JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@social.cleverlibre.org

We say "read to kids"
...and they start fantasizing about sexually exploiting children.

We say "pee in a bathroom"
...and they start fantasizing about sexually abusing women

We say "follow doctors' advice"
...and they start fantasizing about genital mutilation.

Here's a thought - maybe it's not us who are the perverts and sex deviants.

The award-winning graphic novel #Maus (a Holocaust allegory) is facing new bans; it's author, Art Spiegelman, shares his worries in a new WaPo piece, gifted so y'all can read it: https://wapo.st/3qJALYR

Then, #NewJersey #Fediverse peeps: use this EveryLibrary form to email your NJ Assembly/Senate reps to support new "ban the #bookban" bills (A5499, S3893, S3907) requiring NJ #libraries adopt the ALA Bill of Rights or other policies prohibiting book bans. https://www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njaslbookbans

We are heartbroken to learn that our dear friend #DanielEllsberg, world-renowned whistleblower and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder, has passed away at the age of 92. https://freedom.press/news/daniel-ellsberg-an-american-hero-for-the-ages-1931-2023/

@Radical_EgoCom @Badger_AF It's amazing how many Americans believe that in 2008 Obama was elected and on that day racism disappeared forever.

@Radical_EgoCom

Portland OR, spring of 2021 , me and my family were headed to the park on Shabbat, it was the first time we been out in a while (both parents are trans and 1 of our 3 children are trans). My partner was pushing me in my wheelchair and the oldest was pulling a red wagon that my trans child was sitting in, the youngest was walking beside me. Three men come up behind us and attack us and attempt to abduct my trans child. We were screaming for help while a group of 10 or more people watched on. NO ONE CAME TO OUR AID!! My partner (trans femme) used some tactics to get the men to back off and we went straight to the park where we were supposed to be anyway. I had data on my smart phone and was messaging a local mutual aid trans safe Facebook group telling them what happened and asking for back up to walk us home. I got some thumbs up and one comment: "I'm sorry that happened to you" and then nothing. No one came .

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#Photography #Bloomscrolling #Sunset

I desperately want to see security cam footage of all these boxes being moved around Mar a Lago, but high speed and set to Yakety Sax.

@Radical_EgoCom They've got a bot to encourage harassment of anyone who blocks them. Get your instance to #FediBlock the whole instance, it's full of this shit.

Today is Breonna Taylor’s 30th birthday. She should still be here with us. Never forget. Justice for Breonna Taylor. #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #BreonnaTaylor #Mastodon #BlackMastodon

"Today, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.

The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

“This is the first bail fund to be attacked in this way,” Regan, whose organization has worked to ensure legal support for people resisting Cop City, told me. “And there is absolutely not a scintilla of fact or evidence that anything illegal has ever transpired with regard to Atlanta fundraising for bail support.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

Being proper and PC is all well and good, but I still like to be objectified every once in a while.