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tomorrowusa · 7 months

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Ohio voters handed anti-abortion Republicans a stinging defeat. Those voters approved Issue 1 which puts reproductive freedom into the Ohio Constitution. The just passed amendment also protects the right to contraception and fertility treatment.

Results are still coming in. But with 85% of the votes counted, about 55.5% of Ohioans voted to protect reproductive freedom. And most of the remaining uncounted votes come from large urban counties which approved Issue 1 with over 65% of the vote.

Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Ohio became the seventh state where voters decided to protect abortion access after the landmark ruling and was the only state to consider a statewide abortion rights question this year. The outcome of the intense, off-year election could be a bellwether for 2024, when Democrats hope the issue will energize their voters and help President Joe Biden keep the White House. Voters in Arizona, Missouri and elsewhere are expected to vote on similar protections next year. Ohio’s constitutional amendment, on the ballot as Issue 1, included some of the most protective language for abortion access of any statewide ballot initiative since the Supreme Court’s ruling. Opponents had argued that the amendment would threaten parental rights, allow unrestricted gender surgeries for minors and revive “partial birth” abortions, which are federally banned. Before the Ohio vote, statewide initiatives in California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont had either affirmed abortion access or turned back attempts to undermine the right. Issue 1 specifically declared an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including birth control, fertility treatments, miscarriage and abortion.

It's a great victory for women and freedom in general. And it's a bad omen for GOP prospects in 2024.

Donald Trump carried Ohio both in 2016 and 2020. But the Republican insistence on controlling women's bodies will probably hurt the party there and elsewhere. And any attempt by the GOP to moderate its stand on abortion will result in major pushback by radical fundamentalist Christians who would like to return to the societal standards of the 17th century.

#ohio #issue 1 #reproductive freedom #abortion #a woman's right to choose #roe v. wade #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #republicans #anti-abortion extremists fail again #radical fundamentalist christians lose #defeat for republicans #election 2023 #election 2024

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rhaenyratheecruel · 6 months

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I’m sorry about my angry posts, I’m just so sick of the dehumanization that is happening regarding the hostages, some of whom aren’t even Israeli or Jewish (not that Israelis or Jewish people should be dehumanized either), but have been decided to be “guilty by association.” I’m sorry but that’s disgusting.

#like knock it off #stop lionizing an extremist militant group who wants to eradicate all jewish people #it’s really not that fucking hard #anti hamas #israeli hostages

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noyatv · 3 months

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think its best if we start reusing the term judenhass bc way too many arabs/people of arab descent are claiming that they “…can’t be antisemitic because their semitic”👉🥹👈

one cannot be “semitic” for that is a language group

#antizionism is antisemitism #aoc = antisemite on call #how not to be antisemitic #leftist antisemitism #antisemites #antisemitism #i cant be antisemitic im a semite #anti hamas #there is a special place for pro h*m*s people in the pits of the inferno #proud jew #arab and muslim extremists must be really good at propaganda to have the (american) left believe in their lies #proud zionist #zionist #zionism #judenhass

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thebusylilbee · 7 months

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I'd like to take a minute to acknowledge both anti-zionist jewish people and anti-zionist arab and arabized people who are brave enough to openly protest the inhumane treatment of palestinians by the hands of the genocidal colonialist ethnostate called Israel.

People of these two groups are now being the targets of so much hatred worldwide... Anti-zionist jewish people are being called "self hating jews" and "antisemites" for standing up for what's right ! Jewish people in general are being targeted by antisemites who either believe the zionist antisemitic lie that the fascist racist state of Israel "represents all jewish people" and that "all jewish people are zionists" OR are simply emboldened by the current tensions and let themselves be antisemites regardless of whether they care about palestinians or not. Meanwhile antiarabism is also at an all time high now, innocent people are being attacked for being muslim or being seen as muslim, they are labeled "terrorists", they are victims of police violence at a higher rate, they are dehumanized, and any sign of support on their part for Palestine is interpreted as an automatic sign of hatred for jewish people as a whole. Not to mention that arab and arabized people in general are the target of non stop hate speech by politicians and the media in the western world.

It takes guts to be a part of two extremely targeted groups and still show up for protests to give a voice to your beliefs ! Strength and love to all the anti-zionists and especially the jewish and arab/arabized ones !

#peace and love on a planet earth free of nazis zionists and all religious extremists thank you very much #palestine #free palestine #protests #antisemitism #anti zionisim #antiarabism #islamophobia #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #bee tries to talk #may palestinians be free and live in harmony with antizionist jewish people on a united land

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kragehund-est · 11 months

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the most annoying shit with traditional medicine is when the science says "there is ZERO evidence that this has ANY use. it might even be DANGEROUS. there are NO studies done on it." then, when you point out thousands of years of documented use that specifically notes both benefits and side effects they say "those don't count. for... reasons."

