Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

It's interesting when you start an alt account and stumble upon an account you need to mute and then remember you did the same thing to the same account on your main.

THIS IS THR BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

Listened to a segment on NPR the other day about violence and safety in the US from a regional perspective. Can you guess the safest regions? The most violent regions?

Safest is the NYC Metro area
Followed by the Great Lakes Region

Most violent and dangerous?
The Deep South
Appalachia Region

The GOP Gaslighting that NYC is dangerous is utter nonsense.

Fascinating to be asked to present my driving licence in order to exercise my right to vote, in a country that now does more to safeguard against statistically negligible fraud by voters, than it does to assure the integrity of candidates for public office.

Billionaire who is a donor to conservative causes reportedly paid the private tuition for a child of #SCOTUS Justice Thomas. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

In Q1 of this year, Procter & Gamble raised prices by 10%.

They weren't alone.

Nestlé and Kimberly-Clark also raised prices by 10%. Coca-Cola hiked prices by 11%. Pepsi jacked them up by 13%.

This is what corporate price gouging looks like.

Really? The Fed raises interest rates again when we face a banking crisis, manufacturing is slowing, politics is more unpredictable than ever, and inflation is down? Big mistake.

I keep hearing people say
that they cannot believe
they caught COVID in 2023
and while I wish them
a safe and swift recovery
I cannot help but think
that it is precisely because
they could not believe
they could get COVID in 2023
that they wound up
getting COVID in 2023.

Spot on: "Since it seemed to only impact groups that society already deemed undesirable there was no urgency to develop effective testing, treatments or vaccines (for HIV/AIDS). Jade Elektra says she’s seeing the same thing being done with COVID using misinformation."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxvqy/hiv-covid-survival

@luckytran Really egregious

Hospitals are no longer required to report hospital-acquired COVID to CDC, as the US goes into full #COVID denial.

https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2023-04-27-cdc-streamline-hospital-covid-19-data-reporting-requirements

A doctor from the WHO
notes: “the virus
continues to evolve
and will continue to evolve
because the virus
is circulating
pretty much unchecked,”
and while I do not mean
to be unfair, I had thought
that ensuring viruses
do not circulate unchecked
was the WHO’s responsibility

The missing X factor in the "Trump can't win" narrative is that the media's shrugging and mockery of Trump's Big Lie has resulted in the #GOP's brownshirts terrorizing honest election officials and state lawmakers coast to coast. Democrats now have to be able to win an election run by traitors, hacks, Russian assets, overt racists and outright fascists. #politics

GOOD.

White House says 'will not negotiate' on US debt ceiling extension

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/335656

Your reminder

CNN is the one that pitched twice-impeached, criminally-indicted former-President Trump

They went to him

Boycott CNN if you haven’t already. Hot garbage.

The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition. They won't have any.

"Woke."

"Critical race theory."

"Cancel culture."

"Socialism."

They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.

Republicans are coming after a Nebraska state senator who stands against antri-trans legislation

The complaint against Sen. Megan Hunt states she could benefit financially from the failure of LB 574

A measure that bans gender-affirming care for those under 19

…Her child is trans. That’s the “financial benefit”

Maybe we should take a look at the stock purchases, kickbacks and rubles the republicans have?

GOP Glass houses.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=49961

Oh look, we are now calling peaceful protests "mob action" and deeming it a "threat to democracy"