#Council on Academic Freedom

[leneemusing]

HYPER SPECIFIC SMUT PROMPTS

note: some of these may include kinks and fetish dynamics which might be squicks for some (tw for power imbalances, dubious consent, breeding etc), proceed with caution and please feel free to cross out what you don't want to write when reblogging <3

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

[ ARRANGED ] muses are in an arranged marriage and now have to consummate the union

[ EXES ] our muses broke up a few years ago, they run into each other at a party and end up having sex again

[ INFIDELITY ] our muses used to date but it didn't work out, they're now both in relationships but end up in an affair together. this prompt is for their first time entering the affair.

[ AFFAIR ] our muses have been having an affair and receiver tries to stop but ends up having sex again, claiming it's the last time.

[ POWER ] sender is receiver's boss and knows receiver has a crush on them. they decide to act on it late night during closing.

[ CRUSH ] receiver is sender's boss and knows sender has a crush on them. they decide to act on it late night during closing.

[ TEACH ] receiver is sexually inexperienced and approaches sender to ask them to teach them and help them get more experience after they had a bad date.

[ TAUGHT ] sender is sexually inexperienced and approaches receiver to ask them to teach them and help them get more experience after they had a bad date.

[ TUTOR ] muse A has been tutoring muse B in a subject they struggle with. after a long session which has both of them frustrated, they end up having sex on the table and ruin the books.

[ TUTORING ] continuing the above scenario, the tutor quizzes the pupil while stimulating them. every time the pupil gets a question wrong they are edged or punished in some way.

[ LEARN ] our muses are in college together, muse A is popular and socially adept but has bad experiences with keeping a romantic partner. muse B is shy and has a smaller friend group but the friendships are more emotionally deep than anything A has experienced. the two muses are in a study group together and strike up a conversation in which they come to a deal: muse B will help A become more academically cultured and emotionally sensitive enough to get the partners they want. in return muse A will help with muse B's social standing. they begin a sexual relationship under the guise of helping muse B come out of their shell but really muse A just has a crush on them all while B thinks they're being used.

[ FIGHT ] our muses are leaders on opposing sides of a war. they have known each other before the war and now their sexual tension is worsened while trying to negotiate a truce. while disagreeing on terms they have rough sex, each one trying to dominate the other.

[ BATTLE ] our muses are soldiers and on the eve of a battle they might not survive they have sex together

[ CAPTIVE ] receiver is sender's captive and has been trying to wear them down over time by connecting emotionally. they initiate sex in hopes it will buy them freedom. (up to you if it's genuine on both sides or only manipulation)

[ CAPTIVATED ] sender is receiver's captive and has been trying to wear them down over time by connecting emotionally. they initiate sex in hopes it will buy them freedom. (feel free to specific circumstances of captivity)

[ FRIENDS ] our muses have been best friends for a long time. lately one or both have had bad luck with dating and just want some comfort so they decide to have sex.

[ SPELL ] our muses must have sex for a magic ritual which requires multiple rounds from 3 am until sunrise.

[ HEIR ] muse A is the leader of the nation and has not been able to produce an heir (feel free to specify reason), muse B has been selected by their doctors and council to try and bare their children.

[jstor]

From all of us at JSTOR, happy Black History Month!

The profound impact of African American writers, artists, politicians, and academics, along with countless others, is indelibly etched into the fabric of American history–and we'll be highlighting them all month long.

Image credit: 

Fink, Larry (1941-2023). Malcolm X, Rally for Birmingham, Harlem, NY, May, 1963. 1963, printed 2019. Archival pigment print, 22 x 17 in. (55.88 x 43.18 cm). 

Levy, Mark. Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964. 1964. Queens College Special Collections and Archives.

Borg, Erik. Toni Morrison. August 26, 1977. 

Lisa Kuzia. Angela Davis. 1980-1985. Black and white photography, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Special Collections and Archives, Colby College Libraries, Waterville, Maine. 

Padow-Sederbaum, Phyllis. Junior NAACP Demonstration. 1963. Queens College Special Collections and Archives. 

Allied Printing Trades Council. Placard from Memorial March Reading “HONOR KING: END RACISM!” 1968.  National Museum of African American History and Culture; On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 1, C1 053; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Created by C. M. Battey, American. W.E.B. Du Bois/. 1918. Silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper. National Museum of African American History and Culture; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Mosley, John W. Civil Rights Demonstrators at Girard College. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries, 1965-07-17. Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection.

[mimi-0007]

James McCune Smith, born in 1813, was a graduate of the New York African Free School. It is clear, from the fragments of his schoolwork that survive, that Smith was an exceptionally bright student. Smith was chosen to deliver a speech to General Lafayette on his trip to New York, a great honor. From other samples of his work, we can glean his prodigious talent in both writing and drawing. Perhaps it was his undeniable status as a star student that inspired Charles C. Andrews, the school's white schoolmaster, to cast him in a dialogue performed in 1822. In this skit, Smith plays a good student who reprimands his classmate for persistent tardiness. When Smith learns that his friend's lateness is due to the negligence of his parents, he is indignant and extols the virtues of education and the rules that undergird that education at the New York African Free School. Although we do not know how this skit was received, we might imagine that parents in the audience might have found the exchange offensive.

