Imposing conditions that force marginalized people to carry signifiers of their identity. Does this remind you of anything? Oh, and while we're on our feet, do you remember that they promised - not threatened, promised - to do this back in 2015?

Aren't they.......armed and masked? Why does ICE need protection at all, let alone from the beautiful, weird, wonderful city it is terrorizing?

The world is worth fighting for because it's beautifully weird, just like you are, and there's so much left to discover. Enjoy this snizard and resist fascism.

Mme Pelicot, nous sommes avec vous.

Oh, some of us have been warning about pre-genocidal rhetoric since 2015, and the surveillance state infrastructure since the early 2000s. Remember, "If you have nothing to hide..."? And genocide studies has understood how mobilization occurs for much longer. Months? Lifetimes. No one listened.

Nice cross. Remember the Samaritan? HOW MUCH MORE SIMPLY COULD THAT PARABLE HAVE ARTICULATED LOVE OF NEIGHBOUR??????

2003.

Some have been arguing this is "not political, just vandalism." It's worth keeping in mind that "it's not political" is often a synonym for "I don't want to think about this, let alone talk" and an indicator that the politics of the matter have usually landed in the speaker's favour.

I'll just note that countries governed by patron-client networks pull this off every day. When official lines contained by law are cut off, unofficial, unscrutinized channels pick up the slack. That this post uses the colours of the Ugandan flag is apt, as the US takes Museveni as #GovernanceGoals.

For a project that never came to fruition, I interviewed ordinary people about their pre- & post-Kamloops knowledge of Canada's genocide. One woman who grew up beside the school said, "we ALWAYS knew more children went in than came out." May we never be unhaunted by the past that isn't even past.

Two questions when faced with these types of claim, in order: *What do you mean by X [e.g., hate-based violence]? What does it look like in action, and how do we differentiate it from its cousins [e.g., criminal or insurgent violence]? *Data please?

I can't even begin to say how much the author has never been to Uganda. Most of this is achingly normal, just a touch more expensive than I'd have expected, but hey, you're staying chez Mahmood. I hear his son is doing well for himself these days :D

It's only harder to fight if you assume the point is to defeat something identifiable. The purpose of cultivating deeply nebulous opponents is that you can locate them anywhere, and any remedy can be framed as necessary. A pogrom against 'haters,' e.g., could target anyone opposed to pogroms.

I think Nietzsche had something to say about fighting monsters. Resistance is primarily an inside job, and requires daily efforts not to become precisely that which previously threatened us from the outside.

The problem is that many professors know what conservatism actually is, and know that those using that moniker have abandoned their Burkean post. Who even adheres to the ideology at all at this point, such that we might either admire or revile them?

I'm reminded of Vladimer Papava's 'Necroeconomics,' describing a post-Soviet pathology in which a country continues producing commodities for which there is no market. In Georgia-Sakartvelo, this poverty looks like the deflated body of an athlete cut off their steroids. Watch this space for the US.

Most tyrants end up at least tacitly expanding access to numbing agents, no matter their protestations. Marx called religion the opiate of the people, but nominal communism relied on alcohol, other tyrannies on opium and its cousins. At least give the masses Tylenol if you want them passive.

Federally, we came SO close to patronage-based proto-fascism, and some provinces are knowingly implementing policies demonstrated to end trans kids' lives, and using exterminationist rhetoric. Resisting the US is vital, but the primary threat remains within. Elbows up in your heads and hearts.

“We don’t want to have to go through two (tourism) seasons like this last one, and I don’t think we will. I think it will get ironed out and we’ll get normalized again.” LOL

Begin with some mistrust for any cis straight man who seems to swoop in to rescue women, alert to whether this "rescue" is opportunistic and/or oppresses others. Those who only support us when we're useful weapons for their true agenda are not allies, and WILL betray us when our utility subsides.

Alors, on se lève les coudes tabarnak.

To be fair to Chamberlain, he didn't have the benefit of a crystal-clear historical precedent to help predict how appeasement of a fascist tyrant would turn out. Pre-war Chamberlain couldn't learn from WWII Chamberlain. Starmer can, but appears unwilling to do so.

One major caveat: 2025 is not forever IF Americans take action to change things profoundly. There are many stops between denial and defeatism, both of which are collaboration. These tyrannies ended because people ended them, and this time no foreign powers can impose change on a nuclear superpower.

If only Americans had been warned about EXACTLY THIS when they gleefully supported the construction of surveillance state infrastructure in the early 2000s. Remember? "If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem?" Remember being told THIS was the risk, and telling people they were alarmists?

And this is more evidence "divisive" is a lame criticism. It matters immensely from what people are being divided, or dividing themselves, and on what basis they are doing so. Love divides from hate, as it should. Lies divide from truth, and ought to be stopped.

"Division" isn't a dirty word. We are meant to be divided from the fascists who seem actively pissed that Kirk wasn't immediately their Habyarimana's-plane moment and are still trying to foment genocide. Stay divided from hate. Love does not seek a middle ground with hate.

