My god. The New York Times Opinion section is giving space to full-on fascist Chris Rufo to push his agenda — to push lies in service of, yes, the F word: fascism.

Look, I try to be measured. But this is a five-alarm fire for US democracy. This is like publishing Goebbels in 1934.

This is as bad as publishing Tom Cotton, and the Opinion editors should lose their jobs for it.

NYT has ten million subscribers, and approximately 9.99 million do not have time to read media criticism in depth. /1

With at least 230 dead and 1,700 injured in Gaza thus far, things are about to get much, much worse.

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

TIL that in 1981 Diane Feinstein reinstated a Confederate flag in the Civic Center as part of a display of 'historical' flags.

The Confederate flag had initially been removed from this display by protesters and civil rights activists back in the late 60s, when it was first erected.

In 1984, a Black man named Richard Bradley climbed the pole and ripped down the Stars & Bars. He was *promptly* arrested and Mayor Diane Feinstein put the Confederate flag back up!

Luckily, a scrappy group of protesters just pulled down the whole flag pole.

I know there are lots of high points in her legacy but dang. To go to the mat for the Confederate flag??? WTF.

#neo_liberalism

Good morning, fedi. Do you know anyone currently studying (or carefully searching for) coordinated influence campaigns on federated networks?

ETA: I have a reasonably good sense of who the people are who study this elsewhere, but I’m wondering if I’ve missed any known and especially homegrown/born on-fedi work on influence campaigns in federated spaces. Many thanks!

This is a nice step forward, but how about we nationalize healthcare and eliminate billing entirely?

Naysayers, I previously lived in both UK and Canada and was hugely relieved to have zero copay and zero billing in each. As our population ages this becomes increasingly important.

Biden aims to scrub medical debt from people’s credit scores https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/09/21/breaking-news/biden-aims-to-scrub-medical-debt-from-peoples-credit-scores/

For the record I have thought that #neuralink was a huge grift since I first saw the sample recordings in 2019, and the nightmarish damage from implants described in the Wired piece demonstrate that even the one thing they actually invented, that robot that supposedly did very low impact implants, also was a fraud.

Sorry for the twitter link (havent rehosted my archive yet) but if you look closely at the sample data they presented, it looks like the probes were broken/bent or otherwise mechanically or electrically compromised
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1161547549460836353

A #Washington Special Education School That Was Accused of Harming #Kids Is Now Barred From Taking New #Students
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A state investigation into Northwest SOIL, launched following a Seattle Times and ProPublica series that highlighted problems at the school, found “unacceptably high” use of physical restraints and isolation rooms.

#Education #SpecialEducation #Teachers #Schools #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-special-education-school-faces-state-restriction?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post