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Leftie, dogs x 7 (I KNOW OK!), no time for hate, a bit sweary, Australian- but fascinated by US politics. Proud Nipaluna resident.

Welcome to all the new users fleeing twitter! It's important to remember that the Fediverse (the correct term to describe what people frequently call "Mastodon") isn't Twitter and there are different social rules here. In order to avoid upsetting people who've been here for a while already, here's some guidance:

1. Become ungovernable
2. No snitching
3. Otherwise, do whatever the fuck you want

Hope that helps!

“Elon must be destroying the site on purpose he can’t be that stupid!” Last week a billionaire imploded, literally, because he thought he could outsmart the laws of physics. Never being told “no” makes a person stupid.

Teen sex trafficker Matt Gaetz is nominating for Speaker sex abuse enabler Jim Jordan in order to defeat adulterer Kevin McCarthy

Party of Christian family values, y’all 😆

Shouldn’t this be bigger news, given that LAND WAR IN EUROPE thing?

RT @[email protected]

A former aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was convicted Thursday after being found guilty of helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/trump-campaign-jesse-benton-russia

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1610442829901484033

GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel Russian money into Trump campaign

Benton, the husband of Rand Paul's niece and a veteran GOP staffer, faces up to 20 years in prison, but plans to appeal.

Axios

As he should, this was shameful: “Former ABC Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes has taken aim at Australia’s #media regulator and its capacity to oversee #JournalisticStandards, slamming its adverse ruling against the public broadcaster for an investigation into cable TV network #FoxNews and its coverage of the US 2020 election.” Via The Age

https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/journalistic-cluelessness-ex-media-watch-host-roasts-regulator-20230103-p5ca37.html?btis

‘Journalistic cluelessness’: Ex-Media Watch host roasts regulator

ABC Alumni chair Jonathan Holmes slammed the media watchdog for “needlessly” damaging the reputation of Four Corners over Sarah Ferguson’s Fox News report.

The Age

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Elon Musk Is Still Silencing the Journalists He Banned From Twitter

To you, it looks like Musk unblocked journalists like me. It’s an illusion: The truth is that we are still locked out of our accounts.

The Intercept

This actually exactly the point @[email protected]. Because power can be produced more cost effectively with renewables, the power companies are investing in them over coal. So you're correct. Do you have a problem with the free market? #auspol

RT @[email protected]

"Nationals PM" Barnaby Joyce uses his Santa voice to blame wind power instead of record coal prices.

Because only the fossil fuel companies are allowed to "make money, make money" under the LNP.

#auspol

Jo Dyer gives an excellent response to The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and her repeated attacks on women who dare to speak out. Especially on sexual assault:
“In Janet’s world this means that, despite Janet’s championing the right to free speech in every other forum, a woman is forever forbidden from speaking of her own lived experience, as a man’s right to an untarnished reputation trumps all.”
#RapeTrials #LehrmannTrial
#WomeninLaw #TheShot

https://theshot.net.au/general-news/janet-albrechtsens-anti-women-bile-lets-predatory-men-off-the-hook/

Janet Albrechtsen’s anti-women bile lets predatory men off the hook

"Nothing less than the erotic potential of the workplace is at stake"  

The Shot