Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

One of the weirdest things in the US is that Supreme Court Justices only need 51 of 100 Senate votes to be put into a lifetime position — earned or not — but officers in the military need 100 of 100 votes to get a promotion that they earned and one nut job senator can prevent the promotion. That's a broken rule that should be changed.

#USpol

Dear #Republicans,
It's not just your War On Women that is driving voter rage against you.

Turning into a bunch of book-banning Nazis also motivated people to organize against you. After banning anti-Holocaust Pulitzer-winning books and thousands of other books, you've let everyone know that you are fascists.

It turns out a lot of Americans aren't particularly fond of book-banning fascists.

I'm pretty sure guns will also be a factor in 2024.

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/09/im-so-tired-of-these-psychos-moms-for-liberty-is-now-a-brand/

Kings is extending its fundraiser for my father until the end of November.

The drink can be ordered at all 5 Boston-area locations. https://www.playatkings.com/

We're trying to reach $80k ASAP to help cover Dad's health-related bills, so please donate here, thx! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-leslie-hurwitzs-ongoing-health-issue

#fundraiser

The censure of #RashidaTlaib is really bothering me. Other elected officials have made really vile statements about Palestinians, Israel, Jews, and Muslims, and it seems only she has been singled out.

Israel admits apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival. The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian…

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231030-report-7-october-testimonies-strikes-major-blow-to-israeli-narrative/

Wait for it…! Incredible #aurora witnessed by pilots of an Air Portugal night flight from San Francisco to Lisbon 🤩💚

Judge Chutkan Tells Trump Put Up Or Shut Up https://politizoom.com/judge-chutkan-tells-trump-put-up-or-shut-up/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Regular reminder that the literal first full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, and that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over and above the lives of the crew.

Rumblings from inside Automattic that Tumblr may be being wound down.

Makes me really glad that Mastodon exists and that there are options for building communities online that don't depend on VC funding and number-go-up-forever.

It is extremely well established that the prisons and police of al-Assad's regime in Syria as general practice use torture.
It is banned, illegal, to deport people to where there are substantial grounds for believing they would be in danger of being subjected to torture for the 177 States that have acceded to the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT).

Sweden deports people to Syria, in spite of being one of those States that acceded to UNCAT. Sweden claims it as "voluntary returns", but with the one alternative being indefinite years of being kept in "Migration Agency's Storage". Indefinite jailing and imprisonment is is officially defined as a form of torture, making that claim of "voluntary" a plain lie.

Hear the story of such a deportee, pseudonymized as "Ibrahim" in the English language parts of a piece just published by the Public Service TV of Sweden.

CW for the video: contains drawings and story of torture

Hahahahahahaha😂 😂

Youngkin’s image suffers blow after Virginia losses https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/youngkin-s-image-suffers-blow-after-virginia-losses/ar-AA1jD8UB?ocid=socialshare

"I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television."

Esther Rolle (1920-1998) was born on this day.

She and John Amos fought for quality and realism on GOOD TIMES — and it's why the show endures today.

No matter how you feel about the war this is NARC behavior and you’re garbage if ur ratting in colleagues for porting their personal thoughts on their personal accounts. As journalists we should value FREE speech and FREE expression above all else.

We all know that bosses never care if staffers post certain political content online. We see examples of this every day.

It’s not about hiding people’s political opinions, it’s about making sure staffers only express the *right* political opinions.

There’s going to be so much right-wing violence and terror next year. I don’t think people are ready for what’s coming.

“‘Acts of terrorism’ across Washington as 4 election offices get white powder in mail”

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/election-offices-king-pierce-spokane-counties-evacuated-white-powder/IGH73XS52NGDTMF3O642KMIDQA/ #fascism

#indigenous

‘Pure Democracies Are Not the Way to Run a Country,’ Says Former Sen. Rick Santorum.

Rick Santorum claimed on Tuesday that Ohio’s decision to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion in the state constitution was proof that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

So, another #republican against democracy speaks out...
He's just another wannabe #fascist dictator

Please VOTE at every level....
It's working .. 👍 👍 👍

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ohio-abortion-marijuana-vote-results-proof-pure-democracies-are-not-the-way-to-run-a-country-says-former-sen-rick-santorum/

UKRAINIAN HUMOUR!
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Zelensky

What's funny about the latest idea that the Republicans should campaign against a national abortion ban is that, so far, the only people who have wanted a national abortion ban have been Republicans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-urge-congress-candidates-oppose-national-abortion-ban-rcna124253

Good news: A judge in Texas has ruled that at least 1 billion (yes, billion with a b) of the money Alex Jones owes the Sandy Hook victims' families cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. The reason is that Jones incurred the debt by acting willfully and maliciously.

#LegalEagle goes into more detail. https://youtu.be/fHAA9tV8M28?si=ybqRUF-Eo2HV9nnD
#collateral_estoppel #infowars

Looks like it’s up! I hate watching myself so I hope it’s good