German public broadcaster ARD has created a #mastodon instance.
Their most popular show is Tagesschau and the account is
@tagesschau
Despite all its promises of equality and due process under law, America has always had its scapegoats.
I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child my entire community became scapegoats. The attack by Imperial Japan upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “day that will live in infamy”—made most Americans look upon anyone with a Japanese name or face as the enemy.
May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I want to take a moment to zero in on the history that led Asian minorities in the U.S. to come together as a group and demand America fulfill its promise of justice and equality: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/scapegoats-aahpi-george-takei-essay
Totally non distopian FBI instruction video on what to do in a shooting situation
Merica. Where they think people should accept living like this.
Getting pretty sick of seeing gun violence being framed as a mental health issue. In the UK you have more chance of winning the lottery than you do of being seriously harmed by a stranger with a diagnosable mental health condition. Many American gunmen seem motivated by hatred or women and minorities, a horrible trait but not a mental illness. Mentally ill ppl are statistically more likely to use guns for suicide than murder. So stop it.
If #BackToTheFuture was made today Marty would be going back to 1993.
The White House claims they've "approached everyone" and no one wants to replace Jha as COVID response director. The likely reality is they have not approached anyone who really cares and would stand up to politicians invested in minimizing the pandemic. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/05/pandemic-command-center-biden-00095469
@oatmeal
day 22
A Little Wordy #22 97% https://theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=05-08-23
easy one today. Like the post answer picture.
@typeswitch And it’s a perfect example of “It wasn’t me so I didn’t stand up till there was no one left to stand up for me.” And it will be them and their non-mask wearing frequently infected friends who are dying early from heart problem, developing COPD, much earlier than normal, and the myriad other affects already shown to come from even mild, or asymptomatic Covid infections. #Covid #CovidIsNotOver
The shooter had an AR-15 and a patch on his chest reading RWDS. Police said it's known as the "right-wing death squad." But they haven't confirmed he was a member just yet.
Texas shooter lived with his mother — and was 'right-wing death squad' member interested in neo-Nazis: police
#news #politics #republicans #guns
https://www.rawstory.com/allen-texas-shooter-right-wing-squad/
The Lago della Duchessa is another one of those surprising spots that nobody would suspect just an hour outside of Rome, Italy.
The lake, of glacial origin, is hidden away at 1788m.
The ascent is not easy – with an elevation gain of 860 meters, you should only attempt it if you have experience hiking mountains.
You will be rewarded with incredibly beautiful surroundings. May is the best time to visit, as the lake isn't frozen anymore, but also hasn't almost vaporized yet (as in the summer most water will disappear).
#hiking #wandern #mountains #lazio #rome #duchessalake #lake #outdoors #italy #rieti #wanderverein #guide #tips #see #bergwanderung
"Today in this country, we don’t know when we leave our houses to go out to a mall or a restaurant or a church or an elementary school if one of those locations will be the place a domestic terrorist decides to go to kill a bunch of innocent people with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#guns #GunViolence #MassShooting #AR15 #USA #AmericanExceptionalism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/semiautomatic-terrorism
Early indications that the shooter in #Allen was a neo-nazi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/texas-allen-outlets-shooting-dallas/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert #GunViolence
Seeing the shitposting habits of some MDs makes me wonder how the profession avoided quality standards.
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