Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Good morning, Mastodon and #HappySundayFunday

Your whiteness will not save you.
Your money will not save you.

Fascists take what they want when they want from whom they want. Their ethos is steeped in Ayn Randian logic: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

Trump and his owners won’t stop until they are stopped. Vote for Kamala Harris; and then be prepared to defend your vote.

MiL and DiL just back from Canadia and brought us a lil pressie!

#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958/vasili-arkhipov-mutinies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Y’all some of the stuff people write on Facebook it seems would land them in hot water. Like this 70 year old lady in my town talking about she’s gonna citizens arrest democrats after the election, when in her imagination dump takes power. Like old lady, come on over to my street. I’ve got let’s say five households of democrats in a row in my very country/rural neighborhoods and we are those democrats you’ve heard whispers about. Promise we will defy your stereotypes.

If you're into facts instead of fear-mongering, here are some. https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/113233031352483904

PROTECTING THE VOTE!

It’s been a record-breaking election season in North Carolina already, as more than 2.3 million people in the state have cast their ballots.

Tens of thousands of those votes came out of western North Carolina, where concerns over voting came up immediately after Hurricane Helene devastated the area
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #HarrisWalz #USA #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-exceeds-two-point-three-million-early-votes-2024-election/

Via Adam Cochran:
..unsealed in #JackSmith filing:

-#Trump used a burner phone, routed thru foreign country to contact MI house speaker.

-He tried to pressure speaker in this off bc call.

-McCarthy knew about burner phone line.

-Phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID

If TFG thought his attempt to overturn election & forge elector docs were legit “official acts” why was he using insecure, foreign routed burner phone?
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"We know Trump hasn't paid income taxes in years, but to say he'd get rid of income taxes is beyond the pale, even for a criminal such as he.

Trump would give away his Mother if he thought it would keep him out of prison,"
- Aure

Trump says he’s open to eliminating income taxes and repeats ‘enemy from within’ rhetoric on podcast with Joe Rogan
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/politics/trump-joe-rogan-podcast-income-tax-tariffs/index.html

The Three Stooges

Via Kyle Griffin:

Liz #Cheney tells The New Yorker festival that she canceled her Washington Post subscription.
 
"It's fear. When you have Jeff Bezos apparently afraid to issue an endorsement for the only candidate in the race who's a stable responsible adult because he fears Donald Trump, that tells you why we have to work so hard to make sure that Donald Trump isn't elected."

@blogdiva Bezos had credibility? He’s been always an asshole.

82 Nobel-Prize recipients in science fields endorse Harris https://t.co/WJvSpYkshq

The spectacle of the LA Times and Washington Post includes something that undermines their credibility even more: the obvious lies they're telling to explain away non-endorsement decisions as something routine.

The Post's Will Lewis, in particular, has done more damage to the Post's already wounded credibility than anyone in decades -- maybe ever.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-military/ We won't survive another Trump presidency

"One week before the mortals finish voting and might elect an authoritarian, one whose former chief of staff calls him a fascist, the Washington Post has decided that silence is the best way to guide its readers.

Silence, after all, will not offend the authoritarian should he win."

~ Benjamin Wittes

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-bends-the-knee

Where are you, other transmasc people?! I can't seem to find very many AFAB trans people on the fediverse yet We have to be somewhere. I have to find others like me... There have to be other trans masc people who like art or Baldur's gate 3 or animal crossing or trains or tamagotchis or vegan stuff or anarchy/leftist stuff or maybe even all of those things. I can't be the only one. There's no way. I'm just so new though, I have no idea where we are.

I will now use a bunch of tags in attempt to find you all. Please, boost and/or follow me, and I will follow you, and we will be a big trans family. Bonus points if you're nonbinary :3

No minors as sometimes my art is NSFW (always behind a content warning though).

I originally said I wanted people who also liked things like kubernetes, python, and linux, but I decided to keep that stuff on my main account. Please feel free to DM me for that account if you wanna be moots on tech stuff too. :)

**updated to include a couple of other important notes x2

#transmasc #ftm #trans #transmasculine #transguy #transdude #AFAB #bg3

Today is your Loki Day!

Rate this pumpkin loaf.

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #LokiDay #LokiToots #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Catstodon #Cats #Cat #OneOrangeBraincell #CatLoaf

Jeff Bezos Overrode His Own Publisher to Kill Washington Post’s Kamala Harris Endorsement

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-overrode-his-own-publisher-to-kill-washington-posts-kamala-harris-endorsement/

Microsoft laid off 2550 people this year but raised the salary of their CEO, Satya Nadella, to $79.1m (£60.9m) - a 63% raise.

When did obscene CEO pay and obscene stock buy backs and predatory Private Equity buy outs become normalized? When did we stop even pretending to care about workers?

#microsoft #capitalism #billionaires #voteblue