“for every survivor who is able to tell their story, there are thousands who will be forever silent” Conflict related sexual violence is increasing in Myanmar & many other conflict zones. We of #MilkTeaAlliance Friends of Myanmar join with many other groups in Demanding justice and accountability✊

Arturo Gamboa, a 24-year-old punk musician and son of a Venezuelan immigrant, is the man being held on suspicion of murder. He'd attended protests since 2020 while open carrying a rifle, but had never used it. A friend said: “He’s a good kid. Literally willing to take a bullet for his community.”

An anti-militarist group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a total of 35 commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom in the early hours of Tuesday. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/18/a...

Have it on record: the contagion *should* be seducing your sons and daughters. Freedom to live as you wish should be--and is--contagious

A society that isn't systemically transphobic ought to have a higher rate of voluntary detrans ppl because that means its members can *try* even when they're not ready to die trying, that transition isn't a desperate last resort but sth a citizen can freely do

So recently on here we were doing “What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?” and today’s instalment is “I’m afraid this kind of appalling stuff happens all the fucking time”

Our friends at Bristol Defendant Solidarity are fundraising for their vital work. Donate now at Chuffed.org/Project/BDS and support those facing police and state repression!

The UK transphobe movement splintering into anti abortion, anti immigrant factions and pursuing other ways that they get to define who is considered a person with rights and who is not is everything being a nail because they're as sharp as a bag of hammers.

Joint Statement from Asian Human rights orgs @altsean.bsky.social @fidh-official.bsky.social ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, ‪@frontlinedefenders.bsky.social‬ & more. THAILAND: Drop charges against Pimsiri Petchnamrob & end abuse of judicial processes against protestors! #FreeOurFriends

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Hard to believe there was a general election and, notionally at least, a change of Government last year.

If there's one lesson that America can learn from the UK right now it is that elections are not enough. The myopic focus on electoral success at all costs will prevent you from addressing the actual issues at hand. Our left wing party won, and we are still fighting the same fights as Americans.

Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monastic leaders to 3- and 4-year prison terms for their roles in rare 2024 public protests against a planned Chinese hydropower dam project, according to Radio Free Asia. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...

Israel was conceived of, founded as, and still is an armed garrison state for Western imperialist powers in the Middle East.

They’re bombing hospitals in Iran too and they’re also using “human shields” bs like motherfuckers don’t even update their propaganda

No one being owed a life free of mental pain is not a justification for intentionally inflicting it for the sake of compliance??? like what. Yes a child might be sad if they drop their ice cream but that doesn't mean its ok for me to knock it out of their hands because they wouldn't stop talking

Parent child relationships need not be hierarchical. The mere reality that children need adults due to their vulnerability doesn’t translate to adults having domination over children, and in fact could be seen as an argument against it.

The Ayatollah can get f- for all I care. My concern is more on how Israel wages war and the fact that it is committing genocide in Gaza. That same state cannot be trusted, to put it mildly, with 'just' overthrowing a deeply unpopular and murderous regime.

We're at the stage where the Israelis are hunting humans by concentrating them in a few locations, making sure it's extremely overcrowded, and then opening fire.

Read more about Dmitriev’s work, his arrests and his current status on the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group website: khpg.org/en/1608814740

There has been mounting concern over Dmitriev’s health. The prison medics had, for the past two years, advised that an oncological examination was required. After his lawyer made repeated appeals, the prison did take a blood test for cancer markers. The document with the results ‘disappeared’.

It has been clear since Dmitriev’s first arrest in December 2013 on preposterous charges that he was facing reprisals for his work in exposing the crimes of the Soviet Terror. It is beginning to feel as though there are no limits to the revenge that those behind his persecution plan to exact.

Yuri Dmitriev was placed in a punishment cell again. He was sent there for five days on June 11th, for supposedly failing to properly “carry out morning exercises”.

Tbilisi City Court has sentenced Denis Kulanin, a Russian activist based in Georgia, to two years in jail for ‘damaging a police car’ on 28 March during a protest outside the parliament. ➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/russian-acti...

