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Touaregtweet<p>"Al in eerdere Gazaoorlogen verkreeg Uitkijkpost Sderot een bedenkelijke reputatie. Israëlische burgers posteerden zich er elke avond op stoelen en sofa’s, voorzien van bier, popcorn en shishapijpen, om te observeren hoe de Israëlische luchtmacht doelen in Gaza aan flarden schoot. ‘Sderot Cinema’, doopte een Deense journalist het fenomeen. Bij elke treffer klonk gejuich."</p><p><a href="https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/met-frisdrank-en-snacks-verzamelen-israeliers-zich-bij-een-uitkijkpost-om-live-de-verwoesting-van-gaza-te-aanschouwen-laat-ze-b-2-s-gebruiken~b362a450/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">volkskrant.nl/buitenland/met-f</span><span class="invisible">risdrank-en-snacks-verzamelen-israeliers-zich-bij-een-uitkijkpost-om-live-de-verwoesting-van-gaza-te-aanschouwen-laat-ze-b-2-s-gebruiken~b362a450/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starvation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SanctionsNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanctionsNow</span></a></p>
Steve Thompson PhD<p>Detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz describe cage-like units swarmed by mosquitoes</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alligator-alcatraz-florida-detainees-conditions-fungus-mosquitoes-rcna220205" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/allig</span><span class="invisible">ator-alcatraz-florida-detainees-conditions-fungus-mosquitoes-rcna220205</span></a></p><p>The Trump administration’s push to quickly ramp up immigration arrests has led to overcrowding at ICE facilities and allegations of inhumane and unsanitary conditions.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rubio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alcatraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alcatraz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison</p><p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vanityfair.com/news/story/rume</span><span class="invisible">ysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison</span></a></p><p>Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met… </p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Inside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inside</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Cages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cages</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Support</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Experience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Experience</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anxiety</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/SleepDeprivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SleepDeprivation</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hunger</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/HumanitarianCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianCrisis</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Miller🚨urges red states to build their own versions of <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AlligatorAuschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlligatorAuschwitz</span></a>. </p><p>The BBB funds that. $3.5B: avail to “eligible states. FL AG Uthmeier is the sadist behind the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>detention</span></a> fac. Miller urged pols in GOP-run states to build their own state-run IMM det facilities. </p><p>A migrant💔escapee might get devoured alive by an animal: <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a>. </p><p>A st can use it to detain undoc <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> under a fed prgm -🚨allows <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> to auth loc LE to carry out IMM crackdowns.<br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/197899/james-uthmeier-florida-alligator-alcatraz-maga-dark-future" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/197899</span><span class="invisible">/james-uthmeier-florida-alligator-alcatraz-maga-dark-future</span></a></p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bih" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bih</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a></p><p>„Dehumanising civilians made mass violence seem normal in Srebrenica and Gaza, says assistant professor Iva Vukusic.“</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/7/11/deep-dehumanisation-of-civilians-similar-in-srebrenica-and-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2</span><span class="invisible">025/7/11/deep-dehumanisation-of-civilians-similar-in-srebrenica-and-gaza</span></a></p>
The Many Voices of Anne Ahlert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>n_dimension</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RationalizedInsanity</span></a></span> </p><p>But that's the entire motivation for the GOP who are pushing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpsBigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpsBigBeautifulBill</span></a> . It increases <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> funding by $45 Billion (with a B) and hires 10,000 new ICE agents. </p><p>We should not be focusing on the Billionaires' tax cuts in social media debates. We should be focusing on how the GOP is gearing up for the next step in their own "Final Solution."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICEgestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEgestapo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICEagents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEagents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://time.com/7299360/big-beautiful-bill-trump-ice-immigration/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7299360/big-beautiful</span><span class="invisible">-bill-trump-ice-immigration/</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>What Is The Myth of Barter?