Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

You may remember the NY FBI Field Office as the one that was reportedly full of insane fascists and leaking stories about Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani during the 2016 election https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-fbi-official-charles-mcgonigal-arrested-ties-russian/story?id=96609658

Tucker Carlson Rips Menthol Cigarette Bans, Says Nicotine 'Frees Your Mind'

"Whey do they hate nicotine?" he continued. "Because nicotine frees your mind. And THC makes you compliant and passive, that's why. They hate it! It's a real threat to them."

how much money is the GOP getting to promote tobacco now?

Republican Says Smoking of Cigars Inside the Capitol Is 'About Freedom'

@nberlat America pretends to be individualistic, but it's something much more stupid.

@nberlat terminal individualism

which is the american way and why we suck.

all devoted to this idea that there is no public health; it's all just individual decisions and so you can single handedly protect yourself from harm through being smarter and better than everyone else.

it's really disheartening.

there are so many of these clowns who have devoted their lives to learning completely wrong talking points about vaccines. like, the more they study, the less they know.

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@mav there is a toot somewhere that now I can't find...

"First they come for the journalists. Who were very surprised to find themselves in a large warehouse with immigrants, minorities, gay people, trans people, ...

@M0YNG i swear no journalism-focused instance is ever going to make it on here unless they get their shit together and realize that they've been just as complicit as many other groups in amplifying hate against marginalized groups

I've #fediBlock 'ed newsie.social

Their admin has failed to take action against a transphobic account and is trying to make the "both sides" argument.

There cannot be "both sides" when one side wants to exterminate the existence of the other.

If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them:

— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings

— More guns don't make us safer

— The vast majority of Americans want gun control

Inaction is a policy choice.

There’s a lot that I don’t know, but I know for certain that this man loves fish.

I miss the days when the Internet was in the news and I could think "it's probably something fun I want to know about!" Now it's all TikTok Radicalizes Toddlers to Embrace White Supremacy and NextDoor Feud Among HOA Board Leads to Open Combat in the Streets.

Joe Manchin flew straight from Davos to a Washington green room because he’s just a man of the people.

Elon Musk is aggressively leaning into anti-vaxx while aggressively tweaking the algorithm on one of the biggest communication systems in the world to serve his preferred political content.

This is so fucked.

He is going to kill so many people.