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A Korean living in Japan, where being a leftist means high treason.
#internationalism #asian #korean #diaspora #colonialism #holocauststudies #journalism #democracy #americanpolitics #wordlove #coffeelover #whiskylover #japan
Reclusive Leftist5d ago
The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders
Editorial
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/22/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-of-carlo-ginzburg-a-historian-who-taught-us-to-think-about-outsiders
#guardian #history #carloginzburg #menocchio #outsider
The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders

Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today

The Guardian
Reclusive LeftistJun 17
PedestriansfirstJun 16
“Prince George to attend Eton College from September.” But don’t worry the fees are only about £63 000 a year (and you are paying). #AbolishTheMonarchy
Reclusive LeftistJun 17
Britain’s Prince George will enroll at Eton, the elite $80,000 school his father attended
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/16/uk/prince-george-eton-scli-intl
#cnn #uk #monarchy #ukmonarchy #RoyalPainInTheArse #abolishmonarchy
Britain’s Prince George will enroll at Eton, the elite $80,000 school his father attended

Britain’s Prince George is set to attend elite UK school Eton College, following in the footsteps of his father, William, the Prince of Wales and a long list of the country’s former prime ministers.

CNN
Reclusive LeftistJun 16
BroadwaybabytoJun 16

New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people.

Many of them are children.

600,000 have already died.

The man who gutted the program?

Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire.

He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth.

He should be in jail.

Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900281-5/fulltext

#usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol

Reclusive LeftistJun 16

"...this World Cup as “the most polluting event ever”, estimating that it will generate about 9 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Air travel is responsible for about 7.7 million tons of that carbon estimate, more than four times that of the average for World Cups held from 2010 to 2022."

World Cup 2026
Infantino using private jet in attempt to watch two World Cup matches per day
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/16/infantino-private-jet-world-cup-matches
#guardian #climatechange #corruption #fifa #qatar #climatedisaster #FuckSoccer

Infantino using private jet in attempt to watch two World Cup matches per day

Fifa president sets gruelling itinerary across North America in a World Cup expected to generate about 9m tons of carbon dioxide

The Guardian
Show threadReclusive LeftistJun 13
This should be it.
"Stop normalizing Trump"
Show threadReclusive LeftistJun 13
It should be added that every single person to have left President Donald Trump's second-term cabinet so far has, without exception, been a woman. He is an ultra-sexist.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sets-damning-record-with-all-female-firing-spree/
Trump Sets Damning Record With All-Female Firing Spree

Every woman to leave Trump’s Cabinet—because they have all been women—has been replaced by a man.

The Daily Beast
Reclusive LeftistJun 13
Trump keeps insulting female journalists. It’s time for the press to stop tolerating it
Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/trump-insults-female-journalists
#guardian #journalism #media #trumpism #sexism #USmeltdown
Trump keeps insulting female journalists. It’s time for the press to stop tolerating it

‘Piggy’, ‘corrupt’, ‘stupid’: the president keeps lashing out. Here’s how journalists can stand up to him

The Guardian
Reclusive LeftistJun 13
Robert ReichJun 12
Show threadReclusive LeftistJun 13
"Musk is now a trillionaire, but a lot of innocent people could be shafted by this IPO, perhaps without their even noticing. It could be a huge redistribution from most of us to Elon and his buddies."