A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
Trump moves to gut more agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries, clean energy and National Monuments
Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate several additional federal agencies, including one that oversees the federally funded media outlet 
️Voice of America (VOA), 
testing the limits of his authoritative power as he seeks to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy.
One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies
— some of which are focused on #minority business enterprises, #museum and #library services and #homelessness prevention
— to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”
It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,”
and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director #Russell #Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.
A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted #clean #energy and environmental goals.
The order terminates proclamations of #national #monuments created by Biden
and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology
(including mandates for electric heat pumps and #solar #panels),
among other Biden-era policies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/15/trump-voa-environment-executive-orders/
#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.
#Responsibility.
Big thing to shoulder.
Isn't it?
It seems to always be the Responsibility of the #black, #brown, #indigenous, #global majority or #local #minority person to step up, call out or withdraw when a space isn't "diverse" enough.
White folks...you good with an entire panel, an entire room, an entire building or an entire lineup, of white people and no one else? Or maybe there's one non white person there and that's enough to tip the scale?
Five years since COVID. Migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe are disproportionately affected by the impact of long-COVID: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100427
#minorityrights #minority #healthcare #europe #covid #democracy #press #humanrights #longcovid
@Linknation @kevinrns @pschanen
Don't be that #asshole.
You understand your #computer. This makes you a member of a #minority. Unless you are going to #volunteer to be someone's #techSupport, do not tell them to do things with their #computers that they do not understand.
My opinion is informed by the thirty or so years I've had #Linux on my personal boxen. I help #boomers run blogs. These are not stupid people, but they struggle with #password #managers. There no way they can operate a Linux system without a fucktonne of support.
At the direction of #Trump, the #HHS & its agencies are purging websites of info & data on a broad array of topics—from #adolescent #health to #LGBTQ+ rights to #HIV, even #flu shots.
Several pages from the #CDC w/references to LGBTQ+ health are no longer available. A page from the HHS Office for #CivilRights outlining LGBTQ+ rights in #healthcare was also gone Fri. The site of the #NIH's Office for #Sexual & #Gender #Minority #Research Office disappeared.
#whitewashing
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites
Somehow a young white tech bro found my profile and requested to follow me. I vet every follower and so I was immediately sceptical when I saw a non-critical toot with a picture of Trump.
Obviously I straight up hit them with "what do you think about Trump and Musk?".
I kid you not, their answer was: "Why should I think about them?"
The irony of them "follow request"ing me mere minutes after tooting this:
https://tech.lgbt/@alexocado/113896805317429796
#trauma #neurodivergent #queer #bigotry #neuroqueer #neurosupremacy #minority #marginalized #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #plurality #actuallyAutistic @neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
The following (replied to) toot apparently ended up in the tech bro bubble and the irony fucking hurts.
https://tech.lgbt/@alexocado/113896805317429796
(Yes, you buddy. You like Musk, right? Tell you what: fuck you.)
#trauma #neurodivergent #queer #bigotry #neuroqueer #neurosupremacy #minority #marginalized #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #plurality #actuallyAutistic @neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
This goes out to everyone who invalidates people after they were vulnerable by being open about their pain:
Fuck you
(The more privileged you are the better you are not pulling this shit, or I'll personally rip you a new one.)
#trauma #neurodivergent #queer #bigotry #neuroqueer #neurosupremacy #minority #marginalized #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #actuallyAutistic @neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
Last week, I saw a cartoon drawing with an infant Trump in a stroller, his mother or nanny crossing the street, a car accelerating towards it...
With the announced 500 bn. $ #AI plan, #Stargate, #Skynet is already here.
A #Terminator is sorely needed.
No psychic #Precogs from #Minority report are necessary for divination.
https://crypticrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/the-terminator-1984-slide.jpg
#Disaffected #Voters May Want to #Consider What #Decades of #RightWing #MinorityRule Could Bring.
