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We have infiltrated and exposed the membership of White Lives Matter Oregon, who have been engaged in a statewide campaign of racist propaganda for the last several months.
cvantifa.noblogs.org/wlm
Key findings sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/fi…
-Viewership of potentially harmful alternative & extremist YouTube channels heavily concentrated among subscribers
-Viewers frequently come from off-platform sources
-Algorithmic recs from normal content rare
-"Rabbit hole" patterns very rare
This is alarmingly more extreme than the rhetoric USA used in Cold War (where it was often emphasized that an unfree people aren't responsible for their rulers' decisions) or the European theatre of World War II (the same). It's coming from a mainstream foreign policy group.
“It's tempting to infantilize the Russian public... The chilling truth is that tens of millions of Russians readily accept the Orwellian lies ... & share the sentiments expressed by the country’s pro-war cheerleaders,” #NotJustPutin#StopRussianAgressionatlanticcouncil.org/blogs/uk…
“What happens out here in the west becomes a model, a testing ground for far-right activism. And what happens out here in the west doesn’t stay in the west, it migrates around the country."
theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
Though we focus on AAPI issues, it's impossible to ignore that our new survey shows that Asian Americans are not alone in experiencing hate incidents, highlighting yet another opportunity for #solidarity among communities of color
Read more at bit.ly/34PeaiW
ALT This chart depicts the percent of respondents by race that reported experiencing hate incidents/crimes. The percentages are as follows: multiracial = 19%, black = 17%, asian american = 16%, native or american indian = 15%, native hawaiian or pacific islander = 14%, hispanic/latinx = 13%, overall = 9%, white = 6%
A year ago, the #Atlanta region faced tragedy. @AAAJ_Atlanta and all of us will be #RememberingMarch16.
The org calls on communities to demand solutions to end systemic white supremacy, sexism and classism so that all people feel safe from interpersonal and state violence.
Great piece from @lorenc2 & @SeanDLong who find that California city councils that “switched from at-large to single-member district elections were on average 10 to 12 percent more diverse after the shift.”
”The amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 microwave ovens all day and all night.”
theguardian.com/environment/…
Here's a year in news media coverage of selected candidates.
Joe Biden got the most attention since he officially entered the race.
Warren and Sanders have been getting similar levels of attention throughout 2019.
The number of animals dead in the Australian fires is conservatively estimated at half a billion.
Many died the most hideous ways: burning to death or babies dying of starvation when their mothers fled.
Animals are one of the earth's greatest gifts:
bbc.com/news/50986293