Alisa BokulichFinally visited the Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Homestead & Museum in Amherst, where she wrote some 1,800 poems at this remarkably small desk in her bedroom.
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Covidiocracy#MAGA #Republicans are so obsessed with #HunterBiden's #penis, they're willing to break the law to spread pictures of it all over the internet.
I bet Ron Dee Santis has a copy printed out and hanging in his office...
Ars TechnicaMusk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill
Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.
br00t4cPoor Marge. Turns out nobody likes her, not even the Freedom Caucus
https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/06/poor-marge-turns-out-nobody-likes-her-not-even-the-freedom-caucus/
Poor Marge. Turns out nobody likes her, not even the Freedom Caucus - Digby's Hullabaloo
Lolololol! QAnon congresswoman-turned-GOP House leadership darling Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) membership with the House Freedom Caucus has been in question ever since she laid down her life/remaining dignity to back House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in his speakership race. Since then, she’s been picking fights and at odds with members of the rebellious faction for being too tight with the establishment
Twitter Death Cult
Trump Judge Bars Biden Admin From Flagging Disinformation
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/trump-judge-bars-biden-admin-combatting
How Ron DeSantis Turned Covid Denialism Into a Major Political Weapon
JR Buckley 🏳️🌈⚛️#Atheists Urge Supreme Court to Protect Free Speech Rights on Social Media - American Atheists #SCOTUS https://www.atheists.org/2023/07/lindke-v-freed-amicus-brief/
Atheists Urge Supreme Court to Protect Free Speech Rights on Social Media
Washington, D.C.—The nonreligious civil rights watchdog organization American Atheists is urging the Supreme Court to protect the free speech rights of atheists—and all Americans—to challenge Christian nationalist lawmakers and other government officials on social media. “Atheists are the most politically active group in America, and we have just as much of a right to challenge Christian nationalist lawmakers online as we do in person,” said Geoffrey T. Blackwell, Litigation Counsel for American Atheists. “Yet time and time again, government officials deny us our freedom of speech when they block us from their official social media accounts or delete our comments challenging their views.” More specifically, American Atheists is asking the Justices to establish a clear standard for determining whether a government official’s social media posts are personal or governmental, as the organization laid out in its amicus brief on Lindke v. Freed. The lower-level circuit court rulings are contradictory and have established different criteria for when to consider social media posts private or official, the brief explains. Currently, American Atheists and other free-speech defenders, as well as government officials themselves, must go through burdensome litigation to know whether a post creates an official government forum for free speech purposes or not. “People should be able to know, when they speak, whether or not that speech is protected by the First Amendment,” said Blackwell, who wrote the amicus brief. “The current situation is confusing, unworkable, and chills free speech.” In 2016, American Atheists filed a free speech lawsuit against Bradley County, Tennessee, and the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff told a local newspaper that he planned to use his position as sheriff to proselytize. After the sheriff’s office posted the newspaper article on its governmental Facebook page, commenters began criticizing the sheriff’s statements. The sheriff and employees of the department began blocking critics and deleting negative comments while keeping favorable comments on the Facebook page. Ultimately, Bradley County agreed to settle the lawsuit, paying a total of $15,000 in damages to American Atheists and the local plaintiffs, Joshua Stevens and Jane Doe, for interfering with their right to freedom of speech, as well as $26,000 in attorney’s fees. In 2019, American Atheists filed another free speech lawsuit, this time against Christian nationalist lawmaker Jason Rapert, an Arkansas state senator at the time. The organization represented its members in Arkansas, including four individual plaintiffs, whom Rapert unconstitutionally blocked from his official Facebook and Twitter accounts after they criticized his positions on several issues, including abortion and government endorsements of Christianity. In 2022, American Atheists announced a successful settlement against Rapert. As part of the agreement, the state of Arkansas paid American Atheists more than $16,000, and Rapert was forced to immediately unblock the plaintiffs from his official social media accounts. “Blocking atheists from official government forums created on social media is discrimination, pure and simple,” said Alison Gill, Vice President for Legal and Policy at American Atheists. “When officials use their social media to conduct government business and create forums to receive feedback from constituents, those forums must be open to everyone, not just those who agree with the officials’ religion […]
Mike Masnick ✅This is dumber than even I could have predicted. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads
My shocked face: 🙄
DeSantis Using Same White Nationalist Rhetoric as El Paso Mass Shooter Who Slaughtered 23 in Anti-Hispanic Hate Crime https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/07/desantis-using-same-white-nationalist-rhetoric-as-el-paso-mass-shooter-who-slaughtered-23-in-anti-hispanic-hate-crime/
DeSantis Using Same White Nationalist Rhetoric as El Paso Mass Shooter Who Slaughtered 23 in Anti-Hispanic Hate Crime
At 9:00 AM Wednesday inside a federal courthouse in Texas, the sentencing hearing for 24-year old white nationalist Patrick Crusius began, as CNN reported. Crusius in February pleaded guilty to 90 federal charges, half of them reportedly hate crime charges for his 2019 mass shooting slaughter of 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, which […]