ácrata @acrata@anarchism.space

#Turkey security forces (cops) beat protesters defying a government ban on #Istanbul #LGBTQ #pride parade and arrest 11 https://www.thedailybeast.com/police-beat-and-arrest-protesters-defying-istanbuls-lgbt-pride-parade-ban

US National Security Advisor Bolton says the US has a plan to dismantle #DPRK nuclear weapons program in a year. I have a plan to win the lottery, but I haven't bought any tickets https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/john-bolton-u-s-has-plan-dismantle-north-korea-nuclear-n888106

Horst Seehofer, head of #Germany's #CSU (Bavarian sister party of #Merkel's #CDU) threatens to resign over Merkel's #migrant policies. Her government looks increasingly shaky (from way over here, at any rate) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44674945

Mercury News, a top Silicon Valley paper on the doleful status of women in the #Tech Industry, where gender equality is significantly more distant than in many other industries http://extras.mercurynews.com/genderpoll/

#Trump: "You know, there's probably never been a base in the history of politics in this country like my base." Well, ok, arguable true, but not in a good way https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-critics-administration-easy-language-radical-ideas/story?id=56297174

Democratic Party Senators introduce "Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act" which would remove the weed from Schedule 1, the list of federally banned substances, thereby allowing the pot industry access to financial system https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/30/a-bill-to-remove-marijuana-from-the-controlled-sub.aspx

#Stumptown: #Portland cops declared a riot and stop a permitted Patriot Prayer march, after clashes between the far right group and #antifa resulted in 4 injuries and 4 arrests https://www.npr.org/2018/07/01/625095869/police-declare-a-riot-after-far-right-and-antifa-groups-clash-in-portland

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