TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org

Laws like this are never a good sign historically for either women... or democracy.

#gqp #republicans #gqpclownshow #desantis #florida #politics #uspol #uspolitics #womensrights #women #news #gaetz

The US NLRB says comments by Apple executives and policies imposed on employees violate workers' rights, after a complaint by a former Apple employee in 2021 (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/apple-executives-violated-worker-rights-us-labor-officials-say
http://www.techmeme.com/230130/p20#a230130p20

Matt Gaetz pledges to release the deals he made with Kevin McCarthy to the public https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-mccarthy-agreement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jeet Heer writes,

"The sad truth is that the George Floyd uprising against racist policing failed, at least in the short term, because it was countered by a bipartisan elite backlash that has entrenched law enforcement impunity. …

All the rhetoric about the need for change in 2020 yielded very little in the way of results. Indeed, on the crucial issue of police violence, there is ample evidence of a substantial regression."

#PoliceViolence #TyreNichols

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tyre-nichols-killing-police-democrats/

I really don't understand Steve Herman's (@w7voa) thought process here.

Elon Musk has declared war on journalists. He's banned you because you said something he didn't like.

And yet, if you were unbanned, you would "happily go back"?

You journalists need to see Twitter for what it is: a predator that is pillaging your industry, leaving it an empty husk -- all on its way to hijack public discourse.

Stop pandering to Big Social!

https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/01/journalist-banned-from-twitter-says-its-important-that-users-not-self-censor/

Morning

#CatsOfMastodon #calico

@stevesilberman @TheOldGuy He learned it from watching Trump.

I always have trouble getting close up shots of the hooded merganser, but I got lucky one day with this beautiful capture of a female.

This encounter was a bit different as she was not skittish around me, there was no male around and she was also hanging out with a group of mallards.

https://pixels.com/featured/female-hooded-merganser-chad-meyer.html

#AYearForArt #Fedigiftshop #duck #birds #naturephotography

SCOOP: Trump filed #FOIA requests w/IRS on June 14 & 28, 2019 seeking a wide-range of docs about IRS's behind-the-scenes deliberations over releasing his taxes to Congress

He said he was willing to pay up to $30K

I FOIA'd Trump's FOIAs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/trump-used-foia-requests-to-stymie-irs-release-of-his-tax-returns?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY3NTEwNDgyNCwiZXhwIjoxNjc1NzA5NjI0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJSUEFWWUlEV1JHRzEwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.yauoaRaPY1lykt3HS9qKTAMGV9AMU3yO2yY5EwOaeos

INSANE: Ron #DeSantis wants #Florida residents to carry firearms without a permit. In Jan alone, there’s been 49 mass shootings and more than 3,400 gun deaths, including 138 dead children.

If Ron DeSantis gets what he wants, expect more dead Americans.

Photos from yesterday's protest of #txlege SB147 bill that would prohibit citizens, companies, governments, and entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from purchasing land in #Texas. Not all foreign countries...just those.

https://www.statesman.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/01/30/texas-senate-bill-147-capitol-protest-china-korea-iran-russia/11146838002/

#AAPI #AANHPI

"A total of 41% of US adults, 100 million people, bear medical debts. One of every 8 individuals owes more than $10 000. In Massachusetts, 46% of adults say they skip needed care because of costs. As of 2021, 58% of all #debt collections in the US are for #medicalbills."

Excellent commentary by former US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Svs administrator, Don Berwick, out today via @JAMA_current

Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801097

Telling my Twitter followers I'm heading over to Mastodon for a pack of cigarettes and I'll be right back and then deleting my account

He'd wake up on Saturdays to go skate or sometimes, he'd go to the park to enjoy the sunset & snap photos of it.

He wanted to go every night & look at the sunset, that was his passion.

Tyre Nichols was a father, a man who loved his mama, a free-spirited soul who was looking for a new life in Memphis, Tennessee.

Everything he was trying to do was to better himself as a father for his 4 y/o son.

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Kanye West’s old presidential campaign bankrolled white nationalist Nick Fuentes https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/kanye-west-nick-fuentes-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#Memphis Fire Department says it fired two emergency medical technicians and a lieutenant who responded to the brutal police beating of #TyreNichols

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/328421