Here is the teacher from Florida who is currently being "investigated" for showing a Disney movie with an LGBT character in it:
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/13ttgvt/florida_need_i_say_more/
#brexit has failed, as it was always going to. Time to rejoin
More than half of voters now want Britain to forge closer ties with the EU, poll reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/28/more-than-half-of-voters-now-want-britain-to-forge-closer-ties-with-the-eu-poll-reveals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.
The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.
Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!
The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.
This is really fantastic artistic work:
Reddit: Super Heroes and Villains Captured on Early Autochrome Cameras
https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/13p765n/super_heroes_and_villains_captured_on_early/
Yet another reason why the USA is seen as backwards and barbaric by other developed countries:
NPR: He visited the U.S. for his daughter's wedding — and left with a $42,000 medical bill
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/23/1177149738/he-visited-the-u-s-for-his-daughters-wedding-and-left-with-a-42-000-medical-bill
⚡️🇺🇦If Russians believe they've captured Bakhmut, this isn't true - NSDC secretary (more)
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3713251-defense-forces-still-control-part-of-bakhmut-danilov.html #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
Had around 150 people sign up for the newsletter after I sent out the announcement yesterday, exciting!
I'm will send out the first issue later today, sign up here if you want to receive it!
Will Saletan of @bulwarkonline has come out with a huge in-depth article/ebook about the corruption of Lindsey Graham. It's a study on how authoritarianism arose in America and it's available at their site for free starting today. You can even download it as a PDF to read it offline if you wish. I highly recommend reading it and sharing it too.
Article here: https://specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham
PDF here: https://www.thebulwark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Corruption-of-Lindsey-Graham.pdf
Air Puppy Ruscue. Single prop transport across America to bring homeless dogs to places that will adopt them. 100% volunteer. 100% joy. #dogs
Hey #Arizona fake electors! Enjoying your weekend? Guess what? You guys are fucked! There won’t be any immunity deals for you all. Enjoy the Spring weather!
#AZGOP #GOPTraitors #SeditiousConspiracy #FraudulentElectors
BREAKING: Starbucks to shut down *all* Ithaca locations as a part of its union busting efforts.
This means that over 30 people will lose their jobs, as a result of Starbucks' illegal anti-union efforts.
Ithaca was the first city that had 100% of its Starbucks stores unionized & now it will the first city to have all of its Starbucks stores shuttered.
The story hasn't broken locally yet (SB did a news dump last night); message me if you want to cover this
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.