ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

If you know of a racial hate crime in your neck of the woods/hoods please send it in to #Antifa Docket so they can track it:

https://antifadocket.com

Trump wants to cut Social Security so he can give another giant tax cut to the rich.

Biden wants to save Social Security by having the rich — who have become far richer over the past several decades — pay more Social Security taxes.

The contrast couldn’t be more important.

Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.

Today's post office run was a fuckin BANGER

#VladTaltos #books #sciencefiction #fantasy #scribblies #mannerpunk #stevenbrust

Just a reminder of what to expect when they take power. They're fucking telling you!

Via #RightWingWatch

« #Antisemitic #WhiteNationalist #Christian #fascist #NickFuentes says that when his #AmericaFirst movement takes power, all non-Christians will be executed: "When we take power, they need to be given the #DeathPenalty ... They must be absolutely annihilated when we take power."

#StopFascism #StopNazism
#StopChristoFascism

New, from me:
Biden has forgiven $144 billion in student loan debt, and his SAVE IDR can reduce student loan debt in the long run.
Will Biden get credit for this? It matters, because if Trump returns, he will roll back or undermine these debt reduction programs.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/biden-deserves-more-credit-on-student

Two state attorneys general are plainly running interference for Musk and his increasingly extremist-coddling deadbirdsite. They're deploying state power against a journalism organization -- one of the few -- that takes on right-wing media and lousy work in Big Journalism.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/

This is incredibly dangerous to freedom of expression.

Given journalists' myopic continued presence on Musk's site, it seems they don't care.

Heads up other #mastodon instance admins, the any dot pink #spam #bots have started up again. We've just closed regos here until they pull their heads back in.

Quacks are crowing that the FDA has "lost its war" on ivermectin. Ivermectin still doesn't work against COVID-19. but by settling a lawsuit the way it did, the FDA did unfortunately hand quacks and antivaxxers a massive propaganda victory.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/03/26/no-ivermectin-has-not-been-vindicated/

Right-wing authoritarian politicians dominate Israel's government, but far-right Jews are also strong in the Republican party because they help shield its #ChristianNationalist power elite from accusations of antisemitism.

Ben Shapiro does this on a daily basis.

He made his own #antisemitism clear in a 2014 interview he did with a pro-Nazi podcast host in which he bashed "Jews in Hollywod" for conducting a "war on Christianity."

"Y'KNOW WHEN I WAS A KID WE GOT BEAT UP AND BODYSLAMMED INTO WALLS BY TEACHERS AND SOMETIMES FED INTO WOODCHIPPERS AND WE RENDERED DOWN LEAD AND PUT THAT DIRECTLY IN OUR DRINKING WATER TO TOUGHEN US UP AND I TURNED OUT JUST FINE OH AND ALSO I AM VOTING TO HAVE CONCENTRATION CAMPS ON AMERICAN SOIL AND THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE MURDERED AND UNPERSONED FOR BEING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT IN ANY WAY."

It's great to know that if you don't have bond money you can just request a different, smaller amount and pay that instead, I'm sure that is what happens for normal people all the time

Meanwhile I found a great deal for a used 5DS that should arrive tomorrow. One of the two last (and best, along with the 5DSr) DSLRs that Canon ever made.

People really have moved on to mirrorless now and are selling these “old” cameras off at record low prices, even though they outperform a lot of the current mirrorless ones, depending on what you need.

And when you factor in how ridiculously expensive the new lenses for mirrorless systems are, the price difference becomes even greater.

For a moment I was considering a used Sony A7R2 which would have been slightly cheaper for the body but the Sony lenses are just so pricey that it’s not worth it.

""We must make America pray again:" Trump now selling Bibles"

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/trump-selling-bible-god-bless-the-usa

Religious coercion sure doesn't sound American. And Bibles with foundational US documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights don't sound particularly Christian.

Turning the US into a Christian version of Iran for profit and freedom from jail...

This is what rape culture is:

‘A sexually mature young woman’: Toronto lawyer disciplined for arguing 14-year-old girl is not a ‘child’

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-sexually-mature-young-woman-toronto-lawyer-disciplined-for-arguing-14-year-old-girl-is/article_b0d4b25c-eb8f-11ee-94f1-2bcab82cb979.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

Do you know any people 35+ who actually believe high school was the best time of their lives?

(Please boost for visibility)
#HighSchool