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Northern Hog Badger (Arctonyx albogularis), family Mustelidae, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, Assam, India

Once considered to be a subspecies of the Greater Hog Badger, A. collaris, which has now been split into 3 species.

Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.

Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".

How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"

Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".

Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.

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Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

this is what i've been saying for a long time. i'm tired of the west only caring about this stuff when it happens to white / wealthy people.

(t reminds me of the western media's reporting when russia attacked ukraine a few years back and how out of proportion it was from all the other war aggression tragedies that were going on. it's almost like the victims' skin colour changes whether the western media treats a tragedy like a tragedy. this horrifies me. because even in some of my own circles, so much goes unknown.)

yes, europe is going through a terrible heat wave right now and it is tragic and people are dying. it's bad. and it has climate chaos written all over it.

but people in europe are also more likely to have access to things like fresh water and stable infrastructure and air conditioning. (yes i know a lot of europeans don't have air conditioning but they are much more in the position to get air conditioning or a heat pump is my point.)

much of the global south doesn't have that. much of the global south has been kept “underdeveloped” so that western corporations could puppet their governments and plunder their resources and labour and use them as landfills for our never-ending consumption waste.

it also needs to be screamed as loud as possible that the people of the global south contributed the least to climate change. and they are also the least prepared for climate change when it comes to things like infrastructure and access to clean water and a/c.

the global north contributed the most to climate change. the rich countries. and the global south gets to experience the worst of it. the poor countries.

none of it is remotely fair. the global north owes the global south climate reparations. big time. to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. this is a hotly contested topic at the u.n.

and the global north is much much more capable of changing trajectory in order to keep things from getting worse. we have the resources to stop burning fossil fuels and electrify everything.

aaaand the global north also has to get their fucking shit together and squash the growing right wing authoritarianism that's bubbling up because the planet is fucking changing and many places will become unliveable and those people—those human beings who are just like you—will need a place to live. survival is at stake and we don't have time for nazi eugenicists and their disease.

immigration and climate change are directly linked.