#minority — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #minority, aggregated by home.social.
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Another example from #Singapore of the #tyranny of a #reckless #minority which imposes additional costs & inconveniences to the civil majority.😔 #apathySG 👇
#governance13 #public #libraries to close charging stations after safety incidents; power bank rentals available from July 27
"due to an increase in incidents involving unattended devices. In some cases, #faulty #devices and use of multi-adaptors🤦♂️🤦♂️ have caused electrical overloading, the National Library Board said"
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/13-public-libraries-to-close-charging-stations-after-safety-incidents-power-bank-rentals-will-be -
#israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #annexation / #religion / #minority
»“Christian villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be annexed to Israel, because we protect them against the Hezbollah, Hezbollah fanatics who want to kill them, & we do the same things with Christians everywhere,” Netanyahu told Fox News (…).
The mayor of the Christian village of Rmeish, Hanna al-Amil, was quoted by Lebanese public broadcaster NNA as denying Netanyahu’s claim.« -
#turkey #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #minority / #middleeast / #foreignpolicy / #freedomflotilla / #hegemony
(Look for "Mavi Marmara", please.)
See also:
„Israeli inquiry into Gaza flotilla deaths no more than a whitewash“
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/israeli-inquiry-gaza-flotilla-deaths-no-more-whitewash/ -
#turkey #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #minority / #middleeast / #foreignpolicy / #freedomflotilla / #hegemony
(Look for "Mavi Marmara", please.)
See also:
„Israeli inquiry into Gaza flotilla deaths no more than a whitewash“
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/israeli-inquiry-gaza-flotilla-deaths-no-more-whitewash/ -
"The #European #Jewish Association (#EJA) held an emergency conference in #Brussels on Wednesday addressing legal proceedings in #Belgium against #mohels, or ritual #circumcisers, who perform #britmilah on infants. Participants warned that the move could undermine #religious freedom and #minority rights, and set a dangerous precedent for #Jewish and #Muslim communities across #Europe.
The conference, which also included Muslim representatives, presented a policy paper calling for legal clarity, recognition of qualified practitioners, and the promotion of regulation and dialogue rather than #criminalization."
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skdx0vymmx?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"The #European #Jewish Association (#EJA) held an emergency conference in #Brussels on Wednesday addressing legal proceedings in #Belgium against #mohels, or ritual #circumcisers, who perform #britmilah on infants. Participants warned that the move could undermine #religious freedom and #minority rights, and set a dangerous precedent for #Jewish and #Muslim communities across #Europe.
The conference, which also included Muslim representatives, presented a policy paper calling for legal clarity, recognition of qualified practitioners, and the promotion of regulation and dialogue rather than #criminalization."
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skdx0vymmx?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"The Weaponization of Belonging
The fundamental lesson from the #history of #Jewish #citizenship in #America is that #legal categories are neither self-evident nor self-executing. They are #political instruments, subject to intense scrutiny and sudden revision during periods of national anxiety.
As the #SupremeCourt prepares to issue its ruling in 2026, the historical record serves as a stark warning. When a government asserts the authority to define who is and is not a #citizen based on parental origin, it invariably opens the door to the systemic #disenfranchisement of #minority populations. The debate over #birthright citizenship is not merely a legal technicality; it is a battle over the soul of the nation and the fundamental definition of human belonging."
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"The Weaponization of Belonging
The fundamental lesson from the #history of #Jewish #citizenship in #America is that #legal categories are neither self-evident nor self-executing. They are #political instruments, subject to intense scrutiny and sudden revision during periods of national anxiety.
As the #SupremeCourt prepares to issue its ruling in 2026, the historical record serves as a stark warning. When a government asserts the authority to define who is and is not a #citizen based on parental origin, it invariably opens the door to the systemic #disenfranchisement of #minority populations. The debate over #birthright citizenship is not merely a legal technicality; it is a battle over the soul of the nation and the fundamental definition of human belonging."
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@ZackPolanski #Burnham has stated he believes in #proportionalrepresentation (PR). If PR were implemented in time for the next #GeneralElection, #ReformUK wouldn't be able to get a #majority in the #Commons on the basis of a #minority of the #votes.
