🇮🇪 rae (rachel) 🏳️🌈
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Don’t just read about ICE detention centres. Read about American Indian Boarding Schools. See how far back the history of separating children from their families goes. Rounding up ‘un-American’ kids and subjecting them to abuse and cultural eradication is baked into the history of the USA.
January 27, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Don’t just read about ICE detention centres. Read about American Indian Boarding Schools. See how far back the history of separating children from their families goes. Rounding up ‘un-American’ kids and subjecting them to abuse and cultural eradication is baked into the history of the USA.
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The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland?
Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
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I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
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"It wasn't okay for the nazis to kill that nurse in cold blood. Nurses are heroes." Almost no one I know has a heroic career. How many little nothing-people like us equal a hero? How many people you know would be worth speaking up for
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 AM
"It wasn't okay for the nazis to kill that nurse in cold blood. Nurses are heroes." Almost no one I know has a heroic career. How many little nothing-people like us equal a hero? How many people you know would be worth speaking up for
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I see that Iranians are getting acquainted with the segment of the western left that believes that only massacres committed by US allies are bad.
The way they're gaslighting victims while criticizing those who were doing the same elsewhere...Exactly the same as their right-winger counterparts.
The way they're gaslighting victims while criticizing those who were doing the same elsewhere...Exactly the same as their right-winger counterparts.
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I see that Iranians are getting acquainted with the segment of the western left that believes that only massacres committed by US allies are bad.
The way they're gaslighting victims while criticizing those who were doing the same elsewhere...Exactly the same as their right-winger counterparts.
The way they're gaslighting victims while criticizing those who were doing the same elsewhere...Exactly the same as their right-winger counterparts.
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Begging you not to let Wael’s Tarabishi’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took his dad away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took his dad away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
Family of Arlington man detained by ICE calls for release to attend son's funeral
Maher Tarabishi, a Jordanian national, was detained by ICE in October. His 30-year-old-son, Wael, died over the weekend from complications related to a rare genetic disorder. Family of Arlington man d...
www.keranews.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Begging you not to let Wael’s Tarabishi’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took his dad away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took his dad away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
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it’s also just quite a bit difference between being wrong in private and being wrong in the opinion section of national media in a way that influences other people’s opinions, your whole life, without consequences.
it is probably because they are responding to their earlier errors by taking positive action now, which helps defend their neighbors, rather than by retroactive reputation management in the Atlantic, which does not
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
it’s also just quite a bit difference between being wrong in private and being wrong in the opinion section of national media in a way that influences other people’s opinions, your whole life, without consequences.
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test is still very popular despite being conclusively debunked decades ago. There's no such thing as people having different personalities
January 26, 2026 at 4:51 AM
The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test is still very popular despite being conclusively debunked decades ago. There's no such thing as people having different personalities
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My favourite bit was watching them insist that none of them support Putin while opposing literally any help to Ukraine in defending itself.
Sorry, but some of us do actually remember this time four years ago where so many prominent twitter leftists were adamant no invasion was imminent and that it was all fear-mongering over nothing
January 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
My favourite bit was watching them insist that none of them support Putin while opposing literally any help to Ukraine in defending itself.
just finished ginseng roots by craig thompson. it's fantastic. you should read blankets first though.
January 26, 2026 at 12:21 AM
just finished ginseng roots by craig thompson. it's fantastic. you should read blankets first though.
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Amydog likes to jump and spin
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Amydog likes to jump and spin
sick of people analysing the pandemic's impact on our collective consciousness while also speaking of it in the past tense. it's still going on. people are in denial more than ever. we need to speak of it in the present tense.
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
sick of people analysing the pandemic's impact on our collective consciousness while also speaking of it in the past tense. it's still going on. people are in denial more than ever. we need to speak of it in the present tense.
truly don't understand why terfs cling to "adult human female" so much because like... you have a different definition of female to trans-inclusive people. this isn't a gotcha.
January 25, 2026 at 12:24 AM
truly don't understand why terfs cling to "adult human female" so much because like... you have a different definition of female to trans-inclusive people. this isn't a gotcha.
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It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.
it's extremely obvious that when marxists talk about "identity politics", what they're really talking about any issue that doesn't directly affect cishet white men.
January 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
it's extremely obvious that when marxists talk about "identity politics", what they're really talking about any issue that doesn't directly affect cishet white men.
once again begging people to learn the difference between generic gendered language (especially the generic masculine) and gender-neutral language. "guy" is not a gender-neutral term just because you sometimes call women that.
January 24, 2026 at 6:48 PM
once again begging people to learn the difference between generic gendered language (especially the generic masculine) and gender-neutral language. "guy" is not a gender-neutral term just because you sometimes call women that.
on r/bisexuality there's someone who's describing what sounds to be homoromantic bisexuality and asking if she's a lesbian or bi and everyone's like "labels don't matter, you are who you are!!" ye all label yerselves bisexual, why are ye suddenly acting like labels don't matter?
January 24, 2026 at 1:13 PM
on r/bisexuality there's someone who's describing what sounds to be homoromantic bisexuality and asking if she's a lesbian or bi and everyone's like "labels don't matter, you are who you are!!" ye all label yerselves bisexual, why are ye suddenly acting like labels don't matter?
so in christianity the day of rest is on sunday, in judaism it's on saturday, and in islam it's on friday. in order to be respectful towards members of all three major abrahamic religions we should get a three day weekend who's with me
January 24, 2026 at 1:29 AM
so in christianity the day of rest is on sunday, in judaism it's on saturday, and in islam it's on friday. in order to be respectful towards members of all three major abrahamic religions we should get a three day weekend who's with me
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Massive crowd at this right now
January 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Massive crowd at this right now
the most frustrating thing is criticising how a fictional character has been written and people respond to you as if the fiction character is a real person and by criticising them you're not respecting their agency
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
the most frustrating thing is criticising how a fictional character has been written and people respond to you as if the fiction character is a real person and by criticising them you're not respecting their agency
have you considered the children of the antivaxxers in this equation
January 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
have you considered the children of the antivaxxers in this equation