#Violence

Many of us are feeling hopeless that we cannot do more or make the world safer. Some of us are tired of repeating ourselves when it comes to issues about
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Lots of speculation that yesterday's massacre in Rio was a deliberate effort help police-linked milícias take over Jacarezinho by softening the Comando Vermelho's long-standing hold on the community. Plausible, chilling,
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Calls for civility, "openness" and "freedom" by people who institute and enact structural violence on the regular, but feel like their freedoms are eroded when they are challenged, can bite
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The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this
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Not feeling great about the incentive structures being set up by how responses to antisemitism are covered in English-language media Those alologising, taking ownership, committing to improvement, etc. are constantly
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I feel like the trouble with the "non-binary" label is the same as every other label - people have ALREADY attached pre-conceieved notions of what that is and now we're
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The toppling of a statue of John A Macdonald has unnerved certain sections of Cdn society. Fears of an “angry mob” that can “erase history” w such actions are overblown;
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Ça faisait longtemps que les deux fils rouillés qui servent de cerveau à Denis Robert, le Don Quichotte du conspirationnisme discount, ne s’étaient pas touchés. Quelle infamie d’accuser d’euthanasie la
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hi hi so i wanted to talk about one of my favourite movies ever, okja (2017) thread FIRST OF ALL !! i wanna give y'all a BIIIG tw for
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On this episode of if you're not pissed you're not paying attention we're talking lgbt+!I recently learned that there is a law (its only illegal in a small handful of
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Clementine Ford currently has 1044 patrons on her 6-tier Patreon account. Let’s think about that for a moment. Say, hypothetically, if all of her patrons are paying one of the
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Mercury is now in its pre retrograde shadow phase, meaning whatever is happening now, we have to personally and collectively revisit come *checks notes* November 3rd. Something about this moment
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I’m so glad I quit working for @Target when I did. Anybody who works there and is aware at all already knows they’ve got a problem with racism built into
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This Day in Labor History: April 4, 1936. The Strutwear strike in Minneapolis was won by the workers, a significant victory not just for the workers of Minnesota, but specifically
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Another interesting day or so of Welsh indy Twitter.The topic of the last few days, again, has been that trans folk and their allies are being divisive, and *might* even
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I did this as a DW post yesterday, but it occurred to me that a Twitter thread might also be helpful. So, a list of charities/organisations I am donating to
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