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@ZackPolanski #Burnham has stated he believes in #proportionalrepresentation (PR). If PR were implemented in time for the next #GeneralElection, #ReformUK wouldn't be able to get a #majority in the #Commons on the basis of a #minority of the #votes.
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Today is our third Wedding Anniversary. I have never more enjoyed exercising my civil rights. #wedding #weddings #marriage #marriages #equalwedding #equalweddings #gaywedding #gayweddings #minority #minorities #minoritycommunity #minoritycommunities #bigotry #bigotryiswrong #bigotryisstupid #endbigotry #endhomophobia #homophobia #homophobiaiswrong #ally #allies #gayally #gayallies #support #gaysupport #gayrights #civilrights #civilright #husbands #anniversary
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Today is our third Wedding Anniversary. I have never more enjoyed exercising my civil rights. #wedding #weddings #marriage #marriages #equalwedding #equalweddings #gaywedding #gayweddings #minority #minorities #minoritycommunity #minoritycommunities #bigotry #bigotryiswrong #bigotryisstupid #endbigotry #endhomophobia #homophobia #homophobiaiswrong #ally #allies #gayally #gayallies #support #gaysupport #gayrights #civilrights #civilright #husbands #anniversary
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@vfrmedia The current centre-Right #Swedish Government is in a #minority, & depends for its majority on the far-Right #Sweden #Democrats, who are behind this push for a more severe #penal #policy, including locking up 13 year olds in a wing of an #adult #jail. That's worse than at HMP/YOI Feltham! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltham_Prison_and_Young_Offender_Institution.)
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@vfrmedia The current centre-Right #Swedish Government is in a #minority, & depends for its majority on the far-Right #Sweden #Democrats, who are behind this push for a more severe #penal #policy, including locking up 13 year olds in a wing of an #adult #jail. That's worse than at HMP/YOI Feltham! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltham_Prison_and_Young_Offender_Institution.)
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Lived experience of a mental health issue is often devalued in psychological research – embracing it can create more impact for minoritised communities
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Lived experience of a mental health issue is often devalued in psychological research – embracing it can create more impact for minoritised communities
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Gerrymandering
With all the recent uproar about Congressional redistricting, I suspected there was a decent chance that a lot of it was fake news, so I did a little digging and experimenting with my state of SC . . .https://morrowmichael.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/gerrymandering/
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Gerrymandering
With all the recent uproar about Congressional redistricting, I suspected there was a decent chance that a lot of it was fake news, so I did a little digging and experimenting with my state of SC . . .https://morrowmichael.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/gerrymandering/
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy an exceptional position. You have, it is true, a twenty-millionth share in the government of others, but only a twenty-millionth share in the government of yourself. You are therefore much more conscious of being governed than of governing.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #governance #government #influence #minority #nation #politics #power
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy an exceptional position. You have, it is true, a twenty-millionth share in the government of others, but only a twenty-millionth share in the government of yourself. You are therefore much more conscious of being governed than of governing.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #governance #government #influence #minority #nation #politics #power
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I typically only share Israel news if it has significant implications for the diaspora. This does. Also DellaPergola is a brilliant demographer and does super cool stuff.
"An analysis released this week predicts that, within the next 10 years, #Israel could become the home for a majority of the world’s #Jews, a change which, according to the new report, will “redefine the meaning of #Jewishpeoplehood.”
On Wednesday, the Institute for Jewish #Policy #Research (#JPR) published “The #Jewish People in 2126: #Demography, Identity, and the Future of a Global #Minority,” a 22-page paper by #SergioDellaPergola, a professor emeritus and former chairman of #HebrewUniversity’s Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary #Jewry who now serves as the #London-based #thinktank’s president for its #European #JewishDemography Unit."
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I typically only share Israel news if it has significant implications for the diaspora. This does. Also DellaPergola is a brilliant demographer and does super cool stuff.
"An analysis released this week predicts that, within the next 10 years, #Israel could become the home for a majority of the world’s #Jews, a change which, according to the new report, will “redefine the meaning of #Jewishpeoplehood.”
