DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

End qualified immunity and militarization of the police.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/deadly-police-violence-against-protesters?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&s=09#Echobox=1675503778

Dan Froomkin writes,

"New York Times political reporting has become a farce, as highly-credentialed reporters tie themselves into nonsensical verbal knots trying to maintain the fiction that what the Republican Party is doing is normal – because acknowledging that it is not would be tantamount to 'taking sides.' (Read all about that here, in the Nation.)

#NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #Republicans

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https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/

GOP Rep Paul Gosar spoke at Nazi & pro-Hitler events, doubled down repeatedly, & still fraternizes with white supremacists.

GOP Rep MT Greene cites Jewish space lasers, speaks at Nazi events, & still fraternizes with white supremacists.

And GOP continues to embrace them into leadership positions.

But please tell us more about how Rep Ilhan Omar unequivocally apologizing for her words & meeting with Jewish leaders for healing is the real antisemitism.🤔

'Hubble Visits Galactic Neighbors' image from the #NASA_App
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-visits-galactic-neighbors

But the sad part is this: No involved rail operator would tell you that this form of #flyingless travel is possible, let alone sell you a ticket. To find out about existing connections, your only help is bahn.de, and getting the tickets is a piece-by-piece operation, of course with no help if you miss connections.
This is as if a shop had non-polluting goods, but they would hide them from your eyes and remove most normal warranty if you still insisted to buy them.

I gifted my 15 year old daughter ‘The Parable of the Sower’ for Christmas. I can tell that she loves it, ‘God is Change’ she told her younger sister the other day with a grin.

Octavia Butler’s books are, as Jesmyn Ward puts it, “a template for how to survive in a broken world.”.

#OctaviaButler #ClimateAction

https://lithub.com/how-to-survive-in-broken-worlds-jesmyn-ward-on-octavia-butlers-empathy-and-optimism/

Overheard: “Not all heroes wear capes. Or tops, it seems.”

Recall it? An investigative reporter in Vegas, Jeff German, was stabbed. A bureaucrat was charged with his murder. German was working on a story about the bureaucrat. Thing is, was working on other stories too.

To continue German’s work, and as an act of solidarity, "The Washington Post teamed up with his newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to complete one of the stories he’d planned to pursue."

He had heard about a Ponzi scheme. Now it's published.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/01/mormon-ponzi-scheme-vegas-fbi/

#journalism

In an unprecedent step, #CDC stepped up to debunk the false reporting of the over-counting of #COVID deaths in the @washingtonpost. @JeremyFaust reports.

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/the-cdc-shows-up-to-debunk-the-washington?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=100171245&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Key to understanding power of Big Tech is that they are not very good at innovation but rather have learned how to access the capital markets and buy and extinguish potential rivals.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic exposes the reality behind Big Tech mythology for our State of Power report. https://www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation

Apparently JoinMastodon.org was recently attacked by a DDoS.

The Fediverse needs more than just JoinMastodon to help new people find servers. It's a single point of failure that could be crashed or bought out.

I've started an independent curated server guide at https://fedi.garden and would encourage others to create curated onboarding sites too.

If you run a Fedi instance (Masto or not) that complies with the Mastodon Covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) please get in touch.