Not the Only One

I remember talking online to some Trump supporters in the US a few years back. They started ranting about Muslim-controlled, 'no-go areas' in the UK. When it turned out they were talking about little ol' Tower Hamlets, where I'd lived and worked for years (and still do), I thought that was pretty hilarious and put them straight. Can't believe this crap persists. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/how-no-go-zone-myth-spread-from-fringes-to-mainstream-uk-politics

The same NSW Govt that runs protest organisers to court and condemns us as reckless is defending pubs despite multiple COVID cases. The right to drink trumps the right to protest in Aus. Unless your Black living under the Intervention - then you can be locked up for both!

An officer blames us, community members, for the residents distress. The resident is shouting “I’m a prisoner in my own house,” meanwhile officers are calling in for more and more back up We immediately contested the legal observers onsite to come down and provide legal advocacy

Today on Let’s Talk, We sit down and chat with Anisa Ali, a 24 year-old woman of Aboriginal and Somali descent living in one of the North Melbourne Towers… ⁦@MerikiKO⁩ ⁦@riserefugee⁩ https://t.co/JOAccWuhTA

Donald Trump just shared a video of a supporter yelling “White Power” and I can’t help but be angry all over again at all the editors who kept their reporters of color from using the word “racist” for the last several years.

Lucy Salani (12 August 1924 - 22 March 2023) was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.Born in Fossano and raised in Bologna, Salani was understood to be a homosexual man before undergoing gender reassignment surgery later in her life. An anti-fascist, she deserted both the fascist Italian and the Nazi German armies during World War II, before getting caught and deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1944, where s...

Scandinavia uses giant mirrors, light-therapy clinics, and even positive thinking to overcome seasonal depression, but the disorder remains mysterious.

I’m going to keep calling Charlie Kirk a fascist who should not be valorized. I am not capitulating to the climate of repression the Trump regime and its supporters have created. The only way to protect freedom to speak truth, is to keep speaking truth.