In Siargao in the southern PH, locals claim the Israeli tourists have shown blatant disrespect toward the island community, exhibiting a sense of entitlement and superiority.
Reports include harassment of LGBTQ+ individuals, public insults, provocation of both locals and other foreigners, and even physical aggression such as throwing stones at trans women.
#Philippines #Asian #TootSEA #Tourism #Siargao #Mindanao #Island #Travel #Beach #LGBTQ #Crime #Violence
Transplants - Quick Death (Error Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCW9LlSk0U
"And now, my brothers and sisters, the inversion begins“
https://www.justsomelyrics.com/265485/the-transplants-quick-death-lyrics.html
By #DomenicoMontanaro via #NPR - July 01, 2025
Ahead of the #JulyFourth holiday and the country's 249th birthday, three-quarters of Americans say #democracy is under serious threat, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Nearly three-quarters also see politically motivated #violence as a major problem.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452527/poll-democracy-trump-immigration
Finished #reading To the River: Losing My Brother, an exploration of suicide among white men. The author's younger brother, a musician in #Whitehorse walked into the #Yukon River in December and the body was found in the spring. The older brother tries to understand 'why' from a family perspective and from various research, interviews and peer stories. It is another element of the conversation on #masculinity, #addictions, #mentalhealth, and #violence.
“the raw material for all of the #violence is mostly a stream of lost young men,” Tom Nichols wrote in 2023.
The real malady afflicting these men “is the deluge of narcissism in the modern world, especially among failed-to-launch young men whose injured grandiosity leads them to blame others for their own shortcomings and insecurities—and to seek revenge.”
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https://www.europesays.com/2218075/ Rising hunger and poverty impacting families in the West Bank #CatholicChurch #children #FoodAndWater #HumanRights #Israel #Palestine #Poverty #School&University #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano #Violence #war
1. I never understand why Israelis who leave Israel get attacked. Isn't that what protesters want?
2. I defended Bob Vylan's chant here and in person with my Rabbi as punk rock being punk rock, and I'm ok admitting I was wrong.
3. <heavy sigh>
"#Melbourne’s #Jewish community has been left reeling after an East Melbourne #synagogue was set alight and an #Israeli #restaurant attacked during a night of targeted #violence and intimidation in the city.
In separate incidents on Friday evening, masked pro-#Palestine #protesters stormed Miznon, an Israeli restaurant in Hardware Lane, while the historic East Melbourne Synagogue was the target of an attempted #arson attack.
Restaurant patrons were left terrified as around 20 masked protesters entered Miznon about 8.30pm, chanting “death to the #IDF” while hurling chairs, glasses and food at the windows, according to the Herald Sun. One of the restaurant’s front-facing windows was smashed with a chair."
https://www.jwire.com.au/jewish-melbournes-friday-evening-of-horro/
Red Barns and White Barns: Why Rural Crime Skyrocketed in the Late 1800s
this is a worthy reminder of one of the sources of violence
#LeadPoisoning #LeadBasedPaint #barns #violence #murder #HomicideRates #RuralHomicides https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/02/red-barns-and-white-barns-why-rural-crime-skyrocketed-late-1800s/
#Study finds #palmoil expansion in #WestPapua isn't just fuelling #deforestation but also colonialist-style #landgrabbing #violence and systematic erasure of #Indigenous #Melanesian cultures and languages. #Boycottpalmoil 
️ @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/06/22/greasing-the-wheels-of-colonialism-palm-oil-industry-in-west-papua/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
@workingclasshistory Unions want more than the labor market can provide. They disrupt production, which causes great harm to consumers. They attack those who go to restore the production. They call these brave men "scabs", while being aggressors and exploiters. Proud #workers should not support such bandits with extremely low morale.
#violence #capitalism
Maurene Comey, a prosecutor, said that the #law holds that someone convicted of the #MannAct should be detained. The only thing exceptional about him. Ms. Comey said, are “his #wealth, his #violence & his brazenness.”
“There is nothing exceptional about this case except for his continued #criminality,” she added.
In response to the comments from #SeanCombs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo, the judge reiterates that the defense admitted at trial that Combs had a history of #violence.
“You full-throatedly in your closing argument told the jury that there was violence here,” Judge Subramanian told the defense.
The judge noted that at trial, “the defense conceded” #SeanCombs’ #violence in his personal relationships. “We own it,” Marc Agnifilo, Mr. Combs’s lead lawyer, said in his closing statemnet.
“If he was charged with domestic violence we wouldn’t all be here having a trial because he would have pled guilty — because he did that,” Marc Agnifilo, Sean Combs’s lead lawyer, had said.
Misogyny is the ‘gateway drug’
As a researcher looking at digital extremism and gender-based violence, I’ve analyzed more than 100 manifestos written by people who carried out mass shootings, stabbings, vehicular attacks and other acts of ideologically, politically and religiously motivated violent extremism in Canada, the United States and beyond.
These attackers may not belong to formal terrorist organizations, but their writings reveal consistent ideological patterns. Among them, one stands out: misogyny.
#Extremism #Psychology #Hate #Misogyny #Violence #Internet #SocialMedia
@workingclasshistory Socialists of one kind always eat socialists of another kind. Such is the fate of all socialists.
#socialism #violence
News just fades after each new crime 81-yr old victim of #Boulder #antisemitic attack #dies from wounds. #Egyptian national Mohamed Soliman now faces 2 counts of 1st degree #murder, in addition to 12 federal #hate #crimes charges +more than 100 state charges related to the June 1 #firebombing. 3 weeks aftr CO march in support of Israeli hostages in #Gaza was abruptly interrupted by scene of #grotesque #violence 1 of victims of antisemitic fire #bombing attack that left 29 people injured died.
