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Corporate media’s complicity in the normalization of state violence is often framed as incompetence or oversight. A generous and inaccurate framing.
Billionaire owned corporate media has learned under this administration that challenging power brings retaliation and compliance protects profits. When journalism accommodates power, it ceases to serve the public.
This is precisely why independent media has become a necessity. Let’s Address This.
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/what-corporate-medias-silence-is-costing-us/
It's not just the disinformation, but the censorship, that risks undermining our republic There are moments when the most important question is not what is happening, but why so many people are never told that it is happening at all? We are living in one of those moments. Independent human
This sums the #VENEZUELA situation up nicely:
For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader:
Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies.
And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.
The US invasion of Venezuela is a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter. Celebrating the capture of Maduro, Donald Trump went further, calling it an “attack on sovereignty” itself.
Countries the world over must work together to rein in the United States before it’s too late.
For all my SF folks, we gotta get into the streets. We can’t let Trump or anyone think this is ok or normal
Reading about san francisco's first chinese sex worker, Ah Toy.
She arrived in 1849 from Guangzhou.
"She was unusually tall for a Chinese woman, with delicate, bound feet and a slender boding and laughing eyes. She was 'strangely alluring', as one admirer later put it."
"Her first place of business [..] was in an alley off Clay Street, between Dupont and Kearny Streets. The line of men often stretched down the block. After disembarking their steamboats from the interior, miners would often break into a run to claim a spot. The men paid Ah Toy with an ounce of gold dust, which she carefully weighted. In return, she gave men a chance to 'gaze on her coutenance'"
Her lover was John A. Clark, the leader of a special task force.. investigating prostitution in the city.
(From the book "Strangers In The Land")
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