Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@georgetakei -Did you see Crow on TV last night being asked "If not for his position, would you still be friends with Thomas"?, and he said he would have to 'think' about that!

Enrique Tarrio and three other Proud Boys convicted of sedituous conspiracy by a D.C. jury for their role in Jan 6.

Guess they should have just stood back and standed by.

The right likes to claim that the left is taken over by a “woke mind virus.” But they fail to look in the mirror at their own obsessive attacks on anything in our broader culture that they perceive as tinged with ”wokeness.”

Whether it’s corporations, movies, or beer, the right sees U.S. culture slipping away from them. This attack on “woke” is their sad attempt to cling to a world they feel should rightly be theirs.

But in so doing, often they can’t even agree on what is “woke” and what is “anti-woke.” Or what the terms even mean.

Today in #TheBigPicture, we try to understand conservatives’ growing infatuation with the term and how it developed from merely a word to a representation of the party's severe disconnect from reality. Read more here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/right-wing-anti-woke-agenda

HOW MANY MORE SCANDALS? POLITICAL INDICTMENTS? BEFORE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY AND PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BE USED AS "SHIELDS" BY THE CORRUPT JUDGE, THE POLITICIAN? POLITICAL CRIME AND CORRUPTION REMAINS THE "NO BIG DEAL" TO AMERICANS? HOW AND WHY THE F**K IS THAT?

Call me a conspiratorialist if you must. But when CEOs get on earnings calls and brag about how covid, war, and scare-stories about #inflation let them hike their prices and rake in never-before-seen profit margins, I think it's reasonable to blame inflation on greed, not on workers getting a couple of relief checks during the lockdown.

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650 million light-years away, the galaxy JO175 shines in this #HubbleFriday view!

JO175 is classified as a "jellyfish galaxy" due to the tendrils of star-forming gas and dust that trail behind it.

Find out more: https://go.nasa.gov/3pfV9zT
#Hubble

On this day in 1925, high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in Dayton. He violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which forbade lessons contrary to the Bible's "story of the Divine Creation of man." Punishing those who teach scientific truth is nothing new.

When the school gets their underwear in a twist bc my straight-A student is missing school today for an equestrian event this weekend, I’m just going to reply with this.

Baby Pax says Happy Friday!

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Animal #Pax #RescueCat #Kitten #Kitty #Mao #Chat #Animals #Kat #Katze #Katzen #CatContent #MastoCat #MastoCats #Gata #Catstodon #Pet #Pets

@ForfarFairLady We've had that lovely Scottish damp cold days all week, it feels colder than it is, but it's nothing to brag about. And WTF is Mr. Sun? I have plants that depend on his appearance! Also, Good morning Trish

Look, US tech media personalities don't get special treatment on Mastodon. They have to work for their following like everyone else.

On BlueSky, their handles were reserved. They get special invites. They're treated as royalty and are met with nothing but other royalty.

Is it any wonder they're all simping for BlueSky, despite the laundry list of red flags?

@TonyStark @Karoli
John Roberts' family receiving millions and millions of dollars from law firms with business before our SCOTUS pretty well explains why he refuses to institute ethical reforms.

These issues of corruption define his legacy and the rulings of the court under his leadership.

#photography

Feeling some feminist feelings re: today's verdict in the Proud Boys trial.

Zach Rehl, one of the PBs convicted of sedition, headed up the chapter that terrorized me, my building, and my neighborhood as retaliation for my research.

For years, people gaslit me about it.

The state didn't protect us.

What it's done with these sedition charges is protect itself.

And sadly, a lot of us were punished for asking the state and/or our communities for protection when the Proud Boys came for us.

Funeral of US military volunteer killed in Ukraine

A funeral has been held for a US military volunteer who was killed fighting against Russian troops in Ukraine.

Christopher Campbell was a member of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine and died in the frontline town of Bakhmut.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #Finland #Bakhmut

Google: hey so we're gonna have to lay off like 10,000 people :(
People: wow that sucks
Google: alos we're giving our CEO a huge raise
People: wait why what did he do to deserve that
Google: he laid off 10,000 people

Just to recap, Clarence Thomas let a GOP megadonor take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house and let her live there rent free, pay for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school — all in secret until now.

How is he still on the Supreme Court?

https://www.rawstory.com/cnn-contributor-michael-fanone-claims-cnn-declined-to-run-op-ed-critical-of-network-for-hosting-trump-town-hall/