Notices by Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social), page 2

@cstross Whoa. Well, it’s about time.

So here are some more parts of Black American military history this racist, autocratic oligarchy has tried to erase:

The 761st Tank Battalion

https://web.archive.org/web/20241001083857mp_/https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3481039/austin-morgan-freeman-discuss-upcoming-documentary/ #dontforget

https://archive.ph/M9dRi

@inthehands Yes. I have a thread about it.

It completely erases the concept of what a degree is.

https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/114177558707667037

Seriously, I am going to say it again. There are many, many wonderful universities in Europe. Some even teach in English.

It’s a hell of a lot cheaper. The standards of scholarship are excellent. You can access a LOT of financial aid.

And you get to experience life in another country.

Why the fuck would anyone choose America now? For status? Because I suspect they’re going to lose that damn fast.

Who the fuck is going to hand over hundreds of thousands for a degree that can get revoked if they don’t like your political opinions?

Because today it’s an opinion on Gaza. But tomorrow, who the fuck knows… they don’t like you for being vegetarian? Trump decided to get a hate-on for Descartes?

https://www.newsweek.com/columbia-revokes-degrees-pro-palestine-student-protesters-2044596

The silver lining of what is happening at Columbia (and sure to happen either publicly or quietly at other US institutions) is that it will erode the often undeserved reputations of US Universities as premier learning/research institutions.

They are over-priced and often the degrees are more status symbols than any measure of a scholar’s worth.

Students of the world… there are excellent universities all over Europe. Attend one.

Having taught at University level for 15 years, I have always found it disgusting that students are forced into a lifetime of debt to educate themselves.

Yes, a degree can help with your career, and enhance your life individually, it also contributes greatly to the collective intellectual wealth of the community you live in.

It should be affordable and accessible to all who want it.

I am sure I am not alone in having friends who live in countries with severely restricted internet, and heavily censored news outlets.

Without outlets like the BBC World Service and VOA, they end up trying to sift through the misinformation and rumor mills of FB and other SM platforms.

I don’t think I need to remind anyone what happens in countries where the only ‘news’ they get is from Facebook.

But Myanmar was a very good example.

Broadcasters like BBC World Service and the VOA play a really vital role in the world in offering a source of real, verified news. They are the antidote to the shit stirred up on social media. Please don’t let these services disappear.

I would like to ask you for a favour.

Now that Trump has gutted the VOA, I would like to ask you to contact the BBC World Service and express your support for the vital importance of their programming - access to verified, uncensored news - in many parts of the world.

worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk

or by mail to:

BBC World Service
Audience Relations
Zone C, 7th Floor
Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA

Please write them and tell them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nCxH0NlsPtyW8WvJ0rwDJP/about-world-service-radio

I have no words.

Good god. They have no shame. No shame.

These horrible racist motherfuckers.

This is the most disgusting form of ‘disappearing’ - of the extermination of memory.

This is no different from Holocaust denial.

They’ve labeled the links “deimedal-of-honor” and disappeared these men.

@mischievoustomato Yes, I do live in Spain. I was born in Canada. My husband, also Canadian, was born in France - on a Canadian airbase because he father was in the Canadian Airforce.

WHat’s your point. That because I’m not living in Canada I shouldn’t give a shit that the US is threatening to invade my country?

As a #canadian I sincerely promise that if you try to take my country, I will wait until you are sleeping and slit your fucking throats.
#Elbowsup

If Americans couldn’t take the attrition in Iraq, Canada will bleed them dry.

Do not mistake us for friends just because we speak English.

I really don’t care who you voted for.

I don’t care how embarrassed you are about Trump.

I don’t understand why you’re letting this madman ruin your country.

But I absofuckinglutely will not allow him to ruin mine. And I suspect every Canadian on the planet feels the same.

The normal reaction reading these stories of people getting detained by ICE is… they must have done something wrong: wrong paperwork, looked shady, they were selling some product the government didn’t like…

"That wouldn’t happen to me."
Yes, it could. Easily. Encounter a single official who doesn’t like the look of you. There are almost no legal limits to the power of ICE - and those that exist are slow and expensive.

And that’s if you’re white.

https://masto.deluma.biz/@dogzilla/114154109221520078

My husband’s sister, who lives in British Columbia, Canada, was telling him that people at her local grocery store are casually turning all American products on the shelves upside down to help others recognize them and not buy them.