Graydon_The March North_ should be visible on Kobo again; the other five are somewhere behind it in the queue.
(Kobo's interface has improved.)
Aaron
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He/him, software engineer, father
William Lindsey 
"We’ve been getting quite a spectacular display, really, of how deeply the authoritarian impulse has embedded itself in the psyche of the American right, thanks to Donald Trump. In the past few weeks, the dictatorial dimensions of his explicitly eliminationist agenda have come into full relief—and even more telling than his own pronouncements has been the enthusiastic response of his 'patriotic' MAGA army."
~ David Neiwert
CatearthjusticePolice SUV crashes into St. Louis gay bar, owner arrested https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/19/police-crash-st-louis-gay-bar-owner-arrested-assault/
Evan Urquhart 🏳️⚧️Today on Assigned, what's really going on in the pitched battle over what pronouns to use for the Roman emperor Elagabalus?
The heart of this story isn't about what Elagabalus would have wanted, but about whether a parable about morals from a thousand years ago should continue, or whether queer people and their supporters get to celebrate gender-nonconforming behavior, wherever it's found, even moldy old Roman histories. #trans #news #history
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/pronouns-for-elagabalus
Steve HermanFT: US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot. https://www.ft.com/content/56f7d6d6-6a93-4172-a49e-d8a91991e29d
Meredith WhittakerIf I wanted court drama I'd read Stendhal, who understood how power works and spent hundreds of pages illuminating characters whose desire for it blinded them to this reality.
Or, it was Microsoft all along...
Flipboard News DeskYemen’s Houthi rebels seize an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea, take two dozen crew members hostage. AP reports: https://flip.it/fM3zKK
#News #WorldNews #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #Houthis
#News #WorldNews #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #Houthis
Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage
Israel says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized an Israeli-linked ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route and taken the 25-member crew hostage. The Iran-backed Houthis confirmed they hijacked the ship over its connection to Israel and took the crew as hostages on Sunday. The group warned that it would continue to target ships in international waters that were linked to or owned by Israelis until the end of Israel’s campaign against Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the crew members came from a range of countries but that no Israelis had been on board the Bahamas-flagged Galaxy Leader. The Israeli military called the hijacking a “very grave incident of global consequence.”
Itamar Turner-TrauringFrom Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz on the mainstreaming of ethnic cleansing among Israeli Zionists: “The idea of expelling Arabs to other countries was once linked to Meir Kahane and other far-right radicals, and thus considered anathema by most Israelis. Now, to the delight of right-wingers, the idea is gaining traction as a ‘moral' solution to the war”
https://archive.li/P0zwO with original source at
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-17/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/israeli-rightists-are-trying-to-reframe-a-gaza-population-transfer-as-a-moral-act/0000018b-d914-d423-affb-fbb7ddd30000
Micah LeeOne day after Elon Musk agrees with a great replacement Jews "hatred against whites" tweet, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League thanks Elon for his "leadership in fighting hate" because he's suspending X users who post the phrases "decolonization" or "from the river to the sea"
Daniel NichanianTwo really big new reforms:
1/ Massachusetts just made phone calls free for incarcerated people: https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prison-jail-phone-calls/
2/ Michigan lawmakers adopted a bill that'd be the first to automatically register people to vote when they're released from prison: https://boltsmag.org/michigan-automatic-voter-registration-prison