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump will not last forever, but if he #wins election to a second term, his #Farright #RepublicanParty’s system of #minority #rule could be here for #decades. The #damage they would inflict on the people of this nation—and the world—is #horrifying to contemplate.
#HilaryCass calls #BMA #doctors who #criticised her #biased #review of #GenderAffirmingCare for #trans #youth a ‘small #minority.’
The #BMA, representing over 190,000 #doctors, voted to “#publicly #critique” the #report, citing “#weaknesses in methodologies” and “#problems from implementing some #recommendations.” The union also raised concerns over the government #banning #pubertyblockers based on cass' recommendations.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/10/hilary-cass-bma-criticism-cass-review-trans/
Sudden realization... The #billionaires of the world are essentially a #minority. It might be the only minority worth removing.
Racial preferences in dating are inherently fucking racist.
If you think you can categorise a person based on their skin colour, what else are you doing except perpetuating and believing racist stereotypes?
The fucked up thing about SG is that racism is so prevalent that ppl just normalise it and don't bat an eyelid.
#racism #minority #race #singapore
PSA: if youre going to interact with me, don't do this.
If you see a poc transfem, and your first instinct is tell her she looks masc, take a sec and reflect on why you've decided to perpetuate white supremacist beauty standards.
I dont want to start drama, i just dont want to have these kinda fucking interactions on this site.
I received no apologies about this post. I don't understand why someone would ever respond like this to an obvious venting post by telling me I look masc. That fucking sucks.
First block on this site.
#trans #minority #racism #intersectionality
RE: https://catgirl.center/notes/9yao0zohv9sq03db
How can we improve the lives of Europe's largest #minority?
Yesterday and today, I convened Roma and Travellers and other experts to discuss this.
Now we must turn ideas into actions in defence of the #HumanRights of Roma and Travellers across the continent.
#RomaRights
![There are some 10 to 12 million members of the Roma and Travellers communities within Council of Europe member states.
Their situation, their plight, is one of the greatest human rights issues of our continent. We have got to do a much better job working with the Roma and Travellers communities to eradicate these shocking levels of inequality between them and the general population and to tackle the extent of the growing patterns of hate, of antigypsyism directed against them. I made a commitment to stand up for the Roma and Travelers communities from the very first day I came into office. [...] I will continue to find opportunities to accompany the Roma and Travellers communities and to stand up for them in front of those with the power to make the decisions, to make things better. That is why I convened [...] a meeting of experts and highly experienced leaders from within the Roma and Travellers communities, together with non members of their communities [...], to listen to them, to take the opportunity to get the ideas from them that will break all those log jams that they are facing every single day as they seek to stand up for their communities.[...] My team and I have learned a lot. And now [...] it is our task to turn all of that learning into action so that my pledge to stand up for Roma and Travellers communities is not just rhetoric, but can actually contribute to making a real difference." -Michael O'Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/114/077/923/313/871/original/37c9221c2c79d3ac.png "There are some 10 to 12 million members of the Roma and Travellers communities within Council of Europe member states.
Their situation, their plight, is one of the greatest human rights issues of our continent. We have got to do a much better job working with the Roma and Travellers communities to eradicate these shocking levels of inequality between them and the general population and to tackle the extent of the growing patterns of hate, of antigypsyism directed against them. I made a commitment to stand up for the Roma and Travelers communities from the very first day I came into office. [...] I will continue to find opportunities to accompany the Roma and Travellers communities and to stand up for them in front of those with the power to make the decisions, to make things better. That is why I convened [...] a meeting of experts and highly experienced leaders from within the Roma and Travellers communities, together with non members of their communities [...], to listen to them, to take the opportunity to get the ideas from them that will break all those log jams that they are facing every single day as they seek to stand up for their communities.[...] My team and I have learned a lot. And now [...] it is our task to turn all of that learning into action so that my pledge to stand up for Roma and Travellers communities is not just rhetoric, but can actually contribute to making a real difference.\" -Michael O'Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights")
@ct_bergstrom private prison industry will get a bump out of this - you will be able to be convicted for future crimes #minority report #gattaca
