Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Why yes, I am posting about this 2x because #Bidenomics:

“December #jobs report: Employers added 216,000 jobs last month, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7%.

👉🏼Unemployment has now been under 4% for almost two years— the longest streak of rock-bottom jobless rates since the Vietnam War.”👈🏼 https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

@w7voa

The NRA is lucky it is so flush with Russian cash. Another school shooting might dry up donations.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457794-wyden-blasts-fec-republicans-for-blocking-probe-into-nra-over-possible/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2191439/-The-NRA-s-role-linking-Russia-and-GOP-the-deadly-brew-tearing-the-nation-and-the-world-apart

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/nra-russia-senate-investigations-trump-burr-grassley/

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/649209429/russias-pro-gun-influence-accounts-copied-the-nra-and-sometimes-vice-versa

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/senate-report-nra-russia-gun-foreign-asset-891859/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/us/politics/maria-butina-nra-russia-influence.html

Otherwise, it would be in support of gun safety laws, like it used to be.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35261394

One more time; Supposedly genius tech bros are convinced AI is going to take over the universe and become a GOD, but the biggest, richest, companies that have ever existed haven't figure out how to reliably filter out spam yet, and they've had decades.

Helloooooo! 🐈‍⬛️😻

#CatsOfMastodon

Massachusetts Voters Move To Ban Trump From The Ballot https://www.politicususa.com/2024/01/04/massachusetts-voters-move-to-ban-trump-from-the-ballot.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

#Tupperware

Helium addiction is horrible because no one takes your cries for help seriously.

I'm an American Muslim running for US Congress IL-11. We have a campaign address. Yet some anonymous person dug up my home address & sent me an envelope with pamphlets warning me to repent or go to hell & Jesus is coming to kill all Jews.😳

Far right evangelism is truly upsetting.

Found on the reddits... #caturday

"Democracies are different from authoritarian governments because they have laws to prevent the corruption in which it appears Trump engaged. The fact that Republicans refuse to hold their own party members accountable to those laws while smearing their opponents says far more about them than it does about the nature of democracy. It does, though, highlight that our democracy is in danger."

#HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-4-2024

Hey, #fediverse #admin folks!

I'm working on my book about the fediverse, and one area I'm curious about is where moderators are being paid for their work. I suspect the vast majority of mods are volunteers (they are on my instance), but some places might be paying them.

If mods are paid on your instance and you're willing to share about it, let me know in a reply.

Boosts appreciated!

On my instance:

#ElonPutz #SpaceX #MuskSucks

SpaceX accused of unlawfully firing employees who were critical of Elon Musk https://apnews.com/article/spacex-elon-musk-employee-firings-nlrb-6d92159b6c6519258757f9e3c58ed74f

Federal minimum wage in:

2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25

The result: It's now worth 41% less today than in 1968.

"Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich – not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane."

Martha Kelly

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
"Pray in one hand, shit in the other. let me know which one fills up first." - My Grandpa

I'm looking for someone *experienced* to lead the building of a cybersecurity-focused online learning platform for No Starch Press. I have some ideas but I'm open. Fresh, useful, relevant, and wow are some operative words. Suggestions? Please share!

Yes. Let’s scrap the cap on SS contributions.

I FINALLY succeeded in landing a camera-trap image of a bushrat (Rattus fuscipes), FINALLY dispelling the doubt I had in my mind as to whether the rodents I was seeing were native Australian bushrats, or introduced black rats (Rattus rattus) - because we all know it would be insane to devote this much time to getting photographs of miserable black rats that I could probably find in any alley or park in Sydney.

Scheyville National Park

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTrap #CameraTrapping

New Year. Same question: How is Clarence Thomas still on the Supreme Court?