Tim Mason

@TimMason@mastodon.online
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Old white cis man. He/him. A well of baseless opinions and muddled thinking. Papysplainer. Won first prize in dance knock-out at the Lincoln Rugby Club social in 1964.

If the fist 100 days of the Trump 2.0 era have taught us nothing else, it's that DHS, ICE, and the Migrant Carceral Complex, all built by bipartisan hands, represent the tools to create a turnkey dictatorship for any president willing to seize them; and thus they should all go.

Nina-Bytes: Sowing and Reaping in Trump’s America

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/30/nina-bytes-sowing-and-reaping-in-trumps-america/

"The reality is that a police state and vast carceral complex built to target migrants, can just as easily be repurposed by a fascist government to target the regime’s political opposition. Either we make our stand against fascism here, on the issue of immigration justice, or the rest of us will surely fall under that same machinery of oppression in due time. Both the Department of Homeland Security and ICE were built under false pretenses by governments who were violating our civil rights; they are “solutions” in search of a problem, and under Trump anyone who opposes fascism has become that problem."

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #Dictatorship #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteNationalism #Nativism #PoliceState #MigrantRights #Immigration #Justice

Nina-Bytes: Sowing and Reaping in Trump’s America | on NIDC

The truth is Trump didn't build the fascist police state he's using to undo American democracy, and we can't beat fascism without ending that police state.

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Report: "God did Israel a favour that Biden was president"

"Biden never asked Israel to stop its war on Gaza... never came to us & said, ‘Ceasefire now'... And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

~fmr Israeli ambassador

"A self-described Zionist, Biden authorised billions of dollars in additional US military assistance to Israel while at the same time insisting that his administration was pushing for a ceasefire."

https://aje.io/khvo0k?update=3675258

#biden #uspol #GazaGenocideNotWar #usenablement .

Updates: Israeli drone attack on Gaza City street kills five children

International Court of Justice hearings begin as fears of famine grow in Gaza with Israel’s blockade nearing 60th day.

Al Jazeera
Children die first

“Year after year, we have warned of the dangers of human rights backsliding. But events of the past 12 months – not least Israel’s livestreamed but unheeded genocide of Palestinians in Gaza – have laid bare just how hellish the world can be for so many when the most powerful states jettison international law and disregard multilateral institutions..."

#Israel #USA #Gaza #GENOCIDE
#AmnestyInternational

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/global-human-rights-crisis-trump-effect-accelerates-destructive-trends/

Human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends

Undoing decades of painstaking work and endangering billions of people.

Amnesty International

Deux news sans aucun rapport :

Rétablissement du contrat du lycée Averroès : L’État fait appel et lance de nouveaux contrôles https://www.mediacites.fr/decryptage/lille/2025/04/29/retablissement-du-contrat-du-lycee-averroes-letat-fait-appel-et-lance-de-nouveaux-controles/ (médiacités, paywall)

Les conclusions du rapport d’inspection sur Stanislas ont été falsifiées pour protéger l’établissement https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/290425/les-conclusions-du-rapport-d-inspection-sur-stanislas-ont-ete-falsifiees-pour-proteger-l-etablissement (mediapart, paypall)

Mais non y'a pas de deux poids deux mesures ni d'islamophobie...

#RevueDePouet

Rétablissement du contrat du lycée Averroès : L’Etat fait appel et lance de nouveaux contrôles

Ce mardi 29 avril dans la matinale de TF1, Elisabeth Borne, ministre de l’Education nationale a lancé un nouvel épisode du feuilleton Averroès… qui s’étire décidément en longueur. Moins d’une semaine après le rétablissement par le tribunal administratif de Lille du contrat liant l’Etat au lycée musulman lillois, celle qui était Première ministre au moment

Mediacités

Lilith Saintcrow always writes well, but here the writing is exceptional. A girl slowly emerges from family tragedy into a place where love is possible and learns that she is stronger than her history. The girl is a subtle and living portrait, as are the other members of her family, whereas the villain is guignolesque and the Baba Yaga figure steps directly out of fairy tale, so that the reader is left wondering whether they may not be hallucinations. A very fine piece of work.

#books #fantasy

LIVE: Israel kills 71 in 24h, accused of using Gaza aid as ‘weapon of war’ | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/28/live-israel-bombs-gaza-cafe-killing-6-us-bombs-yemens-sanaa

- As Israel pummels Gaza City, the capital’s main hospital runs out of pain medication
- ICJ case part of effort to hold ‘illegal occupying power to account’
- ‘This scene makes the body shiver’
- Israeli forces kill 44 people in Gaza since dawn
- Yemen’s Houthis vow to keep up attacks, say targeted US aircraft carrier

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

Updates: Israeli drone attack on Gaza City street kills five children

International Court of Justice hearings begin as fears of famine grow in Gaza with Israel’s blockade nearing 60th day.

Al Jazeera

Sarah Painter’s London is a living city and her characters well-rounded. The fantasy elements, though ever present and necessary, do not get in the way of what is, in essence, a gritty gangster story, reminding me of ‘The Long Good Friday.’ I strongly advise Lydia to take Paul Fox up on his offer - but she’s not one to take advice, however well meant.

#books #fantasy #SarahPainter

I'm now seeing hourly foxes every ten seconds.

#fox #hourly

Bruno Retailleau a décoré cinq policiers du Raid mis en examen pour des violences

Cinq policiers de l’antenne marseillaise du #Raid, mis en examen, les uns pour avoir causé la mort de #MohamedBendriss lors des émeutes de l’été 2023, les autres pour l’éborgnement de son cousin, ont reçu la «médaille de la sécurité intérieure» l’année suivante.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/280425/bruno-retailleau-decore-cinq-policiers-du-raid-mis-en-examen-pour-des-violences?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

Bruno Retailleau a décoré cinq policiers du Raid mis en examen pour des violences

Cinq policiers de l’antenne marseillaise du Raid, mis en examen, les uns pour avoir causé la mort de Mohamed Bendriss lors des émeutes de l’été 2023, les autres pour l’éborgnement de son cousin, ont reçu la « médaille de la sécurité intérieure » l’année suivante. 

Mediapart