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That's what happened during the #Trump years, when rail lobbyists secured the repeal of a long-overdue, hard-won safety regulation that would have required rail companies to replace the Civil-War-era brakes on their rolling stock with modern #ElectronicallyControlledPneumaticBrakes (#ECP):

jacobin.com/2023/02/rail-compa

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Why isn't this prick already sitting in prison for fraud?!🤬

Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant. This imperils land they claim is theirs. #Russia has a rich history of ruining their own land, "we will out die you" seems their doctrine. #Ukraine
npr.org/2023/02/10/1155761686/
h/t @morgfair

@micahflee @chargrille @jesusmargar @atomicpoet so when I search someone by the name I know them by, like a journalist or pundit, and find a matching account in Mastodon with a few old posts that now seems dead, it might be a defunct account from before they migrated to a different server?

@JoyceResistAndVote I have an active account and I see we have a lot of shared interests. Let me know if you have any favorite recommendations for follows, too.

Hi everyone!

I'm #newhere and I'm doing a #twittermigration , so any of you tired of the #GQPClownShow and their #BloatedOrangeIdol , I would appreciate a follow!

Anyway, now that a ton of journalists are flocking back to Mastodon... you should read my article about how all your articles about Mastodon "slumping" were bullshit. techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-r

@panther_modern @SocialistStan @leemadgwick did you learn nothing from last decade? A lot of fake news is laughably sloppy, just a parade of red flags for anyone who looks twice, from dodgy urls to wildly improbable claims to scenes that aren’t even from the right country and have visible signage in the wrong language. But they get thousands upon thousands of shares and interactions anyway. It only has to be believable for a second to do damage.

@go_shrumm @leemadgwick but unfortunately, as the legal and psychology fields know but few others really understand the extent of, eyewitness memory is actually complete garbage, and it was a glimmer of hope that technology was just starting to move society away from such complete reliance on it.

Once AI works out how to do hands then this deepfake crap is going to be one of the biggest problems the world has faced. It has the potential to be extremely damaging and we are sleepwalking into a nightmare with this. I hate everything about it.

It appears that the panic over egg prices was an ovary action.

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