Steve West

Tom, there's a malicious phishing ad showing up when I visit the site on Android. Whatever is there forces a redirect (after a few seconds) to a third party site (gifts.modanova[.]shop) falsely identifying as Google with scammy text saying that I won because I made the five billionth search.

"It was ordained that Shibli Bagarag, nephew to the renowned Baba Mustapha, chief barber to the Court of Persia, should shave Shagpat, the son of Shimpoor, the son of Shoolpi, the son of Shullum; and they had been clothiers for generations, even to the time of Shagpat, the illustrious."

Pete Buttigieg: Infrastructure accomplishments & challenges in the Biden administration YouTube video by Ford School of Public Policy

"How can we give up? We don't have the right to give up. ... Somebody's going to be doing this, and you, your kids, and your kid's kids, will be living with the implications of the choices they made. Wouldn't you rather it be you?"

www.youtube.com/live/XHvkodQ...

I saw someone else also claiming they had been auto-subscribed, but I was not. I have never followed anyone in the events section and that remains true today. I never followed Biden there. Every place I could find in my settings has only the expected people/things added.

Yes, everything is falling apart and being torn apart. But that means you have many opportunities to build what comes next, and to play a meaningful part on the correct side of history.

This is the time to build. For everything that is destroyed or degraded, new growth must replace it. Facebook will no longer fact check or moderate content. New spaces will, and must, rise to replace it. Maintain strong connections with people you know. Share only information that you trust.

It's indeed sad. We need both hammers and scalpels. We need to know what motivates each group and speak to them in their language. Yes, it's utterly unfair that we have to do all the work and that it's easier to lie than to tell the truth. But we need to do that work, and we need to be relentless.

The trouble is, imagine if a year from now a "Truth National Emergency" is declared and "true information" is pushed through. Would you believe it, given who is sending it? Those lost to MAGA would not believe anything coming from Biden. It might even push them further away.

Kirk fought the Gorn. The Gorn was bigger and stronger than him. He fought the Gorn to the death because he was forced to. He did not cry or cower. Only in the final moment did he show mercy, and only then was he declared morally superior by the alien who set it all up.The MAGA movement is the Gorn.

USS Gilroy, garlic capital of the Federation

I see you, Captain! (After some scrolling, by going directly to your posts on the other place, I found your corresponding message over there. The tweets were NOT in chronological order)

I am unaccustomed to tweeting. I always was back at the old place too. I don't presently have much to say. Calls to action and appeals to hope. Now is the time for community building and unity in the face of onslaughts against our well-being and pursuits of happiness.