Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

The Fox News imbroglio - Palmer Report

If I were on the jury they would get their 1.6 billion plus 3.2 billion in punitive since they knew they were lying.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-fox-news-imbroglio/48998/

Went around the house investigating hot spots with a FLIR thermal camera attachment on my phone. Weird shapes everywhere.

Obligatory cat picture.

#Thermal #FLIR #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Tika’s having Bear Time, suckling on the cats’ stuffed bear.

Bear came with her and littermate Mijo from their foster home when I adopted them, and was a great comfort to them when they were little.

Tika hasn’t grown out of it and in fact insists I pet her the whole time. It’s the only time she actually likes pets for more than 30 seconds 😂

I hope Bear lasts forever.

#silentsunday #CatsMastodon #Catstodon #MastoCat

The fiscal shift in the Reagan years was staggering. In January 1981, when Reagan declared the federal budget to be "out of control," the deficit had reached almost $74 billion, the federal debt $930 billion. Within two years, the deficit was $208 billion. The debt by 1988 totaled $2.6 trillion. In those eight years, the United States moved from being the world's largest international creditor to the largest debtor nation.

To some economists, the impact was clear. Interest rates rose in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the economy slowed, then slipped into recession, and productivity barely advanced. Americans feared their nation had slipped into the shadows of Japan and Germany.

Reagan's "economic policy . . . was a disaster," University of California at Berkeley economic historian J. Bradford DeLong wrote this past weekend on his Web site. "The tax cuts made America a more unequal place, and the deficits slowed economic growth in the 1980s significantly."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26402-2004Jun8.html

night photos are never amazing but her eyes are just. so. HUGE right now 🐱

i must take her with me

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Tabby #TabbyCat

Tesla announces that only Tesla Blue subscribers will have access to brakes.
#TeslaBlue

@StevenBeschloss President Carter is a shining example of what a christian should be. He is truly one of a kind.

my toxic trait is that I fall in love with someone after having a ten minute conversation about tv shows

@pburke46 @the_Effekt

If more Christians acted like Jimmy Carter, I'd have a higher opinion of Christianity.

Girlfriend: did you finish baby proofing the apartment?

Me: yes [rattling the locks] no way they're getting back in now

Social media tip:

Instead of paying billionaires to “verify” you so they can exploit you and harvest your data, how about tipping your #mastodon admins?

I grew up in the #80s in a pretty redneck place, I refer to it as ‘Katter County’. It’s still very bigoted there towards anyone who is ‘other’. Most of my bio family is still there. So I’m posting some #pride flowers, for those who are not out yet and for those who never got a chance. It took me a long time but #grateful I did express my authentic self.

The oldest sitting president and the oldest living and longest-lived former president. 💙#presidentcarter #presidentbiden

I think it's time to replace some federal American holidays:

Ditch: President's Day
Add: Election Day

Ditch: Columbus Day
Add: Indigenous Peoples Day

I much prefer tiktok to twitter. On twitter, it’s possible to go viral for being dumb. On tiktok, it’s very easy to go viral for being dumb.

Right wing propaganda about American cities is just unreal.

You’d think we were all on fire and full of bullets, instead of hanging out at the outdoor beer garden while the kids do crafts at the craft table.

Oh, BTW, fuck the NRA.

#OtD 19 Feb 1927 a general strike was called in Shanghai, China. It shut post offices, all cotton mills and most essential services but was broken after fierce street fighting and bloody repression. Workers rose up again next month https://libcom.org/history/chinese-revolution-1925-1927

We can have a future, or we can have capitalism.

We can't have both.

Don't let the 1% fool you. They have no vision beyond their own profit.

Choose the future, end fossil capitalism.

Hey everyone. I came here via the #GreatestGen and #GreatestTrek communities. Hoping this will fill the social media void that FB and Twitter created in my soul, but with something somewhat less completely poisonous.