Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

The “both-sides" reporting on the debt ceiling by the mainstream media is preposterous.

This fight is being waged solely by the Republican Party.

When Trump was in power, Republicans voted to increase the debt limit three times. Now they refuse.

The GOP owns this crisis.

Tinpot MAGA #fascist Ron DeSantis, who should be driven out of national politics by a roaring tsunami of outrage, wants to make reading illegal for Florida children. #books #GOP #USpol #politics https://www.salon.com/2023/01/25/sorry-twitter-but-floridas-on-books-is-no-joke--ron-desantis-wants-to-keep-kids-from-reading/

How bad are the details when the 5 Memphis cops who murdered Tyre Nichols are fired, charged, and named

…even before the body cam footage is released?

UPDATE: Former President Donald Trump appeals a federal court decision that ruled he is not immune from a lawsuit from the @NAACP_LDF@twitter.com alleging that he, his campaign and the RNC engaged in efforts to disenfranchise Black voters during the 2020 election.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/district-of-columbia-black-voter-disenfranchisement/

To survive
in this imperfect world
we are all of us forced
to make compromises
we wish it was otherwise
alas, it is how it is
and in the moment
even the best option
is rarely good enough
but it is one thing to try
and still have to compromise
and quite another
to just stop trying.

You can assign news reporters to dig into a congressional candidate's background before an election.
Or you can assign opinion writers to write dozens of op-eds about that congressman's ridiculous lies after the election.

@juddlegum Republicans know the only way they can stay viable is by keeping the electorate uneducated. manipulation is their only move.

Scenes from "Literacy Week" in a Second Grade classroom in Manatee County, Florida.

All the books in the classroom library are boxed up to comply with new mandates imposed by @GovRonDeSantis@twitter.com

A new study showed people videos of chimpanzees and bonobos' 10 most frequent gestures — like raising arms and shaking an object. About half of humans could recognize what the movements meant.
https://t.co/InZg1pZwjh

I did not have this feud between two drag queens on my 2023 bingo card but I am here for it. 😂

https://www.comicsands.com/trixie-mattel-shades-george-santos-2659304818.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

North Korea's capital is under lockdown until Sunday to fight the spread of an unspecified respiratory disease. Authorities have made no mention of COVID. https://t.co/rIIL5PcKYF

Majorie Taylor Greene has been named to Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. She's the same person who does not understand the difference between underwear and a medical mask (i.e., KN95 or N95) — or flatulence and viruses. Science is not an SNL skit.

Pope Francis called laws that criminalize homosexuality unjust — and said the Catholic Church should work to put those laws to an end.

He said while Catholic teaching holds that homosexual acts are a "sin," being homosexual is not a "crime."
https://t.co/eMg9Di3Nw5

The people (and critics!) have spoken! Allegiance is a hit! I am having so much fun bringing this story to the people of London. Come see what all the buzz is about at the Charing Cross Theatre! Get your tickets at www.allegiancemusical.com

“Millions of American workers have never known a world without the specter of mass layoffs. That kind of instability has characterized the economy since the late 1970s and ’80s, when the notion of prioritizing shareholders above all else took root and companies embraced the strategy of growing fast and then cutting down quick.”
There it is. And the rise of inequality along with it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/business/layoffs-remote-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@thejenniwren @PeggyStuart

No, we can't teach you about Martin Luther King, slavery, and the Haitian Revolution, but we can spend time teaching you how to hide from an active shooter or where to get your conceal-and-carry license. We can protect you from "ideas" that may improve your life, not "idiots" who might kill you.

You are not paying attention if you don't think America has become a hellscape for all of us. There was more freedom in the Soviet under Stalin than Florida under DeSantis