Lunar Dad

@brylock
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Substantive choices are those choices where none of the alternatives is prejudicial for the person making it. For example, people are formally free to not engage on the labor market: no one is forcing you at gunpoint to take a job. However, that is only a substantive freedom if you are independently well off. If you need to work to survive, your freedom is formal, but not substantive.

"Netanyahu vows to relocate Gaza’s population after security cabinet approves plan to ‘conquer’ the enclave'" - CNN

"The term "forcible transfer" describes the forced relocation of civilian populations as part of an organized offensive against that population. It is a crime against humanity punishable by the International Criminal Court ( ICC )" - Cornell Law

Meanwhile, FBI+DA in Michigan is trying to break Michigan students for protesting

Students who want this crime against humanity to stop

People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.

40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.

General strike.
Headlines from David Brooks, 2020-2025

Politicians aren’t nearly outraged enough at the Trump regime disappearing these students of color. I’m not qwhite sure why?? But I bet we’d hear a very different tune if these students had the complexion for protection.

If you’re willing to sit silent when Black & brown people are denied due process and abducted by a fascist regime, then don’t be surprised when you’re the next victim of that same regime. That’s how fascism has always advanced—through complicit silence.

“I heard the voice of one of those team members who was killed. And his phone was found with this body. And he recorded the whole event. His last words, before being shot. Forgive me, Mom. I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives. And then he was killed.”

@palestine
#Gaza
#paramedics

Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.

Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.

Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