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Good on NATO. Do not trust Trump, Musk or Putin.

859k is where our Mark Hamill is currently sitting. C'mon guys this is our mentor, our friend and a HUGE part of our resistance to the GOP and the Orange Orangutan! Let's follow and get Mark @markhamillofficial.bsky.social over the 1 million line. We can do this, lets go. Linda💞🧑‍🦼💞

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

I'm sorry I didn't mean that as a dig at you. I'm just so frustrated that people continue to act like he's just an outlier we have to get through for 4 years. He's not an outlier. He's the first wave.

Do you really believe it's only going to be four years of this? They are already setting things up so that the midterm elections will be nothing but going through the motions like with Orbán in Hungary.

The time to fight was right out of the gate in 2020 when the Biden admin gained control. Merrick Garland (among others) FAFO'd us. To my thinking, many people blundered and acted like all was normal again. It wasn't. We may be beyond repair. What country will fall to far-Right extremism next?

Literally, the same propaganda machine that ushered MAGAism into the US has been working on Canada too. Canada isn't the only other country being meddled with either, look at what's happening to democracies across Europe.

Literally, the same propaganda machine that ushered MAGAism into the US has been working on Canada too. Canada isn't the only other country being meddled with either.

I'm trying. With Threads/IG- They say my password is wrong. I reset my password. I proceed to delete my account. Again, they say my password is wrong. 🤬

Honestly, it's definitely been that way for 8-9 years. He sucks up all the oxygen.

The time to fight was right out of the gate in 2020. Merrick Garland (among others) FAFO'd us. We may be beyond repair.

FIRE to defend veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer in Trump lawsuit over outlier election poll FIRE will defend veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer against a lawsuit from President-elect Donald Trump that threatens Americans’ First Amendment right to speak on core political issues.

Proud to say that we'll be defending Selzer from Trump's latest SLAPP.

www.thefire.org/news/fire-de...

If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless

Not sure if it has to do with Meta's capitulation, Trumps' frightening press conference, or Marc Cuban's efforts, but Bluesky sign-ups are surging again today.

My message to Zuck

Please forgive my ignorance, what does this mean?

I don't want to assume your meaning when you say, "wokism." But I believe in a very broad sense, yes.

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

I've always written it out as MAGAts.

Yes! I did that this week too.

Here is what Kushner admitted to when he pled guilty.

Every western democracy is being assaulted by this technocrat-autocratic agenda. It will be hard for anyone standing against it to stay in power. It's a lose lose situation.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Canada Makes POWERFUL THREAT to Trump on TARIFFS

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Canada’s response to Donald Trump threatening to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.

The same folks pushing MAGA are operating in Canada. They plan to make it fail as well.

But if the US falls, Great Britain falls, France falls, and Canada (same folks that back US MAGA are operating there) also falls to the Russian influence peddler Musk, who can really stand against that kind of power?

Whelp, if England's following the same bought and paid path of the US it is not a good sign for the world at all.

The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration

Read this story - which is bonkers in places - about Patel from my colleague @epcalabro.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

People! It's not going to be just four years! They don't plan on ever giving up power. The sooner your brains absorb this reality, the sooner we might be able to course correct. It's not going to be pretty.