herid @herid@qoto.org

Despite all its promises of equality and due process under law, America has always had its scapegoats.

I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child my entire community became scapegoats. The attack by Imperial Japan upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “day that will live in infamy”—made most Americans look upon anyone with a Japanese name or face as the enemy.

May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I want to take a moment to zero in on the history that led Asian minorities in the U.S. to come together as a group and demand America fulfill its promise of justice and equality: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/scapegoats-aahpi-george-takei-essay

1. @elonmusk@twitter.com is using the Twitter to promote various memes about the anti-white bias of the media to his 138 million followers

The stuff he is tweeting is complete BS

Follow along for receipts 🧾

Getting pretty sick of seeing gun violence being framed as a mental health issue. In the UK you have more chance of winning the lottery than you do of being seriously harmed by a stranger with a diagnosable mental health condition. Many American gunmen seem motivated by hatred or women and minorities, a horrible trait but not a mental illness. Mentally ill ppl are statistically more likely to use guns for suicide than murder. So stop it.

If #BackToTheFuture was made today Marty would be going back to 1993. 😲

Apple Preview app will start showing animated gifs as animations instead of dozens of individual frames in:

A “remove me from this conversation” option would be great on Mastodon @Gargron

What's the point in being an Apple fanboy in this day and age? I like some of their products too, but at some point you gotta recognize that the world's wealthiest corporation doesn't really need your enthusiasm.

Hello to readers!

Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but was among the cities targeted in an especially aggressive wave of drone and air strikes overnight.

This thread's theme is advice from the OGs:

Sebastian Junger

Chris Hedges

Kim Dozier

…on war correspondence

@typeswitch And it’s a perfect example of “It wasn’t me so I didn’t stand up till there was no one left to stand up for me.” And it will be them and their non-mask wearing frequently infected friends who are dying early from heart problem, developing COPD, much earlier than normal, and the myriad other affects already shown to come from even mild, or asymptomatic Covid infections. #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

The shooter had an AR-15 and a patch on his chest reading RWDS. Police said it's known as the "right-wing death squad." But they haven't confirmed he was a member just yet.

Texas shooter lived with his mother — and was 'right-wing death squad' member interested in neo-Nazis: police

#news #politics #republicans #guns

https://www.rawstory.com/allen-texas-shooter-right-wing-squad/

The Lago della Duchessa is another one of those surprising spots that nobody would suspect just an hour outside of Rome, Italy.

The lake, of glacial origin, is hidden away at 1788m.

The ascent is not easy – with an elevation gain of 860 meters, you should only attempt it if you have experience hiking mountains.

You will be rewarded with incredibly beautiful surroundings. May is the best time to visit, as the lake isn't frozen anymore, but also hasn't almost vaporized yet (as in the summer most water will disappear).

#hiking #wandern #mountains #lazio #rome #duchessalake #lake #outdoors #italy #rieti #wanderverein #guide #tips #see #bergwanderung

"Today in this country, we don’t know when we leave our houses to go out to a mall or a restaurant or a church or an elementary school if one of those locations will be the place a domestic terrorist decides to go to kill a bunch of innocent people with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#guns #GunViolence #MassShooting #AR15 #USA #AmericanExceptionalism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/semiautomatic-terrorism

Early indications that the shooter in #Allen was a neo-nazi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/texas-allen-outlets-shooting-dallas/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert #GunViolence

I can't wrap my ahead around how anyone can be opposed to the HPV vaccine. With over 200 million doses delivered over 15 years, its safety is pretty clear. And guess what? It's literally a vaccine against cancer. Against CANCER. Is this not what we dreamed of for decades? And yet.... here we are.

There's been a lot of talk today about Henry Kissinger's upcoming 100th birthday, but I've yet to see Anthony Bourdain's quote about that war criminal scroll by, and it can't be shared enough.

Seeing the shitposting habits of some MDs makes me wonder how the profession avoided quality standards.

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @novid