Jon Molnar

@cogspace
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Programmer, tinkerer, dungeon master, socialist. Originally from SoCal, currently located in Las Vegas. 🏜️
GitHubhttps://github.com/cogspace

Over the past few years all the major tech companies of the GAFAM have shadow-banned or literally banned most of the collectives using kolektiva.media. Now we've learned that the Turkish state has blocked access to our domain due to "distribution of terrorist propaganda". More than ever, the State, the cops and those in power want to keep revolutionary ideas and counter-information out of the mainstream.

This seemed like a good time to remind people that kolektiva.media is also accessible as an onion service using Tor Browser with the following link :
http://klktv54valq67z2llp6ew7cejyepqgcrnpaf2xhwlq7o64ufk5tb6kid.onion/

If you don't have Tor Browser, you can download it on the Tor Project website:
https://www.torproject.org/download/

If your ISP blocks access to the Tor Project website, you can visit this page for alternative ways to download the Tor Browser :
https://web.archive.org/web/20231107204733/https://gettor.torproject.org/

Furthermore, with all the mainstream social media algorithms showing us almost nothing but ads, you may feel like you're now missing some good anarchist content you were enjoying in the past. If it's the case, you can subscribe to a Peertube channel's RSS feed or also subscribe to the newsletters of different projects to never miss a video.

#anarchism #repression #censorship #tor

Case in point: If you're reading this and thinking "recent?" then, yes, the last 5 years are all extremely recent. If we can't have at least a 5 year horizon on what constitutes the near future, then we are lost at sea.

I'm concerned about the future of the Fediverse precisely because of the recent influx of people who see it as "Twitter 2."

Sure, more and more of those people are flocking off to Blue Sky, but we have to remember that they plan to eventually join the Fediverse (or a version of it) under ATproto.

It's not even about culture or values. It's about relationship to technology. Such a large number of people not "getting it" is a tidal force we must resist.

The huge antiwar protest for Palestine at New York's Grand Central Station was the kind of media event that the mainstream press should eagerly cover. They ignored it.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/mainstream-media-ignores-massive-civil-disobedience-for-palestine-that-shut-down-new-yorks-grand-central-station/?utm_content=buffer4275f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

No Labels is a dark money group with secret far-right donors.It’s not trying to find the so-called “middle ground.”

It’s trying to put Donald Trump back in the White House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9b2Z_UCM4M&ab_channel=RobertReich

No Labels Isn't What It Claims to Be | Robert Reich

YouTube

According to CPJ, as many journalists were killed in the first 11 days of the Gaza crisis as in the first 20 months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://fair.org/home/israeli-attacks-on-journalists-stifle-reporting-on-gaza-horrors/

Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors - FAIR

The ability of reporters to cover Gaza is jeopardized by the alarming number of newspeople Israel has killed since the crisis began.

FAIR

The #Mississippi Supreme Court Moved to Ensure Poor Criminal Defendants Would Always Have a Lawyer. It’s Not Working.
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Months after the state’s highest court directed judges to ensure that all criminal defendants have legal representation while awaiting indictment, one justice has acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.

#Courts #CriminalJustice #HumanRights #Crime #News #Lawyers #Law #Justice

https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-supreme-court-poor-criminal-defendants-lawyer?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Mississippi Supreme Court Moved to Ensure Poor Criminal Defendants Would Always Have a Lawyer. It’s Not Working.

Months after the state’s highest court directed judges to ensure that all criminal defendants have legal representation while awaiting indictment, one justice has acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.

ProPublica

"The numbers are likely to get much, much worse."

A new study shows that infant mortality is worse in states with #abortion restrictions, based on data that predates the fall of Roe v Wade. From our friends at Truthout: https://www.texasobserver.org/infant-mortality-abortion-restriction-states/

#news #politics #USpol #health #healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #RoeVWade #racism

Study: More Infants Die in States that Restrict Abortion

The same study found that the mortality rate for Black infants was more than twice that of white ones. From Truthout.

The Texas Observer

Featured story: As temperatures reached record highs, #USPS mail carriers say the agency doctored their training records to cover up the agency’s violation of its own heat-illness prevention rules. https://www.texasobserver.org/usps-worker-heat-death-safety/

#news #politics #USpol #summer #HeatWave #ClimateChange #environment #WorkersRights #labor

USPS Is Falsifying Safety Docs As Its Workers Die of Heat

Even after workers' deaths, the company continues to violate its own rules.

The Texas Observer
Finally deleted my Twitter account. I'm not sure where exactly the line is, but "paid promotion of genocidal regimes" is definitely past it.