Steve

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retired professor of religious studies. I fled twitter and found mastodon. What now?
Tootfinder
While searching for a Canadian dishwashing liquid to replace my American brand I came across this site https://madeinca.ca/ and am posting the link here in case anyone else might find it useful.
Made in CA | Canadians, spend your money wisely.

The made in Canada resource to quickly find Canadian products, services and retailers, so you can use your dollars to support the Canadian economy.

Made in CA

Excellent article, with a plan for how to stop Trump and Musk's power grab and attempt to destroy our democracy.

How to stop Trump’s power grab

https://www.vox.com/politics/399530/trump-power-grab-musk-protest-resistance-strategy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fliberal

How to stop Trump’s power grab

Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.

Vox
Calls are growing for protests outside of #Tesla dealerships and beyond on Saturday, February 15th, 11AM. #TeslaTakeover teslatakedown.com
@jorgecandeias @pluralistic When I think about how I picked digital cultures as my field of study bc I wanted something safely obscure & out of the way🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Went w/digital sociolinguistics topic for my diss (mid-2010s) & can't remotely convey how depressing it was to watch speech patterns in far-right disinfo take shape on social media in real time. Spent 2020 just shouting into the void. SIGH.

On Rachel Maddow’s show, she showed how red state economies are beginning to be demolished by Elon Musk’s cuts in Federal subsidies that prop them up.

Republicans, avoiding constituents, sure aren’t acting like they will have to face free, fair, and honestly counted elections in ‘26, ‘28, and ‘30.

It's not hyperbole to say that some people you know and love will become sick or die because of what the Republicans did here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/13/robert-kennedy-hhs-secretary-confirmation-vote

RFK Jr. confirmed, elevating anti-vaccine activist to nation’s top health post

The Senate held a final vote on whether to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary after a three-month confirmation fight.

The Washington Post

Donald Trump now has the highest disapproval rating ever recorded in the first month of an American Presidency since polling was introduced in the 1950s.

— Simon Rosenberg

#LoserTrump #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

To X or not to X: Halifax debates leaving Elon Musk-owned platform behind | CBC News

How is this open to question?

Leave now!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-council-x-elon-musk-debate-1.7457135?cmp=rss

> Amid a changing relationship between Canada and the U.S., staff with Halifax regional council will be looking at whether the municipality should continue using the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X.

To X or not to X: Halifax debates leaving Elon Musk-owned platform behind | CBC News

Amid a changing relationship between Canada and the U.S., staff with Halifax regional council will be looking at whether the municipality should continue using the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X.

CBC

Someone mentioned PRESERVING data that a #FOTUS and an the unelected #Billionaire Muskhole, would like to take away from you.
Before data gets scrubbed from
#NOAA

The Office of General Counsel provides legal advice and counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
https://www.noaa.gov/general-counsel

And their PDF file index is:
https://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/
Knock yourself out

#USA #Censorship

Remember Marko Elez, who wrote the "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.", “Normalize Indian hate” etc tweets, got a job at DOGE, and got given “read only” access to US Treasury systems?

It turns out he was given read/write access in error and it only noticed a day later. There’s a forensics operation going with his former laptop now (he resigned) to see what he did with the access as he was unsupervised.

https://therecord.media/treasury-fully-aware-of-risks-posed-by-doge-access-to-database

Treasury was ‘fully aware of the risks’ posed by DOGE access to payment systems, court filing says

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was accidentally given the ability to edit a sensitive Treasury payment database, but he never did so and the mistake was quickly corrected.