mr.dub @dub@librem.one

Here is an incomplete list of journalists that Elon Musk has suspended from Twitter today.

He also suspended the Twitter account of Mastodon.

It's Going Down
Matt Bider
Aaron Rupar
Donie O’Sullivan (CNN)
Drew Harwell (Washington Post)
Ryan Mac (NY Times)
Matt Binder (Mashable)
Tony Webster (award winning freelancer)
Micah Lee (the Intercept)
Keith Olbermann

Elon Musk bought Twitter in order to suppress free speech and consolidate control of the spaces in which public discourse takes place to advance his authoritarian quest for profit and power. It's necessary to oppose him the way we would fight against any aspiring tyrant, any oppressor.

crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

NEW➡️ A Quiet Retreat: Hundreds of Shipping Containers Hauled to AZ State Prison as Protests Halt Border Wall 📰 Starting Tuesday, along I-10 in Southern Arizona, dozens, maybe even hundreds, of empty shipping containers were hauled one-by-one westbound down the highway toward the Arizona State Prison Complex in the southern reaches of Tucson.

Full Story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/a-quiet-retreat-hundreds-of-shipping-containers-hauled-to-az-state-prison-as-protests-halt-border-wall/

Today, Twitter suspended It's Going Down (@igd_news), a longtime anarchist and anti-fascist news source that had never previously run afoul of the Twitter rules. At the time of their suspension, they had 108,000 followers.

Elon Musk was lying through his teeth when he said he believes in free speech. He bought Twitter in order to suppress the voices of those who seek an egalitarian society. Since taking over the platform, he has reinstated avowed neo-Nazis and taken guidance from those who explicitly support fascism as he targets journalists and activists.

More background:

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

You can follow IGD on Mastodon here:

https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news

Producing Transdermal Estrogen: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

https://crimethinc.com/estrogen

In this report, a small collective details how they produced and distributed transdermal estrogen using reproducible do-it-yourself methods. This is an experiment aimed at securing the agency and autonomy of everyone who seeks gender self-determination.

“What the Israeli occupation is doing in this region is ethnic cleansing.” Nidal Younes, Mayor of Masafer Yatta

NEW - Palestinian Lands Seized for Israeli Military and Colony Settlements [Videos]: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/palestinian-lands-seized-for-israeli-military-and-colony-settlements/

For over a year, a powerful social movement has defended the last remaining forest in Atlanta against the city government's plans to build a giant police training center and corporate film studio.

Yesterday, the police destroyed the inspiring structures that people have built to protect the forest. Today, they are charging five arrestees with "domestic terrorism" for allegedly participating in forest defense.

This is standard government practice whenever ecological movements threaten business interests. But it is capitalist profiteering, not eco-activists, that is destroying the environment we all depend on and hastening climate change. It is police, not eco-activists, who are terrorizing communities.

Please stand in solidarity with those who are fighting to keep the earth habitable.🖤🏴

Background on the movement to defend the forest:

https://crimethinc.com/CityintheForest

Punk—Dangerous Utopia
Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

https://crimethinc.com/PunkUtopia

How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

When your past thought has ceased, and your future thought has not yet arisen and when you are free from conceptual reckoning in the present moment, then your genuine and natural awareness, the union of being empty and cognizant, dawns as the state of mind which is like space. That itself is the great perfection transcending concepts, the cutting through of primordial purity, the open and naked exhaustion of phenomena.

~ Yanpa Lodey

#buddhism

Practising Listening with Empathy, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Both speaking and listening must, there­fore, be practised together with mindful breathing and working at transforming the internal forma­tions within us.
https://buddhismnow.com/2014/04/23/practising-listening-with-empathy-by-thich-nhat-hanh/

Thich Nhat Hanh #ThichNhatHanh #Buddhism

Greek Students Riot on November 17, Commemorate Those Killed by the Military Junta

Report features a video from Thessaloniki on Nov. 17, 2022 and a rundown of the U.S.-backed military junta/dictatorship that controlled Greece from 1967-74: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/greek-students-riot-on-november-17-commemorate-those-killed-by-the-junta/

Sure you’ve heard of Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig, but what about Jackie Mitchell? She’s the 17 yr old pitcher who struck them both out consecutively in 1931.

Babe Ruth was quoted saying women “will never make good” in baseball bc “they are too delicate.”

The next day, the NYTimes reported, “The prospect grows gloomier for misogynists.”

There’s far more to Jackie’s impressive baseball career https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/meet-jackie-mitchell-the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth.html
#women #history #baseball

May all beings realise that to stay in the present is the most wonderful thing they can do.

NEW: Blockaders Halt Border Wall Construction in Southern Arizona ➡️ Since Nov. 29, a loose collection of locals, environmental activists, hippies and migrant solidarity workers have been putting their bodies in the way of the machines. Full Story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/blockaders-halt-border-wall-construction-in-southern-arizona/

Today is the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—anarchist, scientist, and author of Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution.

To honor the occasion, we invite you to read this account of his daring escape from prison:

https://crimethinc.com/KropotkinBreakout

The Eighteen Great Enlightenments of Wonderful Joy
Though the earth is hard, tread on it softly! Great things are destroyed by little things. If you are careless about little things, you will accomplish nothing.
Everybody — Wake up!
Zen Master Hakuin

https://buddhismnow.com/2021/10/30/the-eighteen-great-enlightenments-of-wonderful-joy-by-zen-master-hakuin/

#Zen #Buddhism

Many claim that practice means reciting mantras or sitting down somewhere doing a ritual; these are practices but they are not fundamental. The main practice first of all is discovering instant presence and secondly integrating in that state at all times. It is not always easy to find oneself in the state of instant presence but we try to do it; we try not to be distracted and to be aware of the life and circumstances in which we find ourselves.

~ Namkhai Norbu

#buddhism

May all beings discover their inner kindness and use it wisely.

Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

For years, the FBI targeted ecological activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

Seventeen years ago today, on December 7, 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This became known as the Green Scare.

You can read about it here:

https://crimethinc.com/greenscared

In a text published today, one of the defendants, Daniel McGowan, recalls his arrest and first night in jail:

https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499

On December 6, 2008, police murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old boy, in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, sparking a countrywide uprising that set the model for subsequent revolts around the world.

https://crimethinc.com/organizeaninsurrection

Yesterday, on December 5, 2022, police in Thessaloniki, Greece, police shot a 16-year-old Roma boy in the head because he allegedly did not pay twenty euros for gasoline.

Once again, people return to the streets, seeking to stop the police from murdering children.