herid @herid@qoto.org

CLARENCE THOMAS: My relationship to Harlan Crow is that of two regular old buddies who love fishing. You're making it sound like some scheme were he cultivates powerful "friendships" for influence!

REPORTERS: what about his collection of Nazi memorabilia

HUNDREDS OF POWERFUL PEOPLE RUSHING TO HARLAN CROW'S DEFENSE: How dare you speak ill of my dear fishing buddy Harlan, who has been cultivating my friendship since the day I won a seat in the halls of power

If there is a clearer way to convey the concept of a negative externality than Bitcoin mining, I have not yet seen it. Seriously, they should update economic textbooks that introduce the concept to use this example. Mind blowing. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

Uh yeah maybe don't use Twitter Circles ever again. Also every other part of Twitter, but especially this one https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/10/twitter-circle-bug-not-private/

@StillIRise1963 "Tombstone had much more restrictive laws on carrying guns in public in the 1880s than it has today,”
Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

It’s not the pot.
It’s not the porn.
It’s not the doors.
It’s not the books.
It’s not the trans kids.
It’s not the video games.
And it sure as shit ain’t the drag queens.

It’s the motherfucking guns.

Another Monday, another mass shooting in the United States. This time in my home city of Louisville.

Innocent people go to work and wind up dead. Why is this the "normal" in this country? When do we do something about the lack of gun control in this country?

I'm tired of this feeling of hopelessness.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/5-dead-6-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-in-downtown-louisville-office-building/article_6c43e3c6-d79d-11ed-a43e-77040efc05bf.html

#Germany ready to ban russian #athletes from entering country

"Countries that host major sporting events are not powerless. They can control participation of russians by issuing visas. If we organize international competitions in Germany, we can act accordingly. We will always act based on a clear position," - Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Nancy Faeser,

Read more here🔗 https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-sports/3693929-germany-ready-to-ban-russian-athletes-from-entering-country-ministry-of-interior.html

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #StandWithUkraine #IOC #olympics

All of this talk of Harlan Crow's Hitler paintings reminded me that Oregon GOP chair Walter Huss had in his possession a flier advertising a book that contained hundreds of Hitler paintings. The organization selling the book was a neo-Nazi/white power organization in Metairie, LA

So Elon Musk apparently decided to (falsely) apply the state-affiliated media label to NPR’s Twitter account before he even bothered to learn the difference between public media and state-controlled media. Yes, really.

Then he emailed NPR — after slapping a false label on their account — and they had to explain the difference to him. This one is a doozy, even for Musk:
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168728804/musk-asks-basic-facts-about-npr-after-labeling-it-state-affiliated-media-on-twit

https://t.me/United24media/7611
⚠️🇺🇸Elon Musk overtly helps Russian War Criminals spy. Twitter has lifted restrictions on profiles linked to the Russian government: links to them are now reappearing in the recommendations section, search results, and the social network's feed. Additionally Russian spies now have access to all Pentagon leaked documents which Musk refuses to take off Twitter. Twitter began (more) #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #Twitter #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #TwitterIsASpyingPlatform

"#Ontario's healthcare system is in crisis and Ford is using #Bill60 to funnel public money to American-style, for-profit clinics, pretending it's a solution to the crisis he created."
▶️​ #Bill60 includes provisions for 'upselling' in private clinics. The practice of upselling invites private clinics to sell an array of medically unnecessary procedures & tests. Currently common in cataract surgeries, it is starting to creep into hip & knee surgeries and medical imaging.
#dofo #CreditCard #OHIP

▶️​ Under Doug Ford's new #Bill60, the 'Director' in charge of #Ontario's private clinics is no longer required to be an employee of the Ministry of Health and has sole discretion over which persons or corporations are selected to receive licences to operate private clinics.
▶️​ 'Integrated Community Health Service Centres' ICHSC is the euphemism for private clinics Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones have set up to use our public hospitals’ surgeries.
#Dofo #Privatization #onpoli #OHIP #CreditCard

Doug Ford's Healthcare #Privatization #Bill60
▶️​ The 'Director'(s) of Ford's new private clinics does not need to be an employee of the #Ontario
Ministry of Health and is NOT subject to the conflict of interest and ethics regulations for public servants.
▶️​ Ford can appoint multiple third-party/corporate Directors to create and oversee his private clinic in public hospitals.
▶️​ There is nothing in #Bill60 to stop corruption among the Director(s).
#Dofo #onpoli #CreditCard #OHIP

#JustinJPearson comforts a woman holding a sign that reads: “Covenant Mom.”

Reminder for the people in power: The families, who are burying children and loved ones murdered in last week’s #CovenantSchool shooting, deserve real action to stop gun violence.
#tennesseethree

Disability advocates and physicians call for required masking in hospitals, health facilities

Prevent infections from occurring in hospitals should be an obvious imperative.

#covid @whn

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/04/05/disability-advocates-and-physicians-call-for-required-masking-in-hospitals-health-facilities

Taibbi, who is in regular contact with Musk, was told Substack is being punished because of “a dispute over the new Substack Notes platform”

Taibbi was “given the option of posting articles to Twitter instead”

@gruber I am currently today being deeply haunted by this quote:

"'No one believed me that working for Elon was the way it was until they saw how he operated Twitter,' Bernal said, calling Twitter 'just the tip of the iceberg on how he operates Tesla.'"

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/how-elon-musk-knocked-tesla-s-full-self-driving-17848095.php