Elon Musk is a national security risk. Great piece from @atherton.bsky.social :

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/el...

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Health care activist Ady Barkan has died from complications of ALS, his wife Rachael announced

PSA: don’t view extreme violence unless absolutely required for a specific job task. If absolutely required, engage in harm reduction. Violence is like toxic waste: something to be avoided, contained, and remediated. 1/x

McCarthy faces revolt from far-right Republicans after deal to avoid government shutdown The government is open after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy side-stepped the hard-right flank of his party and cut a temporary funding deal with Democrats this weekend. But this week, he may need to bro...

So, just to recap ...

After taking fifteen votes to become Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was forced out of that position by the hard-right fringe of his own caucus.

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"Access to you is a privilege" A series of circles within circles the outermost one being labeled "Strangers in the Internet" Then "Know & don't trust" "Random acquaintances" "Neutral " "Know & trust" "Inner Circle" and finally "Stranger on the Internet but gay" 🐅

Bluesky

Get fucked, you fascist cunt!

What to know about the hostages taken from Israel in Hamas attack More than 100 hostages are believed to be in Gaza. Hamas is threatening to execute hostages if Israel carries out strikes on homes in Gaza without warning civilians.

What to know about the hostages taken from Israel in Hamas attack www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

I do have depression from getting bombarded with nonstop death threats from actual neonazis.

I see a therapist for it and it helps. It's helped me cope with a very difficult job.

My current editor and colleagues on this beat have helped me through it, and I'm grateful.

This is:

1) An article of my recent Bluesky posts, so be careful out there.
2) Very weird, and seems to shame me for disclosing that I have depression.

This map shows locations of 529 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2023.

US: Mass shootings (at least four people shot or killed, not including the shooter) have become more frequent over the last decade
2014: 272
2015: 333
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 610
2021: 689
2022: 645
2023: 529 (so far)
www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls

Say what you will, but I bet they don't try to force them to vote on an unread bill again.

‘No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism Christopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’

from the deepest part of my cold dead heart, fuck these fascist fucks

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...

X makes cuts to disinformation and election integrity team The cuts are part of a larger pullback on content moderation at the company.

Wild the power that absolute wannabes have on X and the world! Seems very likely that Musk nuked Twitter's integrity team bc a guy—who leverages a minor job at the state department (for a few months) into being a "CYBER expert" on the internet—told him to. Allegedly. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

"A Washington Post analysis of thousands of challenges nationwide found that 60 percent of all challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from 11 adults, each of whom objected to dozens — sometimes close to 100 — of books in their districts." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

This is true. Scott is a “former” alt-right white nationalist extremist who has a history of targeting anti-fascist and anarchist community members.

Polish Presidential Hopeful Calls for Extradition of Canadian Ukrainian Member of Nazi SS-led Galici... “Certainly, Czarnek is not credible as a defender of Holocaust memory, given his vicious attacks on the Holocaust historians in Poland,” says one expert.

i have generational shame that i/we must carry. history & books can never be removed from circulation just to appease our respective guilt. “Ukrainian soldiers of the 4th SS Police Regiment…members murdered an estimated 850 Polish men, women and children.”

www.antihate.ca/polish_presi...

Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industri...

The BJP's hired trolls, "painted a dire picture of an India where the nation’s 14% Muslim minority, abetted by the Congress party, abused & murdered members of the Hindu majority, & where justice & security could be secured only through a vote for the BJP" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

I’m sorry to see you give that up, as your input is valued and could possibly help to remedy some of these problems.

Do not ever come at me with unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo which has been laundered by a right wing TERF to impeach a comrade and try to front yourself a progressive.

I will block your bootlicker water-carrying ass in a heartbeat.

You made serious and false public accusations that you cannot substantiate. Completely false. He is not “terfy” and nor is there any evidence that he has a history of stalking and harassing women. These are unsubstantiated rumors of his stalker.

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I happen to know him very well. There’s not a TERF bone in his body. That is a flat out lie. And if you are going to throw around general accusations about stalking and harassment you had better provide some proof. This trial by rumor and innuendo is nonsense.

A conspiracy theorist who constantly accuses others of being satan worshippers is currently being accused by another conspiracy theorist of being a freemason satan worshipper.

Delete👏🏼 your 👏🏼 Twitter 👏🏼 account.

India’s Justice System is No Longer Independent: Part II Part II delves into the strategies employed by the Modi government to undermine the autonomy of the judicial branch.

We’re beginning to see the erosion of judicial independence in Israel. It’s already happened in India.
In the second of a 3-part series, @saraphin.bsky.social analyzes the strategies employed by the Modi government to undermine the autonomy of India’s judiciary.

6 Free COVID tests and free Telehealth visits if you catch COVID:

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Congratulations to friend @lawindsor and all those who contributed to the deflation of this squirrelly little toxic windbag. I know I speak for America when I say I want jail time for @JamesOKeefeIII.

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Trash Tuesday has been memorable today.

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

Hahaha libs you say you don’t like people smashing the Capitol, shitting in the corridors, and trying to do a coup, and yet you…wear sweatshirts.

Touché I say! Touché!!!