Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@qoto.org

"When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-fox-news-tucker-carlson-incitement-of-violence-1234722133/

Excellent Post reporting on what can happen to any American county when the fascists take over and the rest of us let them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/22/ottawa-county-commission/

About COVID complacency and denial :

We have not gone back to the “old normal”. The pandemic is not over. We are now in the transition to a “new normal” where COVID is everywhere (even if we ignore it) and the health system is under strain even when “at rest” and at high risk during outbreaks.
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#CovidIsNotOver @auscovid19

Maybe if we start calling it Unborn Baby Earth instead of Mother Earth republicans will be more concerned with its well-being.

The wealthy 1% will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest
They always have
They always will
Class warfare is the symptom of a ruling class that do not serve the peoples interest. Its self-importance threatened as we speak up for the oppressed
#Resist #Anonymous

Yes, Ms Smith, yes it does
#AbPoli #ABLeg #VoteNDP

I guess I’ve wondered for a while now how we will know the moment when fascism has unequivocally arrived either in the US or UK.

There were Jews who recognised that same moment in 1930’s Germany and made escape plans.

I’ve just witnessed a number of GoFundMe pages on here for trans people to escape from the states they had long called home.

That moment is no longer a theoretical possibility, it’s sadly arrived. We can’t just pretend it’s not happening. We need global action.

it literally took the US tech press the better part of fifteen years to realize musk was an unremarkable rich brat cosplaying as a supergenius engineer, which says more about our press than it does musk

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293

How long as a society are we going to endure living like this?

There is a website that posts job listings for companies hiring Christians only.

I can't believe this is legal yet here we are. I kind of can understand churches, certain schools, etc, barely, but stores, retail and others?

It reads, "Christian employment opportunities in fields such as sales, accounting, teaching counseling, marketing and more. Our job search engine will make your Christian job search easy!"

A cutie in the drawer 🐾

#caturday #cat #blackcats #blackcat #kittens #kitten #cute #cutecats #cats #catsofmastodon

I love this. It's like a poll of Democrats saying we prefer helping poor people to banning books.
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Poll: GOP voters say fighting "woke" ideology more important than stopping Social Security cuts
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/poll-republican-voters-trump-desantis-2024