JvB 🇨🇦🐱

@JunkoV@mstdn.social
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Hello world. I'm nobody. Who are? Are you nobody too?

If so, I'd like to follow you.

Interests:

#science #technology #math #OpenEducation #music #violin #cats #animals #environment

Reluctantly #politics

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Jun 13

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93ydeqyq71t?post=asset%3A18b354f7-07dd-45f5-963d-8b4b171c14d2#post

Israel carrying out 'extensive strikes' across Iran as Tehran warns 'more severe' response coming

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will strike "every site and every target of the ayatollah regime" in Iran.

BBC News
JvB 🇨🇦🐱May 30
NPRMay 30

Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5416766/climate-change-lawsuit-oil-companies?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-npr

JvB 🇨🇦🐱May 1
Cory DoctorowMay 1

House Republicans have a great plan to pay for Trump's tax-cuts for the rich: jacking up the cost of federal student loans, while eliminating protections for students who are scammed by fake universities:

https://prospect.org/education/2025-04-30-republicans-education-upper-class-privilege-student-loans/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/#i-think-you-know-what-the-trustees-can-do-with-their-suggestions

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Republicans Opt to Make Education an Upper-Class Privilege

The goal is to save money on higher-education assistance to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

The American Prospect
JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 29
Randahl FinkMar 29

We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:

The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.

This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 20
NPRMar 20

3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Are such acts domestic terrorism?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333315/tesla-attacks-ag-bondi-domestic-terrorism-trump-musk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 20
Dr. Lucky Tran Mar 20

Customs and Border Patrol denied a French scientist entry to the U.S. because they found messages on his phone criticizing Trump’s science cuts.

Apparently saying that canceling cancer research is bad can now be classified as terrorism. Chilling.

JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 19
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 19
Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 19
https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/114187173562770276
DB 🌎🌏🌍 (@dbattistella@mstdn.ca)

Attached: 1 video Who knew the Canadian flag would become the flag of resistance for angry voters in the US? Angry voters raise the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 as GOP Rep. Baumgartner faces loud, disruptive town hall in Spokane, WA https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/gop-rep-baumgartner-faces-angry-disruptive-town-hall-in-spokane/ #US #Spokane #Baumgartner #AngryVoters #Canada #Not51ststate

Mastodon Canada
JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 17
Jeff JarvisMar 17
Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html?smid=tw-share
Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

The New York Times
JvB 🇨🇦🐱Mar 10
NPRMar 10

In show of unity, some 350,000 protesters gather in Mexico City
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5322464/in-show-of-unity-some-350-000-protesters-gather-in-mexico-city?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-npr

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 19
Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
Show threadDaMan_ABMar 19
@georgetakei Straight from the dictator playbook, rewrite history and deny the facts.
Show threadDarcyMar 19

@georgetakei

This DEI bullshit is gone far enough. Someone, anyone needs to stand up and say something in congress!!!!

Show threadSoozcatMar 19

@georgetakei YELL THIS LOUD. I'm not Native American, but my niece is a registered member of the Navajo Nation and learning about this key segment of World War II history gave her such pride in her ancestry.

The same people who bridled at taking down Confederate statues because "mah heritage" and "you cain't erase history" are now literally trying to erase history.

YELL. THIS. LOUD.

Show threadzemsgramMar 19
@georgetakei We are fully into 1984 territory now. But keep fighting.
Show threadStephen Elliott~BuckleyMar 19

@georgetakei

If it drives a #SwastiCar like a #nazi and #siegheil's like a nazi...

If you're in #mairikkka, you too can go elbows up hey!

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

Show threadTerrieMar 19
@georgetakei just when I think they cant stoop any lower. Our federal government is in full racist fascist
Show threadLiveByReasonMar 19

@georgetakei

#TheNewColossusChallenge

Next year, 2026, is the 250 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Let's take back patriotism from the MAGA fascists:

https://universeodon.com/@LiveByReason/114191341263436959

LiveByReason (@LiveByReason@universeodon.com)

#TheNewColossusChallenge Next year, is 2026. 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The MAGAs will absolutely want to own the narrative and define patriotrism in America. Our Job: Don't let them. Don't let them define American Values and American Ideals. As part of this, I want to throw out a challenge to all the musicians of America: The poem on the Statue of Liberty, is called "The New Colossus". It has long been a statement of American values and patriotism. It is the poem with those famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free." It is Public Domain, because it is so old. Nobody owns it. You don't need permission to use it. So I hereby propose #TheNewColossusChallenge :

Universeodon Social Media
Show threadthecampbellMar 19
@georgetakei insane. Reality has gotten so warped it's looking at back of its own head.
Show threadhad54 🚫MAGAMar 19
@georgetakei@universeodon.comThe Japanese were baffled and unable to decipher the messages sent by the Navajo Code Talkers
Show threadsamiamsamMar 19

@georgetakei

republicans are assholes

Show threadzvhxxlMar 19
@georgetakei
Mark my words: Donald's ass lickers will also remove Alan Turing (who broke the Enigma code used by nazi submarines) from history because he was homosexual.
The 1984 ministry of truth exists today.
Show threadMcDyerMar 20
@georgetakei
I am starting to think they're trying to goad us into the streets so they can justify martial law.
Show threadRationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸Mar 20

@georgetakei As someone half Native, this makes me VERY angry.

We get disrespected in history enough, and now this shit?

Show threadcrazyeddieMar 20

@georgetakei I know it's besides the point but I am curious.

I thought the Navajo were used in the Pacific theater, which largely happened after Hitler was defeated.

Show threadKanaMaunaMar 20

@georgetakei

Trump barely knows what a computer is and is probably functionally illiterate. These purges are being done by racists who were already there, just biding their time.

Show threadDeborah SampsonMar 20

@georgetakei
They fought in WWI too!

We just keep taking.

We’ve become the “Aliens” in “Independence Day”!
Stripping the planet of is resources & moving on to the next planet…
Isn’t that right, #elonmusk ?

#codetalkers #jackierobinson #irahayes

Ira Hayes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-native-american-ira-hayes-removed/

Code Talkers:
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/americas-first-code-talkers

Yes, DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes

In 1945, Hayes was one of six men famously photographed raising an American flag on Iwo Jima.

Snopes
Show threadGinnyHenchMar 20
@georgetakei
Show threadRoberto PivaMar 20
@georgetakei Who controls the past, controls the future
Show threadMark Kahl 🚲🐻🦁🇺🇦🇮🇱Mar 20
Wait two weeks, and possession of a copy of Windtalkers will result in you being charged with terrorism.
Show threadliberoseleniMar 20
@georgetakei Unluckily the nazi defeat was only temporary :(
Show threadMark Kahl 🚲🐻🦁🇺🇦🇮🇱Mar 20
@liberoseleni @georgetakei Obviously the: "never" in: "never again" stands for "eighty years or less".
Show threadEarsmeardiusMar 20
@georgetakei It all makes sense now.
Show threadSteve WoodsMar 20
@georgetakei Disgraceful .
Show threadSue is Walking the Earth 🌱Mar 20

@georgetakei

The erasure is horrific & of course they're trying to erase *people* not just history on websites: they want trans people to disappear from public life, women & people of color to disappear from the workplace, immigrants&dissidents to disappear into murder prisons.

We fight them or they destroy us.