George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Over the weekend, Nazis were marching in the streets of Madison, Wisconsin. They felt emboldened by an increase in antisemitism and the poisonous words of Donald Trump. This is in America in 2023. We must stand up to hate, to fascism, and to political violence of all forms. No less than the future of our country and what we leave to our children and grandchildren is on the line.
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ProPublicaEddie Alfred Jr. is the mayor of Fenton, #Louisiana.
He also presides over its #court, which handles traffic tickets that make up a large part of Fenton’s revenue.
The village attorney said Alfred runs court fairly.
Listen to the mayor below: "Our main income is traffic tickets, and they ain't getting written."
This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. If You Fight Your Ticket, the Mayor Is Your Judge.
Fenton, population 226, brings in over $1 million per year through its mayor’s court, an unusual justice system in which the mayor can serve as judge even though he’s responsible for town finances.
Gwen Snyder is uncivilMost people radically underestimate the role that misogyny played and plays in online far right radicalization, and Gamergate was *the* critical turning point for the far right using online misogynist culture as an on-ramp into the far right.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgwmdz/paul-pelosi-attacker-gamergate
flexghost.Joe Manchin
Caught on tape trading oil company donations for killing the filibuster
Lives on a $220,000 yacht insured for $700,000
Drastically changed the infrastructure bill
Killed social safety net bill
Opposes any legislation hurting coal and oil
Destryoed a federal minimum wage proposal with Sinema
Makes 4 times his salary from coal kickbacks
His daughter rasied EpiPens cartridges 6x
Son is a coal barron
…said he would “absolutely” consider running for president.
Meet Senator Ray Holmberg
Republican
He served for 45 years as North Dakota state senator
And now he’s facing federal charges of traveling to have sex with a minor and receiving images depicting child abuse
Exchanged 65 emails via a prison messaging system with a guy who was arrested on charges of receiving illegal images
While chair of the senate appropriations committee he spent over $100,000 in state funds on overseas trips
His day job: school counsellor
What’s the P in GOP for?
Meanwhile in CanadaCanada had our worst fire season ever recorded this year.
Australia's fire season is just starting and it is devastating.
The scale of fires in NW Australia is an area bigger than Western Europe has been on fire at some point over the last 6 weeks.
Stay safe down under.
The man-made climate breakdown is 1000 times more costly than getting off fossil fuels.
The time for talking has long past. We need to move quickly to transition. Canada has a lot of work to do on this front.
The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain
Molly Whitethis time mag interview with michael lewis is really disappointing. he likens those who panned his book to a "mob", doubles down on his book being a "letter to the jury", and suggests that the two options available to a jury are acquittal or "lynching".
https://time.com/6321668/michael-lewis-sam-bankman-fried-going-infinite/
Steve Herman“In the Gaza Strip, hospitals are running on back-up generators with fuel likely to run out in the coming days. They have exhausted the supplies WHO pre-positioned before the escalation. The life-saving health response is now dependent on getting new supplies and fuel to health care facilities as fast as possible.” - World Health Organization statement
Zach WeinersmithThere should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.