Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Raising the debt ceiling is a routine, bipartisan obligation to cover previous spending.

Taking care of our people means paying our bills on time and protecting Social Security and Medicare.

House Democrats are committed to doing what's right for the American people.

House Jan. 6 committee concludes that the FBI and other federal security agencies could have repelled a violent mob from overrunning the Capitol had they acted on the large volume of intelligence collected beforehand, chief investigator tells NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-stopped-jan-6-capitol-mob-acted-intelligence-rcna68155

Bob Woodward: News coverage of the Russia inquiry ”wasn’t handled well” and viewers and readers had been “cheated.”

He urged newsrooms to “walk down the painful road of introspection.” https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-ed-note.php/

< asuffield> a workstation is anything you can stick on somebodies desk
and con them into using
-- in #debian-devel

One of my favorite things to do is modeling and recreating broken plastic wheelchair parts that cost a shitload of money but I can model and 3D print for super cheap. Rick is a teacher here at Lane Tech that works with wheelchair dependent students and he comes to me with the broken parts. Manufacturers charge way more than the families can afford.

Hey friends. Please read this open letter that I signed onto. It's a collective statement by college and university faculty from across the US who teach African American Studies in defense of the Advanced Placement (AP) African American American Studies course that was blocked/censored in Florida.

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

"The enemy doesn't arrive by boat, he arrives by limousine"

Sticker spotted in Dublin, Ireland

"If the McGonigal allegations are proven we have an entirely new set of problems. Not just that one political party was willing to become the cat’s paw of a foreign government, but that a key part of America’s law enforcement apparatus was in on the game." https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/charles-mcgonigal-and-the-deep-state

Several white Republicans have received probation for casting illegal ballots. A Black woman in Texas received five years.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/voter-fraud-gop-stronghold-leads-another-light-sentence-rcna68366

Anyone on the #fediverse familiar with #finetuning an #OpenAI #AI model 🤖 - our consumer #privacy #nonprofit has a #project in mind and we’d love to talk to you (shameless “please boost”!)

Days later, Twitter is still blocking links to the BBC documentary about Modi and Musk has yet to say anything about the censorship other than that he didn't know about it. That was 6 days ago. https://kenklippenstein.substack.com/p/elon-musk-continues-to-block-access

The Push for School Choice Is Accelerating https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/the-push-for-school-choice-is-accelerating/2023/01 #Education

elementary OS 7 "Horus" Released. This is What's New

https://debugpointnews.com/elementary-os-7-release/

#linux #opensource #elementaryos #eos #ubuntu

Crista V. Worthy: Bullies are banning books with zero public discussion networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/c… #Education

@jill_blair

You can say that again!!

Everytime that I think I have a grasp on the #Christofascism issue, I find out it's MUCH worse.

#ChristianNationalism is just #WhiteSupremacy in #bible #drag.

@baruchiro You probably always will see some noise and content that has no value for you. I do follow #opensource and #linux and I filter out RT and references to Bird site. If you do not care about videos for example you can consider filtering out the word videos, and filter out some languages as well in your Mastodon settings. There are also groups you can follow https://a.gup.pe

Rep. George #Santos told his #GOP colleagues today that he would forgo the House committees to which he'd been assigned.

The announcement comes days after senior House Republicans seated Santos on two committees: Science and Small Business. But even those lower-profile assignments quickly became a political liability for Speaker Kevin McCarthy's conference as Republicans scrape for the votes they need to yank Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/george-santos-committees-house-gop-00080367?cid=mas

Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature allowing two users to author a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show as authored from one user (Matt Binder/Mashable)

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-shuts-down-cotweets
http://www.techmeme.com/230131/p26#a230131p26

elementary OS 7: is it enough for me to switch back? https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/d523b23e-1260-4858-bed1-91320b0ecec0

Ahead of President #Biden's State of the Union address, 117 major gun safety groups are pressing him to appoint a gun czar and declare a national emergency over gun violence.

They're also demanding concrete policy proposals beyond his futile pleas to #Congress for an assault weapons ban.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/gun-safety-groups-to-biden-your-work-isnt-done-00080312?cid=mas