Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

The nerve! #fatkid #geeklife

The last thing presidential immunity should do is embolden Presidents who lose re-election to engage in criminal conduct, through official acts or otherwise, as part of efforts to prevent the vesting of executive power required by Article II in their lawfully-elected successors — amicus brief #quotes #quote #Trump #AbsoluteImmunity #Presidentialimmunity

Hey!
Yeah you!
You are noticed and loved!
Don’t think that you’re too insignificant for people to notice or care. You are noticed. You are cared about. You are loved.


I should definitely remember this myself too.

"Russian trolls are all over Xitter and Facebook, trash-talking Democrats while trying to make Americans hate each other over skin color, gender identity, and religion. When Kyle Rittenhouse was facing prison time (but had the good fortune of drawing a judge who was apparently afraid for his family’s safety), former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figluzzi tweeted:

“A sample of 32,315 pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets, Nov 19-20, showed 29,609 with disabled geolocation. Of those, 17,701 were listed as ‘foreign,’ but a deep scrub revealed most of those were in Russia, China, and the EU.”

The fact-checking site Snopes looked into similar claims and found massive evidence of foreign-based social media accounts pretending to be Americans while cheerleading Rittenhouse and questioning the viability of America. Not to mention the clear intervention by Russia on behalf of Trump that both Robert Mueller and Senate investigators found in the 2016 election."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/why-is-the-gop-joining-putin-xi-and-49d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3mrxk

Lots to think about today.
I spent some of my day trying to offer comfort to family who are feeling overwhelmed by covid, politics, and other unimaginable worldwide happenings.
I agree that there is much to worry about.
I avoid much of the mainstream news/propaganda because I need to be able to mentally and physically function to be able to take care of the people and dog that I love.
I try to buffer the barage of negative to keep from drowning in hopelessness.
I suggested to two people dear to me that it might be helpful to take this week to recharge so we can clear our minds and look at how to make a difference together in the new year.
It's kind of like putting your oxygen mask on first so you can help others.
After all of that, Summer and I shared this beautiful sky and got back in the house right before the rain started coming down.

I was unable to post on Instagram this morning because I have a link in my account to mas.to (my mastodon instance). No idea which one of these Meta is accusing mas.to of, but this is why you should not trust Meta or federate with anything they build. If they get to be the largest Mastodon server, then they can start dictating their regressive content moderation policies on the rest of the fediverse. I stand with my admin @trumpet and their decision to preemptively block any Meta instances.

Ha’aretz journalist Chaim Levinson:
Israelis love to be lied to. The whole purpose of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit is to put lipstick on nonsense…

It's much more fun to wake up to happy analysts than to doomsaying pundits telling us that the IDF is unprepared for the escalation on the way, that we aren't strong the way we'd like to be, that our leaders are somewhere between mediocre and failed.
#Propaganda #Israel
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-21/ty-article/.premium/israelis-need-the-army-spokesmans-lies-to-keep-believing-were-winning/0000018c-8cdb-da31-adff-8edb0f430000

Remember, Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved, being a asshole terrorist footsoldier in a rabid horde of neo-Nazis marshaled to make one of the most vile sociopaths alive dictator of America.

This 1961 photo is called “The Mob”, and was shot by professional cat photographer Walter Chandoha. Originally a WW II combat photographer, his signature style was filming cats at their eye level. He collected nearly 100,000 cat photographs and it’s pretty cool that someone made a career out of this.
#catsofmastodon

I kept hearing a sound I thought was thunder.

No. There is some Alfred Hitchcock type shit going on in my backyard today.

Powerful right-wing voices are boosting the growth of DailyWire+, a new streaming service with conservative documentaries, movies and shows for kids.

“Liberals would do well not to dismiss its potentially galvanizing effects before the #2024election,” writes a scholar of media:
https://theconversation.com/conservatives-anti-woke-alternative-to-disney-has-finally-arrived-217774
#uspolitics #politics #media

It really bothers me these days when people assume that a piece of software is "abandoned" because it hasn't received any updates for a while. It might be hard to believe, but software can actually be finished.

https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/

You're a trans woman discovering the fediverse.

You choose an instance led by cis women, the atmosphere is good, you even make some new friends but you're missing something, you're following only three trans people so you ask where they are, apparently trans people are being harassed every now and then. You're sad but you're still here. But in the end, you're a trans woman reading about cis women experience. They're women, but not trans women.

This is what it feels to be black on the fediverse

There was a time Nazis were seen as synonymous with literal demons from hell in terms of bad guys you can kill without feeling bad about it. We should bring that back.

And was it fffffentanyl???!!

Proud Boy faked drug overdose to avoid Jan. 6 sentence: Feds https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/it-was-a-stupid-delay-tactic-florida-proud-boys-member-who-jumped-bail-apparently-admits-he-faked-drug-overdose-in-attempt-to-delay-jan-6-sentencing/

Heather Cox Richardson:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-26-2023?publication_id=20533&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=f5adl

Sorry but it's just been really hard seeing the entire world over the past two years decide they do not like trans people anymore, and I've experienced people deciding they don't like me at the smaller scale of family or friend groups but obviously this is on a whole new level