The Socialist Party politician who pushed drug decriminalisation in Portugal will be the new UN Secretary General :)
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"Few Americans would cop to wanting to live in a town without poor people, but that’s the effect of their actions when they oppose a trailer park or dense or affordable housing."
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This is absolutely outrageous! :( :(
"school administrators are being turned into border guards as part of the government’s attempts to create a hostile environment for migrants."
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Drug criminalisation has to end :'(
"Every 25 seconds in the United States, someone is arrested for the simple act of possessing drugs for their personal use... And despite officials’ claims that drug laws are meant to curb drug sales, four times as many people are arrested for possessing drugs as are arrested for selling them.
As a result of these arrests, on any given day at least 137,000 men and women are behind bars in the United States for drug possession... Their criminal records lock them out of jobs, housing, education, welfare assistance, voting, and much more, and subject them to discrimination and stigma. The cost to them and to their families and communities, as well as to the taxpayer, is devastating. Those impacted are disproportionately communities of color and the poor." Human Rights Watch
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"In Monderman’s artfully ambiguous squareabout, drivers are never given the opportunity to glaze over and switch to the automatic driving mode that can be so familiar. The chaos of the square forces them to pay attention, work things out for themselves and look out for each other. The square is a mess of confusion. That is why it works." Guardian
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Well, this is bizarre. Could it be that the UK government's spectacularly ill-advised plans for building new nuclear power plants are simply a smokescreen for... it's spectacularly ill-advised plans for building new nuclear SUBMARINES?!
"If the Hinkley plan seems outrageous, that’s because it only makes sense if one considers its connection to Britain’s military projects — especially Trident, a roving fleet of armed nuclear submarines, which is outdated and needs upgrading. Hawks and conservatives, in particular, see the Trident program as vital to preserving Britain’s international clout."
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Well done to the amazing @pastachips for utterly demolishing this anti's arguments!
"here’s my ambition: I’d like for people talking about sex work policy to treat the safety concerns that sex workers raise as actually important. Not to immediately try to pivot away; not to bizarrely dismiss our legitimate safety concerns as “not looking beyond our experience;”" Prospect
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Great piece, worth quoting at length...
"Porn is heterogeneous. When we criticize the movie industry for pushing sexist tropes and/or racist stereotypes, we don’t mean all films, or even all Hollywood films, but rather a set of industry tendencies. We assume that they can be changed, and we don’t call for the end of movies. If we accept the ubiquity of porn, and that it can be changed but not discarded, we can concede one point to the pearl-clutching anti–sex work crusaders: Online porn plays a powerful formative role in young lives (and not-so-young lives), and it can, like any other industry, oppress the people who work in it. Given this fact, the need for political and ethical critiques toward a better world of porn is obvious.
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Would-be ethical consumers place a great deal of responsibility on the growing cadre of socially conscious porn companies. We look to figures like Stoya, Joanna Angel, and Jiz Lee to “fix” the industry, while also demanding that they—as marginalized and stigmatized workers—defend it from arcane moralists. Suffice it to say that it should not be assumed to be the role of a few committed pornographers to slay the corporate beast and undo the worst vagaries of mainstream porn."
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Really identify with this (although the "family" in question was my extremely articulate and passionate debating family)
“People think I mean everything I say and am full of conviction, often, when I’m actually just floating balloons and ready for a discussion or argument or further pursuit of the subject. It’s my fault—I speak so passionately. Probably because, as the youngest and shrillest child of an extraordinarily articulate and passionate family, I could only be heard by charging over the top, shouting, ‘Marchons, marchons! Qu’un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!’ every time I entertained a passing opinion.”
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"Yet, the dominant voice in at least some parts of UCT, and certainly in the law school where I am based, has been one-dimensional: you are either for the protesters “who are disrupting classes” or for the students “who want to learn”, even though, as their leaders keep pointing out, the protesting students also want to go back to class – but not until their demands are met." Daily Maverick
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