Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Soldiers said commanders repeatedly ordered them to 'delete' children in the Nigerian Army’s war against Islamist insurgents, because the children were assumed to be collaborating with the militants https://reut.rs/3WaQlXT by @PaulCarsten @DG_Lewis @readelev @libbyegeorge

I fuckin love snow, it’s so peaceful and relaxing, the sounds are all muffled the sky is kinda grey, the world slows down as each snowflake falls into place

RT @notameadow@twitter.com

Yes, everyone knows it’s snowing in London, shut up.

Just go for a walk if you can.

(Parliament Hill 2am, and other places)

Please don’t whine about how everything will be fucked tomorrow, we know.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/notameadow/status/1602158352213184512

#wato #bbcom @michaelgove@twitter.com …

RT @DanielJMath1@twitter.com

Listen. I’m as surprised as you are that a private equity firm based in the Caymans is the de facto owner of the new Cumbria coalmine.

The UK regime would make African Dictators blush.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DanielJMath1/status/1601544099370520581

Being here on #Mastodon has given me frequent, ongoing opportunities to engage with numerous subjects and ideas. What a pleasure. It is certainly good for the spirit and the mind. But all those other topics do not make the political threat I’ve pinpointed in this thread seen smaller or less important to fight against. Instead, the it makes the stakes of the fight all that much clearer.

I generally haven’t been posting this sort of musing thread here. Thanks for reading this one. 5/5

I had become worried that my own concern over and work against white Christian patriarchal authoritarianism and its embrace and advancement by the Republican Party had made me think the problem loomed larger than it really does. I know many people who go about their business without acknowledging the threat and the danger, who downplay it if you raise evidence of it. Maybe I had come to have an exaggerated or distorted view of the situation. 4/

But now, we have one of the two major political parties in this country absolutely all in on dismantling pluralistic democracy entirely. This is the foundational menace I’m talking about. It is pervasive and powerful. It isn’t just a feature of what I happen to be paying attention to here or anywhere else. Even if I become distracted from the threat, it intrudes itself by precipitating an event that cannot be ignored. I’m actually glad to have discovered this for myself. 3/

…I am ever more cognizant of how our ability, as individuals and together, to explore, think, joke, muse, express ourselves depends on having sufficient wellbeing, security, and freedom. In the U.S., the very foundations for sufficiency in each of these respects are under threat. I’m not idealizing the differing degrees of wellbeing, security, and freedom the U.S. has offered different groups and different people nor overlooking that almost nobody has ever had a surfeit of all these. 2/