Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

American pharmacies are handing private information about their customers over to the police without even a warrant. Contempt for privacy -- with potential "criminal" consequences in anti-abortion states -- has never been more blatant, or dangerous.

As usual, Congress can't be bothered to give a damn.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998869/cvs-kroger-and-rite-aid-will-hand-over-your-medical-data-to-the-police-without-a-warrant

I apologise, but this is where we are.

#uspol #ukraine

After trillions of dollars, decades of research, many failed attempts, Elon lands on Mars, the first man on the red planet. As he exist his vessel, he sees etching on a nearby rock. It says “John Mastodon was here.” Musk falls to his knees and begins to weep.

#JohnMastodonDay

Trauma isn't a contest. Trauma is trauma

War is traumatic
Poverty is traumatic
Natural disasters are traumatic
Abuse/Harassment in all forms is traumatic
Abortion is traumatic
Loneliness is traumatic

There is no superficial scale that determines who has it worse, and therefore is more deserving of compassion

Trauma affects everyone differently

Everyone's trauma is valid
Everyone's feelings are valid
Everyone deserves help

Just because you dont understand it doesn't make it invalid or "fake"

As an officer of the court, you take an oath to uphold and support the Constitution of the United States.

Which means I'll be standing directly between any military force deployed under the Insurrection Act and the rest of the civilian population: Politically, legally, and physically.

If a Trump administration intends to install a dictatorship, they will have to kill me, because I intend to resist no matter the cost.

And I think there are many others that would as well, even if scared.

To be clear, Special Counsel filed two things today: a motion for certiorari before judgment (skipping over the DC Circuit) and a motion to expedite the cert petition consideration.

SCOTUS granted the latter, and ordered Trump's response to the former.

Docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-624.html

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #Fascism #VoteBlueToSaveEverything

Silicon Valley billionaires are drawing a line: you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question them or an enemy they’re ready to fight.

In his new manifesto, Marc Andreessen embraces faith and fascism to distract from the harms the tech industry has caused and justify the power and wealth of the tech elite. It shows why a renewed Luddite movement is absolutely necessary.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-religion-of-techno-optimism

#tech #fascism #future #politics

Is anti-Manifest Destiny always anti-American? A Fraught Question for the Moment

Is anti-White Supremacy always anti-American? A Fraught question for the Moment

Is anti-Genocide always anti-NYT stockholder shares? A Fraught question for the Moment

It never ceases to amaze me how bigots assume everybody else is secretly a bigot, too.

Clark Griswold Christmas Vacation decoration dummy

(h/t ytspmedia)

#ChristmasLights

2024 Missouri bill = covenant marriage law
When religions fail to enforce their beliefs through the church, they seek laws to do their job for them extinguishing rights of everyone, especially women.
A Theocratic Dictatorship is not Freedom!

Sources: NBC demanded Trump's campaign remove a video with audio deceptively edited to seem like it was from an NBC reporter after the third presidential debate (Semafor)

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2023/nbc-news-demands-trump-campaign-take-down-fake-clip-of-reporter
http://mediagazer.com/231210/p9#a231210p9

Weaponization of law enforcement, you say?

"David Weiss wasn’t going to charge Hunter with a felony on the tax charges. Then Donald Trump got involved, and Weiss and his team started getting intimidating messages, and he decided he would."

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/12/08/how-david-weiss-may-plan-to-prove-his-case-against-hunter-biden/

#HunterBiden #maga #EveryAccusationIsAConfession

SMH, "Heritage and Orban love them some Putin — he’s a white strongman defending 'traditional values' like jailing journalists and LGBTQ people. They love that. They only wish Trump could be such an authoritarian monster."
https://digbysblog.net/2023/12/10/heritage-goes-full-putin/

Alex Jones owes $1.5 Billion

He has yet to pay a dime

One of his victims, Erica Lafferty, has to crowdfund her lymphoma treatments
Yet he has a yearly spending budget of over $1 Million
And multiple month-long trips to Hawaii yearly

And now Alex Jones is free to spread his lies on Nazi dumpster-fire X/Twitter as he has been reinstated…

On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.

@joel @SETIEric I genuinely fail to understand how abortion rights protestors have been so peaceful. In their place I would have climbed a bell tower with a .50BMG.

“Muslims now voting against Biden”
“POC now voting against Biden”
“LGBTQ now voting against Biden.”
Etc. Etc.
ALL trolls and bots pretending to be Americans now voting against Biden.
Amplified to extremes on wealth purchased social media sites.
Let’s see the reality people. 🖖

@heidilifeldman

#GOPWarOnWomen