Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

LGBTQ organizer @Swabulah4321 is still working to fundraise mutual aid for her community of queer refugees in Kenya Kakuma refugee camp.

In addition to basic needs like food, clothes, shoes, blankets and hygiene supplies, their community is still trying to raise funds for a fence to protect themselves from thieves and homophobic repression mobs.

Data access is also limited, but @Swabulah4321 posts here when she can. Follow her and, if you can spare a few coins, contribute to her fundraiser. Thank you!

https://fundrazr.com/LGBTKakuma

#LGBT #LGBTQ #Africa #Kenya #MutualAid

Great write up from
@willknight in
@WIRED about Sarah Myers West, @Mer__edith and my new piece:

➡️ The rhetoric of "open" AI is misleading. Why? In short, because AI is controlled by Big Tech.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/

#open #AI #bigtech

Looks like TFG's royal progress to Atalanta is a police escort extravaganza worthy of Cleopatra.

Who is paying for all those police? Who authorized that expense of tax payer money?

Whoever authorized that should himself be indicted for waste of public assets.

@georgetakei Things you do with terrorists, I guess.

@GottaLaff The domino’s are falling into place.

Breaking news: Brazil makes homophobia punishable by prison 🗞️

In an almost unanimous vote, the Brazilian High Court has ruled today that homophobia can now be punishable with a prison sentence

This is a huge win for the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil that needs to be celebrated 🇧🇷

The 9-1 vote ruled that homophobic slurs and hate speech are a crime, similar to other forms of hate speech, such as racism.

How much have you aged since 2019?

#Willis argues that the activities #Meadows claims he conducted under color of federal law are also forbidden by the #HatchAct because they were also efforts to influence an election in favor of one candidate. The entire point of the Act is to make it clear that federal employees cannot lawfully use their offices to do this. 3/

NEW: Fulton County DA Fani Willis is calling for an earlier start date for the election interference trial of Trump and his 18 co-defendants.

She now wants it to start this October after previously proposing March 2024.
https://t.co/uRHVrDR4rs

This essay is a pretty darned good summary of the crackpot carousel that has laundered medical malpractice by turning a total lack of disease control into policy. "As a doctor, if you’re arguing that you should be able to expose patients to COVID because infection control annoys you, you should not be a doctor. Find a new career. I bet you’d love denying insurance claims. I bet you’d be a natural." oooof zing pew pew pew https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

August 24th is the Independence Day for #Ukraine and in today's issue, we speak to those who declared it 32 years ago.

And Myroslava, our newest reporting fellow, reflects on what this day means to her.

@Stoned_Deva_ wait what?

When my Autocorrect gets fixed, it's over for you botches.

https://t.me/United24media/12955
‼️🇺🇦The Main Directorate of Intelligence showed a video of a joint operation with the Armed Forces Navy in the temporarily occupied Crimea — special forces on watercraft landed on the shore in the area of the settlements of Olenivka and Mayak. (VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

Vote ALL BLUE💙once MORE in 2024!!!💙✍️👍👏-DME
If Americans can’t tell the difference between the two men, too bad for them, they are lost!🙄👎Wondering though if Harris may step aside because she was saying, ‘I can’t get into people’s heads': Kamala Harris tries to reshape her public image ahead of 2024.

It really cracks me up when "Alpha Male" types just make up words. You're not bio hacking, you're on a diet, my dude.

👇🏼Via @emptywheel:

The Republican Party has become a criminal protection racket, and only Asa Hutchinson (and a wishy washy Chris Christie who helped it GET where it is) wants to take it back.

Folks: We actually don't KNOW whether the GOP is a dying party or a rising single party of an authoritarian state.

Unless and until the traditional press presents those as the stakes, it is very much unclear which it'll end up being. #media #fascism #Republicans

If someone broke into your house, killed some of your family, and then wanted to negotiate to keep your living room, would you do it? Rewarding Putin's genocide would be insanity with global consequences.
#StandWithUkraine