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@estarianne.bsky.social

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Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · Dec 7

Listen, a hill I'll die on.

If a group of people with a shared struggle are asking for freedom and acceptance, it's not more "objective" for people from outside the group to report on them. That's not how social hierarchies work, people outside the group have self interest in maintaining status quo

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 6h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 56m

You just have no moral compass do you?

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"This wasn't a school — it wasn't a choice, and the children who attended were stolen."

"[S]híshálh Nation [announced] in August that archeologists had found evidence for 41 unmarked and shallow graves — in addition to 40 it identified in 2023."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Genocide

St. Augustine’s survivor hopes for closure after evidence of 81 unmarked graves released

50 years after the residential “school” closed, shíshálh Nation uncovers evidence of many burial sites. A Tla’amin Elder wonders how many more children died

indiginews.com

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10h

And this leads to one thing, among many, that scares me a lot now: Things were already very bad on this front, but the unhinged gestapo tactics of ICE grant enormous power to predators across society in positions of power to prey upon vulnerable people: employers, abusers, etc.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah I'm only pushing back against the pervasive idea, as this article represents, that unhoused people need to earn housing or be punished. So the pushback was related to the article.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 5h

Currently there are almost 80,000 unsheltered people in LA county and close to 10,000 in Orange County, how do we get them all housed?

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 5h

I mean if my "people need housing" is a strawman then so is "people need care" because I certainly never said they don't? And you seem cranky with me for no reason.

Neither currently exists here.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 6h

Right?

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 7h

fuck me, the community whistles work to save people. i don't understand why/how, but they demonstrably do.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 7h

I simply think the snart--> dumb spectrum is a really bad way to analyze why people are doing the things they are doing right now.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 7h

*innate characteristics

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 7h

It's so hard to pull people out of trying to rank themselves above other people on the merit scale to gain power.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 7h

Ranking people by percieved IQ is bad because IQ sets up a hierarchy of human value based on in act characteristics.

What these people are doing isn't due to brains lacking ability but because their motivations are corrupt.

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 8h

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, "is this a war zone" is a question journalists should be able to answer with their own observations.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

I think that it's clear that the solution needs to be regional rather than local, regional public housing with varying levels of support for people who struggle to keep up with capitalism.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

Cities are broken down into smaller and smaller chunks that try to push the problem around to other places and nobody just builds that system that obviously needs to exist.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

Don't bind up the clear path forward with nonsense.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

And there's ample data showing that many of them will fail to fend for themselves even with treatment, so you create a system that eliminates the need to fend.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

Once you take that option off the table the options become clearer.

Your options are to house them and then act on any health care needs they might have or act on those needs and hope they can just fend for themselves.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

The problem: there are unhoused people in the city and the housed people find them distasteful.

Option off the table: those humans ceasing to exist in the city.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

I think one of the things that gets people caught up when dealing with homelessness as a political issue is not narrowing the options before deciding on a solution.

estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 8h

Yet some people see him struggling and want to punish him instead of helping (this is my city).