"Saudi Arabia is executing peaceful activists and journalists following politicized trials."

"From January through August, 241 people were executed, including 162 convicted of nonlethal, drug-related offenses."

"22 people in the first week of August."
#SaudiArabia #Drugs #Incarceration

"In women's prisons across Texas, tear gas [..] has become the go-to response for minor infractions."

"[T]hey gassed another dorm because someone flushed a tampon and clogged the day room toilet."

"This isn't correction or rehabilitation. It's torture by another name."
#Texas #USA #Incarceration

The Israeli government is funding 16 MAGA influencers to sway young Americans' views. They were trained by Act.il, known for organizing online troll networks and using apps to mass-report posts critical of Israel.

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

“Hamza was really good to me. He wanted to bring back aid.”

Israel killed the 13-year old earlier today by shooting him in the head.

The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people:

A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died.

A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

Someone captured the Los Angeles radio scanner traffic from yesterday, where LAPD came under impact munitions fire from LA Sheriffs when both departments violently converged on peaceful protesters from two sides.

There's a pretty explicit test case of a center left party abandoning trans people and immigrants. Labour in the UK have done just that and their political support has imploded while legitimizing the fascist Reform party.

Dem consultants seem content to follow this strategy.

one thing about police is that if an explicitly fascist party came to power and gave them direct orders to go out rounding up people to be sent to extermination camps i'd be surprised and impressed if more than 1 in 100 of them refused the order or quit

I asked the Minister if he understands that, through his decisions, he is personally complicit in genocide.

He had no answer.

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

The "adapt or die" parts of these comments are the most ludicrous. Die how? What are you going to do to us?

Let me be clear: You cannot stop creative people from being creative people. The most you can predict is that they won't be able to make money, which is in the hands of people with money.

"The US dropped around 15 tonnes of explosives per square kilometre of Vietnam [making it the most bombed place on earth], while Israel has dropped 275 tonnes per square kilometre of Gaza - a figure that is higher by a factor of 18."

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

i've said it before and i'll say it again: why tf would i be bothered to read something you couldn't be arsed to write yourself?

"Doubles down on support for children"

on every social media platform ever invented, I have never shut up about the fact that in 2021 ALONE, Zaslav made $250 million. Yes, that's one (1) year. Past decade he's made way over a billion dollars. I reiterate that I would have laid waste to many high-level media properties for 1/10 the price!

decades of immersion in SFF fiction/films/tv indicates that this will go incredibly well 😬

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

What kind of society sells pastry with decorative writing saying 'Let IDF mow them down'?