On Wednesday, the Institute for Jewish #Policy #Research (#JPR) published “The #Jewish People in 2126: #Demography, Identity, and the Future of a Global #Minority,” a 22-page paper by #SergioDellaPergola, a professor emeritus and former chairman of #HebrewUniversity’s Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary #Jewry who now serves as the #London-based #thinktank’s president for its #European #JewishDemography Unit."
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Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Katherina Reiche (CDU), and Federal Minister for Research, Dorothee Bär (CSU), have firmly dismissed any considerations o... https://news.osna.fm/?p=46287 | #news #coalition #government #ministers #minority
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Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Katherina Reiche (CDU), and Federal Minister for Research, Dorothee Bär (CSU), have firmly dismissed any considerations o... https://news.osna.fm/?p=46287 | #news #coalition #government #ministers #minority
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-10-07), “Safeguards Against Communism,” Masonic Temple, Detroit, MichiganMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #freecountry #freesociety #freedom #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #minority #unpopularity #liberty
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-10-07), “Safeguards Against Communism,” Masonic Temple, Detroit, MichiganMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #freecountry #freesociety #freedom #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #minority #unpopularity #liberty
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Back in 1982, when #ChiefJustice John Roberts was a 26-year-old #Reagan staffer, he wrote that #minority voting protections were “the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.”
By rescinding the #VotingRights Act of 1965 this past week, he and "conservative" pals Alioto, Gorsuch etc all just completed the #election rights stifling life's work that the young #RWNJ radicals dreamed about over 40 years ago...
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/roberts-callais-supreme-court-redistricting
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Back in 1982, when #ChiefJustice John Roberts was a 26-year-old #Reagan staffer, he wrote that #minority voting protections were “the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.”
By rescinding the #VotingRights Act of 1965 this past week, he and "conservative" pals Alioto, Gorsuch etc all just completed the #election rights stifling life's work that the young #RWNJ radicals dreamed about over 40 years ago...
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/roberts-callais-supreme-court-redistricting
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Reminder: You don't get to claim the title of "ally". It's something bestowed (or not) by the people you are *trying to* ally with.
Ally is a verb, not a noun. It's something you *do*, and have to keep repeating, for it to count. And only the people you're trying to help get to decide whether you succeeded.
#ally #progressive #lgbtq #lgbtqia #disabled #disability #advocacy #neurodivergent #PoC #minority #feminism
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Reminder: You don't get to claim the title of "ally". It's something bestowed (or not) by the people you are *trying to* ally with.
Ally is a verb, not a noun. It's something you *do*, and have to keep repeating, for it to count. And only the people you're trying to help get to decide whether you succeeded.
#ally #progressive #lgbtq #lgbtqia #disabled #disability #advocacy #neurodivergent #PoC #minority #feminism
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#Florida takes its anti-DEI fight to the NFL
let me see. The #NFL is what percent #minority? What percentage of their fans are minorities? if I was the league, I'd move teams OUT of Florida.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/23/florida-nfl-rooney-rule-diversity-uthmeier-flores-00887872
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#Florida takes its anti-DEI fight to the NFL
let me see. The #NFL is what percent #minority? What percentage of their fans are minorities? if I was the league, I'd move teams OUT of Florida.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/23/florida-nfl-rooney-rule-diversity-uthmeier-flores-00887872
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. “The State” is an abstraction; it does not feel pleasure or pain, it has no hopes or fears, and what we think of as its purposes are really the purposes of individuals who direct it. When we think concretely, not abstractly, we find, in place of “the State,” certain people who have more power than falls to the share of most men. And so glorification of “the State” turns out to be, in fact, glorification of a governing minority. No democrat can tolerate such a fundamentally unjust theory.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, No. 6, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/834…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #government #leadership #minority #oligarchy #power #state #statepower
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. “The State” is an abstraction; it does not feel pleasure or pain, it has no hopes or fears, and what we think of as its purposes are really the purposes of individuals who direct it. When we think concretely, not abstractly, we find, in place of “the State,” certain people who have more power than falls to the share of most men. And so glorification of “the State” turns out to be, in fact, glorification of a governing minority. No democrat can tolerate such a fundamentally unjust theory.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, No. 6, BBC RadioMore about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/834…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #government #leadership #minority #oligarchy #power #state #statepower
