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There are things that we as individuals can do to improve the world. As consumers we can boycott companies that are still supporting #Russia and help the #Ukraine Here’s a list of companies still active there that we can target. I don’t have the reach that most of you do. Can you please boost this and I’ll figure out how to do polls so we can run a poll of what companies to start with. We can make a difference.

https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain

Over 1,000 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia—But Some Remain

Saving Local News Could Also Save Taxpayers Money

Restoring the journalism jobs lost over the past 20 years wouldn’t just be cheap—it would pay for itself.

The Atlantic

Moms for Liberty exists in large part as a means to sneak violent white supremacist extremists into school government settings under the guise of protecting white womanhood, and that threat persists.

At the same time, it's a huge relief to see their efforts at takeover failing so spectacularly.

https://www.wired.com/story/moms-for-liberty-ziegler/

Moms for Liberty Is Tearing Itself Apart

One of the Republican Party’s most successful grassroots organizations is being torn apart by scandal, including accusations of sexual assault.

WIRED
My biggest pet peeve is restaurants/gigs/events or venues of any kind which have a social media page instead of a website. I don't have fucking instagram, so I literally can't see your menu/lineup? Even if I had instagram, it's an entirely inaccessible format so would be fucking useless? These platforms are for promotion, not for hosting vital information.

I joined CNBC for a (somewhat heated) discussion of what's driving inflation and whether billionaires should be taxed. Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKbxC-W4F4

Why Do We Let Billionaires Get Away With Not Paying Their Fair Share? | Robert Reich on CNBC

YouTube
Social Security Official Drops Truth Bomb On Boebert After She Criticizes 'Delinquent Employees'

Isn't she tired of always being wrong?

Comic Sands
This is a statue located in Berlin, entitled "Politicians Discussing Global Warming."
Not sure if many of you are in my homestate of #Wisconsin, but we have a huge new update on #COVID19 in wastewater, and it shows infections are exploding in the state. We're almost at the highest rate of COVID infections in two years, and we're still probably four weeks from the peak of this surge. This is based on preliminary data (in the gray bar at the right), but if that continues, we'll be at the second-highest rate of COVID infections of the entire pandemic within a week.

Sen Whitehouse is a hero.

Via Sen Sheldon Whitehouse

You just watched every permutation of Republican obstruction: first, invoking the 2-hour rule; second, trying to deny a quorum; third, interrupting the vote with points of order; fourth, a general walk-out.

It shows how *desperately* Republicans want to prevent Americans from seeing what’s been going on between the right-wing billionaires and the gift-taking justices. It has to be really bad to trigger that barrage of procedural weapons.