Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

If you allow nazis on your platform you have a nazi platform. People who support nazis are called nazis.

@MayInToronto @gemelliz There is an anti-Ford candidate who has a very clear shot at winning, and there are anti-Ford candidates who don't.

That is an important consideration in a democracy when you are casting a vote, particularly when we actually had a Ford in that office for four years and then eight years of someone who made backroom deals with the other Ford.

The question is, what direction do you want to move the city in?

Tyler is raising funds for top surgey. Donate if you can, share if you can't: https://gofund.me/6830e1a0

Click the link in our bio and then scroll to 'featured fundraisers'

#FundingSunday #TransFundraiser

How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud (Miles Parks/NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity
http://www.memeorandum.com/230604/p23#a230604p23

It seems that some parents worry about how to explain the existence of gay and trans people to their kids.

It’s trivially easy.

“Sometimes, men love men. Sometimes, women love women. Sometimes, people find out that although they have a man’s body, they’d be happier living as a woman - or the other way around.

All these people deserve to be happy and respected, just like you.”

And that’s really all there is to it.

#pridemonth #pride

A young couple on a bicycle hide from Chinese soldiers in a tank overhead during the Tiananmen Square protests that were crushed June 4, 1989.

📷 Liu Heung Shing via Time Magazine

#OTD
#OnThisDay

#LittleZephyr status:

i think it's safe to say the cat is doing much better.

the incessant yelling has stopped, i've even heard a very quiet purr once or twice, and Ollie has been successfully bullied into submission.

As Trump Calls Protesters ‘Terrorists,’ Tear Gas Clears a Path for His Walk to a Church

In a Rose Garden speech shaded with anger, President Trump threatened to send the American military to states where governors could not bring under control the protests over police brutality.

By Katie Rogers, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman
June 1, 2020

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday angrily denounced the demonstrators who have used violence to call attention to the deaths of black men killed by the police as “organizers” of terrorism, and threatened to send the American military to states where governors could not bring the protests under control.

“If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents,” Mr. Trump said in brief remarks in the Rose Garden, “then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/trump-governors.html?smid=url-share

Read PDF version here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:f828f746-d295-345b-8e3a-54b97667df5a

Vivek Ramaswamy is out of his fucking mind.

Vivek Ramaswamy to call for end to US support for Ukraine and Nato exit from Eastern Europe 02-JUN-2023 #VivekRamaswamy #GOP #NeverRamaswamy2024 #GOPTraitors #EnemiesOfDemocracy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/vivek-ramaswamy-2024-president-russia-nato-b2350335.html

@rvawonk I would feel safe in assuming most of the world’s far-right political groups have been co-opted by Russia. The consistency and uniformity of their talking points is striking.

Lots of possible interpretations for this one. But mainly: it's a very pretty #mural and I love #donkeys

#corsica #korsika #donkey

"Everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?"

~ Arwa Mahdawi

#Twitter #Musk #journalists #media

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis

"Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy figures on Tiananmen Square anniversary - At least 10 people detained including activist Alexandra Wong and leader of opposition party"

Truly disturbing, but lest we get too self-righteous, not really so different than the city of #Leipzig banning a demonstration in support of #LinaE and the #German constituitional court upholding the city's frightening, anti-democratic order.

"Hong Kong police have detained several pro-democracy figures attempting to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.

For years, Hongkongers would converge on the city’s Victoria Park and its surrounding neighbourhood to commemorate the events of 4 June 1989, taking part in candlelight vigils. But since Beijing’s imposition of the national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 to quell dissent, the annual vigil has been banned and the organisers were charged under the law.

This weekend, scores of police were deployed in the area, stopping people to search their belongings and question them.

By late afternoon, reporters had witnessed at least 10 people taken away by police in vans – including Chan Po-ying, the leader of the city’s League of Social Democrats, one of the last few remaining opposition groups. The veteran activist was holding a small LED candle and two flowers, before she was immediately seized by police.

Other prominent figures detained were Alexandra Wong, a well-known activist nicknamed Grandma Wong; Mak Yin-ting, a former chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association ; and Leo Tang, a former leader of the now disbanded Confederation of Trade Unions. Wong, 67, was carrying flowers as police surrounded her and escorted her away."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-activist-alexandra-wong-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary

#HongKong #China #TianAnMen #Democracy #HumanRights #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Germany #Saxony #Sachsen

This is what Altman and friends want to distract public attention from with their “existential threat” PR: managers can’t wait to replace expensive human knowledge workers with AI/LLMs. It’s already happening. And the more executives believe that this technology is powerful and disruptive, the faster they’ll make that switch – and make a few people filthy rich.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/

Here's what I would like to know about Hunter Biden:

Why did Saudi Arabia give Jared Kushner $2 billion dollars?

The insurance-scam-squirrel 🐿️

Did you know?
Owls are the keepers of secrets in the forest, such as which trees are jerks, which squirrels have the largest gambling debts, and where do the dark druids brew their mead moonshine?