Charles JohnsonTwitter used to be a place where you could go when important news was breaking and find valid information.
Now it’s a shit pile of disinformation fed by terrible people and botnets, wildly out of control.
Atima Omara
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FOUR: If you want to help keep Virginia safe for #reprorights? There is a Virginia primary on June 20th. Learn more about Lashrece Aird who is working to defeat a current State Senator who has voted against abortion rights and consider making a donation to her campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbz8OHFmQ8
Aird for Senate TV Ad: Hard
ICYMI: South Carolina passed a 6 week abortion ban.
It should be noted that ONE: a lot of folks don’t know they’re pregnant at 6 weeks
TWO: Virginia is the last state in the South that allows #abortion up to 26 weeks
THREE: the Virginia General Assembly is up for election THIS YEAR
South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — South Carolina became the latest state to move toward a near total abortion ban Wednesday with legislation that if enacted would leave Virginia an outlier in the South as a place where women have unrestricted access to abortions amid a rapid rise in restrictions in the year since Roe v.
Sarah FackrellDon't listen to anyone who says "likes don't matter" on here.
Yes, it's true that there's no algorithm for them to feed.
But letting people you know that you like what they're sharing, that you agree with them, that they're not just shouting into an empty abyss? That matters.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽BREAKING: Justice Thomas and his wife Ginni have been using Harlan Crow’s Netflix password for years.
Today Rep Colin Allred announced he's running against Senator Ted Cruz in 2024
Love the launch video especially when he shows the type of leader he is and wants to be (eg.being the 1st Member of Congress to take paternity leave).
Check it out https://youtu.be/IzFWIuDqkCc
Our Team is Texas
#ralphyarl is only 16 years old. He played music in his school band, was a good older brother who was helping his parents by picking up his younger siblings. As a result of knocking on the wrong door he was shot in the head. As he may bleed, the shooter, a white man shot him again. After the police released the shooter from custody, they’ve FINALLY pressed charges. https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-charged-ralph-yarl-shooting/story?id=98643347
Just now: Both Tennessee Reps Reps Justin Jones were literally just expelled from the Tennessee State House of Representatives to which they were duly elected for doing their jobs and advocating for gun violence reform for their constituents.
They were told by one colleagues "they work very hard to protect the children of Tennessee"
Tell that to the families of the children dead from gun violence in Nashville or who have to do gun safety drills at school.
Mike Masnick ✅Oh, this seems pretty cool. Now that Elon has cracked down on the API and made tools like debirdify not work, @[email protected] has created Whosum, a browser extension to help make your social graph more portable. It currently "records" your Twitter connections and then highlights those on Mastodon all in your browser (not on some server somewhere). https://whosum.com/
In good news in American politics tonight, the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped from conservative to liberal (critical in the fight to protect abortion access in the state
Chicago elected Brandon Johnson, a county commissioner is a former school teacher and labor organizer who beat billionaire backed conservative Dem, Paul Vallas