Today is 30 days that the US military has occupied Los Angeles.

The fiscal hawks never for a moment think of the absurd amount of money being spent to terrorize civilians, children, harass families—all to satisfy the ego of an aspiring fascist. This is not freedom. This is tyranny. And unsurprisingly the NRA is nowhere to be found because they were never actually about anti-tyranny, they were always about pro white supremacy.

Watching Democratic Party leadership campaigning against Zohran Mamdani instead of Trump’s giant fascism bill, and the New York Times adopt an internet Nazi troll as its de facto editor to go after Mamdani, all because of some milquetoast democratic socialism, all in the span of about a week, is such an astonishing confirmation of everything the left has been saying about these institutions for decades.

Like…it would have been difficult to script such a pitch-perfect meltdown over a brown guy who wants free buses in New York City.

This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.

You decide which is the important news.

With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:

If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.

They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. metalhead.club). No information about the user!

I've enabled this setting, because I am sure that it will increase awareness of Mastodon's existence. 💪

Edit: (in previous versions, Mastodon did not send referrer-Headers)

#mastodon #mastoadmin

#Via Laura Jedeed
@laurajedeed
July 7, 2025, 7:52 PM

"One thing about Americans is: we don't like to be told what to do. We're pathological about it. It's a genuine problem sometimes.

If masked gunmen ride into town and start issuing orders, a LOT of people are going to have a problem with that, regardless of who they voted for.

If the United States decides to declare war on its own people, so be it. They can't defeat an insurgency overseas and they can't defeat one here."