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CindyA Jul 5, 2023

Jul 5, 2023

I'm a leftist. You can quote me on the following:
- If Joe Biden did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If Hilary Clinton did crimes, put her ass in jail.
- If Barack Obama did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If Bernie Sanders did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If AOC did crimes, put her ass in jail.

See how easy that is, MAGA, when you're not in a cult? Admit it, not a single one of you can, or will say the same about Donald "Espionage" Trump.

CindyA Jun 4, 2023

Janne Moren Jun 4, 2023

I don't think #twitter really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.

What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.

The same is likely happening with #Reddit ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( #tiktok ).

The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.

CindyA May 30, 2023

toussaint May 29, 2023

right now there are trees being chopped down in Mississippi, USA. They are taken to a plant that smashes them up, makes pellets out of them, loads pellets on a truck, drives to the port, where they are put on a boat and shipped to UK. There, the pellets are taken off a boat, loaded on rail and truck to send to a electricity plant where they burn those pellets AND GET ENVIRONMENTAL $CREDITS$ for doing so, cause wood is categorized as a 'green' renewable bio-fuel #Climate
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/29/drax-owned-wood-pellet-plant-in-us-broke-air-pollution-rules-amite-bioenergy-mississippi-emissions-limits?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1685361168

Drax-owned wood pellet plant in US broke air pollution rules again

Amite BioEnergy, which was fined $2.5m in 2021, notified Mississippi facility had breached emission limits

The Guardian

CindyA May 30, 2023

Jeff Jarvis May 29, 2023

Now maybe the WSJ can do a fancy feature on where a Black woman is sent to prison for, say, voting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-prison-where-elizabeth-holmes-could-serve-her-sentence-a4e27ca?mod=hp_lead_pos8

Inside the Prison Where Elizabeth Holmes Could Serve Her Sentence

The all-women’s facility in Bryan, Texas, includes family visits, vegetarian meals and thin mattresses

WSJ

CindyA May 12, 2023

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Amadi Lovelace May 11, 2023

Oh, and if you’re looking to send a message that you disapprove of the rightward slump of CNN or the town hall or the eight years of both sides-ing Trump, the best way to do that is to disengage from the rest of the Warner Bros/Discovery conglomerate. Cancel the Discovery+/HBOMax/Max subscription. Drop HBO & Cinemax if you still have cable. DC superhero films? Sail the high seas if you need to see them. Here’s their brand list. Act accordingly. https://wbd.com/our-brands/

Our Brands

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

Warner Bros. Discovery

CindyA May 11, 2023

flexghost.May 11, 2023

In Florida, doctors can now deny care legally if they are morally opposed to gender-affirming care

Or if they don’t like that a patient has premarital sex

Or just because

This also applies to insurance companies, nurses, pharmacists, hospitals and ambulances

Because freedom.

🇺🇸

Bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1403

CindyA May 10, 2023

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Nathan Harvey May 10, 2023

@micahflee @andrei_chiffa I was able to get official thoughts by Twitter’s team on these developments.

CindyA May 10, 2023

Larry Felton Johnson May 10, 2023

Cobb County Courier Dog of the Day: “You can tell by my face I’m eager for a loving, permanent home. Please adopt me!” https://cobbcountycourier.com/2023/05/cobb-county-courier-dog-of-the-day-you-can-tell-by-my-face-im-eager-for-a-loving-permanent-home-please-adopt-me/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cobbcounty

Cobb County Courier Dog of the Day: "You can tell by my face I'm eager for a loving, permanent home. Please adopt me!"

The Cobb County Courier's Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Shelter website, is a medium-sized male tri-color Saint Bernard mix.

Cobb County Courier

CindyA May 6, 2023

Dan Gillmor May 6, 2023

The extreme right is winning again and again in its campaign to prevent schoolchildren from learning about America's deeply racist traditions. In this case, a major publisher is self-censoring -- or telling authors to go along with it -- because it's afraid of losing sales in states controlled by the racist right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/scholastic-book-racism-maggie-tokuda-hall.html

Note: The author said no way to this outrageous request.

Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

The New York Times

CindyA May 6, 2023

Heidi Li Feldman May 6, 2023

“Thomas treated a basic requirement of his job with the good-faith and rigor of a Trump Organization accountant trying to justify a deduction.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/clarence-thomas-conservative-legal-movement-rich-ginni-thomas-federalist-society/

Clarence Thomas is how the conservative legal movement works

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Mother Jones