Zum Inhalt der Seite gehen

Suche

Beiträge, die mit cruelty getaggt sind


“Darkness is falling across the globe’ – human rights expert Mokhiber’s call to resist Zionism and its allies”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
@UKLabour

“‘Ruthless, hateful, deeply racist and fundamentally violent ideology’ is a ‘grave threat to the world’, says former UN expert who resigned over UK, US complicity in Israel’s genocide”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/30/darkness-is-falling-across-the-globe-human-rights-expert-mokhibers-call-to-resist-zionism-and-its-allies/

#Press #UK #US #Israel #Zionism #BloodLust #Barbarity #Genocide #WarCrimes #Racism #FarRight #Lawlessness #Resistance #Cruelty #Genocide


Visibly bruised Venezuelans allege mistreatment in ICE custody

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/29/2313112/-Visibly-bruised-Venezuelans-allege-mistreatment-in-ICE-custody

One by one, men in the prison-like clothing worn by people in immigration custody sit in front of the video conference camera and point to bruises on their bodies.

Some point to their faces. Others gesture to arms, legs or torsos. Several of the bruises are quite dark.

#ICE #cruelty #immigrants #ElPAso #Venezuelans #press


Kristi Noem got all gussied up—

Apparently with fake eyelashes, hair extensions...

And a $50,000 Rolex watch

To stand in front of the prisoners locked up in a crowded El Salvador prison cell

and film her saber-rattling video shoot.

#USA #USGov #USPol #heartless #cruelty
At a Prison Appearance, a $50,000 Watch Stands Out Kristi Noem's trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary's choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting. Listen to this article - 4:26 min Learn more

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/style/kristi-noem-venezuela-prison-rolex-watch.html

Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 1605 PST
Rolex Daytonas, like the one Ms. Noem wore in El Salvador, were first introduced in 1963. Pool photo by Alex Brandon

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/style/kristi-noem-venezuela-prison-rolex-watch.html

Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 1605 PST


#gaza #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #horror #cruelty #violence #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #idf #atrocities #bibi #netanyahu

@palestine

Brutal childhood in a warzone - this little #Palestinian girl Mayar Al Najjar (3), who was born with a visual impairment, luckily survived an #Israeli attack on her home in Khan Younis this week but carries away some severe injuries.


LEAKED: Inside Trump’s NIGHTMARE CAMPS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i6MKvp9jbk

#CECOT #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #USPolitics #trump #Deportation #SlaveCamps #Prison4Profit #Torture #Migrants #Cruelty


The Prince Harry immigration scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrC0xXWRqOQ

#Inhumanity #politics #migration #cruelty #politicalXlass #Propaganda #humanRights #Empathy


"I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about #America shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.”

When you meet those dying #children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share

#ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Coup #Cruelty #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #USAID #News #US #USA
Text from article:
I recognize we cannot save every hungry child around the world. I agree that U.S.A.I.D. is imperfect and should be reformed. I appreciate that helping people is harder than it looks. I understand that there are difficult trade-offs in allocating tax dollars.

Yet I think most Americans would both welcome some reforms and also be proud to see how we save the lives of hungry children and sick orphans around the world by allocating just 24 cents of every $100 of national income to aid. And I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about America shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.”

When you meet those dying children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame.


The People Trump and DOGE Hurt
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-people-trump-and-doge-hurt

"when fair #housing groups lose... funding, a lot of people suffer as a result...

This isn’t about making #government more effective. It’s about #cruelty. That’s the point... leaving families without a #safety net and putting countless lives and futures at risk. The freeze would have devastating consequences for millions of #Americans, regardless of political affiliation."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
Headline and text from article:
The People Trump and DOGE Hurt
by Joyce Vance
Mar 14, 2025

Four members of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after HUD, with no warning, terminated Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) grants. More than $30 million in congressionally authorized funding to fair housing groups was suddenly withdrawn. Those funds are used to fight housing discrimination and enforce fair housing laws across the country.

That’s a lot of acronyms in one sentence. And even though we get that when fair housing groups lose $30 million in funding, a lot of people suffer as a result, sometimes we need to see that impact in more personal terms for it to truly sink in.


The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & Corruption

A ‘naïve’ #SupremeCourt delivered lawless #greed & #cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court

"The court’s 5–4 #CitizensUnited decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining #American reality today."

#Musk #Trump #Coup #GOP #Corruption #USPol #Politics #News #US
Headline from The Bulwark:
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk, and Corruption

A ‘naïve’ Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.

by Jill Lawrence
Mar 10, 2025


The DOGE Helpline

Comms from Armageddon
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline

"The scene: an office in the #WestWing ... with a "DOGE Helpline" sign on the door. Four consumer relations specialists take phone calls.

Rep 1 "...The point is to create the conditions for the survival of the fittest. That's #American, right?"

Rep 2 "We... create an #environment of desperation and hatred of Americans. #Americans will show their best side in these situations"

#Satire #Humor #Musk #Doge #Coup #Cruelty #US #USA
Headline and text:
The DOGE Helpline
Comms from Armageddon
by Timothy Snyder
Mar 08, 2025

The scene: an office in the West Wing of the White House, with a "DOGE Helpline" sign on the door. Four consumer relations specialists take phone calls.

Rep. 1 "Yes. Here's the theory. We call it libertarianism. For now, anyway. The point is to create the conditions for the survival of the fittest. That's American, right?"

Rep. 2 "We got rid of USAID and foreign aid to create an environment of desperation and hatred of Americans. Americans will show their best side in these situations."

Rep. 3 "The FDA was wrong to track food-borne illnesses. We need an honest competition among digestive tracts out there."