#shout out to the dumbass that called me an anti science extremist #for adding honey to my tea

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centercide · 1 year

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a hc in which the dead centrist is the same person as the centrist in the rap

some note tidbits

- deadcen knows the radcen greg brothers (and even worked with them. sort of. the only one who knows of their whole brother deal)

- the only centrist who is able to gather / meet up with the extremists. esp multiple present & all at once (addendum: that is an incredibly difficult task to achieve in our hc of the centricide universe)

- the only centrist who is able to communicate to said extremists and prevent things from happening (i.e the rap) and is effective due to always being in the dead center all while coming out unscathed (even if deadcen is a little bullied after)

- very happy. very chill. listens to mainstream music. an intermediary (literally)

- the dinkleberg post ruined my life (something along the lines of " the centrist from the rap sorta comes around to water their gardens but if anything mildly inconveniences the extremists they shake their fists and go "dead centrist...!!")

- while counted as strange for being able to miraculously hang out and NOT die via the extremists hands, deadcen is very beloved and well respected ("WHERE IS DEAD CENTRIST!!" "WHERES DEAD CENTRIST" "HE'S DEAd????")

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fairykery · 6 months

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I cant believe Tumblr/Twitter/TikTok/YouTube is gaslighting Jews about not being anti-semitic. I stand with the Innocents of Gaza and am extremely against the Israeli Government. (Emphasis on "Government"); but pretending y'all aren't neglecting and vanilla-izing what HAMAS did(is doing EVEN to its own people) just because y'all want to be the right "amount" of aesthetically progressive is disgusting. Both Hamas & the Israeli government is hurting their own people and the innocents on the opposing sides. And a Great deal of people) civilians from BOTH sides want and have been wanting each other's deaths/genocides because they fear/hate each other AND because they both feel entitled to those lands(Fun fact: they BOTH have native/blood/cultural/religious ties even if one more than the other I won't say who because people will use that to justify the genocide of the other). Not to mention the propaganda of each other their governments/leaders have been imposing on them for years. BUT I've only seen people "justify" what Hamas is doing to the other side. I've seen people chant a fancy genocidal phrase towards the Jews in Israel. I've seen people call the slaughter of Jews "justifiable" because they are "evil light skinned goblins". I've seen people neglect the ancient history of Jews and how Jews even got to that situation in the first place. I've seen people encourage propaganda about Jews in order to justify the slaughter of Jews. I've seen people neglect facts and I've seen them say that "this issue is NOT complex" just so the side that they took can seem more justifiable in their slaughter. I've seen mourning Jews get harassed. I've seen Holocaust survivors whose only crimes were to simply show sympathy for their love ones "get harassed". I've seen people tear down posters of missing jewish people(like what does that have to do with being against the Israel government? The Israel government will probably bomb their own people just to get to hamas. But y'all only then show "fake worry" for jews when the Israel government shows little signs of caring for them. Outside of that you guys hypocritically justify their violent deaths and harass people that just want their loved ones back?). I've seen videos of radical liberals spitting on Jew protesters who have only been singing peacefully for their loved ones(they've been persecuted for ages they are allowed to AT LEAST mourn). My point is that I'm against both hamas and the violence of the Israeli government. My point is that a great deal of civilians on both sides have been wanting the death/and complete termination of the other side. My point is that taking a stance with either form of government/leadership is contributing to the support of genocide. Feeling more sympathy for civilians that have lost more is not wrong. Obviously that's where your attention should be. But saying this issue is not complex and immediately taking a side IS genocidal thinking giving the stance/ideals of most people on BOTH sides. Saying this issue is not complex and turning it into something that is not(racial issue) to justify your genocidal stance IS anti-semitism. Both sides have been radicalized but they don't deserve death. People just want to live.

#jumblr #anti semitism #fun fact the most anti semetic of right wingers are enjoying the radical liberals anti semitism #“wE tOld yOu tHeY wErE eVil” like??#or the “HitLer sHould hAvE fIniShEd wHat hE sTarTed”#a tweet liked by both radical liberals and right winger extremists #palestine #gaza #anti hamas #anti israel goverment #genocide #propaganda #important

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tomorrowusa · 5 months

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Putin's Russia is part of an Axis of Homophobia which includes Iran, Orbán's Hungary, the GOP in the US, Uganda, Afghanistan, and others.

The resistance of many Republicans to giving aid to Ukraine may partly be because they see Putin as a kindred spirit.

Of course a loss for Putin would also mean a major defeat for hatred against the LGBTQ+ community. Putin is currently the most high profile homophobe on Earth.

Russia outlaws all LGBTQ+ groups & people as “extremist” threats

While not perfect, Ukraine has a more tolerant attitude and has Pride parades and LGBTQ members of its armed forces. An early victim of Russia's terrorist war against Ukraine was Elya Shchemur – a Kharkiv Pride activist who was killed in the Russian bombardment of Ukraine's second largest city.