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5a</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a></p><p>“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”<br>Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Barter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barter</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Myth</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lies</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Control</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/AdamSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdamSmith</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marx</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/DavidGraeber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidGraeber</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/GiftEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/SocialSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSolidarity</span></a></p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hungercrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hungercrisis</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aiddistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aiddistribution</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internationallaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internationallaw</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impunity</span></a></p><p>(Preemptive selfdefence, maybe? - Sorry for my cyniscism)</p><p>„Eyewitnesses interviewed by Reuters said Israeli tanks had fired at least two shells at a crowd of thousands, who had gathered on the main eastern road through Khan Younis in the hope of getting food from aid trucks that use the route.“</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-aid-trucks-1.7563117" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-</span><span class="invisible">aid-trucks-1.7563117</span></a></p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> speaks the same <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> - <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionist</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/iof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iof</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> - <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/expansionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expansionism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <br><a href="https://t.me/neomarksizm/8094" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/neomarksizm/8094</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
mofosyne<p>Israeli Activist Makes Shocking Statement: What Americans Must Learn From It --- Parkrose Permaculture</p><p>Dehumanizing propaganda polarizes — it radicalizes susceptible people, while others resist it. The real danger isn’t the majority falling for it, but a small, radicalized group becoming increasingly violent and proactive. Lesson: Resist fear-based narratives before they escalate.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV782j9mq2k" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=wV782j9mq2k</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Radicalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radicalization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cogitivesec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cogitivesec</span></a></p>
Mitex Leo<p>In the Black Mirror episode "Men Against Fire," soldiers are manipulated by neural implants into seeing their targets as monstrous “roaches.” It’s a chilling metaphor for how dehumanization makes violence easier to justify—how perception can be engineered to suppress empathy.</p><p>We might not have implants in our heads, but we're still constantly fed narratives—through news media, films, and even video games like Call of Duty—that shape how we see entire groups of people. Often, they’re cast as the villain, the threat, the other.</p><p>One group that’s been persistently portrayed this way is Muslims. From headlines that link Islam to terrorism to entertainment that uses Muslim characters as stock villains, these patterns have created a distorted image. Over time, it becomes easy to forget that we're talking about real people—people with families, histories, hopes, and beliefs as varied as anyone else’s.</p><p>Just like the soldiers in Men Against Fire, many of us are trained—subtly or overtly—to look past someone’s humanity. And that’s dangerous. Because once we stop seeing people as fully human, anything can be justified.</p><p>The way forward isn’t through more fear, but through understanding. We need to question the stories we’re told, listen more deeply, and seek out voices that aren’t always handed a microphone. Only then can we begin to replace suspicion with empathy—and division with something more human.</p><p><a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/Islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/MediaPropaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaPropaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/BlackMirror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMirror</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/MenAgainstFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MenAgainstFire</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/MuslimVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MuslimVoices</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/StopTheHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheHate</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/MuslimVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MuslimVerse</span></a> <a href="https://mitexleo.one/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a></p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blockade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockade</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialdevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialdevision</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brutalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brutalization</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a></p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-05/clashes-in-israel-between-supporters-and-opponents-of-aid-flows-to-gaza-we-dont-want-to-feed-hamas-terrorists.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.elpais.com/internation</span><span class="invisible">al/2025-06-05/clashes-in-israel-between-supporters-and-opponents-of-aid-flows-to-gaza-we-dont-want-to-feed-hamas-terrorists.html</span></a></p>
Nat<p>Discrimination, and all other forms of <a href="https://kind.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a>, make us experience and internalize <a href="https://kind.social/tags/shame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shame</span></a> —painful, humiliating shame, which we try to hide and suppress so that we can experience <a href="https://kind.social/tags/belonging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belonging</span></a>.</p><p>And when we aren't capable of sitting with the massive discomfort of shame—turning a light on the parts of ourselves that evolved to be invisible—we cannot grow, apologize, take <a href="https://kind.social/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a>, or acknowledge how we contribute to <a href="https://kind.social/tags/systemicharm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemicharm</span></a>. </p><p>3/</p>
