Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

It’s extra important for your Democratic senators to hear from you right now. Email your senators and tell them to confirm as many pro-democracy judges as possible before the GOP takes control of the Senate: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-your-senators-fill-every-judicial-vacancy-now?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) launched the Governors Safeguarding Democracy organization, a coalition to protect state-level institutions of democracy ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democratic-governors-form-coalition-to-safeguard-democracy-ahead-of-trump-term/

#Ubisoft recently released a #NFT game

I guess they're a few years too late to drain people's money by selling database entries with a link to an image :nkoFacepalm2:

Hope it doesn't have to be said but.. please don't waste your money on this! Rather donate it to the Mastodon project or server costs or whatever

Tennessee update: He’s acting fairly normal but still not eating. At the vet now; best guess is a liver infection, treated with antibiotics, but we need to get him eating first. (He’s lost a lot of weight and cats don’t do well on antibiotics on an empty stomach.)

So more fluids, more anti-nausea meds, more appetite stimulant — and blood work.

#CatsOfMastodon

Dump Twitter | The New Republic

“Shame, too, on any individual writers, academics, book publishers, and other honorable people, many of them personal friends, who continue to post on Twitter. Everybody is asking: What can I do to defend the principles under attack right now in the United States? You can get the hell off Twitter. Remaining there hasn’t been the moral choice for some time, but it really can’t be defended now. Please make this small sacrifice. If you can’t, what use will you be when the challenges get tougher? Because believe me: They will.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/188156/liberals-dump-musk-leave-twitter

Whew, sessions with clients have been ROUGH since the election. So many families split apart.

A 72 y/o lady told me she can’t wait for rfk jr to fix our healthcare and our food systems…………y’all I’m fucking terrified. Not gonna lie. The kooky juice is strong around here.

I don't know about the rest of you in the #WritingCommunity but I have been zero productive since the election. None productive. Nada productive. How is everyone else doing? Tell me about your writing wins this past week!

"The task for the Democrats is what it should have been all along: remaking the party into the party of the bottom 90 percent — the party of people who don’t live off stocks and bonds, of people who are not CEOs or billionaires like Mark Cuban, the party that rejects Elon Musk and the entire American oligarchy."

~ Robert Reich

#Democrats #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/there-was-no-red-shift-there-was

NEW WORLD ORDER

Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/go-bags-passports-foreign-assets-preparing-to-be-a-target-of-trump-s-revenge/ar-AA1u4Jzh?PC=EMMX01

For people worried about their following on X / Twitter, it's really truly not worth it.

I've left behind 74K followers. I don't miss having my content on there at all, and it has clearly *not* affected traffic even in the slightest bit.

It's been a week since my last content posted from the website to X, so I have a pretty good look at traffic now, there was literally *no* drop-off, and the first few days after leaving X traffic went up 🤷

The moment of the explosion (at 0:39) -which looks like controlled detonation- at the Ternivka dam near Kurakhove. After the explosion, water from the reservoir started filling the Vovcha river towards the villages of Bahatyr, Andriivka and Oleksiivka. According to local authorities, Kurakhove is not threathened by water.

Morning Good People! 🌄 Please remember that once you wake up, it’s a victory to be able to experience another day and the chance for new opportunities. Have a Tremendous Thursday folks!

"This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
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"Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/authoritarians-like-trump-love-fear-defeatism-surrender-do-not-give-them-what-they-want

CONTINUES…
Investigators quickly noticed that the attackers had been using NK guns as several were left around destroyed vehicles.
On the western axis of attack the Ukrainians didn’t wait, sending tanks of the 47th down the road to disrupt Russian preparations for that attack. This took the Russians by surprise, troops and equipment were destroyed and the tanks withdrew without loss.
Overall the initial attacks by the Russians have been a total embarrassment and NK troops clearly have no more skills or willpower under fire than their Russian counterparts.
Skilled and prepared Ukrainian defences, created based on learning how Russian forces operate and working that knowledge into real world situations tailored to every individual situation, proves how effective defences can work. Using surprise by unexpectedly spiking an attack before it begins in the right circumstances has also proven to be effective. Defensive warfare can take many forms and its real success is denying the enemy the critical strength it needs to overcome the defended objective. Keeping the attacker as far from their target and disrupting their effort to get ready to attack prevents problems before they begin.
Advance warning and intelligence gathering are critical at times like this.
Outstanding Ukrainian defence work, good communication and coordination skills, all matter when so much is at stake.
Whenever Ukraine gets it right the benefits are there for all to see. When it doesn’t the results speak for themselves.
Brilliant work by the heroic defenders.

‘The Analyst’
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!

VITAL SATELLITE CAPABILITY SECURED FOR UKRAINE

Finnish satellite operator ICEYE and German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall have signed a contract, funded by Germany’s Ministry of Defense, to provide Ukraine with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. This agreement expands Ukraine’s access to SAR data from ICEYE, which has supported Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion. The contract includes dedicated satellite capacity and access to ICEYE’s full satellite fleet, enhancing Ukraine’s reconnaissance capabilities.
The firms began collaborating in June, and Rheinmetall gained exclusive rights in September to market ICEYE’s technology to government and military clients in Germany and Hungary. SAR technology, effective in all weather and lighting, has been valuable to Ukraine, with ICEYE previously dedicating satellite capacity to Ukraine in 2022 and signing an extended cooperation agreement in 2024.
These systems can detect detail on the ground in astonishing clarity providing advanced warning of movements and monitoring fixed locations for changes.

‘The Analyst’
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!

11 November 1918 | A French Jewish woman, Victoire Jeanne Marx, was born in Brunoy.

On 20 July 1942 she was deported from Angers to Auschwitz in a transport of 827 Jews. She did not survive.

Just wanted to say to all mastodinians how much I have appreciated being able to endure these very tough times and last few weeks with you. I am cautiously optimistic we will all get to sigh a huge sigh of relief and celebrate with one another. #Mastodon #ThankYou #TeamTogether #Vote #AmericaCanDoThis #election2024