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This is the MOST DANGEROUS event so far in the country's lurch to fascism.

This is a Republican governor telling right-wing fascists to start shooting.

He's saying it is OK now, no one will hold you accountable if you murder "those people."

"Texas governor seeks pardon of man convicted of murder in Black Lives Matter shooting"

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-governor-seeks-pardon-man-convicted-murder-black-lives-matter-shooting-2023-04-09/

#fascism #civilwar

Texas governor seeks pardon of man convicted of murder in Black Lives Matter shooting

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital.

Reuters

The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses.

It's 43 pages long, let's go through it 🧵

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748821/1242/1/ftx-trading-ltd/

#FTX #FTXcollapse

Exhibit A – #1242, Att. #1 in FTX Trading Ltd. (Bankr. D. Del., 22-11068) – CourtListener.com

Exhibit(s) (Notice of Filing First Interim Report of John J. Ray III to the Independent Directors on Control Failures at the FTX Exchanges) Filed by FTX Trading Ltd.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A) (Pierce, Matthew) (Entered: 04/09/2023)

CourtListener
Elon Musk Paints Over ‘W’ On Twitter Sign At San Francisco HQ

When a photo appeared online last week showing the ‘W’ covered up on the sign outside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, many assumed it was a photoshopped image. But CEO Elon Musk appears to have confirmed it was real on Sunday night and he’d like Twitter to be known as “Titter”.

Forbes

$800B, and that doesn't even address health disparities, property unjustly taken by the government, or devaluing Black businesses. This is just a small demonstration of how bad systemic racism truly is.

#reparations #ReparationsNow

https://www.kcra.com/article/reparations-black-californians-could-top-800-billion/43452974

Honest Government Ad | Safeguard Mechanism 3/3

YouTube

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should always be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Mark W.rites - Hashtag Accessibility, by Everyone for Everyone

My post about hashtag accessibility on Mastodon (and later LinkedIn) got a lot of attention. There were so many replies from people who didn’t know about the a…

Mark W.rites
The more I see otherwise smart people going around maskless the more I come to the conclusion that maybe some people just like getting sick and think the rest of us do too.

Also, for the last time:

Elon's own texts, released in court, demonstrate that he bought Twitter as part of a fascist plot to control the narrative and restore noted fascist propagandists to relevance and thereby put reactionaries in power.

So for the last time? It really doesn't matter if you think he's a fuckmuppet shitposter. It's literally a matter of public record, revealed in court, that he's a fuckmuppet shitposter with a fascist plan...

Three active-duty Marines who work in intelligence -- one of whom allegedly espoused support for a second civil war -- were arrested this week for breaching the US Capitol building with a mob of Trump supporters on January 6 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/marines-us-capitol-riot-arrest