Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu), page 2

"The DWP very quietly published a series of damning disability benefits related reports at 4pm on Friday 2 May, on the eve of a bank holiday and on a day when the news was dominated by the results of the local elections held the day before. Had it not been for the ever vigilant staff at Rightsnet spotting them, the documents would have undoubtedly sunk without trace." https://benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-buried-damning-reports-showing-work-coaches-unable-to-help-disabled-claimants #DWP #DisabilityJustice

“Millions Missing” protest at the Capitol demands myalgic encephalomyelitis funding, social support https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/12/millions-missing-protest-at-the-capitol-demands-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-funding-social-support/ #MECFS

@reading_recluse Today's evidence supports this claim haha! It also means I'll have to read her stuff now, too!

@reading_recluse Haha great meme and uncannily, Silvia Federici is also referenced in that Freedom piece!

@fkamiah17 That's true, but it's also perfectly natural for people to dislike anyone else speaking for them and making decisions about their lives. Fundamentally, people want to make their own decisions on matters that affect them. Historically speaking, the relatively recent creation of "representative democracy" has really been a measure to placate the masses while still having a hierarchical group (in this case, careerist professional politicians) speak for them. There are many historical examples - for example, from indigenous societies - where society being organised in that way would be considered an absurdity.

House Republicans on Monday unveiled a proposal that could hand Donald Trump a powerful new tool to go after his political enemies: a 389-page draft plan that aims to cut trillions of dollars in government spending -- buried on page 380 of the draft is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to denounce any nonprofit as a 'terrorist-supporting organization' and strip it of its tax-exempt status. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/trump-nonprofit-killer-tax-cuts/

"Murray Bookchin argued that hierarchy is socially produced, not natural. Patriarchy, he wrote, was the first system of domination — a blueprint for later forms of class rule, racial supremacy and state power." This is an absolutely crucial point in understanding culture wars like these. Splitting groups into "superior" and "inferior" categories convinces people from an early age that hierarchy is "natural" and therefore acceptable, thus we have passivity towards state power through so-called *representative democracy" (a contradiction in terms).

"This decision, met with UK-wide protests, reaffirmed that the gender binary isn’t just a cultural norm — it’s a foundational tool of social control. Inscribed across law, medicine, education and culture, it organises life from birth to death under systems of elite power." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/13/beyond-binaries-gender-law-and-the-reproduction-of-power/

@fkamiah17 Sadly, predictability doesn't necessarily make anything less reprehensible.

"There’s no doubt that the garbage served up in the government’s Pathways to Work Green Paper is a Tory fantasy. A sentiment of ‘punish those cripples’, all shrouded in some nineteenth century moralising bullshit about helping people help themselves." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/12/labours-sweet-little-lies/

@fkamiah17 Yeah! Go us- um, I mean go them! Ahem...

@fkamiah17 Haha I'll remember that line! And I hadn't until now, whoah, thanks!

@fkamiah17 No way?! I'm glad someone else gets it (and even remembers!) Hey wait...are we old?

Ah, I have fond memories of Reclaim The Streets! https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/11/reclaim-the-streets-a-retrospective/

Anger Boils in the Streets As Tens of Thousands March Across the US & Beyond on May Day https://itsgoingdown.org/may-day-2025-roundup/

“Don’t you miss experiencing live shows with an audience?”

Not when the audience is “this is fine”-ing wet coughs bursting through the air of poorly-ventilated theatre buildings.

AI won’t be killing us. People using AI will be killing us. (They already are but it’s only Brown people in the Middle East being murdered so polite white folks in the West couldn’t care less right now. They will soon.)

Oh no, I used a plastic straw! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/two-thirds-of-global-warming-caused-by-worlds-richest-10-study-finds

Hey #HiveMind in the UK! Does anyone know of any implications for #UniversalCredit recipients helping to manage a #MutualAid group account on #OpenCollective? #AskFedi #FediHelp

@thatkatharine It's funny how after all this time a lot of us are becoming so well-versed in so many different Covid safety precautions, we put governments to shame! However, dental care remains a frustrating area of unavoidable vulnerability, as @treehouseofhorror and I were saying just the other day! (Hope you all come through it as well as possible!)