After his graduation, James McCune Smith became the first African American to receive a medical degree. Unable to attend college in the United States because he was black, Smith entered Glasgow University in Scotland and earned three academic degrees, including a doctorate in medicine. When Smith returned to New York, his intellect and energy made him an instrumental figure in an emerging black community. A prominent abolitionist, Smith worked with Frederick Douglass to establish the National Council of the Colored People. He also maintained close ties to classmate Henry Highland Garnet, praising his incendiary speech urging slaves to rebel, even when other members of the abolitionist community objected strongly to Garnet's sentiments.

Some of Smith's published works include "A Lecture on the Haitian Revolution" (1841) and "The Destiny of the People of Color" (1843), as well as a biographical introduction to Henry Highland Garnet's A Memorial Discourse. He also wrote the introduction to Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom. James McCune Smith died on November 17, 1865

[vixen-academia]

Today is the 60th anniversary of the Military Coup that occurred here in Brazil (with a little help from USA, may I remind you)

The military killed and tortured thousands of people. They killed mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, friends… they tortured children. They faked suicides. They targeted trans people, specially trans woman. They massacred indigenous.

Always good to remember the face of those who were assassinated by the dictatorship fighting for our freedom. Remember their names. Remember their faces. Don’t let their death be in vain.

Telma Regina Cordeiro Correa: a geography student from my university. Now the academic directory (it’s like the college version of a student council in Brazil) of Geography has her name.

Stuart and Zuzu Angel: Stuart was an activist fighting for the end of the dictatorship. He went missing and his mother. The stylist Zuzu Angel started to talk about the dictatorship with foreign media. She was killed by a car “accident”.

Edson Luís: a highschooler killed by the militaries during a protest against the high prices of the school’s restaurant.

Alfeu de Alcântara Monteiro: A military from the Aeronautical He was killed by their own colleagues for standing up for democracy, being considered the first victim of the dictatorship.

And there are many, MANY more. Some of them were actively fighting against the militaries (sometimes literally, with guns and etc). Others were just mistaken. Some were just “wrong place, wrong time” situations. Others helped someone who was fighting. But their lives ended unfairly. Some families couldn’t even bury their loved ones. And that’s why we need to remember.

“Ódio e nojo à Ditadura! Para que não se esqueça, para que nunca mais aconteça: DITADURA NUNCA MAIS!” (EN, loosely translated: Spite and pish towards dictatorship! So we never forget, so it never happens again: DICTATORSHIP NEVER MORE!)

[youreyeson1y]

ii. JYP ACADEMY

a leading private academy located at outskirts of seoul, south korea, JYPA is the dream institution of many talented individuals all over the country, and even overseas.

JYPA takes pride in having an unique approach to learning — they put as much importance in extra-curriculars as they do in academic education. one of the few performing arts academy, they give the students full freedom to pursue or engage in whatever craft they're drawn towards.

but for such an unique system to be sustained, they also need some rules. thus, the academy has their own democratic student council, with students from the third and fourth year being able to elect themselves for the role of president and vice president.

the current student council body is lead by their president, PARK JIHYO, the vice president, KANG Y/N, assisted by the respective class representatives and club leaders.

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MI'S NOTES — okay so this was kind of important because i wanted the story to be set in kind of like a high school-ish system with councils and clubs and all, but also wanted the characters to be aged up, so here is like a short introduction to jypa, to make sure there isn't much confusion in the future

STEAL THE SHOW. a kim seungmin smau

SYNOPSIS — kang y/n's focus was divided between the looming competition and the obnoxious and infuriating kim seungmin. his mocking and sarcastic online jabs sparked her retaliation, entertaining the university with their petty banter. but as their online repartee became routine, curiosity supplanted irritation, threatening her priorities and composure.

TAGLIST — open! (send in an ask to be added 🤍)

@babrieeee, @starlostastronaut, @charlieg1rl, @queen-in-the-shadows, @estella-novella

[girlactionfigure]

⭕KINDERGARTEN HIT, PREEMPTIVE RUMORS - Real time from Israel  

ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

( VIDEO - Kindergarten HIT by a Hezbollah rocket in Acre. )

❗️For the 2nd time in a week, Hezbollah HIT a kindergarten, this time in Acre.  Fortunately the little children were not killed. But, as in the last case, the explosion was in the playground where the children were a minute before.  We await the condemnations and indictment for war crimes.

🔸CEASEFIRE NEWS.. US envoy Amos Hochstein will arrive in Israel tonight to discuss a Lebanon ceasefire deal.  However, those close to the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament told Sky News in Arabic: There are agreements on almost 80% of the issues.

.. Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Kassem on the cease-fire proposal: We have forwarded our comments, stopping the war now depends on the Israeli response.

.. Senior officials in Israel: The two main controversies, pertaining to Israeli freedom of action in Lebanon in the event of a violation, and the composition of the supervisory committee in Lebanon.

▪️OPPOSITION MK EISENKOT.. submitted a bill to finance academic tuition for combatants and supporters of combat, failed in the plenary following opposition from the coalition. Earlier, the coalition asked to postpone the vote in order to examine whether the proposal is possible in terms of budget - but he refused.

Likud: The law "Dimensions for studies" established 100% funding for a bachelor's degree for combat soldiers, passed on Dec. 2023.  Why is the opposition creating a false image?

▪️UN SEC COUNCIL.. attempted to pass a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza without immediately returning the hostages - but with Israel releasing Palestinian terror prisoners.  US veto’d. 

▪️I.C.J.  .. Prof. Malcolm Shaw, head of Israel's defense team at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, at the Security and Democracy Conference of the Israel Democracy Institute: "At the international level, Israel's position is weak. Israel is not Russia. Russia can afford to break the law and get away with it."

▪️MILITARY INDUSTRY.. The aerospace industry reports a backlog of orders of about 25 billion dollars - an all-time record. Among other things, the company presented an increase of about 74% in the net profit in the first 9 months of 2024, this in relation to the corresponding period last year.

❗️IRAQ - reports of Israeli preparations for a pre-emptive strike in Iraqi territory against the Shia militias supported by Iran. Transportation of heavy Iranian missiles to these militias in recent weeks.

♦️LEBANON - Wave of airstrikes through the day.

♦️SAMARIA - JENIN - forces carrying out works to expose terror infrastructures and destroy them, and eliminate terrorists.  IED’s encountered.

♦️SYRIA - significant airstrikes in Palmyra, central Syria.  Enemy report: a meeting was held that included officers from the regime with members of the Iranian militias.

⭕ROCKET HIT - Kiryat Shmona - apartment building seriously damaged.  No injuries.

[mysticfoxdesigns]

Texas Antisemitism Executive Order

PLEASE SHARE THIS AROUND!!

As many of y'all know by now, I am a Texan. Specifically a Texan in higher education, at a public university. Gov. Abbott's new executive order to have public universities crack down on Anti-Semitic speech directly impacts the students advocating for Palestine.

Phrases such as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" can now be considered HATE SPEECH!

“Some radical organizations on our campuses engaged in acts that have no place in Texas,” Abbott said in a press release. “Now, we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe spaces for members of the Jewish community.”

This was never about protecting Jewish people, but protecting Zionists. The order was issued after universities across Texas had issues after Oct. 7th's events. Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel students were butting heads, and some broke out into fights according to some sources. As a uni student myself, I have seen these conflicting sides in person. Abbott's statement also makes no mention of the Anti-Islamic rhetoric that has also been spreading due to Israel's persecution of Palestinians.

This order calls for all public universities and colleges review their free speech policies, and to lay out in their policies the definition of antisemitism, and punishments for Anti-Semitic rhetoric. All within 90 days of the order's publishment.

Most of this appears to be banking on HB 3257, the bill that introduced Texas' Holocaust, Genocide, And Antisemitism Advisory Commission

Now, there has been some actual pushback on this, from the The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) as well as students and administration from the universities and colleges effected.

“This order not only undermines the principles of free speech and academic freedom but also perpetuates a harmful narrative that equates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism,” CAIR-DFW Executive Director Mustafa Carroll said in a statement.

Taken from the Dallas Morning News article posted earlier in this post.

The wordage used by Abbott worries many people, due to the fact that it is so vague. To the point where criticizing Israel and it's government can be considered hate speech.

Please share this around. If it is happening here, it can happen to any state.

Don't stop speaking about Palestine. Don't stop supporting the Palestinian citizens who are displaced right now. Educate your peers, donate if you are able, and don't give up hope.

[bluekat12345]

Naranja/Uva Academy student tracks

While it isn't really significant, in the Pokémon Scarlet/Violet games, whatever academy we're in, the students (our character and our friends/rivals) are mentioned to be in certain academic tracks.

The Player: General Studies

Nemona: General Studies

Arven: Humanities

Penny: STEM

Lately, I've been wondering what academic tracks other students in were. Specifically, what tracks the Team Star bosses were enrolled in. I had a few ideas on what tracks they could possibly be in, and I'll explain why I think so.

Giacomo: Humanities

This was the hardest, but ultimately, I think he would be in the Humanities track due to his past as a model top student and former Student Council President. He also helped create Team Star's code and he served as leader in Cassiopia/Penny's absence, so I feel like he would do well in this track.

Mela: General Studies

Ultimately, I see her as being in General Studies since during the Team Star tutoring session, she mentions that she doesn't really know what she wanted to do in the future, in contrast to the rest of her friends and only comes up with being a painter after the tutoring, so I can see her in this track so she'll learn the basics and have more freedom to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Atticus: Arts and Design

Atticus is an aspiring fashion designer, having been the one to make the team bosses' outfits, but he also gives off theater kid vibes with how he acts like a ninja and his Shakespearean vocabulary, and these are all things that I see being taught and encouraged in this track, which he would thrive in.

Ortega: ABM (Accountancy, Business, and Mangement)

Since he is heir to major apparel company in Paldea, so I imagine his parents would want him in this course, so he'll be able to properly run the company when he's old enough. While this would be his track, I can also see him taking Industrial Arts classes as electives/extracurriculars since he is the team mechanic and was able to create the Starmobiles with Revavrooms with different types.