See Idi Amin's "cleanliness" campaign. Who could be against ensuring Uganda is not dirty? In fact, report on your neighbours for their unkemptness. Anything else you'd like to report them for? The more anodyne the pretext, the more effective a surveillance vehicle it is. We know this.

Old-school c/Conservatives, though I disagreed with their reverence for hierarchies, cautioned us against smashing sociopolitical ecosystems when we only intend to smash one part thereof. Fascists abandon that post by being the ones who smash shit up, even if they do so to create more hierarchies.

Or, hear me out: a drag supergroup could grab the domain name, or at least develop enough of an online profile to maximize confusion, and satirize the shite out of MAGA's gender anxiety. And we all know which would provide a sounder education in sociopolitical analysis.

The Throne Speech was a strong gesture, but let's see if we still have a king this month. One can drink tea with elbows sharply elevated, but will he do so?

Hi. I’m Rachel. My name is first on the website the North American far-right is using to target people they say “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death. There’s just one problem: I never did that. But the people sending me threats don’t seem to care. Let me tell you, in my own words, what happened:

"Species." This is genocide talk. This would have been genocide talk even if the shooter had coincidentally turned out to be trans. This is genocide talk, and they don't care who the shooter was. I can't emphasize enough how fucking close they are to genocide. My whole body is screaming.

It occurred to me that we still don't know, and probably never will, who shot down Habyarimana's plane. In the context of what happens next unless people CHOOSE to stop it, it never mattered, still doesn't matter. I'm begging Americans not to let this or any other moment be their Habyarimana moment.

I suppose he could have referenced the oeuvre of V.P. Gagnon on ethnic outbidding and topped it off with Miller, Gordon and Buddie (1999) "Is to explain to condone?", the answer to which is no, but Dowd's words were more concise. It was a sound causal analysis.

What women who speak up experience. Also, did Andrew Scheer just out himself as someone who does not *immediately* think of the security consequences of an incident of political violence? Should we conclude the party he once led would fail to anticipate backlash?

Can this please be the moment we wake the fuck up to PP's creeping fascism, given it's crept this far? Can we please observe our neighbours a hair's breadth from genocide, as further evidenced by 75 years of empirical research, and decide to do things a bit differently?

The headline is misleading. They do not care about ANY sex crime victim (nor does PP). They care about the opportunity survivors provide to win a dick-measuring contest with their dude opponent and to oppress an already marginalized group more, ignoring cis rich white male perps, the majority.

I can't even watch this whole pack of lies. You absolute fuckwad. We know why you're speaking "urban" crime TODAY, and I know you don't give a shit about sexual assault and other violence against marginalized people, because most perpetrators look just like you. LOVEEE being used as a prop AGAIN!

I read bloviation as bioviolation, and thought there was a coy new euphemism for genocide. Bystanders to fascism are collaborators. Apologists for fascist tactics are collaborators. How many Americans are still non-collaborators to what's about to happen...if no one stops it via non-collaboration?

Nothing more frightening, nothing more enraging, nothing more beautiful, motivating, mysterious or worthy of love. Except elephants and dogs, as pertains to the better adjectives.

I'm terrified this may be the time there is no moving on to the next thing, unless "the next thing" is what I've been warning about for ten years. Whether this is the moment or not, Americans, keep your secret annexes ready for occupancy while making sure your neighbours don't know you have them.

LONDON (AP) — The verdict on Banksy’s artwork on a courthouse wall of a judge beating a protester was that it had to go.

At least the Americans got the quality and ideology of governance they voted for as a collective (yes, we know, #NotAllAmericans). The Starmer government has utterly betrayed its own voters, not to mention international humanitarian law and the vulnerable populations who require its protection.

To be crystal clear, Danielle Smith KNOWS that this law will make many kids homeless and end some of their lives. She KNOWS this will kill kids, and I know she knows because we had the data in Manitoba in 2023, as the Free Press reported. She knows, just like we knew. NEVER let her play dumb.

It's not just what he's taking away, but what he's giving you: the return of polio, and lists of humans considered to be lesser based on health and (dis)ability, including neurodivergence. What will be done with that list of lesser humans? Probably the only thing regimes ever have with such lists.

This was already proposed in 2015, guys. Consider acting BEFORE it becomes a requirement to not just carry, but *wear* a symbol of one's identity. They are asking for your help in enhancing the efficiency of the proposed cull.

You know when you want to say "I told you so" to those you told, but can't? And you know how being right hasn't been enjoyable for at least 10 years? Happy Monday.

Good, I guess, but this feels like bragging about our never having institutionalized slavery in a climate not conducive to plantation agriculture. I'm glad no PM is suspected, but there is no country where women/girls are not treated as sex toys. I resent being used as a prop by ANY ideology.

This was home. My heart is breaking.

How gullible must a cis woman be to think transphobia is the cure for our ills because our primary oppressors PROMISED they care about us this time? Even if the data weren't *diametrically opposed* to the conclusion, doesn't history suggest Lucy will always yoink the football from Charlie Brown?