Japan faces a demographic crisis that threatens its research talent and must build a more inclusive and welcoming society to attract and keep world-class scientists amid rising nationalism and economic challenges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/07/japan/japan-needs-world-class-researchers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #science #japaneseeconomy #agingsociety #immigration #racism
Beardy Star Stuff
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psst! evil #SCOTUS Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them
(And justices don’t want you to notice!)
#VotingRights#Injustice #racism#BlackLivesMatter#WhiteSupremacy#WhitePrivilege #gerrymandering#Democracyhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/
psst! evil #SCOTUS Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them
(And justices don’t want you to notice!)
#VotingRights#Injustice #racism#BlackLivesMatter#WhiteSupremacy#WhitePrivilege #gerrymandering#Democracyhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/
Dan Gillmor
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“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."
~ Rep. Greg Casar quoted by John Nicholls
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-gerrymandering-fight-trump/
“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."
~ Rep. Greg Casar quoted by John Nicholls
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-gerrymandering-fight-trump/
Billy Begala explains how the Republican gerrymandering proposal wants to "carve up Texas like a Christmas ham," disenfranchising Black and Hispanic voters and privileging rural white ones.
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/republicans-are-planning-to-carve
“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."
~ Rep. Greg Casar quoted by John Nicholls
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-gerrymandering-fight-trump/
"Having washed its hands of voter suppression like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, the Supreme Court relinquished control of congressional districting to a patchwork of inconsistent, flawed, and (sometimes) corrupt state legislatures. Chaos ensued."
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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"Partisan gerrymandering is legal because the US Supreme Court declared in 2019 that it is too difficult for federal judges to ensure that congressional districts are fairly drawn. (A demonstrably false claim.)"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Texas#Republicans #gerrymandering #racism#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-2026-is-joined
The inflated power of rural White voters confers upon them an unusual ability to force state and national governments to cater to their preferences and grievances. Herein lies the danger: precisely because they wield inflated power, rural Whites’ increasingly tenuous commitments to democratic norms and traditions are magnified across the U.S. political system in many of the same ways their preferences have been for two centuries” (p. 63).
As Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman show in their important 2024 study White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, no demographic group is so catered to politically and has so much unmerited and outsized clout as white rural voters. They write:
“No group was ever dealt a better electoral hand than rural White Americans."
Mark Mansour notes that the overt, unabashed gerrymandering proposed by Texas Republicans is designed, by their own admission, to "enhance the political efficacy” of GOP votes.
What this is really about is enhancing the political efficacy of WHITE RURAL voters. As Mansour says, it's "a chilling disenfranchisement of millions of voters—especially Black, Latino, and Asian Americans."
deutrino
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Interview: “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”
“I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis & humanitarian action for more than 40 years, & there is no case, over those four decades...
...of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today."
~Alex de Waal
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/21/forensic_architecture
#GazaGenocide#GHF#USPol#EuroPol#BDS#Racism #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity#GazaStarvation @palestine .
Alex Akselrod
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The Guardian has identified the self-described “national socialist” behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program.
Johnathan Christopher “Chris” Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official.
Booth has published more than 70 YouTube videos since May on his Shameless Sperg account, whose graphic design elements feature stylized SS bolts. Titles of his videos – generally a recording of him delivering his views direct to camera – include: “Why I Dislike Jews. It’s not complicated”, “Black Crimes Matter: Never Relax” and “Jews and FBI hate you and your free speech”.
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Booth is married to Meghyn “Meg” Booth, the Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Meg Booth has “liked” several posts with extremist themes on Chris Booth’s Facebook account with her personal account. Chris Booth’s Facebook page also features extensive racist propaganda along with iconography often employed by neo-Nazis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/christopher-booth-far-right-youtube-channel
#NeoNazis#ChrisBooth#MegBooth#MapleValley #fascism#MontcalmCounty #antisemitism #racism #fcknzs
The Guardian has identified the self-described “national socialist” behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program.
Johnathan Christopher “Chris” Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official.
Booth has published more than 70 YouTube videos since May on his Shameless Sperg account, whose graphic design elements feature stylized SS bolts. Titles of his videos – generally a recording of him delivering his views direct to camera – include: “Why I Dislike Jews. It’s not complicated”, “Black Crimes Matter: Never Relax” and “Jews and FBI hate you and your free speech”.
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Booth is married to Meghyn “Meg” Booth, the Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Meg Booth has “liked” several posts with extremist themes on Chris Booth’s Facebook account with her personal account. Chris Booth’s Facebook page also features extensive racist propaganda along with iconography often employed by neo-Nazis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/christopher-booth-far-right-youtube-channel
#NeoNazis#ChrisBooth#MegBooth#MapleValley #fascism#MontcalmCounty #antisemitism #racism #fcknzs
Angela Antunovic
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Analysis: Protests against GHF, which uses food as bait to kill Gazans, have spread to planners of the scheme, eg, Boston Consulting Group.
An offshoot of BCG reportedly chastised a contractor "for refusing to shoot Palestinian children."
BCG was also reportedly "critical" for the success of Saudi's murderous leader.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-are-people-protesting-boston-consulting-group
Crucial testimony from subcontractor Anthony Aguilar:
The research fairy
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CBC spent months collecting and analyzing clues in social media posts to locate and identify the exact parks and gyms where members of Nationalist-13 (also known as NS13) and Second Sons trained, and confirmed them by visiting locations in person. CBC discovered these groups were often training in gyms or martial arts studios that also cater to children and a diverse clientele.
#Canada #extremism #whitesupremacy#Nazis #racism #martialarts #gangs #fascism #neonazis
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/fascist-fight-club
CBC spent months collecting and analyzing clues in social media posts to locate and identify the exact parks and gyms where members of Nationalist-13 (also known as NS13) and Second Sons trained, and confirmed them by visiting locations in person. CBC discovered these groups were often training in gyms or martial arts studios that also cater to children and a diverse clientele.
#Canada #extremism #whitesupremacy#Nazis #racism #martialarts #gangs #fascism #neonazis
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/fascist-fight-club
Analysis: Protests against GHF, which uses food as bait to kill Gazans, have spread to planners of the scheme, eg, Boston Consulting Group.
An offshoot of BCG reportedly chastised a contractor "for refusing to shoot Palestinian children."
BCG was also reportedly "critical" for the success of Saudi's murderous leader.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-are-people-protesting-boston-consulting-group
Crucial testimony from subcontractor Anthony Aguilar: