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Lozer T. User on X: "Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, https://t.co/NMV53kcV69, and others to" / X Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, https://t.co/NMV53kcV69, and others to

I do not have resources to cross-check and verify this, but this does seem like somewhat of a lead

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Analysis from me:

I would not be surprised if this was a reference to changes in U.S. federal policy. Project 2025 revealed a keen investment from Trump admin in the censorship of pornography through controlling institutions responsible for accessing it

Unclear without any further info

Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy

I'm seeing fewer posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation, and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

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and people are wondering why artists are so mad àï stole our labor

this is why they want it so bad
our labor has value

You know what's funny about Chris Pratt

If you saw him on twitter, you had his number years ago. People who are asshats who do social media, show themselves to be asshats over time pretty quickly.

That's a great thing about social media, imo.

FAFO Still In Full Effect At Target As Foot Traffic Continues To Decline For Retail Giant Since Target decided to eliminate its DEI initiatives, Black people have been standing on business. The corporation continues to decline.

🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.”

Heads up, anti-DEI investors

www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...

However bad you think Facebook’s leadership is, however cynical and venal and opportunistic, they are worse.

a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

There are too many things to be mad at, plz, my poor brain

We gotta get back to calling our representatives tomorrow with 5calls.org, for this and everything else that’s happening right now 💀

Because it cleared hurdles, yes, but support for this is shaky (even for some Republicans) and with enough continued outrage we CAN sink this ridiculous proposal!

to be clear, Iranian Parliament has voted to allow the Security Council to make the determination, apparently not every country just takes major geopolitical decisions based on one guy's mood swings

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“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It” In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native groups face a triple threat on voting rights: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to enforcing it, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

Bolts has heard from several Native voting rights groups that have been forced to downsize, as some foundations and donors fear funding democracy work. Says an advocate: “There is a huge effort to attack our democracy and our rights as Native people." boltsmag.org/voting-...

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.

Do you get it yet?

This is who the Dems are prioritizing over a diverse coalition that agrees on one thing

NOT HIM

Oh you asked chatgpt? I asked Mothman and he said yes. We're getting married in August.

A US federal judge has ordered the release of 20-yr-old US citizen Adrian Martinez who was kidnapped by Trump regime forces.

Miller Law Group: "Adrian did nothing wrong, and was standing up for an elderly janitorial worker when he was violently assaulted and abducted by masked federal agents.” #3E

the pope is setting the church up to make catholics pick a side, and good for it, what’s the point of being the pope if you can’t flex political and theological muscle

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Local man blissfully unaware he’s picked as kill during every game of Fuck, Marry, Kill OSHAWA - The game of Fuck, Marry, Kill is a popular social activity where players are presented with three romantic options and must sort them into the titular categories as they see fit. Unfortunatel...

Local man blissfully unaware he’s picked as kill during every game of Fuck, Marry, Kill

Hello my darling chaos children. The world is on fire, but let's focus on a little bit fun right here and now. Today begins the #RomComBracket!

Friends. Trans rights are under attack.

I've started fundraisers to help two great organisations do the best work they can:

The Transgender Law Center (USA)
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Gendered Intelligence (UK)
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Donations go directly to the charities.

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

Now this is the stuff

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

Big news from Chicago today, as ICE began raids.

A story in Bolts a few days ago on how immigrants rights groups in Chicago worked to shore up sanctuary protections heading into this week and build up support among city leaders: boltsmag.org/chicago-immi...

Inspiration quote of the day: Fuck ‘em! on a background photo of a sunset over the ocean

Will January ever end? 😭

YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS) Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in conversation on 'SOUL!' (PART 1) | ALL ARTS Vault

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGk... a 1971 conversation between Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin