BREAKING: Hunter Biden used the White House to find lenders for himself, gained 41 trademarks in China, made $640 million while “working” in daddy’s administration, and received $2 billion from the people behind 9/11.

Whoops, never mind, that was Ivanka and Jared Kushner.

Exxon just reported record profits for the first quarter of this year, raking in $11.43 billion. The oil giant now has $33 billion cash on hand.

Say it with me, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers demanding better wages and benefits.

so if you're wondering why black twitter found bluesky more accommodating, the bluesky reps are (at least making an appearance of) actively listening to their concerns, while providing some of the tools they need (e.g. quote posts) from the very outset.

at the same time, mainstream mastodon:

• has no quote toots and not even a timeline to implement, despite existing implementations of the functionality being deployed elsewhere,
• has abysmal search functionality and nixed complete improved search implementation out of pure spite, because gargron is a spoiled manchild,
• has no way to share moderation burden across the instances,
• has no ability to set up an instance with blocklist/allowlists by default,
• the moderation interface is terrible, the tools are of abysmal quality, giving no way to communicate back to the original reporter using the very same interface,
• onboarding is a russian roulette,
• and to make it even worse, there's no way to move your content betwen servers, so every single time you choose your server wrongly, you lose all the work you put into it

…and in the general case mastodon admin and/or moderator is very, very white and very entitled.

(and every single time you say any of this, your voice is being drowned by the hooting of the fucking sea lions.)

while gargron's current priority is to provide dedicated mastodon ios apps. which should be, frankly, the least of his priorities.

RT @adamjohnsonNYC
we really have to stop taking these "labor shortage" arguments at face value. The number of unemployed persons per job opening in Iowa is unchanged since prior to covid. These laws are designed to

1) combat increase union activity
2) make legal child labor they're ALREADY doing https://twitter.com/sawyerhackett/status/1648320241691230210

@ProPublica fans: I urge you to read this dark, lengthy story about a child who died.

Why? Because you'll feel better afterwards.

Counterintuitive, I know. Readers are burnt out on bad news, we're told.

But burnout isn't just about bad news. It comes from a sense of powerlessness over events.

At its best, then, long-form journalism can disarm bad news — by illuminating the structural forces and human actors at play.

And this is some of the best I've read in a while.

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez

Andy Ngo falsely suggested that "antifa" and "black bloc" were behind the bizarre December stalking incident involving Musk's children and Grimes.

Andy Ngo's career is based on provably false claims about "antifa". Ngo's claim was part of a transparent campaign to ingratiate himself with Twitter's new owner, whom Ngo relies on to raise money for his various scams.