Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

A crowd gathered Wednesday evening to mark one year since our state's worst school shooting. Staff Writer @gusbova takes us to the vigil and looks at what changed, and what hasn't, since an 18-year-old opened fire at Robb Elementary School:
https://www.texasobserver.org/may-their-memory-be-a-blessing-hundreds-gather-for-uvalde-anniversary-vigil/
(📷 Photo by Gus Bova)
#Uvalde #guns #politics #USpol #MassShooting #schools #Texas #TXlege

Launching soon: NASA’s TROPICS is a constellation of CubeSats that will help scientists learn more about tropical cyclones like Mawar. 🛰️ 🌀

The satellites will collect information about temperature, precipitation, water vapor, and clouds. https://go.nasa.gov/3BRB8TD
#NASAEarth

Three keys to continuing to build this platform:
1. Encourage all media outlets to both join and toot here regularly. They're mostly still just feeding the birdsite.
2. Follow as many media outlets and journalists here as possible to show them there's a big, engaged audience.
3. Push media to add Mastodon "share" buttons to all of their articles.

🇬🇧 Leaked Council of Ministers document reveals: Majority of EU governments want automated, error-prone #ChatControl.

Key player Spain even calls for total ban on end-to-end encryption!

Full document: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/law-enforcement-working-party-document-encryption.pdf

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon

So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges

"Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."

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#twittermigration #climate

Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the Presidential race this week. You might want to hide your Dalmatian puppies now.

If you agree that Today's GOP is a white nationalist, FASCIST movement that has embraced violence and is forcing their religion down our throats as law then you will LOVE my free newsletter, The Dean's Report. Sign up here: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/

Unapologetically boosting this because it's a nice story about a kid who fell in love with computing through @PyretLang (which runs fine on 6yo computers) and now runs his own education program. Go Isaac!

Majority of book ban requests were made by only 11 people: analysis - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

Tyranny of a very small group.

https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-2660547890/

I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.

@dsfgs the follower counts are acreate with no algorithms - to build followers, talk to like-minded people.

Ron DeSantis is announcing his run for president on Twitter

Both Twitter and Florida are diabolically aligned:

Lying about Covid
Pushing Russian propaganda
Threatening educators
Pushing conspiracy theories
Aiding white suprematists
Attacking trans people
Outing LBGTQIA minors
Gathering student menstrual data
Remove companies’ 1A protections
Restricting reporter access
Promoting fraud

If you are still on Twitter: You are part of the problem.

Using the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling is perfect given MAGA is today’s Confederacy. My new article on how Section 4 of 14th Amend was enacted to protect the US economy from the traitorous Confederates. Today that threat is from MAGA: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/using-the-14th-amendment-to-raise