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NYT #PeteHegseth blocking #promotion of four Army officers to be one-star #generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior #military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their #race or #gender. Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are #women #Hegseth consistently targeting #female, #minority officers eroding confidence in #promotion system supposedly unbiased #apolitical + #war #MiddleEast #iran #shame #incompetence
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NYT #PeteHegseth blocking #promotion of four Army officers to be one-star #generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior #military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their #race or #gender. Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are #women #Hegseth consistently targeting #female, #minority officers eroding confidence in #promotion system supposedly unbiased #apolitical + #war #MiddleEast #iran #shame #incompetence
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There were many advantages to growing up in a small town of 900 folks. For a member of a despised minority, there were also numerous disadvantages. What's to be done with our bigoted society? #equalrights #civilrights #bigotry #endbigotry #enddiscrimination #discrimination #lgbt #lgbtrights #gayrights #bigotryiswrong #racism #sexism #xenophobia #homophobia #minorityrights #minority #gaymen #smalltown #smalltowns #pennsylvania
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There were many advantages to growing up in a small town of 900 folks. For a member of a despised minority, there were also numerous disadvantages. What's to be done with our bigoted society? #equalrights #civilrights #bigotry #endbigotry #enddiscrimination #discrimination #lgbt #lgbtrights #gayrights #bigotryiswrong #racism #sexism #xenophobia #homophobia #minorityrights #minority #gaymen #smalltown #smalltowns #pennsylvania
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There is an absence in #parliaments — in #india, in the #uk, perhaps elsewhere too. Ruhi Khan (LSE Gender Studies & LSE Data Science) discusses the 'missing' #women parliamentarians from #minority communities, especially #Muslim women.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2026/03/23/whos-still-missing-the-blind-spot-in-indias-democracy/
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #consideration #genius #history #intellect #lessons #majority #mind #minority #past #precedent #reconsideration #thinking #thought
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82636/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #consideration #genius #history #intellect #lessons #majority #mind #minority #past #precedent #reconsideration #thinking #thought
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ballot #democracy #majority #minority #populargovernment #popularopinion #tyrannyofthemajority #voting
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ballot #democracy #majority #minority #populargovernment #popularopinion #tyrannyofthemajority #voting
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The “Alevi Archive” project, led by Prof. Dr. Markus Dreßler (University of Leipzig), has officially been launched. We are very pleased that the FID Middle East will continue to accompany this initiative with great enthusiasm
Read more: https://www.akademienunion.de/presse/kurzinterview/kurz-nachgefragt-bei-prof-markus-dressler
Video about the project:
https://youtu.be/GFqRHtx0Bys -
North Carolina, Montana, Colorado! Inspirational and funny pics from yesterday's protests - also Twin Cities, L.A., NYC, Miami...
Mother Jones photo collection; love the fancy "fuck Ice" cookies(!)
#protest #photos #march #sign #sing #write #yell #chant #plant #USA #fascism #minority #GOP #DHS #ICE #EndDHS #EndIce #MeltIce #consitution #rights #freedom #expression #observe #police #action #film #tape #record #document #violence #immigration #policies = #slave #patrols https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/get-out-of-our-cities-another-nationwide-uprising-against-ice/ -
A #driver from #Essex went on a rampage on Christmas Day in centre of #London, deliberately targeting ethnic #minority and #LGBT+ folk, knocking down one man causing #fatal #injuries and causing life changing injuries to several others.
He was also #drunk and possibly under the influence of #drugs at the time, with history of #vehicle related crime, and had never even had a valid #driving #licence in his entire life!
His sentence was *37* years minimum (he will not leave prison until late middle age) and lifetime ban from driving (this kind of ban is *extremely* rare in #England and Wales)
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#israel #palestine : #westbank / #minority / #bedouins / #settler / #landgrab / #annexation / #impunity
„The residents said they call the police frequently to ask for help — but it seldom arrives. Settlement expansion has been promoted by successive Israeli governments over nearly six decades. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, which has placed settler leaders in senior positions, has made it a top priority.“
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If anyone tells you being LGBTQ+🏳️🌈 is abnormal and LGBTQ+ are a minority, please remind them that they are abnormal and an 8% minority by being alive. The majority of people, about 100 billion, are dead.
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #minority #minorityrights #equality #bigotry #discrimination