🟣 standingogether_fr<p>📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> le (2025-05-20)</p><p>- <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3lpm32wo6wc2z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/standing-toge</span><span class="invisible">ther.bsky.social/post/3lpm32wo6wc2z</span></a></p><p># 1/4</p><p>Ces photos sont de notre veillée silencieuse d'hier à Jaffa, l'une des dizaines que nous avons organisées à travers le pays.</p><p>Ces veillées servent à se souvenir des enfants tués à Gaza depuis le début de ce cauchemar, et à protester contre la guerre d'anéantissement menée par notre gouvernement.</p><p># 2/4</p><p>Alors que la violence continue, la machine de guerre tourne à plein régime pour normaliser la mort et la destruction de masse. <br>Compter les morts devient presque impossible. </p><p>La différence de quelques centaines, voire de quelques milliers, commence à sembler minime, même si chacune de ces vies représentait un monde entier.</p><p># 3/4</p><p>Au milieu de cet assaut incessant contre l'humanité, nous devons résister à la déshumanisation et à la normalisation. </p><p>Nous devons insister pour témoigner de l'horreur et choisir de ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir, mais de nous organiser.</p><p># 4/4</p><p>Pour trouver de la force les uns dans les autres et dans notre engagement commun à construire un avenir dans ce pays où chacun est véritablement en sécurité et libre. </p><p>Un avenir où la vie d'un enfant palestinien et la vie d'un enfant israélien sont également protégées et valorisées.</p><p>####################<br># English version</p><p># 1/4</p><p>These pictures are from our silent vigil yesterday in Jaffa, one of dozens that we have held across the country. </p><p>These vigils serve to remember the children who have been killed in Gaza since this nightmare began, and to protest against our government’s war of annihilation.</p><p># 2/4</p><p>As the violence continues, the war machine works overtime to normalize mass death and destruction. Counting the dead becomes nearly impossible. The difference of a few hundred or even a few thousand starts to feel small, even though each of those lives was an entire world. </p><p># 3/4</p><p>Amid this relentless assault on humanity, we must resist dehumanization and normalization. We must insist on bearing witness to the horror and choose not to sink into despair, but to organize</p><p># 4/4</p><p>To find strength in one another and in our shared commitment to building a future in this land where everyone is truly safe and free. </p><p>A future where the life of a Palestinian child and the life of an Israeli child are equally protected and valued</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingTogether" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandingTogether</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/d%C3%A9shumanisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>déshumanisation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopWar</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>Dehumanizing the outsider: Evgenia Kara-Murza on political prisoners: "There is this demonstrative cruelty with regard to these people"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politicalprisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalprisoners</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/asylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asylum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bukele</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RussiaUkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraineWar</span></a> <br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dehumanizing-the-outsider-evgenia" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/dehu</span><span class="invisible">manizing-the-outsider-evgenia</span></a></p>
Katy Elphinstone<p>Refs: </p><p>Suarez, C. (2018). The Power Manual. New Society Publishers. </p><p>She draws here also on the work of Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and others.</p><p>End of 🧵 </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PowerDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerDynamics</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalized</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equity</span></a></p>
Katy Elphinstone<p>How oppression comes about through people's micro-interactions. 🤷‍♀️</p><p>Seven patterns of dominance:</p><p>👑 1. Tolerance. </p><p>Allowing small doses of difference (especially those that are of benefit to my own or my company/organization's agenda).</p><p>But never enough to cause change to the power relationship. <br>Diversity, but not equity!</p><p>1/7</p><p>(A thread 🧵 )</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PowerDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerDynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalized</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equity</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>The Disappeared: Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disappeared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disappeared</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a><br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/the-</span><span class="invisible">disappeared?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KilmarAbregoGarcia</span></a>’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.</p><p>The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. </p><p>The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”</p><p>This is why you try people in court of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; not on social media.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;In a stark recasting of Orwell’s original insight, in 2024 it was not Trump and his MAGA allies who cloaked their intentions in euphemism and ambiguity. Instead, it was mainstream media, pollsters, and political consultants who retreated into vagueness—minimizing or outright ignoring Trump&#39;s explicit threats in an effort to avoid accusations of bias, partisanship, or alarmism.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>media</span></a><br />/6</p>