Today on the first day of Women’s History Month I learned that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%🤯
The "strong 1950s family unit" that the GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.
But maybe that's GOP's goal all along?🤔
#WHM2023
This is brilliant data-infused journalism:
Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/
Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them.
Of course, they're proud of it.
I prefer this narrative:
Much like AOL and Compuserve, Big Social belongs on the dustbin of history.
The whole notion of a walled garden social network where one company controls both APIs and social graph -- that's obsolete.
Asking me to join your Big Social app is like trying to sell me dial-up AOL service.
We don't need—shouldn't want—an army to wage war on our fellow citizens. We need peace. We don't have it. So, our keepers of the peace have failed.
So they are a failed institution.
So we should end it. and re-imagine.
If we don't want that, we can't be thought to want peace.
Musk and his minions have reinstated the account of one of the nation's most prominent bigots. This is not remotely surprising to anyone who's paying the slightest attention.
I remain surprised, and disappointed, that so many people in the journalism world still choose to use that platform -- knowing that they are supporting people who want to see the U.S. become a right-wing dictatorship.
Journalism has options, but most journalists ignore them.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
J.M. Berger
Dan Gillmor
Laura Howes
Chris Trottier
The Volatile Mermaid
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