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Once again, Russia's strategy is to assume #Ukraine will run out of bullets before Russia runs out of soldiers.

And thanks to Russian assets Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson, it may work.

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to world security, and should be treated as such.

journa.host/@timkmak/112264152

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"Louisiana High Court: It’s Priests’ “Right” Not to Be Sued for Abuse
"The state Supreme Court ruled that priests have a 'property right not to be sued for #sexually #abusing #children

Story reported by multiple sources, including The New Republic
newrepublic.com/post/180677/lo

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Brian Broome (on another platform) wrote:

"I was just reading the story about the woman who left 1,000 dollars in tips at a #taco joint because she thought she was gonna be #raptured.
When she wasn't, she went back to the taco joint and demanded her money back accusing the servers of stealing it somehow.
And I'm really hard-pressed to think of a better analogy for the state of American #Christianity."

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Fuck the Confederacy.

“To defend their system, elite southern enslavers rewrote American democracy. They insisted that the government of the United States of America envisioned by the Founders who wrote the Declaration of Independence had a fatal flaw: it declared that all men were created equal. In contrast, the southern enslavers were openly embracing the reality that some people were better than others and had the right to rule.” - Heather Cox Richardson

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

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#FourYearsAgoToday

April 13, 2020 – Trump held a 2½-hour news conference in which he attacked the press. “You know you’re a fake,” he told one reporter. “Everything we did was right,” he said. He also incorrectly said that the power to reopen the country rested solely with him, not governors. “When somebody is the president of the United States,” he said, “the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s got to be.”

#AreYouBetterOff #TrumpMustLose2024 #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive #VoteBlue

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This is your weekly reminder that a lot of people are really, really, REALLY not okay.

My $0.02.

Take care of yourselves, internet people who live in my phone.

YMMV

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I want to shout out a big THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has supported the launch of my new book. You are seen and appreciated!

Inspired by the gift of a vision during prayer, the book was written to create awareness and understanding of our place in the universe.

52 FULL COLOR pages, 8.5" x 8.5," hard or soft cover. High end! 80 lb paper.

BOOK: artwanted.com/deborahleague

#writingcommunity #writing #illustration #art #artist #artwork #books #fedigiftshop #giftideas #writers

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Between 1978 and 2022:

-Worker pay grew by 15%

-Top exec pay jumped by 1,209%

Major US CEOs are now paid 344 times more than their typical employees.

When I say corporate CEOs are exploiting labor, this is what I mean.

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@bronakins @Lon3star @GottaLaff

Feel like the wheels of justice are just grinding away slowly. Nothing with government ever happens at the pace we might like to see it happen, but that doesn't necessarily imply a conspiracy, just business as usual. Trump is doing everything he can to gum up the works, and is succeeding to a degree, but he is losing, and his day of reckoning is coming.

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Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

And fewer competitors means higher prices for you.

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Outrageous. “Duke University announced it is ending a full-ride scholarship program for Black students”

Duke admits 11% of the general applicants but 23% of legacy applicants—whose parents and grandparents parents were accepted during Jim Crow.

Duke didn’t even accept Black students until 1963. Now Black scholarships are banned but racist Jim Crow Legacy thrives.

This is America. t.co/dNK2Rst99y

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happy to report that since qoto.org's big instance software updates, elk.zone finally works! finally back using my favourite mastodon web client. still as nice as i remember from back when i was still on ye olde .social

thanks again for your work getting those updates done, @freemo! had a feeling it was some deprecation issue

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Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures. Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?

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The GOP Fascist Party, folks.

Via Scott MacFarlane:

A 71st House Republican has signed on to co-sponsor Rep. Matt #Gaetz's resolution to formally express sentiment of U.S. House that Donald #Trump did not engage in insurrection: Del. James Moylan (R-Guam)

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