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Black & Green in the fracked wastelands of the Rust Belt. I'm the radioactive swamp witch they warned you about. Defend the Ohio Valley! #ShutDownTheCrackerPlant #sHellNo
PronounsShe/Her/Yinz
Living onOccupied Haudenosaunee land ("Southwestern PA")
Ecocideis Homicide
Land Backto First Nations

Here, in another year,
of this pandemic
we remember
February 2, 2020
as the date
of the US’s first confirmed
Covid death.

Let us hope, years from now
amidst another pandemic
that we do not wind up
remembering
January 6, 2025
as the date
of the US’s first confirmed
H5N1 death.

An infiltrator spent several years from 2021 in contact with multiple, interconnected and overlapping anti-government “patriot movement” groups in the Pacific north-west and intermountain west.

A trove of archived materials including chat logs, documents and media files, and has been made available here: https://ddosecrets.com/article/paramilitary-leaks

Paramilitary Leaks - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias including American Patriots Three Percent (APIII) and the Oath Keepers, collected by wilderness survival guide John…

Don't forget you can start ordering free home tests again today. It's 4 per household in the US.

https://www.covid.gov/tests

COVID.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests.

COVID.gov
getting incredible second hand embarassment from people with US flag in their display name
So, having mostly moved from twitter to mastodon, one thing I've discovered that I really like is feeding-the-trolls seems quite rare? Like, on posts I'll very occasional get someone behaving twitter-like (meaning a combination of assuming the worst and then speaking as if to a mob) and... here they're generally just ignored.
ADL report: anti-Zionism increasing at universities

A new ADL report seeks to smear anti-Zionist activism on college campuses in an attempt to stifle Palestine advocacy.

Mondoweiss
If writers approve tentative deal, work on some Hollywood shows could resume quickly. Here's all you need to know.#Entertainment #LabourRights #UnitedStates #US&Canada
Hollywood writers near end of months-long strike. What happens next?
Hollywood writers near end of months-long strike. What happens next?

If writers approve tentative deal, work on some Hollywood shows could resume quickly. Here’s all you need to know.

Al Jazeera

UAW members overwhelmingly granted union leaders authorization to strike during ongoing contract negotiations with GM, Ford and Stellantis, if warranted

The "strike authorization vote" is part of the union's constitution and viewed as a procedural step in the negotiations

UAW President Shawn Fain has been far more vocal than past union leaders about its ability to use work stoppages as a weapon in its arsenal against the companies during the negotiations
#AureFreePress

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/uaw-strike-vote-to-authorize.html

I'll never forget how, in July-ish 2020 a (different) NYT reporter publicly admonished me on Twitter for suggesting that her article was misinforming the public by arguing that COVID reinfections were improbable. I pushed back w/ evidence showing COVID reinfections were already taking place but that the CDC wasn't tracking on the data. She doubled-down. A few months later, I was proven right. She won some kind of journalism prize for her COVID stuff. Anywho, better late than never, NYT ⤵️