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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

bitches be voting

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) November 9, 2022

Extremely appreciated and thank you for being an ally in this fight! Last night was a definite win but we've got a ways to go.https://t.co/ysn8bf3miA

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) November 9, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Iranian clerics pressure young women to wear hijab, cover their hair. Iranian women push back. Watch. pic.twitter.com/uUbT6L7A6z

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) November 10, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

In the midst of what people are calling Schadenfreude Week, where so many awful politicians, crypto scammers and tech bros are suffering, please spare a thought for NFL owner Dan Snyder; I know not all of you care about sports but he's a truly terrible man having a very bad week.

— Todd in the Shadows (@ShadowTodd) November 11, 2022

Snyder's team responded by bringing up a completely unrelated shooting that happened to a player. As in, "why don't you guys catch the REAL criminals." (the shooters have in fact been arrested)

The player was not consulted beforehand. Team morale is lowhttps://t.co/KauQgI8K75

— Todd in the Shadows (@ShadowTodd) November 11, 2022

[JoeP]

Team morale is low?

I've just had an idea. Elongated Muskrat should buy a sportsball team. And fire 50% of them, based on number of goals scored / runs made. And after 2 games frantically buy goalkeepers / pitchers.

[erimir]

I saw it speculated that Bezos bought the Washington Post so they could write exposes on the worst, most vulnerable NFL franchise owner, so that he would be able to easily buy the Washington Football Team.

Which, if true, is... kind of funny.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I’ll put this example of a swarm of dudebros rushing to correct a woman who probably knows what she’s talking about in this thrad:

This is a lie. I ran this program up until a week ago when I resigned because I didn’t want to work for @elonmusk For breakfast & lunch we spent $20-$25 a day per person. This enabled employees to work thru lunchtime & mtgs. Attendance was anything from 20-50% in the offices. https://t.co/0OjbeComka

— Tracy Hawkins  (@_hawko) November 13, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I’ll put this example of a swarm of dudebros rushing to correct a woman who probably knows what she’s talking about in this thrad:

This is a lie. I ran this program up until a week ago when I resigned because I didn’t want to work for @elonmusk For breakfast & lunch we spent $20-$25 a day per person. This enabled employees to work thru lunchtime & mtgs. Attendance was anything from 20-50% in the offices. https://t.co/0OjbeComka

— Tracy Hawkins  (@_hawko) November 13, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And I’ll leave the double post just because.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

For 43 years, the clerics humiliated Iranian women & forced them to wear hijab.
This is why removing their turbans has turned into an act of protest & a daily routine for Iranian teenagers after regime killed #MahsaAmini & hundreds of innocent protesters.pic.twitter.com/Iq5RTsyGKJ

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 15, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The weather forecast for Iran, delivered from neighboring Azerbaijan. Watch to the end. pic.twitter.com/TtXz36PLO9

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) November 16, 2022

No, Azerbaijan is a Muslim-majority country, but proudly secular. Azeri TV is watched in much of Iran. The doffing of the headscarf by the weather presenter was a gesture of support for Iranian women.

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) November 16, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

BREAKING:

Protesters have burned down the house in which Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran's Islamic Islamist regime, was born in.

The house, in the city of Khomein, has been a museum for the past 30 years.

The protests are increasing in strength. pic.twitter.com/EIezQ3LQYS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 18, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The protests are not getting any smaller in Iran. pic.twitter.com/Nw9CxANRvH

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) November 18, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Since I've been putting the Iranian near open revolt in here:

Also see: https://t.co/q8E3KWCYKz

— Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani (@KhosroKalbasi) November 19, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

dubble

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“Led by women, Iranians are reinventing their culture by weaving liberal values into its fabric,” writes @LadiKhanom in her reflection on the 2022 Iran protests. https://t.co/U72U16kLGJ

— Journal of Democracy (@JoDemocracy) November 21, 2022

[beyelzu]

I really enjoyed that article, thank you for sharing it.

I appreciated the context, this has seemed to me something that has been sudden, but I was disabused of that notion.

It was not long before the regime met with a new, more creative, and more assertive form of female resistance. For four decades, women on their own—silently and unorganized—pushed back against mandatory veiling. For example, young women would don colors that had been banished from public spaces and wear the most daring, subversive type of veil. No laws changed. But many women boldly ignored the dress code. It is against the backdrop of this discrete, yet widespread and persistent, resistance that the most recent resurgence of women’s fight against the mandatory hijab—and its highly original, modern, and subversive form—should be understood.

[fragment]

When I was a kid in the 80s we went on a school trip to a local frozen desserts factory. We were told about how they had been exporting ice pops to Iran, and the raspberry flavour was strangely popular. When they tried to find out why they learned that Iranian women weren't allowed lipstick, but used red-staining foods as a workaround.

Of course I was told a lot of stuff as a kid that turned out to be untrue so I can't verify this.

Anyway everyone should read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, which among other things covers how women and girls have been resisting sexist repression by the Islamic Republic form of government from the start.

[beyelzu]

I read that when ES read it for school iirc, but I clearly didn’t recall it well. Might need to reread it.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

#UPDATE Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media said Sunday. https://t.co/vFcz5BX5EQ

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 4, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

To international media:

1) abolishing morality police in Iran is disinformation but it shows the fear of the regime.

2) Regime’s empty promises are a sign of desperation that the uprising continues

3) People are united in their demand for an end to Islamic Republic#MahsaAmini

— Masih Alinejad ��️ (@AlinejadMasih) December 4, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia

[viscousmemories]

Jesus, I don't remember hearing about that at all.

[Ensign Steve]

I do.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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Originally Posted by lisarea

Anything that makes so many stupid people mad is probably a worthwhile endeavor.

Hey, stop stealing my material.