Not the Only One

Given the ugliness with which Indigenous folks on Mdon have been treated in the last couple days, I recommend these threads/posts from @KarenWyld & @Toastie. I'm bookmarking them, too, for appending to future reports of anti-Native behavior; and encourage others to do the same. Some mods may need a little extra help on the nuances here, but giving this sh*t a pass isn't ok. :solidarity: to everyone actually trying to make this a better place.

Not everyone looks forward to the Melbourne Cup. Domestic violence and emergency services ready themselves for a potential increase in calls, call-outs and admissions. But as our recent review shows, the Melbourne Cup isn’t the only major sporting event around the world linked to a rise in domestic violence. Not everyone agrees on why this is happening. We show alcohol is just one factor.

The truth is that when Republicans win, the mainstream press feels the need to move to the right because they’re out of touch, and when Democrats win, the mainstream press feels the need to move to the right because it’s only a matter of time before Republicans win again. The answer to the millionaires and billionaires making these decisions is always to find an excuse to shift to the right. --Parker Malloy

I can't emphasize enough how anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals [EDIT, per the incisive and spot-on replies--> and corporate MBAs] who run major universities and who, in that role, sent armed-to-the-teeth goons after their own students, should not only not have their jobs as of the summer, they should be marched across campus and pelted with garbage. You betrayed a MASSIVE trust and, in an actual just society where half the country didn't celebrate violence and "iron-hand" poli...

Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, states: “Instead of siding in the Gaza war, we should all root for humanity.” The divide in the Western approach, especially from the US and the European Union, towards the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israeli aggression in Gaza is astonishing. The US has committed approximately $46 billion in military aid to Ukraineand a total of $113 billion in various forms of assistance to defend against “Russian occup...

Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation

ABC's Director of News, Analysis and Investigations, Justin Stevens, extends a "heartfelt apology" to anyone who has ever experienced any racism and bigotry in the workplace, as he announced some immediate action to be taken to address the concerns.

The research group Airwars, which monitors civilian harm caused by strikes in numerous conflict zones around the world, has released a report finding that US attacks in Yemen over the last 52 days killed nearly as many civilians as all US strikes in that country during the last 23 years.

According to the Red Cross of Vietnam, up to one million people are currently disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange, 100,000 of which are children. In Ho Chi Minh City’s Go Vap orphanage, five-month-old Hong gazes serenely from her metal-barred cot, empty, save for a soft yellow teddy bear watching over her. From her head grows a huge veiny mass — a rare neural tube defect known as encephalocele, which research suggests could be caused by Agent Orange exposure. Without...