Liberal Old White Guy

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Yes, it is very dark right now, but to find the light you need not go back. To find light you have to go forward. The darker the night, the closer is the morning, and a few have reached the morning. You can see the sunlight in their eyes, you can see the flowers of their being blossoming. You can feel the fragrance that is released. So it is only a question of a little more patience, a little more courage.

🤬🤬 I get that many people believe that unions can do no wrong, but I find this👇unacceptable...

Mount Sinai Hospital continues moving infants out of NICU, diverts ambulances and postpones elective surgeries ahead of planned nursing strike.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/business/mount-sinai-nursing-strike-update-sunday

I rarely do resolutions. My thought on it is that if I decide to change something in my life, I don’t need to wait until the new year to try. However, this year I woke up and decided that I need to cut people who continually hurt me out of my life.
#2023
UN seeks #ICJ opinion on #Israel’s illegal #occupation of #Palestine. The resolution will see International Court of Justice give opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
https://aje.io/ikiof8
UN seeks ICJ opinion on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine

The resolution will see International Court of Justice give opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.

Al Jazeera
A military supply base in Murmansk...
More and more "straight" men are finding Trans porn erotic. Will that lead to more acceptance in the physical world, or more ostracization?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pornhub-year-in-review-queer_n_63a3c922e4b098c9b2059255
Let’s Talk About Pornhub's Massive Uptick in Searches For Trans Porn

Pornhub's Year in Review revealed the site’s searches are getting a lot more queer — but is it about liberation or fetishization?

HuffPost
🤬🤬 The US Military mandates a dozen other vaccines for all enlistees. Making a special exception for the highly effective vaccine against the RAMPANT COVID-19 infection is IDIOCY!!!
-- U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, after the mandate was lifted under an $858 billion defense spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law Friday by President Joe Biden. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-vaccine-mandate-military_n_63a62926e4b0cbfd55dbc65a
New Law Ends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For US Troops

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

HuffPost
While I get your concern about bigness & commercialism, *I* see a small instance in which none of the users make controversial posts as quite immune from blocking. *MY* worry is about instances of any size getting entirely blocked because of some users who post things that are within Federation rules, but that some people don't like: nudity (even with CW), opinions on one extreme or the other of the political spectrum, advocacy for controversial causes like #BDS (boycotting Israel).

New: Adam Schiff responds to Elon Musk suggesting he might have approved "hidden state censorship" as House intel chair.

"No, I don’t support censorship. That is a fanatical stretch even from an (outgoing) CEO whose tenure at Twitter has been marked by a dramatic increase in hate speech."