🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦13h ago
Crappy weather today, so no tea photoshoot. (This is good. I'm running low on different teas to show off, so this gives me some more time to get new tea.) Instead today I'm showing off a shelfie of some of my favourite books.

These are collections of folk tales from Chinese minorities (plus one book, and not the thickest!, of a very ancient Han epic poem) translated to vernacular Chinese and English. Published by Wuhan University Press they are some of the best glimpses into cultures most people have never even heard of ever put to paper.

#China #Minority #Folklore #Collection #Books
דער קערפער פֿון השם1d ago

I typically only share Israel news if it has significant implications for the diaspora. This does. Also DellaPergola is a brilliant demographer and does super cool stuff.

"An analysis released this week predicts that, within the next 10 years, #Israel could become the home for a majority of the world’s #Jews, a change which, according to the new report, will “redefine the meaning of #Jewishpeoplehood.”

On Wednesday, the Institute for Jewish #Policy #Research (#JPR) published “The #Jewish People in 2126: #Demography, Identity, and the Future of a Global #Minority,” a 22-page paper by #SergioDellaPergola, a professor emeritus and former chairman of #HebrewUniversity’s Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary #Jewry who now serves as the #London-based #thinktank’s president for its #European #JewishDemography Unit."

https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/05/21/leading-demography-expert-says-israel-expected-hit-50-percent-global-jewish-population-early-as-2035/

Leading Demography Expert Says Israel Expected to Hit 50% of Global Jewish Population as Early as 2035

A girl wears an Israeli flag at the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on Israel’s Independence Day marking the 73rd …

Algemeiner.com
Osna.FM5d ago
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Katherina Reiche (CDU), and Federal Minister for Research, Dorothee Bär (CSU), have firmly dismissed any considerations o... https://news.osna.fm/?p=46287 | #news #coalition #government #ministers #minority
Ministers Reject Minority Government Talk, Vow Stability and Coalition Unity - Osna.FM

Discover why German ministers reject minority government talks. Learn the latest insights and expert analysis on the political landscape.

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WIST QuotationsMay 8

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-10-07), “Safeguards Against Communism,” Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #freecountry #freesociety #freedom #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #minority #unpopularity #liberty

Stevenson, Adlai - Speech (1952-10-07), "Safeguards Against Communism," Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan | WIST Quotations

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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LilMikeSFMay 6

Back in 1982, when #ChiefJustice John Roberts was a 26-year-old #Reagan staffer, he wrote that #minority voting protections were “the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.”

By rescinding the #VotingRights Act of 1965 this past week, he and "conservative" pals Alioto, Gorsuch etc all just completed the #election rights stifling life's work that the young #RWNJ radicals dreamed about over 40 years ago...

https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/roberts-callais-supreme-court-redistricting

Supreme Court's Callais Decision Sets Off Redistricting Wars

Now racist redistricting will destroy our democracy, unless Democrats move decisively to counter it.

The Big Picture
what's trendingMay 2

The Away Jersey You Can Never Take Off - Theo Von and Fahim Anwar

#comedy #identity #minority

Original timestamp: 02:05:33

extremecdnliberal.bsky.socialApr 30
#SupremeCourt hollows out a landmark law that had protected #minority #VotingRights for 6 decades 🤬😡 🚨 Gary Fields And Kim Chandler 
The Associated Press 
April 30, 2026
Kagan MacTane (he/him)Apr 25

Reminder: You don't get to claim the title of "ally". It's something bestowed (or not) by the people you are *trying to* ally with.

Ally is a verb, not a noun. It's something you *do*, and have to keep repeating, for it to count. And only the people you're trying to help get to decide whether you succeeded.

#ally #progressive #lgbtq #lgbtqia #disabled #disability #advocacy #neurodivergent #PoC #minority #feminism

Old White DudeApr 23

#Florida takes its anti-DEI fight to the NFL

let me see. The #NFL is what percent #minority? What percentage of their fans are minorities? if I was the league, I'd move teams OUT of Florida.

#DEI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/23/florida-nfl-rooney-rule-diversity-uthmeier-flores-00887872

Florida takes its anti-DEI fight to the NFL

A civil rights lawsuit, as the state is threatening, would mount an unprecedented challenge for the nation’s most popular sports league.

Politico
WIST QuotationsApr 15

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. “The State” is an abstraction; it does not feel pleasure or pain, it has no hopes or fears, and what we think of as its purposes are really the purposes of individuals who direct it. When we think concretely, not abstractly, we find, in place of “the State,” certain people who have more power than falls to the share of most men. And so glorification of “the State” turns out to be, in fact, glorification of a governing minority. No democrat can tolerate such a fundamentally unjust theory.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, No. 6, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/834…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #government #leadership #minority #oligarchy #power #state #statepower

Russell, Bertrand - Lecture (1949-01-30), "Individual and Social Ethics," Reith Lecture, No. 6, BBC Radio | WIST Quotations

There are some among philosophers and statesmen who think that the State can have an excellence of its own, and not merely as a means to the welfare of the citizens. I cannot see any reason to agree with this view. "The State" is an abstraction; it does not feel…

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