Rep. 4 "Consumer Protection just makes people stupid. It should be killed. Americans should be able to identify bank fraud by themselves."

Rep. 1. "Yes, we define what is natural and what is fitness."

Rep. 2. "You see, the FBI is an unnecessary government intervention. Americans are best placed to handle crime by themselves. We need to allow Americans to take part in an unfettered competition against organized crime."

Rep. 3. "We take a different view. Infectious disease is in good. It weeds out the weak and the unfit. We want measles back. And polio. Right. You're catching on. Toxicity in the environment is also good. For the same reasons. EPA will have to be scaled way back."


DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town | REUTERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LHUPTMU7w

"Jennifer pigot voted for Trump...
in February she was fired from her civil service job...

"conversation now, it's like you knew this was coming.

But we didn't.

Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives."" ["OUR lives." Leopards... faces]

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Cruelty #Trump #GOP #USPol #Jobs #News #US #USA


“Trump’s Reign of Cruelty”

by Henry Giroux in Counterpunch

@counterpunch
@UKLabour

“Neoliberalism does not simply fail; it creates the conditions for authoritarian restoration. As public goods are gutted and civic life is eroded, the only function left for the state is repression”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/trumps-reign-of-cruelty/

#Press #US #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Cruelty #Neoliberalism #Democracy #Musk #Beezos #Thiel #Vichy #Quisling #Repression


#gaza #genocide #palestine #israel #warcrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #torture #brutality #cruelty #netanyahu

@palestine

"Israeli soldiers used an 80-year-old Gazan as a human shield. Then they killed him - Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead."
By Illy Pe’ery

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/


"You simply cannot cover Trump’s second term accurately and responsibly if you are not willing to situate his acts as part of a terrifying descent into authoritarianism, racism, and cruelty.

And the mainstream political media – for a variety of reasons -- is not willing to do anything of the kind."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #cruelty #immigrants #migrants #corruption #crime #grift #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/why-is-trump-coverage-so-feeble


Whether you're religious or anti-religious, if you want to convince me that you have something good to offer me and others, if you approach me with violence, aggression, hostility, and supercilious arrogance, I will tune you out.

Because the world is full of those things and those of us repulsed by them seek alternatives to them from anyone promising us good solutions, not echoes of them.

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
/8


But the arrogance and violence and aggression of many people speaking out on social media these days against those who have religious convictions also tells us that atheism and anti-religious commitments do not necessarily yield more humane, tolerant, kind, non-violent behavior among those who have these commitments.

I find the militant dogmatism of some anti-religious people just as repulsive as I find the dogmatism of some religious people.

#religion #community #violence #cruelty
/7


I agree with Jessica Grose. Religious bodies can exercise great cruelty and do horrific injustice. I know this personally as someone who has worked for church institutions and experienced deplorable discrimination in them.

Religious people have much to learn from non-religious and anti-religious people including atheists. One can be a profoundly moral person and have no religious faith at all.

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
/6


"Religious institutions are certainly not the only potential avenue for meaning, purpose and value in society. But we can’t underestimate the power of their reach, even in an increasingly secular world. When they have epic moral failures, it affects all of us, because it makes everyone more suspicious of potentially welcoming communities."

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
/5


"As a secular, mildly observant Jew, I don’t feel strongly about whether other Americans attend religious services or believe in God. But I do care about the pervasive — and honestly, warranted — cynicism that young people have about religious institutions, because I think it is contributing to a more disconnected, careless and cruel society."

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
/4


Jessica Grose notes the compelling reasons many younger people are turning their backs on organized religion — she points, in particular, to the horror show of sexual abuse of minors and its coverup in the Catholic church.

But she laments the effects of this rejection of religious institutions for the following reasons:

#religion #morality #community #welcome #violence #cruelty
/3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/religious-institutions-church.html


"I have been prepared for #evil, for #greed, for #cruelty, for #injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in #power would also be such huge #losers."

Hab dem nichts hinzuzufügen. Lest Rebeccas Artikel.

.


#gaza #genocide #palestine #israel #warcrimes #atrocities #brutality #cruelty #crimesagainsthumanity #destruction #medicalsector

@palestine

Nurse Karin Huster has worked in Gaza for 5 months. ⬇️

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AP3KrSnHmDg&pp=ygUMS2FyaW4gaHVzdGVy


Selective breeding of animals for their looks is an abomination

The Scottish Fold Cat, made popular by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran could be banned in Britain after a government report found it had inheritable health issues.

However, the genes that give them the unusual look also cause many of them crippling pain when they run, jump or play thanks to defective cartilage formation.

As with some dogs this is vanity cruelty.

http://archive.today/2024.12.23-222149/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/taylor-swifts-favourite-cat-faces-breeding-ban-k32nvf6kv

#Cruelty #Vanity #CatsOfMastodon #NotScottish
A Fat, malformed cat sits on a chair


"Our country faces an incoming tsunami of bigotry, hatred, and discrimination. It targets Muslims, Arabs, Jews, Black people, the LGBTQ+ community, and many others. And it always pretends to be something other than what it is. These forces are fueled not only by their proponents, but equally by the collaboration and silence of the spineless."

~ Adeel Mangi

#Trump #MakingAmericaGreatAgain #MAGA #EconomicElites #corporations #WhiteChristians #cruelty
/5

https://www.lawdork.com/p/adeel-mangi-letter-third-circuit-nominee


"While the Congressional Budget Office estimates this mass deportation will cost at least $88 billion a year, another cost that is rarely mentioned is that according to Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants currently pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. Losing that income, too, will likely have to be made up with cuts from elsewhere."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
/2


"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024