Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

I have zero patience for “no change” traditionalists in this space. the one thing standing between us and a whole lotta hurt is people practicing fact checking, professional thoughtfulness, and journalistic rigor at scale and everywhere.

yes we need to be able to text search public posts, quote toot, and increase ease for users. sorry there is no room for viewing fedi as your private hobby, the world needs fedi to work well for journalists and organizers

Once again, @SenRonJohnson is ready to throw those on #SocialSecurity under his limo's wheels.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/ron-johnson-not-willing-put-his-money?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76971

#GOP wants to ban #military #diversity initiatives to make our military more like Russia and China. You can't make this s**t up. https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/house-gop-approves-defense-bill-that-restricts-18200870.php

State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say | Ron DeSantis | The Guardian

Veterans resign as force established as civilian disaster relief becomes ‘militaristic’ and ‘abusive’ — Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/15/state-guard-set-up-by-desantis-is-being-trained-as-personal-militia-veterans-say-ron-desantis-the-guardian/

Rant.

The more women assert their independence and strength, the bigger the pushback. It's always been that way. We are criticized more and more harshly for things that men are excused and praised for. We break barriers, and the pushback is often personal and cruel, even from our own families. You know what? That makes me just want to push back more. Call me too old, too independent, too whatever. I don't care. I'll be 100 and still feel this way. Enough already.

Thanks for listening. Carry on

#Threads is not federating with #Mastodon. Not anytime soon, maybe not ever.

In case you missed the #Meta inside information from the Verge's Alex Heath: "Re: ActivityPub integration, it's still a priority for Threads but a "long" way out."(https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110713788758597963)

This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building great open social media.

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

OMFG

“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately…COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

Conspiracy theorists go from 0 to blame Jews in a nanosecond

If you’re a journalist writing another story on why RFK Jr isn’t getting enough press coverage then I need you to get up, find a brick wall, and walk into it at full speed.

@BrianHarrod

More of these types of ads need to be done.

Republican billionaires and GOP politicians on the subject of:

1. Putin's genocidal war on Ukraine
2. Women voting
3. Unions
4. POC civil rights & affirmative action
5. Immigrants & refugees
6. Non Christians
7. LGBTQ medical care
9. Reproductive rights
10. Military preparedness
11. Privacy
12. Climate change & ESG
13. Democracy
14. Trump's Jan 6 coup

Floods say stop burning fossil fuels.
Storm surge says stop burning fossil fuels.
Wildfires say stop burning fossil fuels.
Heat waves say stop burning fossil fuels.
Hot hot ocean says stop burning fossil fuels.
Melting ice says stop burning fossil fuels.
Exxon says....

The only good capitalism is no capitalism at all.

@Huntn00 So much rain.

@Huntn00 somehow I can’t picture Texas folks putting up with watering restrictions.

@AlliFlowers BOO! His usual AHole self. The GOP really wants to dismantle Washington DC Federal Entities, and move the pieces to “friendly territory” where they can be remade in Master’s effigy.

@AlliFlowers Ted Lieu was impressive.
I hate being negative, but I can’t think of a better more appropriate time. Trump is a blank, blank, blank, blank, blank (fill in all the usual despicable adjectives. A pertinent question is when will 1/3 of the US get their heads out of their asses or are we down for the count? Will this be the Right imploding or will it be the great National unraveling? 🤔

@barb Why not “Life starts at first breath”, the Bible’s position on an unborn fetus? Never mind “love thy neighbor”, “freedom!”, “live and let live”, “small gov”, all GOP FOOL’D YA mottos. Ref the Bible in GOP Land, cited when perceived advantageous, lean on one way💩and call it religious beliefs, but ignore it when not aligned with the current political objective. And ALWAYS know their flock will herd along with whatever BS they say is the Christian political ideal. 🤔

Jim Jordan wants FBI headquarters moved to Huntsville, away from Washington’s ‘liberal politics’: WSJ - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/gop-wants-fbi-headquarters-moved-to-huntsville-and-away-from-liberal-politics-wsj-reports.html

Harsh #Climate 1- Since June we (East Texas) have been running mid 90s to low 100sF (32-40C) with with hear indexes about 110F, lows of 85F (29C) at night. A high pressure dome of heat parked over the Central US bringing no rain (at least to Texas) for several weeks and high temps. Comparing F to C. I prefer the spread of F over C, but consider I grew up with F. 🙂
A recent trip to Corpus Christi we saw large large fields of immature brown corn.