I'm Russian living in Russia. I was 5 when Putin was 'elected'. I'm 30 now. I know that feeling of hopelessness very well. You should never surrender. Autocrats of the world are counting on you being down and depoliticized because all of this. Don't give them an easy win. Always fight, no matter how bad situation seems.

#usa #trump #election #democracy #us #uspol #USPolitics #harris #russia #putin #palestine #ukraine

Susie Dent's word of the day: recrudescence.

#SusieDent #Language #WordOfTheDay #us #us2024 #election2024 #election

U.S. Citizens Abroad: What You Need To Know to Vote in 2024

#americans #us

democracydocket.com/analysis/u…

U.S. Citizens Abroad: What You Need To Know to Vote in 2024 - Democracy Docket

Americans who are eligible to vote can do so from all over the world, no matter how long they have lived abroad. By following these steps, US citizens voting abroad can make sure their ballots are counted.

^{Democracy Docket}

This should be a viral national story in #US. After this team unanimously unionized, Google refused to come to the bargaining table.

A resolution supporting the workers was brought to the city council. The day the workers showed up to testify on the resolution, Google laid off the entire team.

This was the precise instant when YouTube Music employees became aware that we had lost our jobs, as we were addressing the City Council.

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Radio Jammor is on the air...

Broadcasting from #Scotland to the #UK, #US & #Canada

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#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#music

mastodon.scot

A server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish.

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Venezuelan bond prices soar after US lifts trading ban

> Venezuelan government bond prices soared on Thursday after the US government eased sanctions that had barred American investors from trading them, handing immediate large gains to some hedge funds.
The price of #Venezuela’s sovereign dollar bond maturing in 2027 jumped more than 70 per cent to 19 cents on the dollar, according to Bloomberg data.
archive.is/2023.10.19-145149/f… #US #Economy

'Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women'
feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear…
Excellent piece by the wonderful Mona Eltahawy

Some TL:DR quotes:
"This isn’t a “whose flavour of patriarchy is worse” letter. This is a “fuck the patriarchy everywhere” grenade that I gift to you. This is not The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s real life. This is a wake the fuck up because clearly you’ve been drifting, cruising on the delusions that your whiteness will save you from white supremacist patriarchy."

"The patriarchy atop theocracy melange of Iran’s “morality police” is easier to see because it is so visibly expressed in enforced hijab. But what is the enforced pregnancy of the Christian zealots in the U.S. but a melange of patriarchy built atop theocracy right here?"

"Fuck theocracy everywhere.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.

Burn. Shit. Down."

#Feminism #Iran #US #Patriarchy

Essay: Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women

Photo: Christian Mang/Reuters This essay is paired with Iran’s Feminist Revolution—Women, Life, Freedom It’s thrilling, isn’t it, watching women far away rise up? Especially when they are women whose plight was always used to shut you up.

^{Mona Eltahawy (FEMINIST GIANT)}

The US Supreme Court announces rebrand. Will henceforth be known as Taliban White™

What a horrible setback for human rights.

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#us #fundamentalism #RoeVWade #humanRights

U.S. Supreme Court rules there’s no right to abortion, setting up Texas ban

The high court’s monumental ruling will have major impact on Texas, which has a trigger law banning abortions that goes…

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Pro-tip for #conference vendors & sponsors in the #US:

A social media pic of your booth staff w/smiling unmasked faces does not make me want to drop by during the next break.

A free infection with #COVID, with a chance of long-term injury/disability, is just not the compelling free swag you may think it is.

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #OSsummit