Ajmal Hussain A

Wake up babe the Pope is Baudrillard posting

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water. They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave. Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people. The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography. The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed. By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler. According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade. The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification. Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet. Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum. The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices. She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office. She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot. They shut off the elevators, so she crawled. The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration. The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass. Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

Mouslim

Traffic Jam, Kerala Style

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

Look who entered Al-Aqsa Mosque first once it reopened after 40 days 😂

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

After MeitY’s 30 March notification on the new IT Rules, the Ministry has now extended the consultation deadline from 14 April to 29 April. This shift would not have been possible without over 2,500 concerned citizens who sent their comments. This is not the end. Keep sending your submissions.

We call ourselves the world's largest democracy. Democracy cannot coexist with the suspension of voting rights of those least equipped to fight for it — the farmer in Mothabari who attended every hearing, the families in Manikchak where some members are on the rolls and others aren't, and no one has been told why. Full story: altnews.in/four-more-beng…

Brother I’m still working on my first brain

Are you people genuinely illiterate? Comma before and makes a massive difference in the meaning of sentences. I love my parents, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. I love my parents, Taylor Swift, and Travis Kelce. You can easily see the difference in meaning.

This not only a bloody brilliant effort by @AltNews but it should be the lead story on every Indian news portal and channel. sir-data-decoded.altnews.in

“You will try to sanctify cinema. Our job is to destroy the image you have created that everything must be sacred here. Cinema is not sacred, nothing is sacred here. We will invade everything you call sacred and prove that it is for the common people, for everyone.” - Dir. Mari Selvaraj

🚨MUESLI LAUNCH ALERT🚨 renting out speech to text to the cloud never made sense both for dictation and meeting transcriptions! in the last week, I've been building muesli that can drop in replace Granola and Wisprflow with all STT done all locally on your mac - its free and OSS

"twin", "king", "queen"... why are the youths calling each other mattress sizes

So many cyclists everywhere in every city but no one counts them unless they wear cycling gear and cycles have gears

Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.

SIM binding also disables other use cases, apart from WhatsApp web: 1. Using an account across multiple devices, including tablets 2. Prevents usage of WhatsApp accounts when taking an international SIM Also, this order would apply to Telegram, signal, social media and dating apps too. Dept of Telecom also has no legal basis for this order. They can't regulate an app just because you link your mobile number to an account.

Roll back this Compulsory Sim Binding BS ! Don't wait for another Sanchar Sathi like fiasco.