* The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-architect/106272938

* "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/hatemonger-paints-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-as-a-case-study-in-radicalization

* The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
#hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights

"Clearly something needed to be done to reinforce the rights and safety not just of the Jewish community, but all Australians."

"The immediate response to criminalise and punish was understandable – outlaw hate speech, ban hate groups, prohibit demonstrations and phrases, make the hatred of other human beings and their views go away by force of law and ministerial decree."

"That human rights were again reduced to a debating point in a political game pointed to the need to better define the rights and responsibilities of all citizens and residents."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/31/australia-charter-bill-of-rights
#HumanRights #BillOfRights #hate #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows

* "... The wealth of billionaires globally was “growing at an unprecedented speed, three times faster than we’ve seen it grow in the past”. What we’re seeing is tax systems that work for the wealthy and tax systems that are not working to actually fill the government coffers with money that could provide support for things like housing, or childcare support."

"The report said while the number of billionaires is growing, more than 3.7 million people live in poverty in Australia, including 757,000 children under 15 years of age One in three households experienced food insecurity last year, meaning they stressed about or struggled to put food on the table."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/19/australian-billionaires-increased-their-wealth-by-almost-600000-a-day-on-average-over-last-year-report-shows

* A global minimum tax on billionaires and trillionaires
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115884622806752228
#tax #UltraRich #DavosMan #inequality #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric #Australia #ClimateFinance

"We should protect all communities that face hate crimes”.
Australian Human Rights Commission president Hugh de Kretser

"This means ensuring protections cover not only race-related hate crimes, but also hate crimes against people on the grounds of religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability...It is only by addressing all forms of hate that we can achieve social cohesion.”
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/jewish-groups-warns-against-religious-text-defence/106228086

“No one in Australia should be subjected to any type of hate."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/14/labor-considering-extending-new-hate-speech-protections-to-lgbtq-australians-and-religious-groups
#hate #HateSpeechLaw #Australia #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #crime #violence #SocialFabric #RoyalCommission

Tax and social cohesion
On the benefits of a (modest) billionaire tax, Economist Gabriel Zucman

"A global minimum tax of 2% on billionaires would not only generate substantial revenue for governments worldwide...but would also restore a sense of fairness."

“The key benefit of a global minimum tax on billionaires is not only that it would generate substantial revenue for governments worldwide — about $250 billion a year — but also, and maybe most importantly, that it would restore a sense of fairness,”

“For the first time in decades,” he continues, “billionaires would pay at least the same effective tax rate as nurses, teachers or secretaries, ending a situation where, in many countries, the very richest pay less than the middle class. It’s a modest, pragmatic reform, but it would make a big difference for our democracies and social cohesion.”
>>
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/25/berkeley-talks-gabriel-zucman-billionaire-tax/

Gabriel Zucman >>
https://gabriel-zucman.eu/policy-debates/

#SocialCohesion #inequality #tax #billionaires #UltraRich #WealthTax #PublicServices #SocialFabric #equality #ClimateFinance

If we’re trying to see movement in our work, here’s one of the easiest places to start looking:
Are people connecting?
Are new relationships forming?
Good things tend to grow from there.

#Community #HumanConnection #SlowWork #SocialFabric #RelationalFlow

The Bright Side of the Streets

I have a good reason for photographing this perfectly ordinary scene. Over the years I’ve taken photos of men sitting on that electricity box, and this just adds to that collection.

First there was this photo of Liam Foley, an elderly man enjoying a cigarette. He passed away 2 months after that photo was taken. I was glad I could pass on that photo to his family.

Then a few years later, yet another photo of a man enjoying a cigarette.

And now, many years later, a photo of a man about to roll a cigarette.

I like what they did with the door and the mural. Lovely to see the colour there.

#2021 #balanceBike #childhood #colourful #community #cork #documentaryPhotography #ireland #irishStreets #localBusinesses #mural #northMainStreet #photo #photography #publicArt #socialFabric #sonyA7iii #streetArt #streetPhotography #urbanCulture #urbanLandscape #urbanRegeneration #vibrantColours

Mr Chips.

#ashtonunderlyne #socialfabric #photography #England #tameside

I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

https://blog.danpetrolito.xyz/i-built-something-that-changed-my-friend-gro-social-fabric/

#HackerNews #socialfabric #friendship #innovation #community #building #personalgrowth

...each side reacts to the loudest and most outrageous actors on the opposing side, and ratchets up rhetoric accordingly. Thus, the culture comes to be defined by the most extreme voices on the margins, while the #ExhaustedMajority checks out.

#LeanOut #TaraHenley #SocialFabric
https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/weekend-reads-what-happened-to-canada