Once open racism carries no real penalty, the law reorganizes itself around that reality.
That’s what is happening.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/18/trump-racism-truth-social-consequences/
"There is no fate, but what we make."
Do-nothing members of Congress can still be booted from their sinecures.
Vote for the fighters, ditch the fascists & do-nothings.
The "both-sides" defeatist narratives are counterproductive.
Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
https://www.istories.media/stories/2025/06/10/kak-telegram-svyazan-s-fsb/
English version by OCCRP:
http://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle
tl;dr:
👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.
👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.
I am quoted in this story.
1/ Late posting - my daily health/illness routine (+ rest) leaves only a few scattered hours of discretionary time, which vanished today finishing up some little tasks.
Slowly buzzing about like this bumblebee on our cotoneaster. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 11
Research on paid sick leave mandates in CA, MA & OR finds they increase employment by 1.2%, wages by $2,347/year & decrease poverty. The effects are largest for women w/ children, Black women and Latinas.
https://equitablegrowth.org/recent-research-shows-how-paid-leave-impacts-womens-employment-and-financial-security-in-the-united-states/
Also, the Biden administration is currently being blocked from enforcing new title IX rules that protect trans students. If Trump wins, Title IX won’t protect trans students anymore. They’ll just write new rules.
It’s so incredibly dangerous for people to be spreading the lie that the Biden administration is doing nothing for trans people.
And while trans people may not be put in physical detention camps, many will be forced to detransition. In my view that’s a form of genocide. YMMV
ohh england experiencing a little colonization and being real crybabies about it tbh
My kind of show!
@mekkaokereke it matters so much as well that the (pre-Trump) SCOTUS ended the votings right act for southern states…and with the recent gerrymandering situation, Nov is primed for major suppression.
We haven’t been a functioning democracy for a while now, and it’s actually somehow getting more pervasive and effective, which makes the “just vote” message so vapid
just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and a tech bro is twitching so hard he can't even plug this into the mediocrity machine so it can tell him how to respond
MAGA people: You just opened Pandora's Box. This means all presidents can be convicted of crimes. Republicans or Democrats. Bet you didn't consider that, did you?
Reasonable people: Yes idiots, that's the fucking point.
Who could have expected programmers would build something they call "AI" that can't restrain itself from answering questions that it doesn't know anything about?
horror writers, start your engines
you look sad here's a picture of a boxer crab a very grumpy crustacean who with minimal provocation will grab two anemones and use them like fists to fight
photo by Bruce Shafer
I was excited to read this study until I got to the sample...all men. So while the headline generalizes the findings, they actually have no idea about how exercise changes saturated fat metabolism in women because they did not study women. When reading studies, always look at the sample. Even today women are being excluded from health studies.
https://gizmodo.com/exercise-changes-saturated-fat-metabolism-study-1851481654
Oh good the two genders. Men in Black or Liberace
@lisamelton — obviously. The gateway to Mastodon.
@mekkaokereke —smart and kind. He has a POV I cannot and he shares generously.
@TheBird — another voice that brings a world it’s all too easy not to see
@StiIRise1963@mastodon.world — just endlessly plugging away at making the world better
@Teri_Kanefield — what it says on the tin. Informed legal opinions without hyperbole
But nevermind that IDF literally bragging in disgusting detail about killing Palestinians, college kids wearing kefiyehs are the ones promoting violence
Absolutely revolting
https://mefi.social/@cendawanita/111570965277450984
cendawanita@mefi.social - @izstranger here's an archive link https://archive.is/20231213002942/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-12-12/ty-article/.premium/graphic-videos-and-incitement-how-the-idf-is-misleading-israelis-on-telegram/0000018c-5ab5-df2f-adac-febd01c30000 @taylorlorenz