Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Daily Reminder: Today's MAGA GOP is no longer a political party, it's a white nationalist, fascist movement that seeks to force their religion upon as law. They must be utterly defeated in order to save our freedoms, our democracy and our Republic.

This Hunter Biden stuff is just nonsense when you think about what Trump did to get elected. He paid off a porn star off with illicit money, he had David Pecker of AMI “catch and kill” a Karen McDougal story of Trump infidelity. Why did Trump hire Dershowitz & Alex Acosta? Two men involved with helping Epstein evade Justice. Trump put Acosta in charge of the labor department. To oversee human trafficking? Dersh on impeachment? And who threatened to kill “Katie Johnson”? As Lisa Blume claimed.

It's #waterfallwednesday and here's another gem from #Iceland: #Seljalandsfoss in front of a deep blue sky. ND filter and long exposure was not needed in this case to show off the beauty of this #waterfall.

#Photography
#Nature
#Landscape
#Island

There's a sad irony to Sen. Klobuchar's claim that national news organization are not covering local beats.

The JCPA is a massive handout to these same consolidated outlets, and it contains no requirement that they use any resulting payments to hire local reporters.

She and the JCPA's cosponsors conceded so much to Big News that the rhetoric about the bill became completely divorced from the reality of its actual language.

For example: a recent JCPA draft contains language that excludes nonprofit news publications and websites from participating in payment talks with Meta and Google.

There's no reason given for the exclusion, even though nonprofits are leading innovation in local news coverage.

https://www.freepress.net/blog/jcpa-myths-and-realities-bad-journalism-bill

The JCPA also expressly prohibits negotiators from considering the economic benefits that accrue to news-media companies when Google and Meta distribute, aggregate or feature links to their content.

This is a dead giveaway that the Klobuchar's JCPA isn't about fairness at all.

It purposefully distorts the economics of news production so that traditional media outlets can shake down the platforms and prop up a dysfunctional way of doing business.

Zelensky is Time's Person of the Year for 2022. https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/

Moore v. Harper could be one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases for our democracy.

You might just now be hearing about it — but it could let extremist state legislatures pick the next president without you.

Oral arguments begin today.

Here's what you need to know:

“‘I am Georgia,’ Mr. Warnock said after winning Tuesday’s runoff election, nodding to both the hopeful and the dark aspects of the state’s past. ‘I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain and its promise. Of the brutality and the possibility.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/us/politics/raphael-warnock-georgia-senator-pastor.html

Keeping coal oil and gas in the ground is how we reduce emissions.

Renewable energy is one way we take care of each w/o fossil fuels.

Lots of conversations muddle these together (to the benefit of fossil fuel interests).

One of my favorite Twitter accounts was always Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America. Matthew closed up shop on Twitter and moved to Mastodon as @AbandonedAmerica. You should follow and support his work not only because we need more mid-size original content accounts here, but because his photos are FANTASTIC.

https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/109452123378940711

If you don’t exercise regularly, several timesa week, you will run into problems as you get older. These will continue & become more frequent. Your quality of life will suffer. Your sense of vitality & energy will decrease much faster than if you exercised. No pill....magic herb....specific diet..... can replace simple exercise. Argue or disagree all you want...this is an observable fact.
Find something you like to do. Walking, Bike riding, whatever. If you don’t like any of them pick one.

Arlington National Cemetery in infrared

#ArlingtonNationalCemetery
#Military
#Family
#InfraredPhotography
#Photography

Same girl same, says this American

RT @PatDubois@twitter.com

as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days

Wake up!
Drink the coffee. Seize the anxiety! Ruin the day. Regret the night!

I may be new here but I have extensive experience being ignored on many other social media platforms.

Are they gonna tell Herschel Walker he lost the election, or are they just gonna give him a fake Senate badge and let him wander around for a while

Me this morning: I’m going to lock the cats out of the office today as I really need to get this assignment done.

My office right now:

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

I've not yet managed to find as many #insect recorders/photographers on #mastodon as I'd like 😀 would be great to connect with more of you! For now here's the spectacular longhorn #beetle Pyrrhidium sanguineum ("Welsh Oak Longhorn", but no longer confined to Wales). This was my first encounter with this species, from SW London last April, where it had just emerged from its pupa underneath bark of oak.