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Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Trump fans stop pretending you care about girls challenge

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Can confirm:

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.

"A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing — and raises questions about its longtime owner"

This Washington Post piece is paywalled, but if you click on the article via the Reddit link, you can get free access for 45 days through their partnership with Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/14qltca/goodreads_was_the_future_of_book_reviews_then/

The alternative: StoryGraph: https://www.thestorygraph.com/

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"Nearly four years after he left office amid a violent burst, Donald Trump has been reelected and will become the next president of the United States. For many marginalized people, a second Trump administration, which begins in January, is a looming threat. During Trump's first stint in office, we watched as he rolled back LGBTQ+ protections, put Supreme Court justices in place who removed the federal right to abortion (which has resulted in deaths), enacted a “Muslim ban” that resulted in Islamophobic violence, and much more.

During Trump's campaign for a second term, he promised similarly draconian measures. He plans to deport millions of people starting on his first day in office, end gender-affirming care for trans youth, deeply change federal oversight agencies like the FDA, and much more.

With the past and his promises for the future in mind, people are preparing for Trump's second term, attempting to guard themselves against a potential erosion of rights. Here's what people are doing, and steps you might consider taking if it feels helpful."

Read the full piece here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-do-before-the-trump-administration-takes-office-in-january

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"Nearly four years after he left office amid a violent burst, Donald Trump has been reelected and will become the next president of the United States. For many marginalized people, a second Trump administration, which begins in January, is a looming threat. During Trump's first stint in office, we watched as he rolled back LGBTQ+ protections, put Supreme Court justices in place who removed the federal right to abortion (which has resulted in deaths), enacted a “Muslim ban” that resulted in Islamophobic violence, and much more.

During Trump's campaign for a second term, he promised similarly draconian measures. He plans to deport millions of people starting on his first day in office, end gender-affirming care for trans youth, deeply change federal oversight agencies like the FDA, and much more.

With the past and his promises for the future in mind, people are preparing for Trump's second term, attempting to guard themselves against a potential erosion of rights. Here's what people are doing, and steps you might consider taking if it feels helpful."

Read the full piece here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-do-before-the-trump-administration-takes-office-in-january

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"This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history."

- crisp mattman

kakistocracy

kak·i·sto·cra·cy

noun

government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state."the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"

a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.plural noun: kakistocracies"the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"

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Saw this and looked into it, confirmed!

https://aidaccess.org/

"Aid Access is a nonprofit organization that provides access to medication abortion by mail to the United States and worldwide. It describes its work as a harm reduction strategy designed to provide safe access to mifepristone and misoprostol for those able to become pregnant in the United States who may not otherwise have access to abortion or miscarriage management services. People are able to manage their own abortion with remote access to a physician and a help-desk for any questions. The website is available in English, Spanish, and Dutch."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_Access

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AMERICA:

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"Stop worrying about whether Black women know you’re a safe white woman to be around, and start making sure white women know you’re not a safe person to be racist around."

Source: https://www.threads.net/@asuiterclarke/post/DCFdDw8Ta4D

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Photo ID: alteration of famous photo of Woody Guthrie and his guitar with "This Guitar Kills Fascists" written on it, which he added in 1943. In this version it is Facebook/Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg, and the guitar says, "This algorithm breeds fascists."

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March 15 1908: "Women anarchists have become the terror of world's police," ran a headline of the Rochester, NY Sunday paper denouncing anarchist women.

Source: Working Class History

Further Reading: Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, 2012 Edition

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Photo ID: a cowboy is labeled "me disposing of some trash." The cowboy is dragging a coffin labeled "Your piece of shit son after I heard him say "your body my choice."

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"Stop worrying about whether Black women know you’re a safe white woman to be around, and start making sure white women know you’re not a safe person to be racist around."

Source: https://www.threads.net/@asuiterclarke/post/DCFdDw8Ta4D

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"The Taliban in Afghanistan have implemented a bizarre new edict that will further curb the voices of women who are already prohibited from speaking in public.

Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, declared that women must refrain from reciting the Quran aloud in the presence of other women, reported Amu TV, an Afghan news channel based in Virginia, US.

“When women are not permitted to call takbir or athan[Islamic call to prayer], they certainly cannot sing songs or music,” he said in remarks reported on Saturday.

“Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear ... How could they be allowed to sing if they aren’t even permitted to hear [each other’s] voices while praying, let alone for anything else,” Mr Hanafi was also quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.

A woman’s voice is considered awrah, meaning that which must be covered, and shouldn’t be heard in public, even by other women, the minister said."

Read the full piece here: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-taliban-women-hearing-speak-b2637984.html

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"Men, what are you doing about the other men saying things like "Your body, my choice?"

What will you do when you see it? Will you call it out? Will you confront it? Will you stop your best friend from saying it? Will you stop being friends with them?

Don't be passive in this. Don't laugh it off. Don't excuse it as a joke.

It's not a joke. It is a threat."

Source: https://www.threads.net/@adhdruids/post/DCFoauQvB5r/men-what-are-you-doing-about-the-other-men-saying-things-like-your-body-my-choic

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