Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.

There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.

Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.

But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.

Operation Wetback, 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport undocumented immigrants from Mexico.

Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported.

And yet again, many were documented migrants or US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback#Operation_Wetback_(1954)

WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.

The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.

https://qz.com/1201502/japanese-internment-camps-during-world-war-ii-are-a-lesson-in-the-scary-economics-of-racial-resentment

1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."

About half of the deported people were US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.

You know what's NOT normal US behavior?

This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#207 Replacing Shortcuts
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/07/twig-207

#GNOME #TWIG

Can someone help me troubleshoot #BasiliskII running on #Debian12?

A friend of mine set up a #MacOS7 environment for me to use on my Ubuntu computer a few years ago, and it still works fine, but when I try to open the same environment on my Debian computer Basilisk II seems to just quit.

No idea how to get started troubleshooting this.

#Basilisk2

America's unimpeachably "noble" crusade for democracy impoverished its people and destroyed the natural world. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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From PM Author, Kevin Young: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-we-can-t-say-about-iran

https://kolektiva.media/w/tm3PgHeiodEpMzHuGE9sMw

The orange one is back in charge and thinking of ways to strip people of their citizenship. In the past he'd suggested burning an American flag. We put together this step by step guide on just how to get that done~!

#Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/wikidata_foss_democracy/ "There's more to the #Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia"

It's #FediForumFriday- your reminder to check in with projects you're excited about, ask for or offer help, or just chat with the folks you met and refresh the joy and motivation you felt at #FediForum.

#Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-spending-bill-conservatives-law "34% of the country’s population will be negatively affected by the bill, mostly through the Snap and Medicaid cuts, while just under 2% of taxpayers are in the income bracket that will get most of the tax relief."

Good morning Fedi friends!

Now that my Fedi promo video is out and I'm no longer spending 7 hours a day doing motion graphics, I have time to pick up again writing for the blog #TheFutureIsFederated.

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/

This morning I will create a roadmap for the rest of the summer. There is so much I have yet to explore and write about.

At the top of my list: trying out #BookWyrm and the #Friends plugin for #wordpress

Any other requests? 👀

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞

Shane Jones said to get a real job, so we did.

In all seriousness, bottom trawling has to stop in the places it does the most harm.
Sign the petition now:
http://greenpeace.nz/BBT

Get a real job Greenpeace!
https://youtube.com/shorts/A8qdoeY0xHw

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

The #Israeli Plot to Extinguish the #Journalists Documenting #Genocide

By Neha Madhira, July 3, 2025

Ibrahim Abu Ghazaleh: “In Gaza, a camera is a threat. When you witness the truth, you become a target.”

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/03/israel-palestine-journalists-killing-gaza/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FluyZ

#Israel #IsRealHell #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #Journalism #TruthTelling

This is the kind of stuff that finally made me quit Threads, just as I have X. Also see my recent post about the various ways Threads fails to federate at even the most basic level: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114744386097094353
https://mastodon.social/@toddalstrom/114783119075435828

This is how we celebrate the 4th of July here in Aotearoa... With an Ōtautahi-brewed America Pale Ale, and gratitude that we took the precaution of drifting to the other end of the earth over the last few hundred million years.

Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal