Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

To refer to the FOTUS, who dodged the draft to get out of having to go to Vietnam and years later during his first term set 5,000 Taliban prisoners free so they could return to the battlefield as a delusional, blithering idiot is obviously a HUGE understatement.

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their posts. ATProto is clearly showing serious signs of weakness.

Do the people who love the Fediverse have the guts to admit we have poorly served the Black community and need to apologize? To take radical steps to show this place will be worth investing in for Black users who may want to leave Bluesky?

Now is the time to act and do so. If ever there was a time to put a massive amount of momentum behind the Fediverse, it'd be now. We should do it.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #Fediverse

Another story not making mainstream news

South Carolina judge beach side home burns to the ground as probe launched (judge has received death threats)

https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2025/10/south-carolina-judge-beach-side-home-burns-to-the-ground-as-probe-launched/

Zelenskyy said, that if Russia attacks Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Ukraine will retaliate. This video allegedly shows the moment lights go out in the Russian city of Belgorod.

It is going to be a long winter in Russia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/levremembers/p/breaking-trump-defies-federal-judge?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Sometimes, the people pushing you to the other side are not the ones on the other side, but the ones on your own side.

I decided Thunderf00t was wrong about Elevatorgate, and I only heard his side of the story.

The "authoritarian government has begun holding dissidents without revealing their whereabouts or acknowledging their detention. Two have turned up dead."

Oh, you thought that was about Trump's DHS? Can't imagine why.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/nicaragua-people-disappearing.html

In speech to Navy, Trump says: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

The definition of terrorism....

6 October 1938 | An Italian Jewish boy, Carlo Polacco, was born in Genoa.

In December 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

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