Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

GuN lAwS dOn'T wOrK.

Oh really?

Chart source: https://www.ft.com/content/aa5fe164-bae9-4293-97b0-78f8369aadd6

I added the dates the US assault weapon ban was passed and expired. See any differences?

MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black authors: Ban it
-Books by LGBTQ+ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#CovenantSchool

If they cared about kids they’d ban guns instead of books.

• Drag queens: groomers
• Trans people: groomers
• Teachers: groomers
• Left-wing politicians: groomers
• Immigrants: groomers

Right wing: 🤐

Impostor syndrome, #neilgaiman
(illustrated by Chris Riddell, fm Art Matters).

A remarkable letter from Jack Nicholls. "A Cop, a TERF and a Nazi walk into a bar."

https://tinyletter.com/JackNicholls/letters/letters-from-jack-a-cop-a-terf-and-a-nazi-walk-into-a-bar-1

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has died.

I met a man when I first got to the protest this morning. We got to talking, and he told me this was his first protest. He then revealed that his daughter had come out as trans only weeks before. He said that she was scared of telling him because by all accounts he can be VERY stern.

As he was telling me, his daughter showed up with tears in her eyes because she didn’t expect him to be there. The happiness on their faces was very real.

Normally I absolutely despise humanity. Not today, though

hahahaha

Case in point: @mmasnick is more influential on the Fediverse now than he ever was on Twitter.

What’s he doing?

He’s present, active, and conversational. That’s pretty much it.

Other than being an early adopter, there’s no special sauce.

I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:

If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

Love how the f*cking Republicans are all, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!”

But when it comes to their Cheeto Jesus going to the slammer, they turn into far left prison abolitionists

Your periodic reminder that bailing out Silicon Valley Bank cost more than the entire US food stamp program, and happened overnight with zero debate.

A banger of a post from Matt Stoller on the failure of the Fed to regulate banks:

"Independence just means the Fed will do what the banks want, not just in bank regulation and supervision, but in organizing the entire economy through monetary policy. That era needs to end."

HT @pluralistic
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/fire-the-fed

"Unlike other Western economies, the Icelandic government let its three major banks - Kaupthing, Glitnir and Landsbankinn - fail and went after reckless bankers. Many senior executives have been jailed" - BBC
#Iceland

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35485876

I don’t think Charles Apple made it over this way, but he shared a great meme that I feel I must share with you.

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons