Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

"Under the terms of SB0001, any minor currently receiving hormone therapy for gender dysphoria will be required to come off that treatment by March 31, 2024."

Sure sounds like government coming between patients, parents and doctors.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/governor-signs-anti-drag-anti-trans-healthcare-bills-into-law/

First time in my lifetime I've hesitated to wear my Star of David jewelry.

Wore it anyway, because, you know, screw that. But. First time it was even a consideration.
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RT @colbertlateshow
“Not since Germany in the '30s have I witnessed antisemitism, no longer lurking but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini — kind of daring us to defy it. I’ve never experienced this in my entire life. Especially in this c…
https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1631522287504457728

US Capitol Police says its officers confiscated an M-4 style “ghost gun” and a Glock handgun with full auto switch while they were patrolling the perimeter of the Capitol Complex, near the Senate Parks. https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-officers-confiscate-m-4-style-ghost-gun-handgun-during-arrests

@DrKen @therobburgessshow

Time to stay out of Florida... it's nazi central down there. Desantis is working with the 1931 Germany playbook and it's working.

All the fascists around the country and slathering to get started in their own states following his lead since no one is pushing back against him.

The ever dependable Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) with a blistering diatribe against corporate “recycling” programs...
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Plastic recycling’s origin story starts in 1973, when Exxon’s scientists concluded that plastic recycling would never, ever be cost-effective.

Exxon sprang into action: they popularized the recycling arrow logo and backed “anti-littering” campaigns that blamed the rising tide of immortal toxic garbage on peoples’ laziness.

When I was a kid in Ontario, we had centralized, regulated, reusable bottle depots — beer and soda bottles came in standard sizes, differentiated by paper labels that could be pressure-washed off. When you were done with your bottle, you returned it for a deposit and it got washed and returned to bottlers to be refilled again and again and again.

After intense lobbying from soda companies, brewers and the plastic industry, that program was replaced with curbside “blue boxes” that promised to recycle our plastic waste. 90% of the plastics created has never been — and will never be — recycled. Today, the plastic industry plans on *tripling* the amount of single-use plastic in use worldwide.

Think of the billions of human labor hours we all spent washing and sorting our plastics for a recycling program that didn’t exist and will never exist — imagine if we’d spent that time and energy demanding that our politicians hold petrochemical companies to account instead.
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FULL ARTICLE HERE -- https://doctorow.medium.com/dow-promised-to-turn-sneakers-into-playground-surfaces-then-dumped-them-in-indonesia-ef7e1168a0c1

#GreenWashing #Pollution #AntiCapitalism

Sad news - Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers, has incurable cancer. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and Ellsberg brought much needed light on the Vietnam War. The publication of the docs he leaked in the NYT and WaPo led to a critical Supreme Court decision on freedom of the pres. Justice Hugo Black (concurring in the judgment) frames the reasons why we need a strong press, which necessarily relies on whistleblowers, shedding light on the government.

A “news” agency pushing the “big lie” knowing that it was false. You got to feel bad for the people who get their information from them. What else are they being lied to about? How many other daily lies are they being innocently fed? It’s a huge betrayal to them & the rest of us.

“Murdoch said Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro all endorsed the notion that the election was stolen.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/murdoch-dominion-lawsuit-election-lies_n_63fd2a38e4b0db7a1f675085

PEI is also banning TikTok from government devices.
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RT @InfoPEI
Province banning TikTok on Government connected devices #peigovnewsrelease https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/province-banning-tiktok-on-government-connected-devices
https://twitter.com/InfoPEI/status/1631034249842249732

"A Republican in Florida just introduced a bill that would ban the Democratic Party from existing in the state. Registered Democrats in Florida would be notified that their party has been “canceled” and they’re now no-party voters."

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/

Calling on Cable Companies to Shut Down #FoxNews #Newsmax, #OAN

WHY?
SEDITION/RACISM/LIES

#Comcast
#Xfinity
#ATT
#CharterCommunications
#Spectrum
#DishAndSlingTV
#CoxCommunications
#Verizon
#AlticeUSA
#FrontierCommunications
#Mediacom
#CableOne

GREED or DEMOCRACY

#MOG

The day before Jan. 6 attack, top Fox execs discussed whether to make primetime hosts dispel election lies

Rupert understood that Fox could do something about the false claims… uniquely positioned to state the message that the election was not stolen

#MOG
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-discussed-dispelling-lies/

Musk’s defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/01/elon-musks-defense-of-scott-adams-shows-why-he-is-misguided-and-dangerous?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#RonDeSantis is now boasting that, with his cronies and contributors holding improvement district control over #WaltDisneyWorld, he can start forcing Disney to produce non-"woke" stuff that he and his base want to see.

Yes, Ron is escalating from "I'm going to punish you for criticising my agenda" to "I'm going to force you to vocally support me and mine," all through the coercive power of the state.

He's a budding #autocrat and he's probably running for #President .

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content.html

BREAKING: Napa mechanic Ian Rogers was sentenced to 9 years in prison today for plotting to blow up the Democrats Sacramento HQ in retaliation for the 2020 election. A co-defendant is scheduled to be sentenced later today. https://www.vallejosun.com/napa-mechanic-who-plotted-to-bomb-democrat-hq-sentenced-to-9-years/

Biden has the GOP cornered on Social Security cuts, so why would any Democrat try to help them out? Ridiculous.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/1/2155678/-Why-is-this-Democrat-helping-bail-out-Republicans-on-Social-Security

Republicans are 'emboldened' because there has been no accountability for J6: ex-White House lawyer - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-emboldened-january-6/

The elimination of #RSS is another example of what I mean by de-inventing.