Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

I’m pretty tired of media people expressing outrage at the depravity of Trump and the GOP.

Yeah, we know. So why are you still chasing them like dogs chasing cars?

After months of worrying that Trump might murder her children, Megyn Kelly figured out a way to protect her family.

She received permission from Fox News execs to do an exclusive fake "interview" with Trump. The questions were all softballs. She basically handed Trump a gift of a free campaign commercial, like CNN did with last night's travesty.

Trump called off his thugs, and Kelly's family was able to return home.

🤔

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478455479/in-sit-down-with-donald-trump-megyn-kelly-shows-a-light-touch

@JonChevreau

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

More than half of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers appear to be fake

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-followers-fake-spambot-b2069527.html

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"

https://t.co/yckv7jYa9w

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

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-cnn-town-hall-network-insiders-disgrace-1234733328/

Some history on how the PARC backup archives managed to be preserved for so long, across so many systems.

#ComputerHistory

https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-backup-of-historical-proportions/

Just migrated here to be on a Canadian server. Saskatoon resident who would appreciate your boosts as I restart!

I don’t know why everyone suddenly has amnesia about the fact that #CNN was bought by a conservative asshole & is just hoping you won’t notice long enough to radicalize you based on the network’s former reputation, inertia, & brand loyalty.

Nothing like #Twitter, of course.

"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

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/08/allen-mall-shooting-right-wing-death-squad/ #uspol

Obviously.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

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

Gotta hand it to the man, the guy delivers

Probably worth emphasizing, over and over and over again, that the final vote in Kevin McCarthy's one-vote margin for his bill to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage was provided by indicted fraud George Santos.

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

oh just a judge casually reminding jurors who found a former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation that he might inspire his followers to seek retribution