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Everyday I Am Just Deaf: Here’s What Most People Get Wrong About Me
" Navigating the world as a Black woman who is deaf has brought unique challenges. The intersections of race, gender, and disability have played a huge role in shaping how people perceive and treat me. As a Black woman, there’s often the stereotype that we are “strong” and can handle anything. But that assumption sometimes hides the fact that I need support and understanding just like anyone else. Being both Black and deaf has meant dealing with both racism and ableism—two forces that can sometimes feel overwhelming but have also fueled my determination. "
"One of the most hurtful assumptions people make is thinking that because I’m deaf, I’m somehow less capable or less intelligent. It’s isolating when people assume I can’t participate fully in conversations or contribute meaningfully in work settings. Another common misconception is that all deaf people can read lips. I can’t, and it’s exhausting when people expect me to understand them that way. These assumptions make me feel like people are focusing on my deafness more than my capabilities. "
#Racism #Deaf #Ableism #Disability #HumanRights
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Everyday I Am Just Deaf: Here’s What Most People Get Wrong About Me - ByBlacks.com | #1 online magazine for Black Canadians
When I was just a little girl, an ear infection changed my life in ways no one could have imagined.Kellina Powell (ByBlacks.com)
Iconic Texas Sheriff Arvin West was a leading voice against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. But West says his perspective is aligned with what he sees as the reality of the border. texasobserver.org/a-lawmans-ch…
#Texas #border #police #racism #HumanRights #politics #USpol #immigration #WestTexas #news #election2024
"He doesn’t just hate Puerto Ricans. He hates all of us. If you don’t flatter Trump and end up needing anything from him, he will throw paper towels at you, then turn on you like a rabid dog. Puerto Ricans, and all Americans, deserve better."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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~ Noah Berlatsky
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Trump actually treats Puerto Rico like garbage
The disastrous "joke" was more than that.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
Robert Reich issues a salient reminder of what the previous Trump presidency was ACTUALLY like — as he reminds us that another one would be infinitely worse. Reich has compiled a list of 101 of the worst things about the Trump presidency.
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Now, with a right-wing Supreme Court doing Trump’s bidding and the potential for a compliant, MAGA-controlled Congress, only a galvanized, engaged electorate, supported by resilient, pro-democracy grassroots movements, can prevent autocracy from coming home to roost."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"The U.S. government has far too often undermined democracies abroad, leading to dictatorships or military regimes, from Iran to Guatemala to Congo to Chile."
~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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Hatred and Racism: Trump’s Ominous Closing Argument
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate.Democracy Now!
"One reason demagogues are so dangerous is that their moral sickness is contagious."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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When You Thought He Couldn’t Sink Lower
Once more, with feeling: When Trump tells you who he is, believe him.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"As the fantasy of strongman rule fades into everyday dictatorship, people realize that they need things like water or schools or Social Security checks. Insofar as such goods are available under a dictatorship, they come with a moral as well as a financial price. When you go to a government office, you will be expected to declare your personal loyalty to the strongman."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? ...
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. …
Unaccountable to the law and to voters, the dictator has no reason to consider anything beyond his own personal interests."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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The Strongman Fantasy (text and audio)
And Dictatorship in Real LifeTimothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
"Many potential Trump voters are probably unaware of what’s in store and imagine that Trump would just snap his fingers and 'fix' what he insists is a terrible economy. The reality, however, is that America’s economic performance under the Biden-Harris administration has been very good, especially compared with that of other countries."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Some of this will involve the frightening reality of authoritarianism; if you think you’ll be unaffected by a second Trump presidency because you aren’t undocumented or Puerto Rican or a Democratic politician, I encourage you to reassess."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Do you know this widely cited meme, introduced in a 2015 tweet?
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
It’s hard to explain why this is perfect, but it is. If Donald Trump wins, there will eventually be a lot of sobbing among people who voted for him."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"The Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS and maybe others will focus on harassing Trump’s enemies in the media and in politics. Whole branches of the federal government will be farmed out to cronies who will build kleptocracy on a new scale."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"And if Trump wins? He and the people around him have already told us what they will do. They will seek to transform the federal government into a loyalty machine that serves the interests of himself and his cronies. This was the essence of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and it will become reality."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"With just a few days to go, let me step back and make the case, once again, for why Trump’s language, and Trump’s propaganda, matter so much. Do note that, despite the criticism, it has not stopped. Right up until the final moments of the campaign, Trump was still casting his opponents as 'enemies,' as was everyone around him."
