Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

New York Rep. George Santos was charged Tuesday with conspiracy, wire fraud, false statements, falsification of records, aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-santos-charged-with-conspiracy-wire-fraud-and-more/

@StillIRise1963

I agree 100%.

#FightFascism

"When the head of Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic intelligence service, warned Netanyahu earlier this year that deadly attacks by settlers on Palestinians would increase the security threat to Israel, he was roundly denounced by members of Netanyahu’s Likud party. One Likud member of parliament complained: “The ideology of the left has reached the top echelons of the Shin Bet. The deep state has infiltrated the leadership of the Shin Bet and the IDF.”

So essentially 700+ people died at the hands of Hamas because some edgy fascist in the Knesset decided that the Shin fucking Bet had turned soft for suggesting that MAYBE killing Palestinians by the dozens wasn't the smartest idea.

https://www.afr.com/world/middle-east/a-bitter-blame-game-will-follow-israel-s-wartime-unity-20231009-p5eaoy

🙌🙌 #BidenForthePeople #voteblue

Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting animals and we act accordingly."

Is the world going to stand by while a genocide happens? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/10/9/israel-announces-total-blockade-on-gaza

Under no circumstances will I ever call anything I do "content creation."

That term was invented by the big tech platforms to devalue writing, art, video & audio production, etc.

Be a writer, a streamer, an artist, a short film maker, a musician, a podcaster, or a blogger. But please don't be a "content creator." You're worth more than that.

There should be a green book for Black students looking at US colleges and universities.

But for now I'll tell anyone Black considering to STAY FAR THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE IN KNOXVILLE.

It was a very racist climate when I attended, and it hasn't improved in the decade and change since my freshman year there. I am still recovering from some of the things that happened to me, years after graduation.

Unless you have a deep network of people there already, AVOID.

Mr. Ellis said in an interview he wasn't going to leave this Earth until he got his money. America failed him. Rest well...

Hughes Van Ellis, one of the three last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. He was 102. https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/tulsa-race-massacre-survivor-dies-at-102

Growling at my TV: The problem is not loneliness among American young men--and not phones or games. It is racism among them. Let us not invent another trope to avoid talking about the actual pathology in our society.
Next Haass and Goldberg talk about getting people off phones and into houses of worship: the essence of conservative wishful nostalgia that ignores the role of the evangelical church as a major force of the fascism and racism in America today.

Swamp Thing

https://www.levernews.com/swamp-thing/

Republicans’ temporary speaker, Patrick McHenry, received 90 percent of his campaign cash this year from lobbyists and industries he regulates — and only $856 from small donors.
#Corporatocracy #PatrickMcHenry #RepresentTheRich #HouseSpeaker #USA #NotYourGovernment

It’s almost as if @GOP is owned & operated by Russia.
Their support for Russia over Ukraine & politicizing & lying about this horrendous terrorist attack against Israeli democracy, than putting politics aside?
Seems right out of Putin‘s playbook
#GOPTraitorsToDemocracy

In 2017, Donald Trump divulged classified intelligence including intel on Israel to Sergei Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak during a meeting at The White House

Russia has ties to Iran and Hamas

Zero chance this was an isolated event

Why is Donald Trump still free?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/19/israeli-intelligence-furious-over-trumps-loose-lips-russia-iran-syria/

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/03/hamas-says-leadership-visited-russia-met-sergey-lavrov

If North Carolina's GOP legislature overrides Gov. Cooper's veto and enacts the voter suppression bill tomorrow, North Carolina will be sued tomorrow. https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-legislature-to-override-gov-coopers-vetoes-including-those-on-election-bills/

Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in Texas before the November 7, 2023 election!

https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/register/index.htm

Early voting starts October 23, 2023. Check your local county voting website for more information.

Lots of local offices and state and local propositions are on the ballot this November: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/15/texas-constitutional-amendment-voter-guide/

#elections #elections2023 #voting #voterregistration #texas #civicengagement

A year ago, I retained a tiny shred of sympathy for professional Birdsite users who asserted that the pressure to abandon ship amounted to blind privilege.

That tiny shred of sympathy is gone daddy gone and replaced with disgust.

If, over the past 12 months, you haven't found a way to make your business model work without being complicit in society's descent into fascism, then you are the one guilty of blind privilege.

#Fascism #QElon #SpaceKaren #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics #Birdsite #Autocracy #Plutocracy #Oligarchy #SocialMedia #Disinformation #Propaganda

I'm tired of religions. All of them.

The GOP Nazis are traitor to America.

We will continue to Stand with our President.

#president_joe_biden

Tom Tuberville is not a very bright man.

"I heard some things ... about race & things that he wanted to mix into the military ...Our military is not an equal-opportunity employer ... We're not looking for different groups .. We don't want to single-handedly destroy our military from within..."

1. The military literally is an equal-opportunity employer. Literally.
2. If "not looking for diverse groups" you're looking based on race, so not merit.
3. Clear he has no clue how racist this sounds.