Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

From the same state that celebrates Robert E. Lee's birthday on MLK Jr. Day. And the same state that refuses to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Fuck him. And his racist state.

#BlackMastodon
https://share.newsbreak.com/6qjfqtfb

You can pick the sadist nazi narcissist who promises to put millions in camps, seeks SCOTUS approval to assassinate rivals and murder any he wants when he’s told you he has a VENDETTA, or you can pick the other guy who does some tangibly good things, even if there are other things we’d like to not happen or change, and doesn’t THREATEN OUR VERY LIVES.

My husband is saying that the G20s global wealth tax on billionaires should be called a "circulation fee" for taking money that much money out of circulation in the global economy. A hoarding fee.

How bad is the Supreme Court now? It’s this bad:

“It’s a rogue court, a thoroughly corrupt one, one that is so far gone in its corruption that it feels free even from the practical obligation to clothe its corruption for the sake of appearances.”

(Josh Marshall, gift link.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/peering-into-the-corrupt-courts-pretensions-and-corruption/sharetoken/mODEiFEfA3a3

#SCOTUS

What kind of person puts on a police uniform and says to themselves "I'll gladly go to a college campus and arrest kids there for exercising their free speech rights" ?

@tristansnell

Trump has become Nazi Grandpa Simpson.

How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis's Close Brush With Earth

"In about five years’ time, an.... asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit"

#News #Astronomy #Space
https://gizmodo.com/how-scientists-preparing-asteroid-apophis-flyby-earth-1851433340

WSJ - US regulators are set to seize Republic First Bancorp. https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/regulators-set-to-seize-troubled-philadelphia-bank-republic-first-f138401c?mod=hp_lead_pos1

@randahl
I wish @P_Kallioniemi would post in the #Fediverse!

"Trump hasn’t just captured the trenches of conservative America, he has taken the commanding heights. He owns all of it, from the most racist backwater saloon to the Federalist Society clubhouse. They are his corrupted subjects. He is their corrupt and demented king. If he can somehow get through the next few perilous months, he may yet render corruption sacred, and the republic irredeemable."

~ F. Wilkinson

#Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-26/donald-trump-supreme-court-justices-corruption

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-26/donald-trump-supreme-court-justices-corruption

Hey new followers, welcome!

We can walk away from systems that don't serve us, including social media systems! We can experiment with reestablishing networks after they are disrupted too - that's a good thing to know how to do in these times.

Things you'll find me posting about:

#climate
#health
#equity
#resilience
#multisolving
#systemsthinking
#gardens

Apropos “Happy Birthday Melania”: Trump and his Slovenian escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for her immigration papers. How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities, despite her blatant lie under oath about college degrees?

As Jonathan V. Last says, Trump is the great revealer. For years, conservatives claimed they were all about the Constitution as written, the rule of law, the judiciary not legislating.

Turns out – with the Supreme Court leading the way – that this was all a big lie. The Supremes are a charade, and corrupt to the hilt, the right-wing bloc controlling the court. (Those are my words, not Last's.)

#Trump #SupremeCourt #crime #immunity #Constitution #democracy
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/conservative-legal-philosophy-was

@photos_floues @cstross

When billionaires have less free cash, they have less money to spend on far-right political parties, anti-democracy media outlets like Fox News, and on buying decisions from publicly corrupt Supreme Court Justices.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers

Life After X: Journos Who Ditched Elon Musk’s Twitter Speak Out https://www.mediaite.com/tech/life-after-x-journos-who-ditched-elon-musks-twitter-speak-out/

#SocialMedia #X #Twitter #Journalists #Journalism #Xitter

Outspoken™️:

This is what presidential immunity looks like

Truly spectacular how universities "couldn't do anything" about literal Nazis giving speeches [and leading to actual violence including shootings] but they're now banning students (including many Jewish students) from their grounds for being "antisemitic", and just casually ruin their lives.

European Union Surrendering Fediverse Voice To Threads via @darnell@darnell.day https://darnell.day/european-union-surrendering-fediverse-voice-to-threads?pk_campaign=rss-feed

"A lot of people forget that the Kent State shootings were popular. Antiwar protests were disapproved of by a supermajority of Americans polled until the waning days of the war itself, and really only rose in common estimation much later on."

~ Timothy Burke

#StudentProtests #Israel #Palestinians

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-on-the-inside