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Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…

I know Cory Booker has done something great here because rightwing trolls are working overtime to downplay it.

RIP to one of the bona fide greats

How many Tesla’s should we throw in the Boston Harbor?

Sign of the day…

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

I like to slide envelopes with black and white photos of random people inside to strangers sitting on park benches and say "make it look like an accident" before quickly walking away.

Here’s a thing that TikTok did that was new and glorious and captured that creative lightning.

I made a video talking to my goat. She’s hilarious. I posted it to TikTok.

Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I'm flattered. Who would've thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We're just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we're staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could've ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you've given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You've turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies.

@dansup.bsky.social , who is the founder of pixelfed, sent this letter to Mark Zuckerberg/Meta regarding their blocking of links to Pixelfed.

Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.

They’re challenging PREP?! Jesus Christ.

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."

Lina Khan really is That Girl.

YES! 🤣 I have seen many say they began learning it in kindergarten but don't get many chances to use it. Now they do! Yay!

It will but they are taking a long time. The sheer numbers of people downloading today are causing it to lag.

What is very interesting for me is seeing how many people are saying, oh you can post in English, we have learned it since early childhood. Meanwhile, we can barely read English as it is.

Exactly

Text from NY Times article: In a post this week to the @Pride group, Alex Schultz, Meta’s chief marketing officer, defended Mr. Zuckerberg and said topics like transgender issues had become politicized. He said Meta’s policies should not get in the way of allowing societal debate and pointed to Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case, as an example of “courts getting ahead of society” in the 1970s. Mr. Schultz said the courts had “politicized” the issue instead of allowing it to be debated civically. “You find topics become politicized and stay in the political conversation for far longer than they would’ve if society just debated them out,” Mr. Schultz wrote. He said looser restrictions on speech in Meta’s apps would allow for this kind of debate.

That strange sound you heard yesterday was 100s of historians of 19th-c North America reading their NY Times and choking as they came across a top Facebook exec's blithe claim that abortion wasn't "politicized" until Roe v. Wade in the early 1970s. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

Leslie Reagan's book is fantastic as well- When Abortion wasa Crime - 1996.

Having values and a belief system that is based on something more than angering your foes is good actually

F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.

The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

It was never about the price of eggs, it was all about racism.

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

Guns are the leading cause of death of children and teens in the United States.

I wish the establishment cared as much about their lives as they do CEOs.

Billionaires work very hard to keep the peasants distracted and divided so they never notice how badly they’re being SCREWED and unite against the billionaires.

I don't know how to feel about it. It's incredibly sad that he felt this was his only solution. That isn't right. I also feel incredibly lucky my own coverage is better. (That's ironically sad)

It comes from a place of love for our country and an understanding of our fight against injustice.
And I believe it needs to be said.

I don’t think that anyone in our country should be celebrating extrajudicial violence, no matter who is on the receiving end. No matter how awful they are or were.