Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

🤬🤦🏻‍♀️ *VIA* Kyle Griffin:

Republican Chuck Grassley says he's concerned passing legislation that would expand the Child Tax Credit will make President Biden "look good" during an election year.

The headline here is wrong and dangerous. The beheading of a government employee doesn't show #Trump has lost control of his base.

It shows his base is doing exactly what he wants.

The Nazi SA helped the Nazis secure power in interwar Germany through violence, murder and intimidation. It was NEVER part of the Nazi government. It was more akin to the Proud Boys or the Klan than anything else.

1/2

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-maga-violence-2667146349/?u=11eed91bd9fa53d397fae7d6864383935bf70e63179000916564c6fa79f7e2ed

@theogrin @SrRochardBunson EXACTLY.

We can hold our noses and vote for Biden

or we can gift-wrap the White House and hand it to Trump on a solid gold toilet lid while he spits in our faces.

There is no third choice.

How would you respond to consumer and business brands joining #Mastodon? I ask because I represent companies in their marketing efforts to reach more people, but Mastodon is my secret hideaway. Still, I work with some very cool companies you might like to know about. How do you feel?

This is for me, not them. Please share for wider reach with my gratitude!

@ChrisBoese I would also add: support living artists, dead ones don’t need it … ;)

They are attacking our LGBTQ spaces. This can't be tolerated. This is intimidation and is an old tactic to punish gay people. I lived through it in my youth. We can't tolerate this today.

https://www.thestranger.com/queer/2024/01/29/79363398/police-fire-and-the-liquor-board-raided-two-seattle-gay-bars

@GottaLaff
Saw this somewhere on Mastodon, but cannot do a content search to find the source:
"Syphilis angrily denies having anything to do with Donald Trump."

OOC: I have studiously avoided weighing in on the war against Palestine for a bunch of reasons. I'm not an expert on the middle east or Palestine, I think keyboard warfare about active military conflicts is an easy way to get things wrong and look like an idiot, and many many others have expressed my shock, outrage, and sadness at how this war of extermination has become politically unstoppable as a result of Washington's unswerving support of Bibi's government. Hamas murdering a bunch of people was fucked up, and it made it harder in the early days to chart a full-throated moral defense against the impulse to retaliate. Lrrr fully throats everything he does. But this is no longer remotely plausibly about avenging the people who died on October 7. This is a genocide in the truest sense: squashing the life out of Palestine, visiting every horror imaginable on its people, and bleaching the Palestinian people off the map.

If anyone who follows my toots think Israel needs to continue soaking Palestine in children's blood, block me. See yourself out. Get out of my life. I don't trust you.

I hadn’t thought of it that way, but yes! Funny!

Is it better to threaten violence for looking you up on Snopes in your resume or cover letter?

House Republicans are working against the American people.

They sabotage progress & sow chaos.

They take orders from Trump, for the delight of Putin.

They are destroying our country from the inside.

They are traitors.

Vote them all out.

Throw them all in prison.

@ProPublica
What ever happened to ex post facto law?

@froomkin

As historian Rick Perlstein wrote recently about the New York Times, “By not naming it ‘fascism,’ when others responsibly name it that, the Times is, effectively, naming it ‘not fascism.’”

“The U.S. Supreme Court behaves like a national policymaker and not enough people care”

Trump Boys Help Father Raise $83 Million By Asking Their Dad For The Money https://www.theonion.com/trump-boys-help-father-raise-83-million-by-asking-thei-1851206108

hi mastodon, which of these things would you like to toss into a volcano?

you can only pick one.

Guillotines are far too good for these motherfuckers.

@AnthonyJK like, I know Hamas is queerphobic, and why the fuck should that make me not care about Palestinian civilians? If Israel managed to kill all of Hamas without harming a single civilian I'd be like "well that was harsh" but I wouldn't be 24/7 angry and sad about it like I am. Because that's not what's happening, that's not their goal. How am I supposed to lose empathy for innocent people over someone else's crimes? People still cared abt me when Trump was president 🤷

Whenever I see a headline like this I now assume they’ll have layoffs in a few months because not enough people quit.