John de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @deNew_John@qoto.org

Unbelievable. Co-founder of @ceprdc, @DeanBaker13 got banned from Twitter. Dean is a progressive economist and has, to my knowledge, an entirely unobjectionable Twitter presence. But he made fun of Musk. An absolutely grotesque abuse of power and suppression of actual free speech.

https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/12505 ⚡️🇺🇳 UN: At least 17,023 civilian casualties in Ukraine due to Russia’s war. According to the UN count, Russia’s war against Ukraine has killed at least 6,655 civilians and injured at least 10,368. UN’s human rights agency notes the actual figures are likely considerably higher as the information from some places is delayed, and many reports of civilian casualties still need to be confirmed. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/12581 🇺🇸🇺🇦Pentagon awards Raytheon $1.2 billion contract for NASAMS for Ukraine. The U.S. Army on Nov. 30 awarded a $1.2 billion contract to Raytheon Technologies for six National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) for Ukraine, the Pentagon said in a statement published online. Ukraine received its first two NASAMS air defense systems in early November, which are already being (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Perspective #racism #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

Last night I read some of the timelines of the nasty comments I received before blocking them. Astonished by some things said on twitter. Astonished. Why do some ppl just use it to abuse others. What happened to actually contributing?

Historians actually have a word for people who pal around with nazis and that word is nazi

🇳🇴🇺🇦Norwegian PM announces long-term support for reconstruction of Ukraine (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3625319-norwegian-pm-announces-longterm-support-for-reconstruction-of-ukraine.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

@marcelias Let's hope that the Cochise election officials face some personal legal consequences for this.

Slower life expectancy gains at the U.S. county level since 2000 are linked to increasing levels of poverty, unemployment, and single-parent families, plus declines in manufacturing jobs--especially in rural areas.
Read more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061950

#NICHDimpact #Mortality #LifeExpectancy #Demography #Research #Sociology #Rural #Health #PublicHealth #SDoH #Poverty #Economics @sociology

Why do we need 51 senators rather than 50? Because right now at 50/50 every committee has a tie. Moving anything out of committee requires a superhuman effort. If Dems win a 51st seat, they'll have committee majorities.

The Georgia runoff MATTERS.

Re-electing Warnock MATTERS.

In Q1 of this year, @Apple was Twitter's top advertiser — around $50M in revenue. Half of the platform's top 100 advertisers, including Chevrolet, Ford and Kellogg's, have already quietly left.
They don't hate free speech, they hate that you freed hate speech.
#twitter #apple

#devo #flowchart

So far I feel as though Mastodon is giving me 70% or 80% of what I liked about Twitter and pretty close to 0% of what I didn’t like.