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THIS! The reason most people grow to hate social media is because they absently let the algorithm take control rather than using it intentionally.

Folks don't use Mastodon bc you have to actually look for what you want to see and no algorithm is spoon feeding you, but that's why they SHOULD use it.

Shorter Fox:
We have martial law in the national capitol because a man who owns golf courses doesn't like to see poor people.

For any artists dealing with adult content bans, I want to encourage you to get involved in the sex worker rights movement. While illustration is not the same as sex work, we share many of the same struggles, and our fights will be stronger if we collaborate.

“Crime” as conservatives talk about it has literally been a conservative dogwhistle our whole lives akin to “protecting our children”. They care about neither genuinely, otherwise they wouldn’t be worshiping a pedophile who is also a convicted felon

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

hey if you're in Albuquerque and need to get gay married real quick because of the upcoming SCOTUS case, i am ordained. send me note through the contact form at nora.jewelry and we can meet up and get you married in a park or something

We've reached the "emails in which a DHS chief questions the loyalty of a General Office of the United States Army to United States because the general didn't do what DHS wanted"

Our pediatrician has been preparing me for this, but I am still SO angry

I've said before that I don't see how the Trump administration manages to achieve its immigration agenda without disrupting the food supply, unless it plans to use its concentration camps as agricultural labor camps.

And.

I am honestly starting to wonder if they have even thought that far ahead.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state

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Hey kids, you know how mommy and daddy have been able to spend time with you lately because our jobs can 100% be done at home? Yeah, that's about to end because commercial real estate owners need to prop up the values of their holdings by making everyone sit in traffic for an extra 12 hours a week

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing. - The Current A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have sued Georgia corrections officials, challenging a new law that prevents them from receiving gender-affirming medical care, arguing that it violat...

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Anas Al-Sharif’s final live broadcast before he was assassinated was about Israel’s forced starvation of infants in Gaza City.

In the past 24 hours, five more people have been starved to death.

Israel is starving Gaza and targeting journalists who report on it.

🤔Seems like every US city with a significant Black population will get its own very expensive and completely unnecessary martial law occupation under this administration.

LA was first. DC is next.

I'm not even going to do another thread about how this doesn't decrease crime. You already know.

Goldman: “We find that US consumers had absorbed 22% of tariff costs through June but that their share will rise to 67% … This implies that US businesses have absorbed more than half of the tariff costs so far but that their share will fall to less than 10%”

More inflation coming!

"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC."

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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Musab al Sharif wearing the classic blue PRESS vest. He is young and malnourished, a stringy youth with kind, sad, and steadfast eyes.

Musab al Sharif, just turned 19, also ascended to martyrdom in this brazen massacre by zionist oppressors. Nephew of Anas.

That said, I could really use some groceries and hopefully a mini fridge until we figure things out.

So I am going to be annoying and ask for help with this.

Is it possible to raise $150? That would cover a fridge and more groceries until payday

$phoenixcalida
Paypal.me/phoenixandwilliam

Just to put some things in perspective. The IOF has killed more Palestinian per month (more than 2,000 on average) since October 2023 than Hamas has killed in its entire existence (less than 2,000 total since 1987).

Pew survey data on approval of the public health response to COVID show that dissatisfaction was primarily felt by Republicans.

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

“He switched off his phone and said, he wants to sleep.”

A devastating time for AJ management and journalists, many breaking down in uncontrollable tears, on air, as they continue to report on the targeted killings of their colleagues in Gaza by the IDF.

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

i've talked about this before but i think one of the reasons you don't see much "pandemic art" is that we ARE still in it. we don't really know what might change and it has changed! so to set it during the pandemic you have to set it in a VERY specific place and time even WITHIN the pandemic