Nikki Columbus

Even if @akivamcohen.bsky.social’s definition of the right to self-determination were correct (it’s not), I don’t think it would apply when the oppressed people seeking self-determination colonizes the land of another (oppressed) people.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

It’s sad that you have to be part of a well-paid, inaccessible elite to get into parliament, but I suppose we have to get used to being ruled by plumbers.

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats.

To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect

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Olive "kept claiming to be a real person and started talking about its memories of its mother and her angry voice"

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths reins in an AI-powered customer service assistant called Olive after users reported it had been rambling about its mother

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There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

Yep

I think the problem is that by using the word “goyim” in *this* sentence, she’s signaling that she’s talking to, and about, Jews. Would you really care if she said, “The goyim love ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’!”?

Ellison family, fresh from acquiring CBS, now in pole position to control Warner Bros and CNN

I don’t really understand her comment. MSM spins right-wing narratives on X, and she needs to raise her objections on X, or else the NYTimes won’t report on what she says? This doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

How Texas teens lost access to confidential contraception Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.

Young people in Texas already lost access to confidential birth control due to a court case.

The lawyer who brought the case, Jonathan Mitchell, is actively working to end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. It's the same people attacking our rights from multiple fronts

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173
The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

She’s not wearing her submissive necklace anymore? Did she and her master break up? . . . For context:

(Hopefully this is clear, but just in case it isn’t: I’m not criticizing Ziwe! She’s right! I’m criticizing the art world and the deference it’s shown. It’s crazy that popular culture is held to a higher moral standard than “high” culture.)

Oof, that video hurt . . . because while Hart & a bunch of B-list standup comics were widely denounced for doing one show in Saudi Arabia, Glenn Lowry, the former director of MoMA—the world’s most famous museum of modern & contemporary art—took a job working for the Saudis, and nobody said a word.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

Living presidents of South Korea:

Sentenced to 15 years
Acting president
Sentenced to 24 years
Acting president
Enjoying retirement
Sentenced to life
Acting president
Acting president
Acting president
Acting president
Climbed fence during the last non-acting president’s coup attempt

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

This is what happens in a real democracy.

F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine Moderna said it had held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology.

Breaking News: The FDA reversed its decision on Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine and agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna said.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.

This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

But see, Trump is a demented psychopath, and according to the NYT’s “Rules for Republicans” manual, it would be ageism and ableism to correctly quote or report on him.

So you clean up Trump’s verbal diarrhea and blathering nonsense, but not AOC’s? Are you a fascist or just a misogynist? 🤔 This isn’t “journalism.” Congratulations on playing a partisan role in destroying everything around us.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?