Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Fascist Ron DeSantis is demanding universities give him info on the number of transgender students they have

This includes information such as the ages of their students who sought gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions

This will be the Republican nominee for President. Wake up america

“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
…”

@democracydocket Wait, am I understanding this correctly? Ohio will not accept military ID as proof for voting? So much for Ohio's vaunted pro military stance. Ohio is apparently not worthy of being home to the extraordinary Air Force Museum or of Wright Patterson AFB. Whoops - goodbye 35,000 jobs!

Dear gods. This could result in Christofascism really being promoted in the US, as workers of other faiths find themselves out in the cold. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23559038/supreme-court-groff-dejoy-religion-twa-hardison-workplace

Florida Gov. DeSantis is proposing legislation to permanently ban Covid health measures aimed at mitigating the virus in the state. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-gov-desantis-proposes-permanent-ban-covid-mandates-rcna66268

Fast Fashion Facts:
- We buy 60% more than we did in 2000 but each garment is kept for half as long.
- Of the billions of clothing items made each year, over half are thrown away.
- The fashion industry employs millions of people but only around 2% earn a living wage.
- 60% of clothes are made from synthetic fabrics derived from fossil fuels.
- The production of textiles produces almost 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
#fastfashion

https://www.eco-stylist.com/why-is-fast-fashion-bad/

Navy veteran tells NBC News that Rep. George Santos prevented him from accessing donations in 2016 that he says would have saved his dog's life. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/navy-vet-accusing-george-santos-pocketing-money-dying-dogs-gofundme-rcna66405

Rep. George Santos has claimed that his mother was at her office inside the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but records obtained by NBC News show she was living in Brazil at the time. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/records-show-george-santos-mom-wasnt-us-sept-11-rcna66411

Deeply distressing to learn that some abortion pill pharmacies are sharing customer data with Google (notably these all seem to be *pharmacies*, not telemedicine providers, which is different) https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

NEW: My new co-worker George Anthony Devolder Santos is a distraction and a danger to democracy.

Read my Op-Ed in @nbcnews: 👇

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/george-santos-new-york-colleague-congress-danger-rcna65794

Washington state bill would make period-tracking apps follow #privacy laws in reflection of post-Roe fears

A bill introduced by Democrats in Washington's state legislature would prevent private health data that is collected by apps -- particularly those that track #menstrual cycles -- from being shared without consumers' consent.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/politics/washington-state-period-tracking-apps/index.html
#PostRoe

The economy is at least 50% more concentrated now than it was in 2005.

Corporations who gobble up their competition can get away with raising prices because they have the market power to do so.

Fight inflation by fighting monopoly power. For starters, no more mergers.

My latest piece, out this evening, is on the latest from election deniers: Alabama is one of the few states that elected an election-denying secretary of state in 2022.

And the first effect was swift: the new SoS announced within his first day that Alabama would be quitting a national consortium to help update voter rolls. https://boltsmag.org/alabama-secretary-of-state-leaves-eric/

I’m sick and tired of hearing this lie peddled by the GOP and corporate media. Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on— and defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic.

I missed this on the first read through. This "co-parenting" framing is just bizarre here. What a way to obscure what this actually is.

I am a citizen journalist. Elon personally banned me from Twitter.

And you know you've won your staff's hearts and minds when you bring a couple of bodyguards to a staff meeting. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

Wow! Who could possibly have seen this coming? “CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections”

https://gizmodo.com/cnet-ai-chatgpt-news-robot-1849996151

The DeSantis administration has REJECTED an AP African-American Studies course, saying it “lacks educational value” and “violates the law.” https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/desantis-ap-african-american-studies-program-violates-florida-law/

Any writer who believes that an A.I. is going to replace them has a pretty low opinion of their own writing.

Today, we told the US #SupremeCourt: Don't gut Section 230: https://techfreedom.org/dont-gut-section-230-techfreedom-urges-supreme-court/

#Section230 #FreeSpeech #USPol