Steven BeschlossGlad to be here where I think people can tell the difference between mindless ad hominem attack and actual discourse involving opposing views. As for the bird app, increasingly another story.
Janelle Rogers
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Just a girl who believes in the power of grassroots activism to improve communities. Known to work on political campaigns and sometimes even manage them. Currently an MSW student at UMich, while running a music pr co. I'm a busy girl.
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Heidi Li FeldmanAs regularly as people in America suffer mass shootings, I will insist: Contrary to the views of Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, gun manufacturers, gun sellers, and groups that front for the gun industry, nothing in the Second Amendment overrides the basic purpose of government - to ensure public welfare. We are not constitutionally required to tolerate semi-automatic guns nor the sale of weapons of war into the civilian market.
Aphrodite (recharging)If you come to the #fediverse to seek fame, rethink your objectives.
Place isn’t built for that.
If you come to #mastodon to seek community, you’ll be doing much better.
If you come here to be as simply and authentically yourself as possible under the circumstances, you’ll be just fine.
Kinda cool to find others I didn’t know I’d want to find and that others who didn’t know they’d want to find me do find me.
Tinu - Empress of TwerkLeaving isn’t your defeat.
It’s to the shame of the space that refuses to recognize they have blocked your equity.
But it still building the road that leads back to the opening of fascism.
That should worry people. Because again it’s not just the red hats and the cross burners.
It’s liberal spaces that cannot bear critique & disguise the rejection as rule breaking, thus the fault of the justice worker.
I want to be happy here.
But my Black friends keep getting banned for doing justice work.
Or just... Existing.
At a much quieter volume than I do.
If people didn’t know me or who I’m connected to, would I be gone by now too? 😔
How do you exist in a world where your cultural norm is frowned upon?
Why do I always have to compromise with the oppression dynamic
or get removed? 😭
It’s painful.
And there’s no reason to it.
And all the “solutions” include bowing to that same dynamic.
Goodbluevia NBC News
Supreme Court allows release of Trump's tax records to House Democrats
Dr. Jack Brown 
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
#ElieWiesel
#Quotes #Fascism #EmotionalIntelligence #Oppression
Mike Masnick ✅
Dudadius :: Bryan Rheude@emptywheel Yea, deactivating feels like getting the latest Covid booster.