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in our legal challenge of anti-protest powers We won this case in court twice - under both Conservative and Labour leadership Gov must now commit to reviewing ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

People from colonial Europe generally sympathise with the idea of subjugating people by force, if they see the reasons as justified and the said people as deserving it. While Israel is the extreme, fascist case of this, we need to understand it's the same logic.

CE John Lee: "The mobile application in question was released under the guise of a game, with the aim of promoting secessionists' agendas of 'Taiwan independence' and 'Hong Kong independence'. [Chris Tang and HKPF] are carrying out their responsibilities and duties to safeguard national security."

Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

14 people killed and over fifty injured - so far - in last night's Russian attack on Kyiv. Over ten reported casualties in Odesa, part of the same attack. You'd think after three years of reporting on the daily death caused by Russians, I'd go numb. But no. Each new strike is just a fresh wound.

Protests are significant, but the disengaged people discouraging participation contribute to an overemphasis that makes them more than they are. We're under a massive psychological siege of disempowerment propaganda. People are being convinced that all they should do is hardly anything at all.

One of the setbacks of those arguing that voting is enough and making resistance a transactional endeavor is that they improperly overemphasize the weight of attending protests. Some people are giving way too much weight to mobilization, suggesting yet another form of disconnect.

Malaysian activists are trying to gather a 1,000 ships from around the world to sail to Gaza in unison to break the Israeli blockade www.newarab.com/news/malaysi...

Israel was asked to remove some weapons from the Paris airshow. They refused. The organisers opted to segment the Israeli booth. Israel compared that to past Jewish ghettos (I’m not kidding). They were then ordered shut down by the French government. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It’s sickening how the world has stabbed the Sahrawi people on the back. Fuck the Moroccan crown, it’s the people of Western Sahara who should decide their own future. There’s a term for this: the right to self determination. Not partition, not “”autonomous province”” (annexation), but freedom.

I think western leftists who are silent by default and only talk about Iran at times it’s experiencing western aggression to say “glory to the Ayatollah” to sound edgy or whatever are people I’d stay as far away from as possible.

Netanyahu says that Israel has "full control" of the skies over Tehran This is still under ‘self-defence’ remember

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

All Madleen Volunteers Out of Prison and Headed Home After Unlawful Detention by Israel t.me/FFC_official... The #FreedomFlotilla Coalition confirms that all the international human rights defenders and journalists that were aboard the civilian aid ship #Madleen are now en route home.

Hong Kong's total population is ~7.4 million. But I do believe that 2 million Hongkongers were out protesting on June 16th, 2019. And that many more wanted to but had to work or otherwise weren't able to take part in what, for me, turned out to be a ~7 hour march from Victoria Park to Admiralty.

BREAKING: Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli troops shot and killed at least 20 hungry Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others while they waited for food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oq5i6c

Imagine being a dissident from Russia, doing an art installation in LA about imprisonment in a police state, then to walk out to see the police state in the US tear gassing anti-ice protesters...

The Saudis executed journalist Turki al-Jasser after arresting him in 2018 for his reporting on corruption cpj.org/2025/06/saud... That was the same year the Saudis murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi. There were no long-term consequences, and al-Jasser paid the ultimate price as a result.

This story is horrific, but it's worse than the title lets on. Because one of the people who harassed a trans woman for using a bathroom at Parliament was Kate Harris of the LGB Alliance. So while Falkner was assuring the committee that trans women hadn't lost any rights, her own ally was...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan on Monday to attend the second China-Central Asia Summit, Beijing's state media reported. In full: buff.ly/DHIS6jP

"Women from Myanmar, from all walks of life, survivors, grassroots activists, community defenders, peacebuilders, and revolutionary leaders, were not included or consulted in the process of developing this regional action plan. They were not invited to the table once" :- @khinohmar.bsky.social

“neopronouns are haaaaaaard.” well, maybe, but using neos sure makes sentences prettier

6 years ago on 16th June, 2 million +1 Hong Kongers took to the streets in protest against the extradition bill, against police violence, to demand Carrie Lam step down & to mourn the death of an activist. So many they filled the streets all day. The majority of them still in HK, don't forget them.