Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

America needs a restraining order on the Republican Party.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/loss-federal-protection-idaho-spurs-pregnant-patients-plan-emergency-air-transport

What if your paper were retracted for no credible reason?
https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvae016/7654037?login=false

There can be no healing for America until Trump and his co-conspirators are held accountable.

Via Sahil Kapur:

#TRUMP, 2020: I hereby sign an executive order banning #TikTok in 45 days if it isn't sold, given threat posed by China. (The order gets blocked in court.)

TRUMP, 2024: "Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok."

A mass grave with 283 Palestinian bodies were found in at Nasser Hospital today.

A mass bombing killed at least 14 Palestinian children yesterday.

Columbia faculty is standing in solidarity with Palestinian & Jewish students who oppose the above war crimes.

And legacy media is largely ignoring it.

Do not stay silent. Continue to raise your voices for justice and accountability.

I don’t care if you like me, I want you to HEAR me.

You might think that even in today’s highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.

My latest.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-are-suing-for-the-right-to-harass-election-workers/

Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

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@david_megginson Actually, it's "If they can get away with treating you as the product, you're the product."

Sweden was protestant when we had a state religion. A priest hugged me and said you really get us when I said I hate myself more than I hate catholics. Of course I was seven at the time so I didn’t understand what he meant.

Another day of having to go to work and not just getting paid to do my #retrocomputing projects.

Jaundice submersible

#SynonymASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

Then I espied her visage!
Now I'm a devoté.
Nary a remnant
Of uncertainty in my thoughts

#SynonymASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

All antisemitism is abhorrent. But people need to know when they're being played. One of the richest and most powerful guys ever to live is building a Nazi minting machine and Republicans aligned with him want us all focused on Ivy league campuses to undermine the horror at Netanyahu's atrocities.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020

My favorite thing about the Internet is people who insist on attacking you for the straw man version of what they imagine you said. 🙄

Love Hillary, hate Hillary, whatever. But during the 2016 debates, she called Trump Putin’s puppet and said he “encouraged espionage against our country”. She spoke the truth, in public, straight to his orange face.

Lots of people owe Hillary Clinton — and America — an apology.

Thank the lord for Tish James. If you look at the research she did into this bond it made my head spin and I'm a math teacher. She understand all of these fancy finance games, and I guess you'd need to do her job in NYC. We have the worst/best "banking wizards" sometimes the break the laws of physics, sometimes they just break laws.

This bond is a stinker. I wonder what Trump promised the guy to let his company implode as sacrifice to avoid the full fee?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/letitia-james-says-company-put-162203280.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall