Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

Firstly and most obviously: the clothes are uniform.

No two people in a black bloc will be wearing the same getup, besides black and a mask. Some wear hoodies, some snoods, some baseball caps. Some wear trainers, some walking boots and some Docs. I often wear hoodies and army boots because it's what I'm comfortable in.

You will frequently see people turn up to black bloc wearing battle jackets, or band hoodies, despite these being a bad idea because they identify you.

These fash are all wearing exactly the same clothes. Exactly. This is a uniform and it means someone bought it for them (edit: or they have a supplier they all buy from, and enough discipline to ensure they all obey.) Either way this means there's organisation and money behind it, and while these fash might be the very visible front line, they're also just part of a larger machine.

Congress could vote on the KIDS Act as soon as tomorrow. The bill would pressure websites to determine users’ ages, and more broadly moderate lawful speech. We’re urging lawmakers to vote NO: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.

Happy #crypto #billionaire and unprosecuted pedophile day, everyone! Remember, today signifies our freedom from a king’s tyranny!

#4thofjuly #trump #epstein #nokings #ice

With the photo of the EXPLICITLY FASCIST marchers in DC going around today - particularly the one of them on a bus with one black woman looking towards the camera - please remember:

THIS IS EXPLICITLY A FASCIST FLAG.

Yes, there's pre-fascist history of the fasces. There's also pre-fascist history of the swastika, but that doesn't make _it_ not fascist either.

It was the symbol of the Italian fascists of Mussolini:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Party

And several other explicitly fascist parties since:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism

Their flag is an _explicit declaration of World War II-style fascism_.

A lot of fascists around Shitstain and his followers pretend they aren't fascists. These guys put it on a flag.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

A 12 year old child in the United States or Canada and arguably in many other countries can get the highest level of a ham radio license and theoretically build or service a 1500 watt tube amplifier. This exposes them to lethal voltages. They are however forbidden from participating in “social media”.

The problem isn’t the children, it’s the tech bro billionaires and their non stop harvesting of your data.

If you’re buying pickles in the US this week, just know that Mt. Olive Pickle Company did humanity a solid and pulled out of the Trump fair bullshit when they learned that North Carolina’s booth had a confederate battle flag on it (which, incidentally, was never flown over North Carolina during the confederacy…).

Nothing says #July4 like a big juicy slice of watermelon. An average watermelon weighs 15 - 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 100°+ Riverside County field like these workers who formed a human chain of picking and passing the watermelons to the trailer? #WeFeedYou

A story for gardeners to start us off this weekend:

Many years ago on the British radio staple, Gardeners Question Time, one of the guests was a rich landed estate owner (and aristocrat).

From the audience came the Q.: what would you recommend planting in a small garden... the answer:

'Even in the smallest garden one should endeavour to have at least an acre of woodland'.

And there you have it: the rich have little idea about the lives of the rest of us.

#gardening #class #politics #radio

This 20+ year sheriff allegedly told his deputies to target Latino residents and referred to them as “taco eaters.” Now he could be ousted in a country that’s grown increasingly competitive.

One of the most noteworthy elections these midterms for ICE policy — these local races are pivotal. https://boltsmag.org/alamance-county-sheriff-terry-johnson-shannon-long/

White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion

Cash bail turns freedom before trial into a transaction: those who can pay go home, those who cannot stay locked up.

As America marks 250 years, Jeremy Cherson asks what democracy means when liberty depends on wealth.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bail-funds-jail-prison-america-250

@lawyersgunsnmoney lol it's a sticker!

On this beautiful sunny day, I am thankful for scientists.
Thank you scientists. You make the world a better place.
🙏

Minnesota Nice. It's a thing. It's real. On this holiday, while our plumber has plans with his family, and other folks have plans with their families, they are opening a warehouse an hour away, so that we can get our water pump fixed today after a lightning strike yesterday.

😭 tears of gratitude.

Happy Birthday to American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 - Dec 12, 1921), who discovered the relationship between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables (pulsating stars) which allowed calculation of celestial distances and vastly expanded our understanding of the size of the Universe.

Check out the thread at
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112730752792756072
1/n

A centrist Democrat just complained to me that Democratic socialists alienate him with our progressive policies. Cry me a **** river. Blocked.

I have to read headlines about how DSA might cost Democrats a seat. I never read headlines about how centerist democrats cost Democrats seats by blocking progressives. Even though that happens far more frequently.

Be careful to my friends in DC. Looks like this racist nationalist group of cowardly assholes are going around the capital.

#dmv #politics #uspol #4thofjuly #july4