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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"Four Days until Election Day and Donald Trump if fantasizing about killing those who oppose him."
~ James Singer quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: How To Win With Less
Ron Brownstein /The Atlantic: The Democratic Theory of Winning With Less This election will be decided not by another big popular vote but by ...Daily Kos
A thread of statements addressing the closing arguments of the Trump campaign:
"It’s a fitting end to the filthy outpouring that is the Donald Trump campaign that he thought he was so smart by climbing into a garbage truck."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #violence #economy #garbage
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3 Snapshots: The Garbage Man, Women Standing Up, An Inspiring Message
Three quick takes on these final days of the 2024 electionSteven Beschloss (America, America)
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was alarming for many reasons, not least for its overt #fascism and #racism, but it was also, as The New York Times accurately reported, a “carnival” of “#misogyny”—one directed at Kamala Harris in particular.
Grant Cardone, a self-styled business guru, likened the Democratic nominee for president to a #prostitute, saying that “her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” Another speaker called Harris “the devil” and “the #Antichrist.” And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, mocked her racial identity and repeated Trump’s insult that Harris, a former district attorney, state attorney general, senator, and now a vice president, was “#low IQ.”
The overt #sexism throughout the night, even by the standards of Trump’s nearly decade-long political career, was astonishing.
Less surprising, given the campaign he’s run this year, was the figurative #crotch-grabbing on display. When Trump running mate JD Vance mentioned Tim Walz, his Democratic counterpart, the crowd erupted into “#tampon Tim” chants—to which Vance laughed.
(Explainer here, if you need one.) And the “comedian” who opened the rally, Tony Hinchcliffe, said that Latinos “love making babies. There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
These were not simply off-the-cuff remarks;
they were very deliberate.
It’s all part of Trump’s electoral strategy to Make America #Masculine Again.
He knows he’s losing women by massive margins, so he’s going after the men
—especially, but not exclusively, aggrieved young men who feel they’ve been robbed of their male #birthright to #power.
Trump is giving them license to say whatever they want about women, and his campaign is an implicit promise to give them control over women, including their bodies.
This is the pop-culture definition of toxic masculinity, and the crudest, most aggressive misogyny we’ve seen from Trump
—which is truly saying something, given that he’s an adjudicated #rapist who was caught on tape bragging that he can grab women’s vaginas without consequence.
But this, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument:
to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America.
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Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women
He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women.The New Republic
Trump’s closing rally at #Madison #Square #Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of #rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him,
a vivid and at times #racist display of the dark energy animating the #MAGA movement.
A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of #garbage,” then mocked
Hispanics as failing to use birth control,
Jews as cheap and
Palestinians as rock-throwers,
and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to #watermelon.
Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.”
A third called her “the Antichrist.”
And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris
— the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father
— with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign,
with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of #grievances, #misogyny and #racism.
The New York Daily News today puts the NYT, WaPo and WSJ to shame.
#USPolitics
#Election2024
#JournalisticMalpactice
#Trump
#Racism
#PuertoRico
“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that #Trump is proposing would be devastating for our economy and dangerous for American Latinos.”
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#politics #USpol #immigration #news #fascism #extremism #racism #election2024 #economy
How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)
Today in Labor History October 24, 1892: Black and white teamsters, salesmen and packers struck together in New Orleans, paralyzing commerce throughout the city. It quickly turned into a General Strike. Workers were fighting for a 10-hour work day. They were soon joined by non-industrial workers, such as musicians, clothing workers, clerks, utility workers, streetcar drivers and printers. The bosses and media tried to stoke sectarian violence by repeating lies that black mobs were rampaging through the streets beating up white women and children, but the workers refused to break ranks and continued to show solidarity with each other, regardless of skin color. In the end, the workers won the 10-hour workday and overtime pay, but the employers refused to accept the union shop or to recognize the unions as representatives of the workers.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #neworleans #nola #generalstrike #solidarity #racism #strike #union #BlackMastadon
