ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Wondering if switching parties right after you win an election could be considered a conspiracy against rights under Title 18 USC 241. Seems like they deprived citizens of their right elect a representative from the party of their choosing.

It’s fraud.

Making of a false statement,
With the intent that other rely upon it. They reasonably rely.
Damages result.

Defections like the one by Kyrsten Sinema have happened more than a dozen times in the past century, only occasionally reshaping power.

Kyrsten Sinema (AZ)
Jim Justice (WV)
Jeff Van Drew (NJ)
Tricia Cotham (NC)
Mesha Mainor (GA)
Francis Thompson (LA)
Eric L. Johnson (TX)

Switching parties after being elected is election fraud
We need accountability.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/09/senate-sinema-party-switches-arizona/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk1NDQxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk2ODIzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTU0NDE2MDAsImp0aSI6ImNhNDU1OTk1LWRlZjAtNDEzOS1iNjA2LWNmNzkwNjhmY2IwYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDIyLzEyLzA5L3NlbmF0ZS1zaW5lbWEtcGFydHktc3dpdGNoZXMtYXJpem9uYS8ifQ.KdK3HV8dFYLpszoNHEXl_wFh338RtYs_fadkpjXptv0

reaching dangerous shenanigans levels

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Remember when that gender critical said trans people only started existing a few years ago?

Remember when the TERF said gender neutral pronouns are new?

Remember when "real" gays said they were against new inventions like queer and trans?

I present you a London Gay Liberation Front poster from 1971, over 50 years ago. Don't believe the lies of modern hatemongers. Because the only time they're not lying is when they're not speaking.(Credit to Mallory Moore for spotting this.)

#trans #gay #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #enby

Big 3 CEOs claim their pay is high b/c its performance based. Really? When they led so poorly that the Big 3 needed taxpayer bailouts—it was workers who took a pay cut.

Now that those workers have generated immense profit—workers still get the pay cut?🤔

Absurd corporate greed.

Can we stop having literally everything be on Discord? I checked out a cool Pokemon fan game, but literally everything to do with it, including downloading it, was locked behind joining their server.

Please stop doing this, Discord wasn't designed for this, there's a limit of how many servers you can join, and you're just asking for that information to be lost someday.

:verifiedjourno: It was advised I pinned my introduction post but I lost track. So hello 👋 nice to meet you. I’ve lost count as a millennial how many social media migrations I’ve done. I’m Canadian, I’ve worked in the #media, #politics and #law (criminal & housing). I primarily use social media for info sharing, debate, & to find like-minded people. I am unapologetically progressive and won’t tolerate hate. I can usually find common ground with most people, despite my strong opinions☺️.

And here's a helpful thread on Twitter from someone who's been following this phenom for a long time: https://twitter.com/AshleyLatke/status/1705688715459228091

Hey there fellow #authors - the #Microsoft Word garbage pile has finally grown too high. After 2 weeks of editing, it decided that I was not me, and somehow displayed all my changes NEXT TO the original, so for instance I had changed "heart" to "chest," and it was displayed as "heartchest." This was done hundreds of times across like 40 pages. I'm about done.

What apps do you all love to use to write, and why? Please halp!

#QuestionOfTheDay: What's a thing from your childhood that you legitimately miss and wish still existed/is as common/etc now and you're sure isn't just nostalgia goggles or being a child at the time?

Please try to keep this to specific things/conventions and not broader concepts or feelings like "hope" or things related to being earlier in linear progression like "a less screwed up climate". (This is just to try to make the responses more interesting and not be all the exact same for everybody)

It's important to note that GA doesn't have one of those fascistic 'Don't Say Gay' laws, and this is an example of how their existence can have a ripple effect on schools in other states.

"A Batman researcher said ‘gay’ in a talk to schoolkids. When asked to censor himself, he quit"

https://apnews.com/article/dont-say-gay-georgia-batman-187446af4b03ac9a4b8fc4757852b446

#fascism #gop #lgbtq

The special election in NH proved once again that Democrats have the momentum. This was a district that Trump won in 2020. It just went to the Democrat by 12 points, and with one more special election to go in a blue-leaning district, Democrats there could soon bring the state house to parity, putting the long GOP NH house majority to an end!

@ewdocparris
Some years ago, a kid became the king of the pirates. He found a legendary treasure, but, not being he brightest person in the world, he had no idea of what to do with the monetary part of said treasure. But his crew did have good ideas. His navigator took the money, founded a technology company and developed better SnailPhones. Her ideas changed the world, and everything began with this blutut Smart SnailPhone. The money they made with this was beyond their dreams…
#WritingPrompt

Rep. Swalwell *schooled* Jim Jordan

The GOP was threatening to hold Garland in contempt when Swalwell chimed in:

“My colleague just said you should be held in contempt of Congress. And that is quite rich because the guy who is leading the hearing room right now, Mr Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena—are you serious?”

🔥

This makes me happy: Charges against Winona LaDuke dropped, and not only that, the judge cited the treaties the Indian Tribes signed as a reason! https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/20/winona_laduke_line_3_charges

#landback is indeed happening! 😃

It's a national embarrassment that a delegation from Australia needs to come to the U.S. to explain to our government that prosecuting publishers threatens press freedom. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/14/julian-assange-more-than-60-australian-mps-urge-us-to-let-wikileaks-founder-walk-free

There was a nip in the air on the pup walk this evening! Amazing how fast the weather has changed! Beautiful sky tho!
#SeenOnMyWalk #DogWalk #GetOutside #Sunset #Dandelion #BloomScrolling #FallWalks #AutumnIsHere

I hope the empty F-35 just keeps going. Flying from town to town, solving murders and helping the downtrodden. Always one step ahead of the government goons hunting it.

My lovely wife @artistic_norma left me snoring in our bed while she went out to catch some awesome shots of the northern lights last night.

I've lived in northern Wisconsin for 12 years now and I've never managed to see them for myself.

One of these days…