Eri: Sports

I believe this is rather obvious since it is mentioned she is attending the academy on a sports scholarship and is said to be a skilled athlete, is the strongest boss of the five bosses, and is the one that helped train the team. She even forms a wrestling club at the school.

[roselightfairy]

TMail message Sent at: 06:10:07 on 24.08.959 From: Yoda (Grand Master) To: Qui-Gon Jinn (Knight) Subject: RE:a few more thoughts… Plenty of answers from the Council have you been given, Qui-Gon. Perhaps when Mastery you have reached, a deeper understanding you will have. TMail message Sent at: 06:13:53 on 24.08.959 From: Qui-Gon Jinn (Knight) To: Yoda (Grand Master) Subject: RE:a few more thoughts… Very well. -Q Archives Request Time submitted: 06:20:43 on 24.08.959 Submitter: Qui-Gon Jinn (Knight) Item requested: Paths and Requirements for Jedi Mastery, 183rd ed., 899, eds. Yoda and Oppo Rancisis

The fic wherein Qui-Gon applies for tenure Mastery to prove a point.

[argyrocratie]

"A sinister scenario of deception, orchestrated by the new crown bearers and their supporting states and global allies, will likely involve setting up the “election circus!!” They will call us to the ballot boxes—for what?? To elect the new profiteering savages of profit, power, and ownership as our government, to allow them to cement the capitalist wage-slavery system—the root of all exploitation, poverty, homelessness, lack of healthcare, lack of medicine, lack of education, hunger, poverty, humiliation, and misery. They will use our votes to eternalize our wage-slavery status, intensify our exploitation under the name of capital and capitalists, strip us of any real human freedom under the guise of “choice,” and bombard every drop of our human freedom in the name of fake democracy and liberty.

Our response to their demand must be a categorical rejection of any “election” scenarios. Our answer is that we want to organize ourselves within our councils and establish a powerful anti-wage slavery council movement. We will make councils the platform for the freest, most conscious, most creative, most effective, and most equal participation of all individuals. From within these councils, we will demand control over the fate of our work, production, and lives. Together, we will make collective decisions about what to produce, what not to produce, how much to work, and how to define labor to meet the day’s needs and ultimately eliminate scarcity. We will collectively plan and implement everything.

We are opposed to the establishment of any form of state or government model that places authority over human beings.

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In the process of organizing a council-based anti-capitalist movement, the foundation of our effort must be to take control of our work, production, and lives. We must struggle to reclaim as much of the results of our labor as possible from the blood-soaked claws of the capitalists and direct the cycle of work and production toward meeting real needs and ultimately liberating humanity from deprivation. In this regard, and as the first link in the chain of nationwide struggles, we demand the removal of food, clothing, medicine, healthcare, water, electricity, gas, transportation, and care for the disabled from the capitalist system of monetary and commodity exchange.

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There is no doubt that as soon as we propose any of the above points, the overwhelming armies of right and left-wing opposition—the self-proclaimed liberators of humanity—will swarm like locusts, surrounding us from all sides. Each will cry out, more eloquently, wisely, academically, sociologically, historically, and philosophically than the other, saying: “What nonsense is this??!!! Now is the time to raise the proud banner of democracy, demand the right to form unions, establish parties, enlist in the infantry of the party and union armies, demand freedom of organization, protests, the enactment of shining laws against gender apartheid, and a long list of other scenarios.”

Our response to this group is crystal clear. We will detonate the entire history of the 20th century like a bomb within their consciousness and cry out: “Shame on you for still repeating these words?? Didn’t we do all of this for 150 years? Haven’t you seen the barren wasteland produced by your prescriptions? Look into the eyes of the 4 billion workers worldwide—hungry, deprived of medicine, healthcare, education—humiliated, crushed, subdued, and oppressed. Be ashamed of your black and disastrous record. Get out of our way. We do not need the so-called ‘right to organize’ to be approved for us. We organize ourselves through the power of our struggle. We will not bury our organizations in the graveyard of capitalist order or turn them into weapons of capitalist power. We will build real anti-capitalist councils. From the heights of these anti-capitalist, anti-state, and anti-authority councils, we declare that we will take control of the work, production, and lives that are rightfully ours.”

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The same crowd mentioned above will howl from all sides: “This is Syria, its economy is bankrupt, its industry is ‘dependent’ and ‘underdeveloped,’ its growth is stunted, its productivity is defective, its competitiveness is crippled, and its per capita gross domestic product is minuscule. In such a society, you are talking about removing essential needs and social services like education and healthcare from the capitalist system of monetary and commodity exchange?? This is socialism!! This is utopian thinking!! You are clinging to Plato’s ideals and planning for a Platonic utopia!!!”

Once again, our response is clear: Get out of our way. We do not seek anything beyond the fruits of our labor and production. We are not claiming that we will solve all the problems of modern humanity’s life today, here in the hell of Syria’s devastation and bloodshed. The essence of our demand is simple and pure: We do not want a state ruling over us. We will not allow the product of our labor to become a mountain of capital for trusts, corporations, financial and industrial giants, the state octopus, or the machinery of physical and ideological oppression that rules over us. We know very well how to use the fruits of our labor to meet our needs for sustenance, well-being, and human freedom. We know how to allocate each part of it effectively. We are capable of achieving all this.

We do not consider our victory predetermined or inevitable. To achieve this victory, we will fight—and fight again—ever more consciously, more council-based, and more awake."

-[alayhesarmaye] "Syria, War, Partition, and the Fate of the Working Masses"

[ultfreakme]

Freeing Palestine is India's fight

I've seen lots of posts about how Western countries and their populations should be concerned for stopping the genocide in Palestine but Indians are involved in this as well.

India has a HUGE Islamophobia problem, from the day India became what it is, this country exists the way it does through conflict regarding religious majorities and it is a problem we must acknowledge.

Collective punishment has often been carried out indiscriminately against Muslims in India- Muslim people's houses in Madhya Pradesh have been demolished without warning. This has also happened in Uttar Pradesh and in 2023, Haryana(300 businesses and homes). These were all normal innocent civilians who had proper legal paperwork showing their purchase and ownership of their home and land, but the police did not care. In many of these instances the police stood by and were involved in demolition and all of these were under BJP-majority and ruled areas. The recent Ram Mandir was built on the demolished land of Babri Masjid(it was built in the 14th century before India as it was even a THING, its destruction & demolition on the claim that it was Ram's birth place is unfair). Hate crimes against Muslims run amok and there are multiple cases of violence against Muslims in India.

PM Modi of the BJP party has been consistent in maintaining positive relations with Benjamin Netanyahu and the occupying force of Israel. A majority of the military equipment for India comes from Israel, and India has constantly been neutral in UN council meetings when decisions regarding Israel are brought up. A spyware called Pegasus, developed by the occupying force of Israel was used to surveil politicians, journalists, activists etc severely breaching right to privacy and threatening freedom of speech.

Worse; India has been using the Israeli strategy of colonizing Palestine with Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir is a union territory which basically means they are allowed to function independently on most fronts but India has been seeking to integrate J&K into itself and has been extremely hostile to its Muslim citizens and are currently intensifying their occupation efforts. There have been consistent internet and communication blackouts since 2018 and it is STILL ongoing.

India invited Israeli officials to Kashmir to open 'Centers of Excellence' which are supposedly for agricultural innovation but everyone in J&K are concerned and see it as India taking an opportunity to intensify its occupation with Israeli help.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, several Kashmiris told Middle East Eye the Israeli agriculture hubs would deepen India's occupation in the region and accelerate its settler-colonial project. "Earlier, we would draw the parallels between Kashmir and Palestine or India's intimate alliance with Israel. But now they are bringing Israel to the Valley in the form of these institutions - which will be "agro-oriented" in name - but we all know that Israel will physically help India in Kashmir to turn it into a proper Palestine," a Kashmiri academic based in Istanbul told Middle East Eye.

In 2016 Coalition of Civil Society said there are more than 8000 'disappearances' of people in J&K. There are mass graves with over 2000 bodies being found with these unlawful activities being attributed to the Indian Security Forces. That's just scratching the surface of decades of violence and human rights violations enacted by India.

BJP is not shy about its ties to the RSS and promotes Hindutva(I've seen people citing the literal meaning of the word as evidence that it is harmless but the word is a label given to an embraced by extreme right-wing groups who are open about their Islamaphobia. Meaning of the word becomes pointless when actions speak otherwise).

India is an occupying force on J&K, it's suppressing Muslims, demonizing them and further marginalizing them in the name of 'Hinduism'. It buys from Israel and endorses them. As Indians, it is key that we do whatever we can to stop the genocide because we are unwittingly being used to fuel this and are being radicalized to hate on our neighbors, the people we share our land and history with.

Even outside of the ways in which the current government is shamelessly supporting Israel, India's history is rife with colonization. The British had occupied us, forced us into fighting each other, into prioritizing meaningless differences to suppress each other. We were once starved by occupying forces, violated, killed. Our land is also covered in blood shed by colonization.

What are we doing if we don't speak up? If we don't stop this? Do not follow the propaganda conflating extreme right-wing ideologies with the identity of being Indian. Don't buy into the idea that India is "for Hindus", we are so ridiculously diverse, there are 100s of languages and religions in this country.

Free Jammu & Kashmir, free Palestine, stop Islamophobia.

[eretzyisrael]

by Corey Walker

Arguing that anti-Zionist activists are part of a long tradition of “freedom fighters” and “liberators,” Hill implored the US federal government to revoke all economic and diplomatic assistance to Israel, including support at the United Nations Security Council. He also argued that defeating Zionism is a necessary stepping stone on the path to ultimately dismantling capitalism.

“Stop it! Tell the truth! Stand up for freedom!” he said. “Do the work of liberation! Until Palestine is free, until Sudan is free, until Congo is free, until Haiti is free, not one single one of us free! Free Palestine, from the river to the Motherf—king sea!” Hill said, triumphantly pumping a balled fist in the air. 

