Thanks, Alito.
41,621,949 more Americans have reported contracting #COVID, and 287,960 have died since the Supreme Court rejected the vaccine mandates. #ThanksAlito
Republicans continue push to restrict teachings on race in South Carolina https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-11/republicans-continue-push-to-restrict-teachings-on-race-in-south-carolina
RT @ChristopherJM: The US has transferred seized assets from sanctions-hit Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev to send to Ukraine for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
AG Merrick Garland said this is the first move of its kind but it "will not be the last"
The reactions within Trump’s circle to his CNN town hall were universally joyous. “We want to thank CNN for their generous donation to President Trump’s campaign!” one Trump adviser told @RollingStone
Some history on how the PARC backup archives managed to be preserved for so long, across so many systems.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-backup-of-historical-proportions/
"Hundreds of respondents mentioned what they perceived to be the political drift of their churches (or, in a few cases, temples or mosques) as the reason for their disaffiliation or move away. Some who were part of more progressive congregations specifically mentioned the association of the word “Christian” with conservative political views as the root of their alienation." #religion #Christianity #politics https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/opinion/christian-religion-brand-nones.html
Westchester DA to vacate 26 convictions following whistleblower’s secret recordings.
The police colluded with drug dealers and prosecutors put random innocent people in prison.
I missed this story and maybe you did, too. Thank you, Joe Biden!
So happy and proud that the Justice Department is suing Tennessee for harassing trans kids and denying them health care.
The fascist take over of our state houses must stop. States do not have the right to act in an unconstitutional way.
Biden DOJ sues Tennessee for alleged discrimination-
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/transgender-biden-doj-sues-tennessee-for-discrimination.html
Meanwhile, elsewhere on social media: we wanted people to know the backstory on that Woburn, MA police officer who was suspended, let go, and then decertified by the state's Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Commission.
Facebook blocked this story for being "against community standards."
We think you should be able to see the facts for yourself.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/10/14/middlesex-da-launches-investigation-into-woburn-cop-who-allegedly-helped-organize-2017-charlottesville-rally #journalism #policereform
Had Anita Hill been a White woman, Clarence Thomas never would’ve made it to the SCOTUS.
Had Obama been a White man, the Affordable Care Act would’ve been a fait accompli instead of the years-long, knock-down, drag-out affair that racist GOP sociopaths — excuse the redundancy — made of the bill’s path to approval.
Had Trump been a Black man, given his history as a career criminal, he’d have been impeached, removed from office, arrested, tried, and imprisoned years ago.
#ClarenceThomas #racism
"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
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