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

IRS: tax time :)

ME: how much

IRS: is secret :3

ME: why though

IRS: just guess UwU

ME: $600??

IRS: jail ರ⁠╭⁠╮⁠ರ

This feels like SESTA/FOSTA all over again. But we still have a chance to stop it. Please keep sounding the alarm.
https://jezebel.com/3-huge-tech-companies-endorse-bill-that-could-wipe-abor-1851217281

Mr Rogers could afford to like his neighbors. His 1960s paycheck bought him a whole ass house, yard and fence in between.

I’ll bet most folks who act like him couldn’t either.

First of a series. #todayintrump #trump #uspol

Second in a series. #todayintrump #trump #uspol

Glad to see that @mmasnick -- unlike huge but, sadly, too-timid journalism orgs like Reuters -- isn't bowing and scraping to satisfy corporate censorship demands.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/01/sorry-appin-were-not-taking-down-our-article-about-your-attempts-to-silence-reporters/

You can get an answer to a question on the internet a lot faster if, instead of simply asking the question, you instead post an answer that you know is wrong.

People are more likely to correct your wrong answer than they are to simply respond to a question.

This is known as the Pythagoras Theorem.

When Obama was elected, Republicans came up with a secret plan to block everything the Democrat tried to do in order to regain power. These days, it’s just done in public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/01/grassley-republicans-biden-border-deal/?itid=ap_philipbump

There’s a bipartisan tax bill that lift millions of children out of poverty and provides businesses with critical tax breaks. Even though it passed overwhelmingly in the House, GOP senators are stalling it to prevent a “Biden win.” Sound familiar? https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/is-bipartisanship-dead?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

🤬🤦🏻‍♀️ *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?