Perhaps Putin fears that a NATO Ukraine might turn Russia gay. 🏳️‍🌈

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teacup-captor · 4 months

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I wanted to share this tiktok with tumblr

Credits to tiktok user elisegravel_english

#image id in alt text #pro-palestine #pro palestine #free palestine #fuck israel #fuck zionists #anti zionism #fuck zion extremists #from the river to the sea

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thegayhimbo · 7 months

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#israel hamas war #israel palestine conflict #john oliver #last week tonight #last week tonight with john oliver #Youtube #antisemitism #islamophobia #anti palestinianism #fuck hamas #and fuck anyone stupid enough to support hamas #fuck benjamin netanyahu #and fuck netanyahu's extremist government #israel #gaza #palestine #social issues

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nando161mando · 9 months

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"Guess how many local news outlets have reported on the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist attack outside of the Pasadena Courthouse?

Zero. Fucking zero. The extremists are on video performing the crime, admitting to the crime, and nothing happens.

The media and cops work together to cover up fascist violence."

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vyachki · 9 months

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#Interesting discourse #The personal thoughts of one person does not equal a collective opinion?#After 4+ years on radblr I don't think I've really ever encountered a radfem who was explicity anti-gay men. Maybe for males in general?#Which I understand & I don't really care about #Bc I'm sure everyone has extremist beliefs on a variety of different things...#Reposting bc I couldn't reblog original & it's better that way because the notes were a hot fucking mess

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 24 days

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House Republicans launch multiple investigations into college protests

Four GOP committee chairs are probing pro-Palestinian campus activism.

New GOP move: discredit and defund the nation's major research universities and move funds to private, religious schools like Liberty University and Hillsdale, the new GOP models for higher education.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 2, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 03, 2024

More than 2,000 people have been arrested at protests on college and university campuses around the country opposing Israel’s military strikes on Gaza since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, and the subsequent humanitarian crisis there. It is unclear how many of the protesters are students, as many of those arrested have not been affiliated with the universities, or how many of the arrests will result in charges—sometimes arrests at protests are designed simply to clear an area.

The roots of today’s protests lie in an investigation by the Republican-dominated House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC). The committee announced the investigation on December 7, two days after its members spent more than five hours grilling then-president of Harvard University Claudine Gay, then-president of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sally Kornbluth on how their universities were handling student protests against Israel over its military response to Hamas’s attack of October 7.

Led by Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Republicans on the committee insisted that the universities were not protecting Jewish students. The university presidents responded that they deplored antisemitism, that students had the right to free speech, and that they took action against those who violated policies against bullying, harassment, or intimidation. But in their defense of free speech, they admitted both that hate speech against Jews and others is sometimes protected and that they had sometimes made bad calls.

The Republicans’ interest in protecting Jewish students on campus overlapped with their opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that they associate with Democrats. Burgess Owens (R-UT) said DEI initiatives protect Black students at the expense of others. “I just remember a couple of years ago when we were dealing with Black Lives Matter,” he said. “Try to talk about Blue Lives Matter, Jew Lives Matter, Arab Lives Matter—they call it racist. It’s time for us to focus on what’s happening on your campuses.”

Stefanik called the testimony “pathetic” and, along with 74 other members of Congress, demanded that Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, resign. On January 2, following accusations she had plagiarized scholarly work, she did. Her resignation followed that of Liz Magill. “TWO DOWN,” Stefanik wrote on social media.

Two days after the university presidents’ testimony, Stefanik announced that the House Education and Workforce Committee would be investigating universities. “We will use our full Congressional authority to hold these schools accountable for their failure on the global stage,” she said.

On February 12 the committee informed Columbia it was next up. Columbia University president Nemat "Minouche" Shafik had been unable to testify with the other presidents in December and gave her testimony to the committee on April 17, along with co-chairs of the Board of Trustees Claire Shipman and David Greenwald and former dean David Schizer over the university's response to antisemitism.

In an April 16 essay in the Wall Street Journal, Shafik wrote that “antisemitism and calls for genocide have no place at a university…but that leaves plenty of room for robust disagreement and debate.” She said she prioritizes “the safety and security of our community” and that while the attack of October 7 had a "deep personal impact" on the Jewish and Israeli communities, there was also a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, and the war was "part of a larger story of Palestinian displacement." She explained that Columbia had defined a space for protests to enable those they upset to avoid them.

Opening the hearing, committee chair Foxx said: “Since October 7, this Committee and the nation have watched in horror as so many of our college campuses, particularly the most expensive, so-called elite schools, have erupted into hotbeds of antisemitism and hate.” Stefanik called out tenured professor Joseph Massad of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department, who called the October 7 attack a “stunning victory.”

