@jik @AlliFlowers @amaditalks No, the takeaway, "Nothing will ever change, you must choose between two right wing, pro-war, pro-fossil fuel, pro-big business parties, and if you don't choose the slightly less awful one, then you are a bad person," is so demoralizing that people simply want to change the subject, and talk about small areas where some progress might be possible.
I can’t wait to find out who gave Santos money.
https://bird.makeup/users/klasfeldreports/statuses/1671255714680152065
Breaking—
An order to unseal the identities of the co-signers of Rep. George Santos's bond has been AFFIRMED by a federal judge.
The identities will remained sealed until Thursday at noon EST, in case the suretors seek to withdraw. @lawcrimenews
#Tuckems is using his huge platform to attack #HunterBiden today I see.
I'm glad that Matt Gertz of Media Matters reminded me that Tucker Carlson and his wife asked their friend Hunter Biden to write their son a recommendation for Georgetown University. When he agreed to do so, his wife emailed him, "Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
The right out-organized us by more than three decades. At the end of the 1980s they were holding trainings in church basements with the Christian Coalition, teaching people how to build what is the openly fascist Republican Party of 2023, using coded Christian language and appeals to white grievance to win seats on suburban school boards & town councils and from there, county level then state legislature seats, bypassing cities, then gerrymandering them to destroy their electoral power.
Georgia SoS Brad Raffensperger announces closure of investigation into allegations ballots were removed from suitcases in Atlanta in 2020, saying there's no evidence of wrongdoing. Full report: https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/SEB2020-059%20ROI%20redacted.pdf
Electoral politics in the US right now is about choose your opponent, not choose your player. We lost our opportunity to play choose your player via poor ballot design in South Florida and a compromised SCOTUS.
Right now you have only ONE job in the voting booth: choosing the candidate with an actual chance of winning who isn’t going to worsen the climate catastrophe, destroy public education, abolish unions, destroy LGBTQ lives and arm every Nazi in the country.
It’s not a hard choice.
A cunning Russian plan to fill an old tank with 6 tons of explosives and remotely pilot it toward Ukrainian lines ALMOST worked, but there's a reason "fine Russian engineering" is not a commonly used phrase [Fail] https://www.fark.com/comments/12897714?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Bnafo.uk%5D&utm_campaign=fark [Fark]
Noticing a lot of instance admins lately who are feeling pretty down.
Please remember that the vast majority of admins and moderators in this space do not do this work as a day job, nor as paid work. They have other projects and deadlines and bills and family and actual living plants. Please have the good grace to be patient with them 💜
*By which I mean do not abuse, harass, dox, threaten etc. Jeez.
I need people on the left, every flavor of the left, to understand this. Your passion right now cannot be for voting for whomever is making a stunt third party presidency bid because the passion on the right is to KILL us. Republicans are happily coalescing power with & through white supremacist terrorists who are murdering people regularly and terrorizing people daily, and they are creating policy to enable those killers and terrorists.
From: @wdlindsy
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110577447952690671
"Kansas man charged with making threats against Nashville Pride Festival"
"Vous me foutez dans la merde" : une employée licenciée après avoir révélé sa grossesse à son patron. #sexisme https://www.neonmag.fr/vous-me-foutez-dans-la-merde-une-employee-licenciee-apres-avoir-revele-sa-grossesse-a-son-patron-558661.html?utm_campaign=20220511&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl-neon-hebdo#nlref=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&part%5Bname%5D=pm&part%5Btoken%5D=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&srAuthUserId=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&utm_campaign=20220511&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl-neon-hebdo&nlsha=293793475424db68e3e55bb328ae981fdb6ac3533b13b185c78fad3f9b89df65&srWebsiteId=66&srAuthUserId=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c
Watch @iGenPolitics_ live in 10 minutes. With fired State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL and this #JillsPin, a gift from an elected Democrat in FL. Click here now:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kKLN9h1XW-A?feature=share
This is your periodic reminder that ambulatory wheelchair users exist. Many folks think wheelchairs are only for those who can't walk at all, or folks who can only take a couple steps.
Wheelchairs and electric scooters are used due to pain, weakness, balance issues, orthostatic intolerance, etc.
#Disability #Wheelchairs #DynamicDisability #ChronicIllness #MEcfs
"Un héritage toxique" : en Ukraine, les ravages de la guerre sur la biodiversité. #biodiversité #Russie #Ukraine
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/environnement/un-heritage-toxique-en-ukraine-les-ravages-de-la-guerre-sur-la-biodiversite_2178493.html?m_i=8UY_8uPC_GlyeWWpCIa5kYbe%2BMO2VU_8ocJD1mUoTpKv42I5gkXQEpgNH3FJ7x4wiAbla_Ey9jmnclif9CYXw%2BqggfpGgs&#xtor=EPR-5293-[NL_le_7]-20220826&utm_source=lexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5293-%5BNL_le_7%5D&utm_content=EPR&utm_term=_&m_i=04qszwrbaK2Xx%2BxEm0eEo0nY94tp0qu5BVLW2Zt9VVe_7gbC0ioyisg_P353DDaZ1DMli1m1eu4Rk16GMa8Q1AoU3vXO3E&M_BT=6973728751394
Ph.D. in Instructional Design. Career educator. Cancer Survivor. Collector of Interesting People. Tech lover. Big blue dot in south Alabama. Air Force Brat. Former ALSDF officer. Please do an “about” if you want a follow.
Do not PM me to say hello.
Current background picture are sunflowers.
Foreground: Image Playground created image of me.