ácrata @acrata@anarchism.space

Let the reader go into the children's side of any prison in England, or, I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or are creatures whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Preface

#Crypto bloodbath as the bubble approaches the level of the dot com debacle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-30/bitcoin-bloodbath-nears-dot-com-levels-as-many-tokens-go-to-zero

Dear news media folk: stop calling the nonbinary option ('X') on government identity documents 'the third gender. X is not a gender, it is the rejection of the assignment of gender

80000 march in Vienna against #Austria gov't plans to permit a 12 hour workday as parliament marches back to the 19th Century https://www.dw.com/en/austria-thousands-protest-against-plans-for-12-hour-workday/a-44475182

#Philippines moving forward with free university #education for all at state colleges and universities; cost of tertiary education has been a significant barrier for lower 3 5ths of the population https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/06/30/1828651/duterte-year-2-philippines-moves-closer-free-college-tuition-all

#Philippines: 1000s of #LGBTQ marchers brave heavy rain to demand #equalmarriage and equal rights; Supreme Court reviewing ban on equal marriage https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/thousands-of-manila-pride-marchers-demand-equal-rights-as-the-philippines-reviews-gay-marriage-ban/news-story/4366f93ef3f09bd135f898cb00b5c6af

#Spain: #Barcelona will welcome #migrant rescue ship that has been rejected by #Italy and #Malta https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/the-latest-spain-rescues-63-migrants-near-southern-coast/2018/06/30/8a65a93c-7c87-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_story.html?utm_term=.ce9d7e6ff051

Time is running out for #Thailand boys soccer teamed trapped in a flooded cave;US and UK have sent rescuers to help in the effort, but it's now been 7 days http://time.com/5326800/thailand-missing-soccer-team-cave/

#Linux kernel 4.16 reaches end of life, upgrade to 4.17 recommended, and folks continue to wonder when 5.0 might be coming https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/266593-linux-kernel-4-16-reaches-end-of-life.html

#Transgender men feel they must go stealth in the US South https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/why-trans-men-in-the-south-go-stealth.html

#UN #Migration agency rejects #Trump nominee to head the agency, and elects #Portugal socialist Antonio Vitorino https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/un-migration-agency-rejects-ken-isaacs-686876

Trump admin and the perfected art of utilizing claims of national security to justify ethnic and religious bigotry and discrmination https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/trump-travel-ban-the-supreme-court-has-long-enabled-executive-power-to-discriminate.html

#Trump administration claims it can detain #migrant families more than 20 days, in defiance of the Flores settlement https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/623574115/trump-administration-migrant-families-can-be-detained-for-more-than-20-days

"Unequivocal evidence" that much touted #DPRK #denuclearization is a sham and Trump is a dupe http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-increases-nuclear-production-after-trump-summit-report-says-2018-6

#Istanbul #LGBT community defies national government cancelation order for gay pride march, will mount Pride activities,although with reduced scope https://www.thedailybeast.com/istanbuls-pride-parade-is-cancelled-but-not-our-lgbt-pride

#Rome clears 450 from an official #Roma camp, as Interior minister Salvini continues his war on the ethnic minority, and plans for their expulsion from #Italy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-politics-roma/camp-cleared-as-italys-far-right-puts-spotlight-on-roma-community-idUSKBN1JP1TB

After the #EU comes to an agreement of sorts on #migrants, it appears #Germany chancellor #Merkel has dodged the bullet; the insurgents in the CSU that have sought to bring her down meet Sunday https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-29/now-merkel-s-adversaries-face-ultimatum-to-back-down-on-migrants

#Salon article on #Annapolis Capital Gazette shooter Jerrod Ramos' links to the #altright and #neoconfederates https://www.salon.com/2018/06/30/exclusive-accused-annapolis-shooter-had-deep-dark-links-to-the-alt-right/

Court testimony reveals that the US government had begun a #migrant family separation policy long before previously thought, and that there had never been a plan for reunification of those families https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/family-separations-reunification-never-plan-court/index.html

#NPR coverage of nationwide protests against #Trump's #immigration policies https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624950726/protesters-across-the-country-rally-against-trumps-immigration-policies