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MattS retweeted
I went to Belfast last year and did a tour with a former IRA insurgent. He said when he was 14, British soldiers shot up his apartment bloc killing someone he knew. He joined the IRA's youth wing after that, then joined the IRA when he was 18. He was vague but said
MattS retweeted
And they wonder why we chose the bear. Femicides are so normalized we don’t think of them as a particular type of violence wrapped up in power and patriarchy and demanded submission from women
Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by former boyfriend, Ugandan official says bbc.in/3ZcSTcJ
MattS retweeted
When I talk about how the process of repair has been sabotaged, by people opposed to paying their share of the cost of maintaining the society that allows them to thrive, in order to make everyone else pay them the much higher costs of brokenness, I mean things like this.
“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx @gizmodo
gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-…
