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NEW! #GifsArtidote | episode 13 | denial & acknowledgement #podcast
this week i read from a 2020 academic article about the concepts of denial & acknowledgement in my recovery as a so-called victim & perpetrator, and the toxic dynamic the ruling class attaches to those notions, to divert away from their own culpability in systemic harm caused.
https://gifsartidote.life/2026/06/13/gifs-artidote-episode-13-denial-acknowledgement/
oday i am reading from my 2020 article denial & acknowledgement which is an academic article about the dynamic between so-called 'victim' & 'perpetrator' which more often than not are one & the same person. i continue to discuss the importance of acknowledging this toxic division & labeling by the ruling class, who use it to criminalise traumatised people as scapegoats to divert from their own culpability of systemic harm.
Thomson Reuters "fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data products to Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
"I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters' response was to fire me."
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Title: Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
Author: Joseph Cox
Publication: 404 Media
April 14, 2026
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#USA #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-fired-worker-for-speaking-out-about-ice-former-employee-says/
essential info about #FacialRecognition & the pigs hunting for your face today, if you take part in any protest.
At protests, police sometimes remove people’s masks, using the legal power “section 60AA”, of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. A lot of us are concerned about what this means for covid safety, for privacy, and freedom to protest. The way the police apply the law, with intimidation and shouting, has left a […]
This isn’t getting enough attention in a country that supposedly, allegedly gives a shit about its veterans of military service as well as those U.S. military personnel - including women - killed in conflicts the U.S. has been involved in. I guess I’d be curious to know why it is Whiskey Pete and the FOTUS hate women so much.
#USpol
Even for Google, a monopolist that is working to turn the open Web into a closed-off system of surveillance and corporate control, its "reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification"" push is anti-user control-freakery at its most arrogant and disgusting. @pluralistic explains:
Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average
New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails
"Surviving sexual violence & torture in general & rape is brutal. Imagine when it’s done on a large-scale systemically to a population. It means to destroy the people as such.”
"Settlers & citizens alike have been taken to detention centres to observe.. even [take part] in the humiliation inflicted on Palestinians.”
~Francesca Albanese
#USPol #EUPol #IsraeliTorture #palestine #palestinianPrisoners #news .
"Torture isn’t new to Palestinians": How Israel learned from colonialism
"Israel has practised torture against the Palestinians since the very beginning":
a colonial chain of sexual violence that "Britain rehearsed in Ireland, exported to Palestine, & repeated in Kenya; that France industrialised in Algeria; & that apartheid SA systematised."
See Al Jazeera’s doco "Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon"
I found lots of red ants making leaf nests in a small Bauhinia tree. (The tree was full of nests in different stages: a ball of dry brown leaves, or a cluster of still-green leaves, or even just a single leaf folded-over to begin the nest.)
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