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22 September 2023: every member present in the House of Commons stood and applauded a Waffen-SS veteran. Twice. The Speaker resigned four days later. Nobody else did. https://inheritance-trace.felineunion.org/

Gene Sharp listed six sources of political power: authority, human resources, skills and knowledge, habit and ideology, material resources, and sanctions. Five of the six arrive from below. https://thefederation.felineunion.org/thequietyes/

Hebrew was revived as an everyday spoken language beginning in the late 1800s, with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's work in Palestine from 1881 onward.

🇺🇸 America's cruelty comes with a bill.
🇨🇦 Canada's comes with sunnier branding.

A place on a waiting list becomes "care." Release under supervision becomes "freedom."

The patient still needs a doctor. The parolee still answers to corrections.

The widgets look better on paper. ☀️

Moving someone from prison to parole lowers the custody count while keeping them under correctional control. Canada's statistics record those populations in separate categories.

Kropotkin's own example of what works is still running. Geel, in Belgium, has boarded psychiatric patients with ordinary families for seven centuries. About 250 people live there that way today. https://thefederation.felineunion.org/prisons/

Sarah Buhler’s twenty twenty-five Osgoode Hall Law Journal article. It uses reflexive thematic analysis on urgent Saskatchewan Office of Residential Tenancies decisions from January twenty twenty through June twenty twenty-one.

https://therinse.felineunion.org/?ep=the-problem-tenant

A charitable registration is also a public instrument, issued on entirely different grounds. The Canada Revenue Agency registers an organization, not a person. It tests purposes, requires a governing body, permits official donation receipts, and publishes a listing.

https://therinse.felineunion.org/?ep=the-second-role

Nobody records the morning you complied. The ledger has no column for it — and that missing column, rather than the obedience itself, is what the arrangement is built on. https://thefederation.felineunion.org/thequietyes/

I scored 5/5 on today’s Lunch Bag: The House. Can you beat it? https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/

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https://therinse.felineunion.org/?ep=the-microphone

Every argument for a better prison treats the cage as the neutral part. Kropotkin inspected prisons for the Russian state, then lived in them for five years, and reported that the cage is the whole mechanism. https://thefederation.felineunion.org/prisons/

Public campaigning. Private gatekeeping.

Invite the voters. Bar the reporters asking inconvenient questions. Claim the venue is private while applying to run the public.

Privatize the microphone. Socialize the consequences. A familiar business model. 🎤

What, precisely, is supposed to 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻? The wealth we have already carried upstairs? 🪜

🏴 We can't be falling twice for 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Are we this dumb?

What, precisely, is supposed to 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻? The wealth we have already carried upstairs? 🪜

𝗡𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲. Behind every proprietor stand generations of workers, accumulated knowledge and the labour of people whose names never appear on the deed.

You award one man the 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 and call everyone else's 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 an 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲. 🌾

🌍 Nobody manufactured the planet. Nevertheless, someone owns your portion and requires half your wages for permission to stand there. Henry George identified a slight irregularity in the billing.

@flipkoin Henry George argued in Progress and Poverty that private land ownership inherently leads to worker enslavement by monopolizing access to nature's resources, forcing payment of rent for survival and production.

Landlordism is a euphemism for slavery. Your landlord doesn't need to own you when owning your shelter guarantees a share of your labour.

"Ownership of the land gives you command over the people who must live on it." 🏴

Paraphrasing Henry George.

The little people are saying no to austerity. Turns out the spreadsheet requires their cooperation. 🏴

🏟️ 𝗦𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

Massachusetts puts up ~$70M for infrastructure supporting Gillette Stadium. Foxborough owns the land underneath it.

Then Robert Kraft gets to decide which political speech disqualifies an artist from the stage?

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿.
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹. 🎭