14 November, 1960 - six year old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her path was met with hostility and hatred, yet she continued forward with courage and determination.
Ruby’s story reminds us that the pursuit of justice has never been limited by age. Her bravery helped open doors for generations of children who deserved the opportunity to learn without the barriers of segregation. - The King Center
#CivilRights
The Guardian: Calls grow for release of beloved California nurse detained by ICE: ‘We want her home’
"...Lawani, 39, came to the US in 2007. She established herself as a nursing professional, obtaining a master’s and doctoral degree in the field, before stepping into academia.
She steers two programs at the University of San Francisco, one a master’s entry program geared toward students with non-nursing backgrounds and another a bachelor’s program for students seeking to work in public health safety-net institutions...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/12/california-nurse-release-ice-custody#fascism#ice#healthcare
‘Our bombs killed hostages’: Israel's former military chief admits airstrikes killed captives held in Gaza
Hamas was seeking to protect the captives rather than kill them to gain leverage against Israel and to win the release of Palestinians.
GREAT thanks to #MAHA#MAGA#fascism, i was told #NYC Hospitals has not been able to get any #COVID19#vaccines in stock.
you can, like i just did, walk to any of our public hospitals or clinics, show an identification card, and get a #flu#influenza shot for free.
my doctor's clinic doesn't have the vax either and my neighborhood pharmacy told me they have been priced out of buying it.
last time i checked, CVS demanded i use an app if i wanted the COVID vax. fuck that.
Climate supremacy and the spiritual battle over AI 🤖 (discussion with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Bill McKibben, and Naomi Klein)
It’s a local battle, it’s incredibly material and tangible. It’s a cost of living battle because your electricity prices are going up. It’s a self-determination battle, it’s an indigenous rights battle. It’s all of that.
What we’re finding is that it’s also a spiritual battle, about what we are here for, how we wanna live and what is the purpose of life.
"The polls look good so I don't need to vote"
or
"The polls look bad so why bother voting"
Notice that in both lazy rationalizations the desired effect is to not contribute
No, you #vote
You always vote
Perfection isn't on the menu
Cynicism is acceptance
You only improve our world by participating
Not participating serves nothing but entitled self-regard, and effectively says "I don't care if #fascism rules"
You *say* you care. But do you really?
The proof is participation
RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117547320489931264
as i have said numerous times:
when faced against fascists, you are either for or against fascism. there is no middle ground.
right now the Democratic Party has a fascist middle ground problem. and these wannabe fascists-lite get away with it, thanks to racism.
remember what Toni Morrison said about the twin hydra of #fascism and #racism?
30 years ago fascist democrats hid behind Mass Incarceration & The War On Drugs. today it’s #zionism and genocidal, ethnonationalist racism.
Israeli soldier posts photo of journalist Marah Awad's arrest after home raid in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron!
If it was Russia, China or Iran, it would be reported by all western media.
But it is occupied Palestine and Israel can't be criticized, because it hurts the feeling of pro Genocide people in the west.
#Israel#Palestine#Occupation#WestBank#Hebron#Fascism
the French people are burning the streets because it's the... #france #eu #uk #politics #austerity #alwaysenoughforwarneverenoughforthepoor #capitalism #fascism #genocide
the French people are burning the streets because it's the only language the state understands.
The lesson that France is currently teaching is one that applies far beyond its borders, and spectacle readers in Britain, in Ireland, in the United States, in every country where the same austerity and the same contempt and the same degradation of public services is being imposed by governments with no mandate and no answers, should be paying close attention. The French are demonstrating something that is easy to forget when you are watching from inside a system that has been designed to make organised resistance feel futile: the state does not respond to reason alone. It does not move because of petitions or polite letters or even electoral pressure, because all of those things can be absorbed, delayed, managed, and eventually forgotten. It responds to disruption, to the credible assertion that the country cannot function normally while its people are being ignored, and the French people have been making that assertion, with remarkable consistency and remarkable discipline, for weeks.
They let the ambulances through. They block the roads and then they open them for the fire trucks and then they close them again, because they understand that their anger is not directed at the people the state is also failing to protect. They have chosen their targets carefully, and their message is clear. The system that is telling you there is no money for schools spent billions on war. The government that is cutting your pension sent its children to private school. The state that fires tear gas at 14-year-olds is the same state that has an answer for every question except the ones that matter.
❝ Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts…
It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity. It has consolidated the billionaire class who are driven by the mindset summed up in the slogan “move fast and break things.” Or, one might say, grab things, rape things.❞
― Even Ensler
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/psychopatriarchy-politics-opinion#fascism#psychosociology#EpsteinClass
