God bless the pro-Palestine activists who made this happen!

British banking giant Barclays has sold all of its shareholdings (16,000 shares) in Israel's largest weapons company Elbit Systems Ltd.

Palestine Action has undertaken 54 protest actions across the UK against Barclays over the past 12 months, including smashing windows of the bank's branches and spraying them in red paint.

HELL YES!

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

As a 30 year old man who escaped the Alt-right pipeline, you're not going to be happy about the answer.

All I hear from leftists is how much they hate me for my immutable traits, how much they blame me for everything wrong with the world, how much they want me and everyone who looks like me dead.

Whereas Alt-right types would call me "brother" and welcome me into their ranks so long as I hated the right ways.

Do you understand the difference?

I'm an ally and support equality because I feel it's the morally correct choice to make, but holy fuck is it difficult to reconcile that with the fact that means fighting for a lot of people who see you as the scum of the earth.

Read this and then read it again and then read some fucking bell hooks because this is a legitimate problem on the left.

"To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being." - bell hooks, The Will to Change https://bellhooksbooks.com/product/the-will-to-change/

Okay wait, hold on. What does this blogger mean by "my immutable traits?" and "a lot of people who see you as the scum of the earth?"

Is he referring to being (presumably) a white cishet man? Does he mean he thinks that large swaths of leftists hate him because of this?

Because I... don't actually think large swaths of leftists hate all white cishet men. I think those demographics are called out, I think their privilege is named, I think there is frustration. But if he is interpreting that as hate then I don't think he's as far out of the pipeline as he thinks.

I don't hate men. I don't trust them. But all men think they are inherently trustworthy until proven otherwise and resent when they aren't.

I don't trust any man I haven't known for a long time. Because I have been betrayed over and over again by men who prioritize their convenience over my safety. Think about that for 5 minutes and get back to me.

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”

― George Carlin

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again.

Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon.com best seller list. “The Handmaid’s Tale” was popular throughout Trump’s first term, along with such dark futuristic narratives as George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” both of which were in the Amazon top 40 as of Thursday afternoon. Another best-seller from Trump’s previous time in office, Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” was in the top 10.

thats the thing thats missing from america-centric discussion of fascism: this shit is global. every country in “the west” is seeing the same rise of fascism in real time, all of it focused on murdering migrants. like giorgia meloni is campaigning to deport people to “migrant camps” in albania. last year the greek coast guard outright drowned a boat of 500 asylum seekers. and as that last post said im not dismissing the suffering of people within the US, i’m just saying its so supremely frustrating that every conversation is about the minutiae of american domestic policy and not the horrifying ultranationalist global trend scapegoating arabs and africans.

my point is you need to be horrified that “border control” is an accepted talking point. you need to be aware of the fact that climate change is currently driving what will become the largest forced movement of people ever as the “third world” becomes uninhabitable. people—specifically people from africa and west asia—are dying in the name of white supremacist “borders” around the world. and whether your european or american when you see this rhetoric manifest in your country you need to push back.

What Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did in 2024.

I started this project back in January and for most of a year, every week, I came up with the highlights of what the Biden-Harris Administration did. I did it because it felt to me our media and national conversion was broken, our government was doing huge things that it felt like almost no one knew about. It's amazing how often I struggled to find a single news source that wanted to cover a huge life changing project.

This is the last Friday before Election Day, and if you haven't already voted, take a minute to go back and look at the last 40 weeks, and decide, do you like these things or want literally the reverse on every issue.

Feel free to reblog this or go back and reblog a favorite, one that impacts your life or the one from the week of your birthday, whatever.

and remember to read past the headlines and dig to find out what your government is up to, it might shock you how much is happening that no one talks about.

'I never thought israel would violate MY norms,' sobs international order who established the Land Grab Norm Violation Ethnostate

They’re literally like Child Abusers who were abused as kids now abusing other kids and saying they can do that bc they were abused so that makes them abusing others okay somehow /

So Bad news about that “like”