Mastodawn

Mira Kamdar Feb 8, 2023

2022 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Annie Ernaux on the anti-pension reform strikes and protests in France. https://mondediplo.com/2023/02/14pension-strikes-ernaux #annieernaux #greves #strikes #france #retirement #retraites

Walking tall again

Open access // by Annie Ernaux (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2023)

Le Monde diplomatique

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

Éditions Agone Jan 20, 2023

Tandis que des millions de pauvres crèvent de faim, de maladie, d’ignorance, de désespoir, et que tous les jours des êtres humains se noient, se pendent ou s’immolent, les braves citoyens des républiques libres et prospères continuent à élire et soutenir des gouvernements de petits-bourgeois au service de grands bourgeois dont la principale préoccupation est de convertir la plus grande part de la richesse publique en capitaux privés... https://agone.org/aujourlejour/tant-pis-pour-lanthropocene

Tant pis pour l’anthropocène ! - Agone

Les éditions Agone, fondées en 1998, sont une maison d'édition indépendante, association à but non lucratif, issue d'une revue du même nom Agone, fondée à Marseille en 1990.

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

Hari Kunzru Jan 20, 2023

✊🏾Solidarity with librarians:

RT @[email protected]

The bill, which would prohibit books depicting sexual or gender identity, proposes up to 30 days imprisonment for librarians who refuse to remove banned titles. https://nbcnews.to/3iO85KI

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1615747868223995908

North Dakota weighs ban on 'sexually explicit' library books

The bill, which would ban books depicting sexual or gender identity, proposes up to 30 days imprisonment for librarians who refuse to remove banned titles.

NBC News

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

Show thread

Hari Kunzru Jan 20, 2023

The small town fash have correctly identified knowledge as the chief obstacle to imposing theocracy

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

Anthony DeRosa Feb 1, 2023

Bob Woodward: News coverage of the Russia inquiry ”wasn’t handled well” and viewers and readers had been “cheated.”

He urged newsrooms to “walk down the painful road of introspection.” https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-ed-note.php/

Looking back on the coverage of Trump

<p>Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of […]</p>

Columbia Journalism Review

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

MSNBC Feb 1, 2023

Several white Republicans have received probation for casting illegal ballots. A Black woman in Texas received five years.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/voter-fraud-gop-stronghold-leads-another-light-sentence-rcna68366

Voter fraud at a GOP stronghold leads to another light sentence

Quite a few Republican voters were caught casting illegal ballots in the 2020 elections. In each case, judges didn’t exactly throw the book at them.

MSNBC

Mira Kamdar Feb 1, 2023

Steve Silberman Jan 31, 2023

How it started (2015)... how it's going (2023)

Mira Kamdar Jan 25, 2023

JosephMenn Jan 24, 2023

Twitter engineers—or outsiders who hack them—can tweet from any user account without being detected, according to a new whistleblower complaint to the Federal Trade Commission shared exclusively with The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/

Ex-Twitter engineer tells FTC security violations persist after Musk

Concerns about Twitter’s security soared after an incident in 2020 when teenagers breached Twitter’s internal systems and tweeted as Musk, Barack Obama and others.

The Washington Post

Mira Kamdar Jan 23, 2023

Is #SuellaBraverman the most vile member of Britain's current government / #tory party? Good for Joan Salter for calling her on her racist hate speech and its demostrated historical consequences. Via @TheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/17/confronted-suella-braverman-holocaust-survivor-refugees-home-secretary #holocaust #refugees #britain

I confronted Suella Braverman because as a Holocaust survivor I know what words of hate can do

By demonising refugees, the home secretary causes divisions that can lead to tragedy. We must not forget the lessons of the past, says educator Joan Salter

The Guardian

Mira Kamdar Jan 20, 2023

Rita Armstrong Jan 20, 2023

Shame. They know well enough how much Ukraine depends on getting the weapons and Leos in order to protect itself. After all they’ve seen happening in Dnipro and other cities - they still refuse to help us.
#Ukraine #Germany

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