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be free” — a popular slogan among anti-Israel activists — has been widely interpreted as a call for the destruction of the Jewish state, which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Algemeiner asked the panelists why there was no mention of Oct. 7 or Hamas when discussing the causes of the ongoing war in Gaza. The outlet also asked whether the panelists believe Hamas should surrender in exchange for the sake of preserving Palestinian life.

“I feel like we have this reflexive take in American media politics where we have to say, ‘What about Hamas?'” Hill said in response in a mocking tone, adding that invoking the terrorist group is “unnecessary” and “excessive.”

“Hamas hasn’t surrendered because they’re still under brutal occupation. Hamas hasn’t surrendered because Israel has never given the Palestinian people one minute, one moment of self-determination, freedom, or liberation,” Hill said. 

“And so, when you talk about Hamas, when you talk about Oct. 7, you [should] also talk about Oct. 6. Because, history didn’t start on Oct. 7,” he continued.

Hill went on to say that although it is against his “moral code” to maim, rape, and slaughter thousands innocent civilians or abduct hundreds of innocent bystanders, as Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists did on Oct. 7, he believes that it is not his “job to tell people how to liberate themselves.”

“The question presumes, and it is undergirded by a kind of orientalist, white supremacist idea that Palestinians are these unyielding, barbaric, uncivilized, premodern people that are incapable of negotiation.”

The academic then defended Hamas as a “democratically-elected organization that has been systematically undermined.” He urged the audience not to talk about Hamas “like they’re some irrational crazy people,” arguing that the Islamist group’s actions are motivated by a “backdrop of Israeli settler-states that sexually abuse people, that steal land, that kill people.”

“Let’s have a real conversation about Hamas, not the neoliberal, dishonest, orientalist conversation about Hamas,” Hill concluded. 

Hill has a long history of peddling anti-Israel narratives and calling for explicit violence against the Jewish state. In 2018, Hill was fired from his position as a CNN contributor for calling for “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” a phrase which according to critics implies a genocide or mass expulsion of Jews from Israel. He has also voiced support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS), an initiative which seeks to isolate Israel from the international community as the first step toward its eventual destruction. The pundit additionally praised antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — a hate preacher who has referred to Jews as “termites” and called Nazi leader Adolph Hitler “a very great man.” In 2019, Hill skewered mainstream media outlets as “Zionist” organizations, a nod to the antisemitic conspiracy theory notion that Jews control the media. The progressive activist also pushed an unsubstantiated claim that Israel is “poisoning” Palestinian drinking water.

Following the panel, The Algemeiner was pulled aside by a pair of individuals connected to the event and grilled about the publication��s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and whether it supported “black solidarity with the Palestinian community.”

[sleepythegh0st]

Persona In Real Time: May 6th

Persona 3 Reload

Makoto answers a question correctly in class, raising his Charm

Makoto visits student council and speaks to Odagiri about how the other students are trying to abolish the uniform. Odagiri believes doing so is not the statement of freedom they think it is. This deepens their bond, raising Makoto's Emperor Arcana to 2.

Makoto eats at Wakatsu Kitchen, raising his Academics

Persona 5 Royal

Igor summons Ren and congratulates him for making valuable friends. He and the Wardens encourage him to make more and maintain those relationships. This deepens Ren and Igor's bond, raising Ren's Fool Arcana to 3.

The Phantom Thieves check the Phan-Site for potential leads, but find nothing

Ren dodges chalk thrown by a teacher, increasing his Charm to Head-Turning

Mishima corners Ren and reveals that he was the one who started the Phan-Site, wanting to help. Ren gains the Moon Arcana.

Ryuji takes Ren to train at a gym he found that will work as their new spot. While there, they run into an old senpai or Ryuji's who reveals that Shujin's track team is coming back, and Yamauchi, their old advisor, is coming back too. Ryuji believes he may be up to something because he was always like a "mini Kamoshida." Ryuji and Ren's bond deepens, raising Ren's Chariot Arcana to 5.

Sojiro gives Ren the key to LeBlanc, allowing him to go out at night

Ren applies at Ore no Beko, a beef bowl shop, and works his first day, raising his Proficiency

Persona 4 Golden

Yu hangs out with Yosuke at Junes and learns about how often people take advantage of him there. Yosuke tells Yu how much he appreciates being able to talk about serious things with him. This deepens their bond, raising Yu's Magician Arcana to 3

Yu begins reading "The Lovely Man"

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More than one hundred University of Vermont students took to the university’s central campus on Sunday to form a Palestine solidarity encampment, joining many other campuses nationwide and across the world to force higher education institutions to divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli investments directly involved in the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.  The encampment began at 2:00pm with more than a dozen tents, but ballooned over the afternoon and evening. By late Sunday night — despite heavy rains and soggy grass — there were roughly thirty tents on the Andrew Harris Commons, the green space between the Davis Center and Howe Library, with more on the way. Along with echoing national demands of academic boycotts and divestment of Israeli institutions, UVM students also demand the withdrawal of UVM’s selection for its 2024 commencement speaker: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In three separate U.N. ceasefire resolutions, Thomas-Greenfield vetoed each of them, and casting the lone ‘no’ vote for two U.N. Security Council resolutions. She also voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution for a humanitarian ceasefire. These actions have enabled the continued genocide of Gaza, in which over 34,000 have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023. As if her stance wasn’t clear enough from her actions at the U.N., during Thomas-Greenfield’s confirmation hearings in 2021, she called the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement (BDS) “unacceptable” and that it “verges on antisemitism.” 

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Soon after students began assembling Sunday afternoon, UVM administrators and police started making a series of ultimatums and deadlines for students to disperse, lest they face potential suspension, citation, and arrest. With students collectively deciding each time to stay put, by around 10:00 pm the administration agreed not to take any actions against students at the encampment before 8:30 am Monday. By that time, the administration insisted that all tents be removed from the green, though students could remain assembled there. Shortly after word of UVM administration’s concession made it through the crowd, UVM police officers approached some of the campers to restate UVM policy in a manner that some students found contrary to what had just been agreed.

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The students at the encampment have made the following demands of the UVM administration: 1. DISCLOSE all financial investments within UVM’s $800 million endowment. 2. DIVEST from all weapon manufacturers, Israeli companies, and companies involved in the occupation of historic Palestine. 3. ACADEMIC BOYCOTT of Israeli institutions. 4. CANCEL Linda Thomas-Greenfield as speaker for UVM’s 2024 commencement and revoke her planned honorary degree from UVM. 5. AMNESTY for all students engaged in protests for Palestinian freedom, and a guarantee of no charges for protestors.

“We have people talking to the administration to figure out what a conversation might look like to implement our demands,” James said. “But as of right now, it’s difficult because the administration seems generally unwilling to talk to us beyond telling us that we’re breaking the rules, or we need to disperse.”

-- From "UVM Students Build Solidarity Encampment for Palestine" by Matt Moore for The Rake Vermont, 29 Apr 2024

[queen-scribbles]

A couple of the Pathfinder questions for you: #s 4, 22, 30.

Thank you!

4.What did they do before they became a crusader? Did they have a job, an occupation?

Zephyr's pretty young (19/20), so he's still at that "Figuring life out" stage. He's a Scholar for his background, but I'd almost see him more as still being a student(maybe he's doing work-study, heh). He's a Spirit Warden Shaman, so any occupation that may have been coming before the Crusade + Mythic power + Lead These People interfered would probably have been researching and protecting spirits and vulnerable places. His days involved a lot of reading, sometimes traveling. Contrary to a lot of academic stereotypes, he loves being outdoors, outdoors is freedom and safety and the ability to run if someone starts being prejudiced, so finding him curled up in or under a tree to read is not an uncommon sight at any of the places he stays.

22. Who was their favorite advisor during crusade council?

He's not that far yet; only just did Leper's Smile. I feel like he'll be more comfortable with the companion advisors on the various councils than the ones who show up... Definitely not gonna like Konomi or Doreglinda(or however you spell Logistics lady's name). Might like Harmattan a little., which. Oops. He'll enjoy Logistics council meetings more than the others, I think. Logistics feel more straight-forward to him than Military or Diplomatic matters.

30. Did they chose to take the crossbow or the scroll to run away from Deskari right at the beginning?

He took the crossbow and shot Mr. Locust. He'll dip out of a situation where there's risk of getting in trouble for being kitsune, avoid bad things before they happen, but he's never shied away from standing up to people(demon lords) doing evil things, no matter the risk to himself.

Knight Commander Asks

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SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY MANIFESTO 2024 SUMMARY

cw: extreme transphobia

ok story time. after thatcher happened the labour party elected a left-wing leader to try stop her. four labour MPs left the party in protest and formed the SDP. they formed a non-aggression pact with the Liberal Party, and after a couple years voted in favour of merging to form the Liberal Democrats. one of the four founders disagreed with the merger and founded a new party, calling it the SDP again and acting like it was the rightful successor. after a year or two the continuation party had been destroyed at every little election it had tried to fight, and it voted in favour of disbanding. however, a few activists disagreed with the disbanding and founded a new party, calling it the SDP AGAIN and acting like it was the rightful successor. this second continuation, this third SDP is what survives today

when reading about this party thirty years later, i’d found descriptions that they had become ‘economically left-wing but socially right-wing’ and tbh, i took them at their word. i were told they were communitarians, using traditionalist conservative moral frameworks to promote social democratic economics. that description is very, very wrong

this manifesto is deeply fascistic

i was expecting a couple of yikes moments, especially about trans people, and while there is truly an avalanche of transphobia and trans-hostile policy proposals, the fascistic nature is all over the place, especially on migration, hypernationalism and security. they are beyond Likud on some security matters – if the IRA came back under the SDP we’d be living in a hypermilitarised apartheid state before you can say boyfanny

the reason i’m covering this manifesto is because they’re comfortably the sixth largest party in terms of seats contested at 122, narrowly behind the workers’ party (though they have a suite of endorsed independents). i want you to look at this atrocity. i want you to see the number of votes they get in these 122 seats and despair. this is your country, this is your fascism

