Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

@maeve This should not be news. This should be the way things normally are. The fact that this is news says bad things about our society.

Parents of a 7 year old #intersex child decided to let her grow up without surgical intervention, until she can decide for herself. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/10/us/intersex-surgeries-gothere/index.html

#Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wins re-election by a margin of nearly 20%, an event which will be viewed negatively in Beijing. She cited #HongKong unrest in her campaign https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795573457/rebuking-china-taiwan-votes-to-reelect-president-tsai-ing-wen

#ICE detainees, on hunger strike 68 days, demanding the right to pursue their #asylum claim outside of jail, are on the brink of death. Hunger strikes spreading to ICE detention facilities across the US https://www.salon.com/2020/01/11/after-68-days-hunger-strikers-in-ice-custody-are-on-the-brink-of-death_partner/

Rights have never been granted by authority. They have always been asserted against authority, and won from it.
-- Kevin Carson

#anarchism #quote #bot

And the freeze peachers don’t have the right answer, either: even if the rules—whatever they are—were applied equally, and they won’t be, ever, all you’d do is frustrate the attempt to hold power up to scrutiny.

And yet, none of us has the slightest difficulty working out who is threatening real harm and who is standing up to that threat.

TL;DR: consequentialism FTW.

To me, this illustrates the failure of liberalism and ‘rule of law’: rules will always be interpreted and applied in a way that favors the powerful, flatters the popular, and absolutely screws minorities, *even if applied equally*.

Trump, who actually *has* the power to select targets and order a bombing, still has his job and his twitter account. This adjunct, who lacks such power, just lost his job for attempting to start up to abusives authority with humor.

Adjunct professor (read ‘well-educated wage slave’) got fired for an attempt at humorously calling out Trump’s very real threat to bomb sites of cultural importance to Iran: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/10/babson-professor-iran/

Hello, I am a progressive transgender dem candidate. I have officially filed for the race for Texas House of Representatives District 83.

I am facing a conservative dem candidate in the primary and then facing an ultra-conservative incumbent in the general. He's the one that co-authored the bill in the past to try to ban transgenders from using the bathroom which aligns with gender.

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A helpful flyer, courtesy of Atlanta #Antifacists - link goes to source

https://twitter.com/afainatl/status/1215089677348278273