wanderingmagus

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#NAFO supporter. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦. Also interested in #Geopolitics and #Technology. Resisting fascism however I can. #LinuxMint user. #Fediverse fan.

All Nazi/fascist = report and block.

wanderingmagusMay 11
evacideMay 11
Today is a good day to read this essay on rewilding the internet by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon if you haven't already: https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
We Need To Rewild The Internet 

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

NOEMA
wanderingmagusMay 10
Bruce MirkenMay 10
We've just stopped talking about the fact that the #TrumpAdministration is committing premeditated murder on the open seas every week. https://www.commondreams.org/news/deadly-boat-strike
'Each of These Is a Murder': Trump Admin Conducts 3rd Deadly Boat Strike in 5 Days | Common Dreams

​"Drug suspects should be arrested and prosecuted, not summarily executed," a human rights expert said.

Common Dreams
wanderingmagusMay 10
Show threadNonilexMay 10
Defeat in the present confrontation w/ #Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate #US triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The #StraitOfHormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region &…in the world. The roles of #China & #Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the US, substantially diminished.
wanderingmagusMay 10
NonilexMay 10

#GiftArticle

Brutally honest analysis of Trump’s failure in #Iran & its impact on the #US & #GlobalOrder from Robert Kagan

Checkmate in Iran

It’s hard to think of a time when the #UnitedStates suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored.

#Trump #failure #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #ForeverWars #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #NewWorldOrder
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQsNAoumvTwglsKzbozefow

Checkmate in Iran

Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.

The Atlantic
wanderingmagusMay 10
VeeMay 10
wanderingmagusMay 6
Show threadCadeMay 5
@DemocracyMattersALot
This sounds like the preamble to abolishing the Social Security Act. I'm not saying there could be no replacement for SS, but Trump's version is no more well considered than war with Iran.
wanderingmagusMay 6
Democracy Matters May 5

Okay. I'm calling bullshit. Trump and Republicans would NEVER do anything that benefits Americans. It's a scam, a grift, or a con.

Trump’s new executive order, with help from Congress, could increase U.S. retirement wealth up to 77%, researchers find
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/legislative-action-could-increase-us-retirement-wealth.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoKings #USPol

wanderingmagusMay 5
Show threadDiligence JonesMay 2

Once again to the dudes who are like, You're being hysterical! The ruling doesn't do everything you warn about!

Look at how (white) America responds [and yes i am absolutely pulling the race card because America IS a race card]:

From Democracy Docket: southern states are sprinting to nullify Black votes -- sprinting!!

Via their newsletter:

*To boot, SCOTUS’ ruling may also demolish states’ voting rights laws

State-level statutes that seek to bar racially discriminatory voting practices are also in danger after this week’s catastrophic decision to gut the Voting Rights Act.

*And Trump’s DOJ says ‘We are ON IT!’

Trump’s DOJ is preparing to weaponize the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act and challenge maps that protect Black and Latino voters — starting with #California.

https://www.democracydocket.com/

Democracy Docket

Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.

Democracy Docket
wanderingmagusMay 5
Diligence JonesApr 30

It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.

This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together:

We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much.

This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone.

The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism.

THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.'

So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system?

#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#SCOTUS
#CivilRights
#BlackHistoryEveryDay

wanderingmagusMay 5
Show threadParker MolloyMay 3
Frank got some pushback from major LGBTQ organizations after he stripped trans protections from the 2007 version of the Employment Non Discrimination Act, and he spent the following years seething about it. From 2007: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Gay rights champ Rep. Barney F...
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