Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Harris must be the next president period.

#Vote early

Cats are so fucking good

#caturday cat tax payment below

Young Henry is at last dressed and ready to both roar and then adorably request treats on All Hallows.

#Cats #LionCostumes #roaring #AllHallowsEve #NotMyCat

If fascism comes to America in the near future, among the most culpable people will be journalists. They have -- with a few honorable exceptions -- refused to acknowledge, much less do something about, the imminent threat.

Even if Harris wins, the fascists will try to tear us apart, to destroy the nation so they can, later on, pick up the pieces. Most journalism ignores this.

I want to blame the bosses, but the people who work for them are collaborators, regrettably.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side-rejects-democracy

#Perseverance tried crab-walking the last stretch, as can be seen in the image below.

Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking W (270°) from RMC 60.3852
Sol 1295, LMST: 14:04:48

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01295/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1295_0781909277_675ECM_N0603852NCAM13295_04_190J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

"It is difficult to capture the nihilism of the current moment. The pandemic saw Americans, distrustful of authority, trying to discredit effective vaccines, spreading conspiracy theories, and attacking public-health officials. But what feels novel in the aftermath of this month’s hurricanes is how the people doing the lying aren’t even trying to hide the provenance of their bullshit."

#Trump #JDVance #hurricane #ClimateChange #fascism #lies #disinformation
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"Similarly, those sharing the lies are happy to admit that they do not care whether what they’re pushing is real or not. ...

What we’re witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they’ve built."

#Trump #JDVance #hurricane #ClimateChange #fascism #lies #disinformation
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4 October 1927 | Two Polish twin sisters were born in Komarów in Poland - Maria and Czesława Krajewska.

They were registered in Auschwitz on 5 February 1943. Maria (no. 34425) perished on 23 May. Her sister Czesława (no. 34426) died on 23 July.

They were 15 years old.

Elon #Musk has just called himself “Dark Maga” during a rally with #Trump. How can science or European government institutions still justify being active on X, a de-facto right-wing extremist propaganda platform?

Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.

They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.

What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?

There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.

So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.

#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/

"I just talked to one Senator that has had 15 calls TODAY about why we don't stop ..... ‘fill in the blank,’” said Kevin Corbin, a Republican in the #NorthCarolina #Senate - a state that is one of the hardest hit by #Helene. "98% chance it's not true & if it is a problem, somebody is aware & on it," he wrote on FB.

"I'm growing a bit weary of intentional distractions," he added.

#VoteBlue for #Sanity & #CommonSense #HarrisWalz2024

Democrats didn’t weaponize the weather, but Republicans weaponized the Supreme Court.

Jack Smith should really indict all the GOP traitors in Congress too.

America needs a government that works for the people, not for Putin.

No, #Biden didn't take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but #Trump did.

"Even though Trump was once president, he still appears to have little clue about the appropriations process. What's even richer is that when he was president, he did exactly what he claims Biden did — take money from FEMA’s disaster fund to fund migrant programs at the southern border." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/

In order to ensure the continued survival of humanity, we must tax billionaires into extinction.

"F*ck Russia, F*ck Iran": FEMEN held a protest near the Iranian embassy in Kyiv

“The blame for the deaths of Ukrainian women and children from Iranian drones lies not only with Iran and Russia – it lies with all those who remain silent, who do not act,” FEMEN activists condemned the international community for its indifference to the Ukrainian victims.

During the action, the activists symbolically attacked the embassy building with "Iranian weapons" - "mopeds".
#AureFreePress #News #press