💷ECONOMY

abolish housing benefits

audit board of private industry to audit the entire public sector every three years

ban the public sector from buying from foreign manufacturers. at all.

stop benefits after six months. councils required to “hire” (force the labour of) six-monthers for random stuff like street sweeping

expand tax incentives for marriage

raise the minimum wage to 2/3 median wage

raise corporation tax to internationally standard levels, but instead rollout freeports and Special Economic Zones

introduce laws discriminating in favour of parents for redundancies, “protecting them” as a protected category in equality legislation

unilateral expansion of fishing. sorry iceland, it looks like we’ll be having another war

🏥PUBLIC SERVICES

renationalise rail, water and energy

require the showing of an ID card to access the NHS and basically any free public service to prevent its use by illegals. immigrants, when given ‘indefinite leave to remain’, STILL won’t get the right to use any service for ten entire years

massive rollout of elite selective schooling

reduce the number of bachelors’ degree places

force over-65s to do community service to pay for their eventual social care

“teaching will reflect Britain’s important contribution to the world in the context of its time. teachers will avoid advocacy of unorthodox or sectarian agendas”

fully nationalise the BBC to seize state control, requiring it to ‘promote national cohesion’

schools to confiscate all phones during the day and “impound” (their word) any found phone for two weeks

ban the NHS using any language other than english or welsh. whoops looks like they forgot to include BSL

the manifesto includes a whiny “charter” on “academic freedom”

mandatory one mile walk every day in schools

require international students to take a strict english test before being offered a place

“public funding of culture, media and sports organisations will be conditional on those organisations respecting the principles of balance and free speech. institutions that fail to do so, by censoring artefacts, promoting sectarian agendas or deterring people from civil discourse, will have funding withdrawn”

rewrite the PSHE curriculum to prioritise “parenting and household management”

���HOUSING

“the fundamental aim of national housing policy shall be to ensure that young people seeking to start a family will be able to find a suitable home in which to do so”

create a public company to create 100k new social houses a year

discriminate in favour of the married and veterans for council and social housing

suspend but later reintroduce right to buy with a one-in-one-out clause

ban buy-to-let

👮FORCE

“restore the offence of sedition and actively use this law to pursue those who incite terrorism overtly or covertly, or who act in flagrant support of the UK’s enemies”

abolish the supreme court and transfer its powers to the house of lords, which due to reform will be more politically partisan

leave the UN refugee convention

abolish the human rights act

abolish the european convention on human rights

leave the council of europe

surge defence spending

surge funding for MI5 and the NCA

surge police funding and pursue an aggressive broken windows policy

double all sentences for violent crime, and for any repeat offence

mandatory minimum of ten years after three serious offences

mandatory hard labour for parolees for two years after release

all non-citizen prisoners to be deported and permabanned after release

any legally resident non-citizen to be deported for “any act considered materially hostile to Britain’s social peace”

“prisons will become safe, orderly institutions - whatever it takes”

asphyxiating migration cap of 50k/a, but “agreements between key strategic partners may result in selective exemptions if clearly in the national interest” (ie, we’ll let in anglophones, but probably not anglophones from africa or asia or the caribbean )

“promote a generation-long cessation of mass migration”

cease all aid for ukraine

🌱CLIMATE ?

“overrwhelming focus on climate ‘catastrophe’ is fostering anxiety and despair in children. from early years to key stage 3, all children will learn about British wildlife. the Natural History GCSE will [teach] the inspiring achievements of Britain’s pioneering naturalists”

abandon net zero

re-legalise fracking and expand oil and gas

pursue energy autarky where the country always has 12 months’ supply of fossil fuels

prohibit the rewilding of farmland

create no new low emissions zones

the fishing industry to oversee existing marine protection areas and any proposal for any new ones

🗳️DEMOCRACY

english parliament for english people

explicitly codify the fact that scotland can’t leave

proportional representation (specifically STV) for the commons

evict the hereditary lords and bishops but keep the appointees, capped at 400 with 15 year terms and appointed by committee

increase the powers of parish councils

🏳️‍⚧️REACTIONARY AGENDA, other than everything else

strip trans people of discrimination protections in both the equality and gender recognition acts to protect “sex-baesd rigths”

catastrophic reduction in NHS funding for trans healthcare, remaining funds to be for “psychological intervention” (state-mandated conversion therapy)

mandatory profiling of all trans people for all public data for all purposes by keeping separate sex and gender categories across the ENTIRE public sector

ban ALL pharmacological care for trans minors

ban trans women using women’s shelters

ban trans participation in sports competition

force trans prisoners to be incarcerated at the prison for the opposite sex

all public sector DEI to be stopped, so goes the policy

introduce a bad internet bill, require id for porn sites, require all tech companies to “promote free speech”

mandatory spyware on all devices: “a digital border application will be created to detect digital content which is malignantly pornographic, supportive of terrorism or otherwise contrary to law. all internet service providers operating in the UK will be required to utilise this scanning software and take steps to block undesirable content.” all smartphones “sold to or used by” an under-16 to have mandatory age restrictions