Xitter/Meta refugee (she/her)

Unlock Hidden FM Radio on Your Phone: Tunes Without Wi-Fi or Data Listen to FM radio on your phone without data if it has an FM chip with the right app, providing reliable access during emergencies or network issues.

Quite a few cell phones have fm radio receivers in them as well, so if the cell towers are down (and you know how) you can tune in to a civil defence channel.
Here's an instruction set.
www.lifewire.com/use-fm-radio...

My MIL doesn’t have a cell phone. They used voice recognition using her landline to take all her savings. It took months to unravel the mess at the bank to access her funds. I couldn’t imagine her with a cell phone. I am not a senior & I struggle to keep up.

My biggest gripe with tech is every issue now you get a bot that wants to “chat with me”, but keeps asking questions that don’t lead to resolution
Voicemail designed to delay.
Or enter all your info by number pad and a rep comes on and asks for the same info again!

I’m not old and nothing irritates me more than going to a restaurant and having to scan a QR. I just don’t. I came out to socialize and get off my phone. Spend time w/friends and family, and they’re forcing me to get back on my phone. I DON’T want to.

My cranky Dem neighbor, a 90 year old grad of Brown and Harvard Law School, can only watch news on TV.

He simply can’t figure out other platforms.

He gets increasingly frustrated when I come over each day and tell him the news that’s NOT on MSNOW or CNN.

He’s like “how come I don’t see it?”

Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication

Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan

Feel like if a publication is going to give a former Trump official column space to write about the SCOTUS master plan, it should inform readers that the author was the spokesperson for the DOJ during Trump I.

Insane to me that known liars get plum writing opps.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time.

The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.

I guess now that Trump got the FIFA peace prize and strapped the medal around his neck he can expand his murder operation in the Caribbean with more gusto.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.

Tesla makes up less than 2%.

The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold Food Stamps From Democratic States

This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.

Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.

It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,800 people – and some have been arrested again President did not follow the usual review process, experts say, making it more likely they would commit other crimes

Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,800 people – and some have been arrested again

President did not follow the usual review process, experts say, making it more likely they would commit other crimes

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

it is insanely dishonest to characterize the reaction to the most corrupt pardons in american history as pro-police and pro-prison. fuck off

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?

You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”

I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

37% of Republicans can go fuck themselves.

These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.

Inequality is eating the whole world alive.

No "two different realities" bullshit. One side is calling for release of the video, and the other is not.

At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.

Sounds like … a good argument? 😵‍💫😬

Here’s every Democratic ad for the midterms. 👇

Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast here, with Mark of the Beast Financial Services!

Brought to you by the guys who pardoned all the other guys

So unserious

We almost don’t even need to intercut this with all the guys they pardoned because it just happens in your head automatically as you watch this absurd performance

And once again the power of the US government will be used to represent a private company owned by the single largest donor to Trump campaign to leverage foreign governments.