Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Try boosting her toot, I hear chicks dig it

Hey, everyone. Quick #introduction since I'm new here. I'm a high-profile mom loving and raising a trans kid in Texas. I'm currently suing Gov. Greg Abbott after he directed CPS to investigate my family because of it. (info at https://www.aclu.org/cases/pflag-v-abbott)

Twitter got real weird real quick, so I'm hoping Mastodon can be a safe space for me to shine a light on the ways you can stand up to #ProtectTransKids. Thanks in advance for the follows. Let's get to work.

#twittermigration

What Musk is doing at Twitter right now is clearly a demonstration of power -- that is, his ability to be a capricious dictator of the platform he controls. He is the opposite of a benevolent dictator. He is fomenting extremism and hatred, and mocking his always obvious lie about believing in freedom of expression. He and Twitter are a clear and present danger to the rest of us.

Friends should be telling friends to stop supporting this increasingly evil man and company. Now.

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible

Woah. Watching Twitter abuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.

In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming

Trump claims he sold 45,000 sets of his tradin' cards. That's 44,999 sets to Saudi Arabia and 1 set to Charlie Kirk.

Good morning everyone.

Thank you, Philly! The mask mandate for schools is returning on January 3.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/philadelphia-schools-will-require-masks-us-covid-cases-spike-2022-12-15/

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #BringBackMasks

This holiday season remember that the cancelled child tax credit—which slashed childhood poverty by 30%—would've cost only $1.7T over the next decade, while the ever expanding Defense Budget will cost around $9T over the next decade.

Children are suffering and starving now because corporate bought politicians would rather by bombs than bread.

We can thank GOP & Manchin/Sinema for this cruelty and grotesquely misplaced priorities. A reminder that our standard must be justice above all else.

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

In case anyone needed a reminder, the Republican Party’s economic record is atrocious. All but four of the last 17 recessions over the past century have come under Republican presidents.

The idea that the GOP is some force of economic strength is absurd.

@TransitBiker @alexpostfacto @therobburgessshow

I'm really hoping to see some big names at NBC/MSNBC use their platforms to speak out against NBC's suspension of Ben Collins for daring to tell the truth about Elon Musk tonight.

NBC should be *defending* their journalists right now as he bans truth-tellers, not coddling Musk.

Few shots from my visit last week to the impressive Maya show at the Met. Well worth a visit.

NBC has suspended Ben Collins - who was reporting last night on all of the journalists Elmo was tossing of Twitter.
Ben is on mastodon at @oneunderscore__

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/newsrooms-are-scrambling-to-counter-elon-musks-bans

Reminder to new users: If you have a cat you are required to post a photo of the cat.

Include the hashtags #cats and #catsOfMastodon so I can find, I mean... so people can find them.

Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

#fediverse

After diverting millions in TANF welfare funds to sports celebrities like Brett Favre and Ted DiBiase, Mississippi left $47 million in federal assistance for low-income families with children unspent in 2020.

Missisisppi has a 19.4% poverty rate.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29742/mississippi-left-47-million-in-aid-to-poor-families-unspent-prompting-calls-for-reform

"The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to vote on urging the Justice Department to pursue at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection."
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-00074411