Shafik responded by condemning the professor’s statements. “Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of harassment or discrimination has been the central challenge on our campus, and many others, in recent months…. We do not, and will not, tolerate antisemitic threats, images, and other violations…. We have enforced, and we will continue to enforce, our policies against such actions,” she said.

Ilhan Omar (D-MN) questioned Shafik about discrimination against pro-Palestinian protesters. She noted that Israel-born assistant professor Shai Davidai was accused of harassing pro-Palestinian students; Shafik said they have had more than 50 complaints about him and he is under investigation.

On April 17, the same day the Columbia officials testified, pro-Palestinian protesters organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (a self-described “coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation”), Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace set up a camp at the university. It garnered little attention; the April 18 New York Times did not mention it. According to Sharif, the school warned protesters they would be suspended if the encampment was not removed. They stayed. On April 18, according to New York mayor Eric Adams, Columbia officials called in New York City police to disband the protest. They arrested more than 100 people, including Representative Omar’s daughter, a Columbia student. The arrests were peaceful.

University faculty and community members were shocked by the resort to law enforcement at a place known both for learning and debate and for its history. In April 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, a week of protests after students learned of Columbia’s support for weapons research and its plan to construct a seemingly segregated gym in a nearby community had led New York City police to crush the demonstrations with violence.

In the days after the current arrests, nearly a dozen student and faculty groups released statements or open letters objecting to the police presence on campus and supporting students’ rights to free speech and peaceful protest. The protest encampment sprang back up.

At the same time, Jewish leaders warned that antisemitism was increasing. Rabbi Elie Buechler, of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel and Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, urged Jewish students to return home for Passover, which began April 22, and to stay there for their own safety.

In the next weeks, protests sprang up around the country, with protesters generally demanding that university administrators divest from investments in Israel or in companies that sell weapons, technology, or construction equipment to Israel, and cut ties to Israeli universities. They have tended to turn their anger against President Joe Biden and his administration, whom they blame for what they call a genocide in Gaza. Universities have responded in a variety of ways, from discussion to armed law enforcement officers.

Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have insisted that Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas and have continued to provide Israel with military defenses, whose importance in stopping the war from spreading showed on April 14, when those defenses shot down virtually all of the weapons Iran launched at Israel. They are working hard for a ceasefire, with Blinken currently in the Middle East and a proposal on the table that Israel has accepted but Hamas has not.

The administration has also stood against the initial policy of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration to cordon off Gaza without food, water, or electricity, and has pressured Israel into permitting humanitarian aid into Gaza. It has also firmly opposed Israeli plans to attack Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have taken shelter, and has stood firmly in favor of a Palestinian state, which the protesters have not indicated they endorse.

On April 24, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) visited Columbia, where he called for Shafik to resign. On Monday, April 29, he and Republican leadership met to discuss how they might reenergize the party and gain traction now that their impeachment effort against Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flopped, the conference is bitterly split, their control of the House of Representatives has resulted in one of the least productive congresses in American history, and their presumptive presidential nominee is being tried for election interference that involved paying off women with whom he had extramarital sex. They settled on campus antisemitism—although Trump’s open embrace of white nationalists makes this problematic—and the campus protests as a sign that Democrats are the party of disorder.

On that same day, 21 House Democrats wrote a letter to Columbia’s trustees demanding they “act decisively, disband the encampment, and ensure the safety and security of all of its students.” That night, protesters took control of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, where they broke windows and vandalized furniture. About twenty hours later, police in riot gear arrested them. Arrests across the country climbed.

Yesterday, Representative Foxx announced that her committee’s antisemitism investigation will expand into a Congress-wide crackdown on colleges. In a press conference, she said she had a clear message for “mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders. Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your Jewish students. American universities are officially put on notice that we have come to take our universities back.”

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that right-wing politicians jumped on the Kent State shootings of May 1970 to defund colleges and universities, while a “law and order” backlash helped to give Republican president Richard M. Nixon a landslide reelection in 1972.

Today, President Biden addressed the protests, saying they “test two fundamental American principles. The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld.”

Biden called for lawful, peaceful protests and warned: “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations—none of this is a peaceful protest…. Dissent is essential to democracy,” he said, “But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education…. People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked.”

When asked, he told reporters he did not think the National Guard should be involved in suppressing the protests.

Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu of the New York Times reported today that Russia, China, and Iran are amplifying the protests “to score geopolitical points abroad and stoke tensions within the United States,” as well as to “undermine President Biden’s reelection prospects.”

It is unclear if the protests will continue during the summer, when fewer students will be on campus.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#House Republicans #GOP #MAGA extremists #anti-education #liberty university #Hillsdale #higher education #WAPO #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #Right Wing attacks on education #student protests #war in Israel #DEI #anti semitic

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