via Instagram
https://www.readthemaple.com/poilievre-marked-auschwitz-liberation-by-praising-israels-war-on-gaza/
#RIA #Novosti is a state-run media outlet in #Russia. An editorial by Kirill Strelnikov openly calls for #genocide of #Ukrainians. “There is no other option: no one should be left alive in #Ukraine." Regurgitating #Kremlin #propaganda that #Russians have been fed their entire lives, he describes Ukrainians as "happy with their fate". https://kyivindependent.com/russian-state-media-article-demands-no-ukrainians-be-left-alive/
You are either in the #resistance to #fascism or you’re part of the global #pandemic of #greed and #hate.
The #internet never forgets.
The Kyiv Independent · 'No other option' — Russian state media article demands no Ukrainians 'be left alive'
“To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.”--Charlie Chaplin, final monologue from The Great Dictator
The UCP is gravely concerned that non-White families are being kept together.
According to David Parker, founder of Take Back Alberta who put Danielle Smith at the head of the UCP, immigration is "being used to dilute the population. They’re degrading our quality of life.” Textbook White Supremacy.
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Meanwhile, a "Whites-Only Community" is trying to expand from Arkansas into Springfield, Missouri.
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@ChrisMayLA6 This is what I don’t get about support for the #farright - it’s an ideology that is inherently thuggish and hateful but somehow manages to latch onto #Christianity! And yet support for #hate and #violence is growing. What an odd species humanity is.
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Israel is holding over 10,000 Palestinians in torture camps without convictions.
At least 1500 of Gaza's healthcare workers have been killed and at least 300 imprisoned, many of which died in prison.
'This is the grim choice every Palestinian medical worker faces: serve and be targeted, or flee and abandon your patients to die.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician from northern Gaza, is one of those still detained. He’s been imprisoned without charge since December. His family tells me he’s still wearing the same winter clothes he was taken in, now threadbare from seven months of captivity. He’s lost an alarming amount of weight on two spoonfuls of rice a day and faced severe abuse. He has no access to medication. No access to medical care. Dr. Hussam should be at a hospital helping to lead Gaza’s recovery. Instead, he’s in a prison cell.
What was his crime? Staying. He refused to abandon newborns on ventilators at Kamal Adwan Hospital. He stayed and saved lives in a hospital under attack. For that, he was kidnapped.
He is not alone.
Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, one of only two cardiologists left in northern Gaza and director of the Indonesian hospital, was killed this month by a precise Israeli airstrike on his home in Gaza City that targeted the floors where he and his family lived and left the other parts of the block untouched.
Dr. Ahmed Qandeel, a respected senior surgeon and mentor, was killed just over a week ago in an airstrike in Gaza City.
Dr. Adnan Al‑Bursh, a well-known orthopedic surgeon, was abducted, severely beaten in custody (leaving him with broken ribs and unable to walk or use the toilet independently, according to his fellow detainees’ testimony), and found dead under suspicious circumstances in Israeli custody.
(Note from me: These "suspicious circumstances" is what other reports have called "likely raped to death". According to Israeli human rights organisation, HaMoked, "Ofer Prison guards dragged Al-Bursh and dumped him in the prison yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand. Some of the other prisoners carried Al-Bursh to a nearby room, and he died moments later."
The choice to say "suspicious circumstances" was no doubt borne out of extreme caution and fear of retribution.)
There are too many stories to recount.
As the UN Human Rights Office said, ''The killing, detention and enforced disappearance of health workers in Gaza, in parallel with the systematic attacks and destruction of hospitals and other medical facilities, has had a devastating impact on the people.''
Each time a Palestinian doctor is killed or detained, it isn’t just a personal loss – it’s a collapse of community care. Patients are left without treatment. Wards are left without leadership. Babies in incubators lose their only chance of survival. A respected and dignified member of society is stripped of protected status. The death of a physician in Gaza means dozens, sometimes hundreds, of preventable deaths in the weeks and months that follow.'
Zeteo · 'You Cannot Destroy a People Without First Destroying Their Healers': Israel’s War on Gaza's Medical System
This article is a hard read. Trump and Homan want to put millions of immigrants in 24-hour monitor shackles while sending unimaginable taxpayer-funded profits to a Florida-based private prison conglomerate that previously employed at least two of Trump’s top immigration officials (including Tom Homan himself) and donated over $1.5 million to the president’s 2024 campaign and inaugural committee. These devices weigh as much as an iPhone on your ankle, and leave rashes and bruises on the wearer, while causing permanent psychological trauma and damage.
“Why are people any more of a flight risk now?” asked Annelise Araujo, a Boston immigration attorney who says she represents several people who were outfitted with ankle monitors. “People who have lived in the same community, in the same home, in the same job for 20 years?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/24/ice-check-in-ankle-monitor-immigrants/
The Washington Post · ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors